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CloneSkills, Inc.SAP BOBI 4.0 Competency Development Program

Financial Analytics


Financial Analytics

Agenda - Duration 2 Hours

SAP BI 4.0 Course Overview

Learning Roadmap Live System Review

Review EnterpriseReview Data ServicesReview UniverseReview BI Launch Pad

Session # 1

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Review CrystalReview Dashboard

SAP BI 4.0 Product Overview SAP BI 4.0 Where it fits in SAP SAP BI 4.0 Technical Architecture

SAP BI 4.0 Solutions Overview SAP BI 4.0 and HANA Questions and Answers

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SAP BI 4.0 Product OverviewHistory:

BusinessObjects

French Company, focusing on BI solutions.

-Products

BusinessObjects Enterprise (Servers/Administration tools) Desktop Intelligence (desktop reporting design/execution tool)

Universe Designer (Semantic layer design tool)

Web Intelligence (Web Based report design/execution tool)

Acquires Crystal Decisions, Crystal Products come under

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BusinessObjects Brand Acquires Xcelsius and other products

SAP BusinessObjects

SAP AG Acquired BusinessObjects (2008)

SAP keeps core products under SAP brandSAP rebrands BusinessObject product line +

all other non-SAP core products as SAP BusinessObjects.

SAP world wide client base reaches app. 100,000 (2008)

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BI Solutions

EIM Solutions

EPM Solutions

SAP BI 4.0 Product Overview

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SAP BI Where does it fits in SAP?

SAP BOBJ


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SAP ERP

SAP BI

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SAP BI 4.0 Technical Architecture Components

Client Tools Management Tools

Central Management Console

Lifecycle Manager

Central Configuration Manager

SAP Crystal Reports

SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence

SAP Business Objects Dash Boards


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Platform Services

Universe Designer

Information Design Tool

File Repository Service Central Management

ServerProcessing Service

Server Intelligent

Agent

Scheduling ServicesSecurity Auditing

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SAP BI 4.0 Technical Architecture Data Flow

BrowserOther

Client

Crystal Webi DashBoard


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Non-

SAP BW

SAP

ECCSAP BI

Universe

Repository FileSystem

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BI Solutions

BI EnterpriseCrystal, Web Intelligence, DashBoards, Mobile

Universe Designer

SAP BI 4.0 Solutions Overview


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EIM So ut onsData Services, Data Federator

EPM Solutions

Planning and ConsolidationStrategy Management

Disclosure Management

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Data Integration Tool

Extract data

Transform data (data quality)

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services


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sources)

Job based (scheduling data transfer)

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Supporting the BI Long Tail

ftimesused

High


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UniquenessLess More

Lo

w

Number

o

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BI Tools by Business Roles

Executive

Crystal

ReportsDashboard

Design

OLAPAD-HOC QUERY& REPORTING DASHBOARDS

ENTERPRISEREPORTING

Low-Touch

Information Consumers


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Analysis

(OLAP/Office)

Web

Intelligence

LOB Management

Analysts

Static

Xcelsius

InteractivityDynamicHigh-Touch

Information Experts

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BI solutions - Crystal Reports

One of the most mature tools in BI suite

Highly formatted pixel-perfect reports byconnecting to virtually any data source,


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m e a e, sca a e, persona za e,securely deliverable to external entities.

High data volumes with limited drill

capabilities.

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BI solutions - Web Intelligence

One of the most easily deployable ,intuitive ad

hoc reporting and analysis toolVery high data volumes with refined drill , slice


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repeatable and shareable ; online & offline

Consolidate across heterogeneous data sources

Self-service access to information by leveragingsemantic layer.

Very high data volumes with refined

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BI solutions - Dashboards Design

History: Graphical interface to scenario

analysis in Excel models. (Xcelsius)

Rebranded as Dashboard Design


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as ase power u an n erac ve v sua za onswith live data connection

Embeddable into all other software solutions

Drag and drop, free form design, extendable withsimple add-ons.

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SAP BI 4.0 and HANA (Jothi)


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Financial AnalyticsCloneSkills, Inc.

SAP BOBI 4.0 Competency Development ProgramFinancial Analytics

Enterprise

Reporting

Self Service

ReportingData Visualization Analysis Search & Exploration

Business Functions

Crystal Report

BO 4.0 Tools

Web Intelligent Dashboards(Xcelsius)

Dashboards(Xcelsius)

Analysis Office Analysis OLAP(Pioneer)

BusinessObjectsExplorer

Data Semantic Layer

Direct Access

Universe Based Direct Access

Direct Access


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(SQL) |(BICS) (ODBC) | (JDBC) (SQL) |(BICS)

Information Provider

Rapid Mart 3rd Part DataSAP

HANA

Data SourcesSAP ERP Oracle ERP JDE PeopleSoft IBM/Ms/JAVA

Sybase IQ

SAP

BW

BEx

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SAP BI 4.0 and HANA (Jothi)

Course Content

-9 units

-Business Drivers ( Ex: Finance , Sales , SCM , HCM , etc )

-BI 4.0 Fundamentals

-Data Model ( Based on the Business Drivers) Cubes , Universe

-WebI Query /Reports


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-Crystal

-Dashboard

-BI Launch Pad

-User Access and Security

-SAP Certification

-140 Hours

-Only Saturday - 7:30 AM PST - 7~8 Hours Total Duration

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Business DriversSales By Region , Income Statement , BS ( Ex)

BI 4.0 Tools Dashboard , Crystal , WebI , OLAP Analysis , Explorer ( Ex)

1

2

Learning Roadmap


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Information Access Direct Access , Universe ( Ex)

Information Providers SAP HANA , Rapid Mart , SAP BW InfoCubes , SAP BW Bex Query , etcInformation Providers

Data Providers SAP ECC , SAP SCM , SAP HCM , Oracle , PS , JDE , File , IBM , etc

3

4

5

Data Services

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BO 4.0

BI Tools

( Business Intelligence Tools)

EIM Tools

( Enterprise Information Management

Tools)

EPM Tools

( Enterprise Performance Management

Tools)

Data Analysis and Reporting Data Management and Data Quality and

Data Governance

Planning , Budgeting , Forecasting and

Consolidations


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WEBI , Crystal , Dashboard , OLAP Analysis

, Live Office DS

IS

DQ

BPC

SM

DM

Needs solid functional and

Communication Skills

Needs good functional and

Communication Skills

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Universe

WEBI Crystal Dashboards OLAP Analysis

BI Launch Pad


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SAP ECC

DS

Enterprise Reporting /Analysis

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Where the Actual Data Stored when you bring data Via a DS ?

Or Where the Actual Data Stored when you access the data Via a Universe ?

No Data Stored

WEBI Reports

This will work , When a Client already has SAP BW in their SAP System Landscape

WEBI Reports

Option # 1


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Source System - ECC

( Sales Actual )

Top 10 Customer , Around

the World

SAP

BW

Data Service ( ETL)

File

SAP

BW

Data Service ( DS)

Universe

Data Stored Here

Data Stored Here

Here

Data Stored Here

Universe

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Where the Actual Data Stored when you bring data Via a DS ?

Or Where the Actual Data Stored when you access the data Via a Universe ?

No Data Stored

WEBI Reports

This will work , When a Client does not have SAP BW , but the client has ECC system

WEBI Reports


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Source System - ECC

( Sales Actual )

Top 10 Customer , Around

the World File

Data Service

Universe

Data Stored Here

Here Universe

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SAP ERP NON SAP ERP SAP + NON SAP ERP

NO EDW Use BO Architecture Option #1

SAP EDW

NON SAP EDW

SAP + NON SAP DW

Core ERP / Transactional SystemsData Producer

Data

StorageFor

Business

Analytics


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In long run , there wont be any SAP BW ETL tools ( DS , Info Packages , PSA,Transformation , DTP , Routine .)

HANA will have more impact to SAP BW , some of the functions of SAP BW

will be redefined ( Ex : Routines will be in memory , MP will be in memory ,etc )

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SAP HANA

SAP BO Fits in SAP Product Family

Advance Analytics

I will cover this in the next class as a Foundation


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Business

ProblemDesign Build

Crystal

WEBI BI Launch

Pad


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Data

ETL

(DS)

Universe

Report /

Analysis

/Dashboard

Dashboard

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Meena , CA, CPA - Finance and Business

Pals - Technical and Infrastructure SAP BW SAP ECC SAP BO

DS UNI etc

You will have

access to

BO 4.0 Suite


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Max - On the Front End Tools

Solutions Side Jothi - Overall Delivery Connecting all the Dots

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Next Class

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SAP HANA ( Foundation)SAP BO Fits in SAP Product Family ( Foundation)

Advance Analytics ( Foundation)


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Business Needs Drivers for this Course ( Core )

Business DiversHow Read it

What structure it looks

Calculations

Formulas

Documents

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