Goals

This course will prepare you to:

• This course is designed to give you the comprehensive skills needed to work with the Information Design Tool. The Information Design Tool enables designers to extract, define, and manipulate metadata from relational and OLAP sources to create and deploy SAP BusinessObjects universes.
• In this course you learn how to use data from different source systems (SAP and non-SAP) with the SAP BusinessObjects BI client tools.

Audience

• Application Consultant
• Data Consultant / Manager
• Developer
• Program / Project Manager
• System Administrator

Course based on software release

• SAP BusinessObjects Plattform 4.1

Content

• Basic SAP BusinessObjects Universe Design
• Data Connections
• Data Foundations
• Business Layers
• Loops in a Data Foundation
• Data Restrictions
• Lists of Values (LOV)
• Parameters
• Object @functions
• Navigation Paths
• Derived Tables
• Key Awareness
• Universe Management with Data Foundation and Business Layer Views
• Universe Optimization
• Universe Deployment and Security
• SQL Clause Processing Problems
• Outer Join Problem Resolution
• Universe Creation from Different Data Sources
• Shared Projects
• Universe Conversion
• Translation

Notes

• Please keep in mind that the course material is available in English language only.
• Please keep in mind that the integration to SAP BusinessWarehouse is not covered in this course.