SAP BOBI Training from ZaranTech

SAP BusinessObjects (BOBI)

Role Based Training

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Introduction


SAP Business Objects(BOBI)

Business Objects (BOBI)

In 2007 SAP has two major acquisitions for $6.1Billions

1.1.Business Objects

2.2.Outlooks Soft (BPC Business Planning and consolidation )

Competitor : Cognos ; BI tool Decisions Stream


What is Business Intelligence?

BI is an iterative user-centered process that includes

accessing and exploring information, analyzing this

information, and developing insights and understanding that

lead to improved and informed decision making.

BI usage crosses the spectrum of users, both internally and

externally throughout any enterprise, and includes rank-and-

file workers, executives, analysts.



•Benefits of Business Intelligence:

• 1.Identify and track key performance metric against their direct

competitors and the overall market.

• 2.Improve customer service and target high yield accounts.

• 3.Streamline operations and improve supplier and warehouse

operations. Identify successful marketing campaigns.

• 4.Improve response time to market trends and customer

requests.

• 5.Decrease query and reporting time.

• 6.Reduce cost and anxiety over compliance.

• 7.Deliver true cost of Days Sales Outstanding and services.

• 8.Reduce strain on IT departments.




BW BI end to end Model

Modeling Info Objects, Cubes, ODS, Data Mart,

ETL Extraction, Transformation and

ReportingBEX, Query

Designer, WAD BOBJ Solution

BOBJ Solution



BusinessObjects Enterprise:

oBusinessObjects product line meet the diverse needs of users, from reporting query and analysis, dashboards and visualization to predictive analysis.

oBusinessObjects Enterprise ensures that all people within an organization get the right interface and level of interactivity necessary for their role


Business Objects Enterprise client application by role:

Business Objects Enterprise includes and/or interacts

with most Business Objects client tools:

Administrator

•Business User

•Data Manager

•Designer





BusinessObjects Enterprise Client Tools :

Business User

InfoView Web

Intelligence

Web

Intelligence

rich client

Live

Office

Query As a

Web Service

(QAAWS)

Voyager Dashboard

Builder

Performance

Manager




•Business Objects Enterprise InfoView

A web-based interface that end users access to view,

schedule, and keep track of published reports.

•Web Intelligence

A web-based tool that provides query, reporting, and

analysis functionality for relational data sources in a single

web-based product. Web Intelligence allows users to create

reports, perform ad hoc queries, analyze data, and apply

report formatting.




•Web Intelligence rich client

Web Intelligence can be used offline as a Web

Intelligence rich client, or as a standalone application

•Live Office

BusinessObjects Live Office integrates with the

Microsoft Office environment, allowing for dynamically

updated data to be embedded within Microsoft

PowerPoint, Excel, and Word documents.

In addition, you can share your documents with others over

the web for collaborative decision-making.




•Query as a Web Service

Web Intelligence can be used offline as a Web

Intelligence rich client, or as a standalone application

•Query as a Web Service

Query as a Web Service provides new and easy ways to

analyze information through user-driven client solutions

for businesses.

Business Intelligence (BI) content is usually bound to a specific user

interface of BI tools. Query as a Web Service changes this by allowing

BI content to be delivered to any user interface that can

process web services.




•Voyager

W Voyager is an online analytical processing (OLAP) web client

designed for business and financial analysts. It not only provides

access to a wide range of OLAP databases, but also allows users to

combine information from different systems within a single

work space.

•Dashboard Builder

A web-based tool used to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs)

and proactive alert managers via email and dashboards with the

information they need, wherever they are.




•Performance Manager

A web-based tool that allows users to track and analyze

key business metric via management dashboards,

scorecards, set analysis, and alerting.



Business Objects Enterprise Client Tools :

Designer

Crystal

Reports

Web

Intelligence

Dashboard

Manager

Desktop

Intelligence

Xcelsius




•Crystal Reports

A Windows-based reporting tool that is the industry

standard. Used to create and integrate powerful reports

in Business Objects Enterprise.




•Web Intelligence

A web-based interface to provide query, reporting, and

analysis functionality for relational and OLAP data

sources all within one web-based product. Allows users

to create reports, perform ad hoc queries, analyze data,

and apply report formatting.

•Dashboard Manager

A web-based tool that facilitates the deployment of

powerful BI dashboards.




•Desktop Intelligence

A Windows-based reporting tool that installs with

Business Objects Enterprise. Designers can create

reports, then publish them to InfoView where they can

be viewed and scheduled.

•Xcelsius

Xcelsius is an intuitive application that uses a Windows

interface to allow you to build interactive models of data

and formulas from Excel spreadsheets.




•Central Management Console Administrator (CMC)

A web-based interface that allows you to perform user

management tasks such as setting up authentication

and adding users and groups. It also allows you to

publish, organize, and set security levels for all of your

Business Objects Enterprise content and enables you to

manage servers and create server groups.




•Central Management Console Administrator (CMC)

A web-based interface that allows you to perform user

management tasks such as setting up authentication

and adding users and groups. It also allows you to

publish, organize, and set security levels for all of your

Business Objects Enterprise content and enables you to

manage servers and create server groups.




Data Manager

Universe

Designer

Business View

Manager

Data

Services




•Universe Designer

A Windows-based tool that allows users to build semantic layer

objects that simplify underlying database complexity, and set row- and

column- level security. The objects (such as filters) set row-level

security. This semantic layer is the foundation for empowering end

users to customize query and analysis. It abstracts the complexity of

data by using business language rather

than data language to access, manipulate, and organize




•Business View Manager

A Windows-based tool that allows users to build semantic layer

objects that simplify underlying database complexity, and set row- and

column-level security.

The objects (such as filters) set row-level security. You can build

connections to multiple data sources, join tables, alias field names,

create calculated fields, and then utilize this simplified structure as a

Business View in Business Objects Enterprise. Report designers can

then use the Business View as the basis for their reports, rather than

accessing the data directly and building their own queries.




•Data Services

A Windows-based tool that provides an easy-to-use,

graphical environment that simplifies and automates

complex data quality and data integration processes



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