SAP BW / BI (7.1 & 7.

3) Training course contents

Modelling
Introduction to Data Warehousing
Star Schema and Extended Star Schema
Info Area
Info Object Catalogs
Info Objects(Characteristics & Key Figures)
Application Component
Data Source
Transfer Rules
Info Source
Update Rules
Info Package (All options)
Real Time Info Package
Transformations
Data Transfer Process(DTP)
Error DTP
Direct Access DTP
Real Time DTP
Activation of Business Content Objects
Metadata Repository
Transportations
Open Hub Destination
Info Spoke
Aggregates
Compression
Reconstruction
Process Chains
Analysis Process Designer
Currency Translations
Daemon

Info Providers Types
7.0 Info Providers
o Standard DSO
o Write-optimized DSO
o Direct Update DSO
o Standard Info Cube, with data persistence in the BW system
o Real-time Info Cube
o Virtual Providers (Virtual Cubes)
o InfoSet
o MultiProvider
o Aggregation Level
7.3 - New Info Providers
o Standard, SAP HANA-optimized DSO*
o Semantically partitioned DSO
o Standard, with data perseistence in the BWA*
o Standard, SAP HANA-optimized Info Cube*
o Semantically partitioned Info Cube
o Based on an SAP HANA Model*
o Hybrid Provider Based on a DataStore object
o Hybrid Provider Based on direct access
o Composite Provider*
Other
o Data Flow
o Data Flow Template
o New options in Info Package
o New Options in Transformations
o New Options in DTP
o Insert Characteristic as Info Provider
o Using Queries as InfoProviders*
o Transient Providers*

Extraction (Master data & Transaction Data)
Flat file Extraction
LO Extraction
FI Extraction
Generic Extraction
COPA Extraction
Enhancement of Data sources
Real Time Data Acquisition

Extraction (Master data & Transaction Data)
Flat file Extraction
LO Extraction
FI Extraction
Generic Extraction
COPA Extraction
Enhancement of Data sources
Real Time Data Acquisition

Reporting
Bex Query Designer
Rows, Columns, Free characteristics
Filter
New Selection
New Formula
Restricted key figure
Calculated Key figure
Exceptions and conditions
Structures
Cells
All Types of Variables
Offset Variables
Variable Processing Types
Report to Report Interface(RRI)
Customer Exits
BEx Analyzer
Web Application Designer
Different Types of Web Items
Web Templates


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SYLLABUS
SAP BI Training in SAPTAC Bangalore
1) Introduction to ERP.
2) Introduction to sap.
3) Introduction to R-3 architecture.
4) ASAP Methodology.
5) SAP system landscape.
6) Data warehouse fundamentals.
7) Different data warehousing technologies.
8) Why SAP BI?
9) SAP BI architecture - Model of data flow from ECC to BI.
10) Designing of InfoObjects ( attributes,texts and hierarchies).
11) Using reference characteristics and template.
12) Compounding - Embedding superior infoobjects.
13) Attributes, How to create attributes?
14) How to define - Display and navigation attributes.
15) loading of time dependant and time independant master data.
16) steps for loading a flat file into an infoobject.
17) creation of datasource for flat file.
18) creation of infopackage.
19) designing the tranformation.
20) start routine
21) field routine.
22) end routine.
23) expert routine.
24) creation of DTP'S.
25) Analyse error dtp.
26) Designing a DSO ? Real time business scenario for usage of a DSO
27) Types of DSO.
28) Standard dso, write optimized dso and direct update dso.
29) Loading of transactional data into a Standard dso.
30) Overview of different types of schema.
31) classical star schema versus extended star schema.
32) Defining an infocube based upon extended star schema.
33) loading of data into an infocube from a flat file.
34) Tpes of infocube -
35) Standard infocube,
36) Real time infocube
37) virtual provider infocube.
38) Performance of an infocube.
39) Rollup of Aggregates.
40) Collapse.
41) Reconstruction.
42) Line item Dimensions.high cardinality.
43) Info provides and info areas.
44) virtual view of data using multiprovider and infoset.
45) designing of Process Chains.
46) managing daily process chains.
47) Application Components.
48) 3x data source and 7 Data sources.
49) Activating the Business content.
50) Delta Management.
51) delta for flat file.
52) generic delta.
53) delta for lo-cockpit extraction.
54) Full upload.
55) Initialization with data transfer.
56) Initialize without data transfer.
57) Early delta initialization.
58) Transformations.
59) Formulas.
60) routines.
61) initial.
62) Reading from master data.
63) Unit conversion.
64) Constant assignment.
65) Various types of R3 Extractors.
66) Generic extraction - cross application extraction.
67) Timestamp.
68) Numeric pointer and cal day.
69) Extraction from LO Cockpit.
70) Direct delta.
71) Queued delta.
72) V3 un-serialized.
73) Grouping.
74) collecting.
75) Installing.
76) Documents.
77) meta-data repository.
78) Real Time Data Acquisition.
79) BEx reporting BEx Query Designer.
80) Calculated and Restricted Key Figures.
81) Variables ( Characteristic, Formula and Text Variables ).
82) Query properties, Exceptions and Conditions, BEx Analyzer, cells.
83) Creation of customer exit.
84) Web Application Designer.
85) Fetching data using Data providers.
86) Fetching data using info cube.
87) Data mining.
88) Data archiving.
89) SAP BI Integrated planning olap services.
90) SAP BI Integrated planning drill down.
91) SAP BI Integrated planning pattern
92) SAP BI Integrated planning planning modeler.
93) Data marts.
94) 1 Real time project based on functional specification
95) mock interviews.
96) questionnaire.
2. http://www.slideshare.net/uwinpro_training/sap-bi-course
3.
BI Online Training Course Content

INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
1.1 Comparison of OLTP and OLAP Data
1.2. INTRODUCTION TO SAP BI
1.3. SAP BI ARCHITECTURE
1.4. THE SAP BI STAR SCHEMA
1.5. INTRODUCTION TO DATA WAREHOUSE BENCH
2. INTRODUCTION TO INFOOBJECTS & INFOCUBES
2.1. INTRODUCTION TO INFOOBJECTS
2.2. TYPES OF INFOOBJECTS
2.3. CHARACTERISTIC INFOOBJECT
2.4. CREATING A CHARACTERISTIC IN THE INFOOBJECT TREE
2.5. KEY FIGURES
2.6. INFOCUBES
2.7. BASIC CUBES
2.8. CREATING AN INFOCUBE IN THE INFOPROVIDER TREE
2.9. TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF SAP BW STAR SCHEMA
3 DATA TRANSFER PROCESS IN SAP BI
3.1. OVERVIEW OF DATA TRANSFER PROCESS
3.2. DATA TRANSFER PROCESS EXAMPLE
3.3. CREATING AND MANAGING DTP
3.4. ERROR HANDLING OF DTP
3.5. ERROR STACK IN DTP
3.6. TEMPORARY STORAGE FOR DTP
3.7. DTP MONITOR
3.8. MANAGING INFOCUBES-DATA MAINTENANCE
3.9. USING BW MONITOR
4 DATA STORE OBJECTS (DSO)
4.1. DATA STORE OBJECT DEFINITION:
4.2. DATA STORE OBJECT DEFINITION:
4.3 DATA STORE OBJECT TYPES
4.4. DATA STORE OBJECT ADMINISTRATION
DATASTORE OBJECT ADMINISTRATION - PERFORMANCE:
5 MULTIPROVIDERS
5.1. ADVANTAGES OF MULTIPROVIDER
5.2. MULTIPROVIDER, APPLICATION EXAMPLE
5.3. CREATING A MULTIPROVIDER

6 AGGREGATES
6.1. USING AGGREGATES
6.2. AGGREGATES AND MASTER DATA CHANGES
7 ADMIN COCKPITS
8 PROCESS CHAINS
8.1. OVERVIEW OF PROCESS CHAINS
8.2. STRUCTURE OF PROCESS CHAINS

9 GENERIC R/3 DATA EXTRACTION
9.1. CREATING VIEWS IN R/3
9.2. CREATING DATASOURCES IN R/3.
9.3. LOADING DATA FROM R/3 INTO BW
10 LOGISTICS COCKPIT
10.1. WHAT IS LOGISTIC COCKPIT (LC)?
10.2. LOGISTIC COCKPIT FUNCTIONS
11 REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
11.1. SAP BW BUSINESS EXPLORER
11.2. WORKING WITH BEX
11.3. BEX ANALYZER
11.4. RESTRICTED KEY FIGURES
11.5. CALCULATED KEY FIGURES
11.6. EXCEPTIONS
11.7. CREATING EXCEPTIONS
11.8. CONDITION
4.
BI course content
1. SAP Net Weaver and BI: Overview, Positioning and Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Data warehousing and Business Intelligence
SAP Netweaver Business Intelligence (BI) overview
SAP Netweaver Solution Delivery: IT Practices, scenarios and usage Types
SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence: Data Warhousing Overview.

2. Objects in the BI Data Warehouse Layer
Data Warehousing Workbench
Infoproviders: Business Purpose
Infoobjects: Characteristics
Infoobjects: Key figures
The BI Infocube: An extended Star Schema
Creating Infocubes

3. Data Acquisition and Transformation from SAP Source Systems
Data Flow: Overview
Loading Master Datasource from an SAP source System
Loading Transaction Datasource from an SAP source System

4. Data Acquisition from other systems
Extraction from Non sap systems: Overview
Flat file Loading

5. BI Content
BI content discovery (metadata repository)
BI content Activation

6. Other Infoproviders
Datastore objects
Virtual providers and Real time data acquisition
Multiprovider and BI Infoset

7. Administration of Data Targets
System administration tasks in BI: Overview
Administration of infocubes
Administration of Datastore objects
Process chains

8. Introduction to query Performance Optimization
Introduction to query Performance Optimization in BI
BI Aggregates
BI Accelerator



Reporting

1. Introduction to BI Enterprise reporting
2. Navigation in reports
3. First steps in the Bex query designer
Query designer
Infoprovider in the Bex query designer

4. Key figures
Restricted Keyfigures
Calculated keyfigures
Properties of Keyfigures
Structures and cells

5. Characteristics
Properties and attributes of characteristic
Integrating hierarchies into report
Creating user defined hierarchy

6. Variables
7. Exception and conditions
8. Bex analyzer
9. Bex web analyzer
10. Information broadcasting
Information broadcasting overview
Bex broadcaster
Workbook precalculator
11. Enterprise portal integration
12. Document integration
13. Report report interface
14. Managing query objects
15. Business content
16. Further SAP BI reporting tool.

Advance Modeling and Extraction

1. Overview of BI
a. Overview of data acquisition
b. Bi content

2. Data flow in data acquisition
a. Data flow summary
b. Transformation process
c. Direct access to source system
d. Real time data acquisition

3. Data acquisition in Service API
a. Connecting SAP source system to BI system
b. Basic of the BI S API
c. Transfer of Business content
d. Logistic data acquisition
e. Generic data acquisition
f. Enhancement of BI content data source

4. Transfer of flat file
5. Data acquisition with DB connect
6. Process chain
a. Process chain design
b. Managing process chain
7. Report performance
a. Design
b. OLAP caching

8. BI statistic and monitoring
9. Aggregates
10. BI accelerator
11. Security component in BI
12. Security data access for report user
13. Saving bex object in BI roles
14. Securing data access for advance user
15. Maintain authorisation


5.
Introduction
Data ware Housing concepts
Overview of BI/BW
Overview of SAP R/3
Types of Applications
OLTP
OLAP
R/3 Architecture
Master Data
Attribute Data
Text Data
Hierarchy Data
Transaction Data
Header data
Item Data
Scheduling Data
Transportation
Package
Request No
Return Codes
Star Schema Concept
Classical Star Schema (DW)
Extended star schema (BW)
Naming Conversions
(A,B..X & O)
(Y & Z)
BW Architecture
PSA Maintenance
Types of Data
Master Data
Transaction Data
Reporting
BEX Analyzer
BEX Browser
WAD
BEX Query designer
Objects
Info Area
Info Object Catalog
Info Objects
Info Source
Direct update
Flexible Update
Data Source
Source System
Application Component
Transfer Rules
Transfer Structure
Communication structure
Info provider
Data Targets
Info Cubes
ODS
Update Rules
Info package
Data loading using flat file
Master data
Attribute data
Text Data
Hierarchy data
Transaction Data
Reusability of Master data
Designing the transfer rules, transfer structure
Communication according to data using diff
Structure
Dynamic Calculation, Suppressing data,
Adding new functionality to the data of transfer
rules
Update rule level while loading data
Handling data function while loading data
Extra Structure
PSA
Scheduling the Data
Data Packet by data packet
Complete data scheduling
Scheduling in background
Debugging the data while loading
Transfer rule level
Update rule level
PSA processing types
Terminating errors while loading the
data
Increasing the data packet size
Application server file concept AL11
Scheduling the data in back ground
Monitoring the data loading
Monitoring background jobs
Scheduling jobs based on periodic values
Cancelling and deleting background jobs
Variables
Types
Represent
Process
Entry
Conditions
Formula
Calculated key figures, Restricted key figures
Exceptions
Filters
Free characteristics
Structures
Cell Definition
Query Performance
Brain errors
Forcing variables
Information broadcasting
Cache monitoring
RRI (Report to Report Interface)
Attributes
Navigational attributes
Display attributes
Query Properties
Debugging reports while executing
Advance Modeling
ODS
New data table
Active data table
Change log table
Role maintains
Creating Role
Assigning Role
ODS Setting
Automatic
Manual
Details
9 cases of deltas with scenario
Error handling details
Data mart
ODS-to-Infocube
Infocube to infocube
ODS-ODS
Multi providers
Info set
Partitioning
Number range buffering
Line items dimension
Currency conversion
Performance issues
Business Content
Definition
Activation
Open hub services
Info spoke
Extraction
Flat file
LOS
LIS
Generic Extraction
Content
Performance
Request ID
Aggregate
Rollup & Collapse
Reconstruction
Deletion of data from data targets
Complete deletion of data
Deleting data by request id
Selective deletion
Process chain
Meta chain
Direct schedule
Error handling in process chain
Message integration
Success
Error
Always
Scheduling process chain based on periodic values
Cancelling the process chain jobs
Rescheduling process chain job
Folder creation for specific process chain
Creating a variant for ABAP programs and integrating in process chain
ALE remote jobs
Attribute change run
Transportation
Assigning object to requests
Releasing request number and their dependency
Return code
Mail drafting to basis team regarding transportation
Searching objects locally and business
Content through metadata repository
SQVI-Quick Views
Info set editing
Master data
Transaction data
CO-PA
FI-SI
DB connect
Business content extraction
Integration of RFC with R/3
Creating source site
Generic delta