K.

LAKSHMI NARAYANA
SAP BO DS Consultant
(ERP Business Intelligence)
phone: +91-8007384273
E-mail: k.lakshminarayana21 @gmail.com

Experience Summary
Over 3.8 years of Software Industry experience (services and product development) with 3.3 years in Data
Warehousing technologies like ERP, EPM, Business Intelligence, SAP Business Intelligence/BIW, R3/ECC,
SAP Business Objects, Data Integrator/Services, Data Quality, Data Federator and Rapid marts. Extensively
involved in SDLC projects with multiple Go-Live implementations, Development, Upgrades, Migrations and
Production Support, which leveraged the business intelligence that resides in transactions to drive executive
reports, decision making, what if analysis, high end Dash boards and Metrics presentation.
In depth business process understanding of Material Management, Sales Distribution and Finance with
great project manager capabilities of handling ten to fifteen headcount team.
Experienced in Business Analysis, Design, Development, and Implementation, Testing, Migration and
Support areas of Enterprise Applications
Experienced in Data Modeling & Architecture, Extended Star Schema, Snow flake Schema, Slowly
Changing Dimensions, Master and Transaction Data.
Excellent business process understanding on CRM Sales, MDM, SAP XI and SAP Enterprise Services
Architecture in general.
Participated in software/tool evaluations and Developed standards, best practices and ensure
compliance and Consolidate weekly status reports for Onsite & Offshore activities and initiate weekly
status review meetings with Customer
.

Domains
Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Power & Utility, Insurance & Financing, Supply Chain Management,
and Health-Care.

SAP Business Objects, Data Integrator/Services, Rapid marts & Data Quality

Worked as a Solution architect for SAP BO BI/R3 Integration scenarios in the areas of Cleansing,
Abstraction, and Extraction & Generating Business Intelligence.
Designed Business objects semantic layers(Universe, Business view manager & Voyager) with SAP
Warehouse and Non SAP warehouse
Hands on Experience in Integrating Business objects both with SAPBI & R3 System using Data & Cofiles using Integration kit
Used Sales Rapid mart and customized accordingly
Designed Business objects Web intelligence and Crystal reports using SAP BI & R3 Systems
Implemented Best Practice on integrating SAP Business Objects BI with SAP Net Weaver BW
Extensively used Business Explorer, Live office and Web service to create Adhoc reports with SAP
Warehouse and Non SAP Warehouse
Extensively worked with Repository manager, Job server, Admin console, Metadata Integrator in
generating ETL Project, Business Intelligence, Data quality with Heterogeneous data sources including
XML ,R3, BI with Full load and Incremental load capabilities in a Batch or Real time data flow.
Good working knowledge in Installing Data services 3.2 and worked on different Transport methods
Direct download, Shared directory, ftp and custom transfer to import the data from SAP R3/BI System
Designed and developed Business Objects universes (Reporting Universe, Metrics and Alert Universe)
and Worked on Streaming Real-Time Data into Xcelsius Applications
Managed CMC, Repository, Web Intelligence, Desktop, Destination, Program Job and Event Servers
and Designed security model for users to access the report

Worked on various data providers like Universe, Personal data file, Stored Procedure, Free hand SQL.

Hands on Experience in Scheduling, Working with LOV Objects, Deploying a System and Hands on
Experience in Migrating BO 5.x & 6.x to BO XIR2 Using Import Wizard Workshop
Extensively worked in Web intelligence using combined query functions, sub queries, Grouping, Custom
sorts and Calculation contexts, Conditions and Design High-Performance Multi-Source SAP Business
Objects Universes.
Extensively used Business objects ETL tools such as Data services Designer (Data Integrator, Data
Quality), Data services Server Manager, Data services Repository Manager, and Data services
Management Console in developing the data models.
Involved in SAP Business Objects Data Federator Connections and Used Rapid marts for data
modeling.
Hands on experience in developing Xcelsius reports, Crystal reports, Voyager Slicing/Dicing reports,
Scorecards and Dashboards.

Qualifications
Bachelor of Sciences from S.V University in 2007.

Work Experience
L & T Infotech- MUMBAI

Dec 2009- Till Date

Current Client
Designation

L & T InfoTech
Sr.Software Engineer

Team Size

Offshore (8) Onsite [5]

Previous Client

SEAL INFOTECH, Chennai

Designation

Business Object Developer

Technical Skills
Business Objects
ETL Tools
Data Modelling Tools

SAP Business Objects, SAP BO Data Federator, SAP Business

Objects Integration kit, Crystal Reports & Xcelsius.
SAP BO Data services, BODI (Data Integrator), Data manager,
SAP Business objects Rapid marts
Erwin 3.5.2, MS Visio

Operating Systems

BEX Analyzer, BEX Browser, Web Application Designer, Enterprise

Portal, Crystal reports, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius, Voyager,
Dashboards, Live office, Web service, Polestar(Business
Explorer),Analytics,
Ms-Windows, Unix, Linux, Solaris, WIN NT

Data Bases

Oracle, Ms SQL, DB2, MS- Access 2000

Languages

C++, JAVA, VB, SQL/PLSQL, UNIX Shell Scripts

Operating System

MSDOS, UNIX(Sun Solaris, LINUX),Windows

NT2K/98/95
MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-VISIO, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Word

Reporting Tools

Workflow tools

Professional Experience

Project

SSCV ( Sales and Supply Chain Visibility)

Customer

REC Silicon - Moses Lake

Period

Oct 2010 - Till date

Description

Role

REC Silicon is a US based subsidiary of REC Group in Norway and its products are solar
grade silicon, electronic grade silicon and saline gas. The overall goal for REC Silicon is to
update its financial and operational systems to accommodate expected future growth and
expansion. The current legacy systems are adequate for todays operations but will not support
future growth decision making. This has forced the REC Silicon to move forward with
implementing ERP and EPM Models. The purpose of implementing Business Objects, Data
service and EPM is to do best decision making in their produce improvement and growth.
BO Developer

Team size

13

Contribution

Provided inputs for Data warehouse Design Considerations and Dimensional Modeling
and Designed Factory Model approach for Both ETL & Report development Processes.

Designed Universes using BW and R/3 data sources and developed reports in WebI,
Xcelsius Dashboards and Crystal Reports.

Customized the ETL Project Artifacts and prepared the ATL Files using Rapid marts

Used Rapid marts to customize the Xcelsius dashboard(Standard Content)

Created Hierarchy for the LOV for Deski and Designer and used Cascading LOV in Web
intelligence and also created Reusable LOV, Reusable filters and used Custom SQl in
Designer.
Designed Reusable interactive objects and used Derived tables and involved in setting up
Multidimensional analysis, granting access to Universe, Object level security, Setting
Restriction Priorities and also worked with multiple designers & metadata Integration.
Used outer joins to retrieve the data and used self joins and sub queries to meet the report
requirement. Involved in creation of performance management metric Universe, Metrics,
Analytics and personal and corporate dashboards.
Using Crystal Xcelsius created a chart with a date range & series.
Created multiple data store configurations in Data services local object library with
different databases to create unified data store.
Using Data services Created Batch and Incremental load(Change data capture) and
wrote initialization scripts which control Workflows & Data flows
Used Built-in Functions, Built-in Transformations, File formats and XML formats and
created Variables to Complete the Project
Created Universe from Data services admin console and generated Crystal reports out
of that and also created recoverable work flow to handle errors
Building Jobs for Address Cleanse transforms from different countries. Cleansing
Name, Firm, and Product Data. Processed Universal Data Cleanse for operational data
and Consolidating Records using selected matching strategy.
Created Impact and Lineage Analysis Reports and created Operational Dashboard
reports using Data services admin console
Created SAP ERP or R/3 profile for Data services using profile generation & defined
SAP ERP or R/3 file format.
Scheduling Data services jobs from SAP ERP or R/3
Used Direct download, Shared directory, ftp and custom transfer to complete Data
services & R3 Integration

Solution
Environment

Business Objects, SAP BO Data services(Data Integrator), SAP BI/BW, SAP R3,SAP BO
Integration kit, Xcelsius, Widgets, Dashboard, Crystal Reports, Oracle 10G, 11G ERWIN

Project

AMS Project

Customer

Statoil

Period

Dec 2009 to Sep 2010

Description

Statoil is an integrated technology-based International energy company primarily

focused on upstream oil and gas operations. Statoil engages in the exploration, production,
transportation, refining, and marketing of petroleum and petroleum-derived products. The
company involves in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas
in Norway and internationally, as well as extraction of natural gas liquids.
The scope of AMS Project is to manage its Business Objects (BO) solution both
maintenance and enhancement. Previously the system was in BO 6.5.1 and currently running
on BO XI R3 with multiple language options to support users across different countries.

Role

The Client wants system which can give intelligent information regarding the existing business
scenario and makes him capable to analyze specific trends of business.
BO Developer

Team size

Contribution

Developed SAP BW queries using BEX Query Designer for the reporting requirements
in Operations Support, Human Resources, Accounting and Finance, Procurement and
Inbound Logistics charters.
Worked on creating SAP BW OLAP universes over BEX queries in Business Objects
3.1 Environment.
Replicated/Migrated reports created in crystal reports to Business Objects.
Created Batch Jobs and Validated the Jobs and Workflows in terms of validation using
BO Data services and Rapid marts
Created various dashboards using Crystal Xcelsius.
Worked with the end users and Database developers to identify the critical data needs
for reporting.
Worked on migrating the Business Objects and Crystal reports from lower versions to
Version XI. Worked with import wizard in moving reports and universes from Dev to UAT
and Production environments.
Worked as Business Objects Data Integrator (BODI).
Resolved ETL / Database performance issues during pre-implementation at customer
sites, which helped meet the scheduled targets.
Devised different load strategies for the ETL Initial Load which significantly reduced the
processing time for the staging area.
Identified the aggregate reports that analyze yearly and quarterly sales figures and worked
with the DBA to create the relevant aggregate tables.
Designed, developed and provided training in creating Ad-hoc reports, modifying
universes, scheduling options in XI, Creating fiscal calendars in XI, XI Desktop
Intelligence/Web Intelligence to End users/Power user
Developed various Charts, Graphs and drill down reports.
Extensively used Toad to verify if the data pulled by the report is correct compared to the
database data and also to verify if the joins used in designing the universe are correct.
Generated Custom variables, groups and formulas in Business Objects.
Generated Reports on different data sources such as Business Objects Universes, Stored
Procedures etc.
Worked on User/System report documentation, user training and testing developed
reports for final deployment.
Created a backup of WEBI Reports and Universes in BIAR format using Import Wizard.
Worked on creating groups, conditions, filters, ranking in reports
Converted Webi reports from the Deski Reports using Report Conversion tool in Business
Objects XI R3.
Created bar charts, pie charts, gauges for predicting flow in pipes and exported them to
power point, PDF and presented them in user meetings.

 Created Complex Reports (Used multiple data providers, Union, Intersection, minus and
Master/Detail, cross tab, Charts).
Created several new objects and classes in the Universe based on the report creation
requirements.
Worked with Complex formatting issues during Conversion to WEBI.
While migrating the universes across repositories (Development, Test and Production),
followed step by step process of testing the universe connection (making sure that the
migrated universe points to the new database)
Used Direct download, Shared directory, ftp and custom transfer to complete Data
services & R3 Integration
Solution
Environment

Business Objects, SAP BO Data services(Data Integrator), SAP BI/BW, SAP R3,SAP BO
Integration kit, Xcelsius, Widgets, Dashboard, Crystal Reports, Oracle 10G, Modules
SD, MM, FI-CO, ERWIN

Project

SHELL CMM

Customer

Shell.

Period

Aug 2008 to Oct 2009

Description

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, Shell Downstream

encompasses all the activities necessary to transform crude oil into petroleum products and
petrochemicals, and deliver them around the world.
The GPMR project intends to deliver Credit Management Information that will enable the
business to monitor and manage the Credit MI to Downstream management and will enable the
business to monitor the Credit Management information in 35 countries. It will deliver the
globally agreed KPIs, Global Reporting and Credit Reports.

Role

The scope of the project is to Design and development of Business Intelligence System for
Shell International Petroleum to analyze the KPIs also the Shell site and its competitor site
analyses.
BO Senior Software Engineer

Team size

13

Contribution

Involved in full project life cycle implementation (requirement gathering to production

phase).
Prepared the following business/technical writing of requirements, design templates,
development standards document and detailed design documents.
Involved in extensive testing of universes and reports during version migration of
business objects.
Involved in performance tuning of Business Objects reports by tuning the SQL.
Involved in the installation of Business Objects repository, creation of user Ids,
implementation of security features and management of the repository.
Extensively created Business Objects reports like matrix reports, tables, Pareto charts
and pie charts.
Extensively used Designer to design various universes for different business groups.
Created classes, aliases, help text, simple reports and complex reports using cascading
prompts, decode objects, etc.
Used the formatting options like cross tab representation, section breaks, data sort
options, calculations, font, colors, etc
Extensively used Designer to design various universes for different business groups.
Created classes, aliases, help text, simple reports and complex reports using cascading
prompts, decode objects, etc.
Involved in report bursting using Broadcast agent server
Implemented row and object level security in business objects supervisor module.
Knowledge of all documentation related to version migration that is provided by business
objects technical support including Business Objects Enterprise 6 Platform Support

Solution
Environment

(Stacks), recommended settings for migration.

Defined documentation standards including the creation of Entity relationship diagram
(ERD) for universes.
Responsible for fitting Business Objects into the Information Architecture of the company
as well as creating users privileges with supervisor. Also for developing and maintaining
universes.
Managed categories that were created and assigned to document by users.
Managed the scheduling options stored in the repository and also involved in changing
the document descriptions.
Specified the standards/best practices for universes like maintaining design consistency.
Also defined standards for tables, charts, etc.
Extensively used breaks for white spaces and sections for better navigation. And created
template documents with header, footer and company logo.
Created user groups and managed access privileges using Business Objects Supervisor.
Developed various Metadata and operational definitions.
Presented the advanced features of Business Objects to users and developers to enable
them to develop queries and reports easily.
Business Objects, SAP BO Data services(Data Integrator), SAP BI/BW, SAP R3,SAP BO
Integration Kit, Xcelsius, Widgets, Dashboard, Crystal Reports, Oracle 10G, Modules
SD, MM, FI-CO, ERWIN

Project

HP RevGen

Customer

HP

Period

Sep 07 to Jul 08

Description

Role

The aim of this project is to implement a Group RevGen- Revenue Generation Operations
solution to all the HP products in countries across the Globe. Group MIS forms part of the
Revenue Generation suite of products with the aim of standardizing processes and
procedures across the Group for existing User of HP. The scope of the project is to develop
Universe for the stores information, GMIS Stores application and standard reports, KPI
definition reports which would be available for access through the Group MIS application to the
users at different levels like Store Managers, Store Directors and Operational Directors with the
correct level of information as per the users level in the hierarchy. The reports provide
Daily/Weekly Summary & Trend information of the KPIs within the Business area.
The Group MIS would be the replacement for I4B (Information for Business) a reporting
system providing the end users read only access to the reports
Software Engineer BI

Team size

Contribution

Involved in gathering the requirements.

Aided in developing ETL jobs using Data Integrator.
Analyzed different source system data to be use in building the data mart.
Perform raw data analysis checks in Excel.
Designed database, tables and views structure for the new data mart.
Business Object Universe, Business Objects Reports and Business Objects repository
used extensively.
Created Hierarchy for the LOV for Deski and Designer and used Cascading LOV in Web
intelligence and also created Reusable LOV, Reusable filters and used Custom SQL in
Designer.
Designed Reusable interactive objects and used Derived tables and involved in setting
up Multidimensional analysis, granting access to Universe, Object level security, Setting
Restriction Priorities and also worked with multiple designers & metadata Integration.
Used outer joins to retrieve the data and used self joins and sub queries to meet the
report requirement. Involved in creation of performance management metric Universe,
Metrics, Analytics and personal and corporate dashboards.

Solution
Environment

Using Crystal Xcelsius created a chart with a date range & series.
Design and develop complex Batch jobs and Real time jobs from a variety of data
sources, transform the data and load the data to data warehouse.
Created Data Stores, File Formats, XML formats and Excel formats to allow BODI to
connect to the source or target database and files.
Responsible in design, creation, and implementation of Data Integrator scripts, work
flows, data flows and Custom functions.
Implemented Change Data Capture (CDC).

Extensive analysis to design the Universes and assigned them to respective domains.
Created complex views to overcome loops and contexts.
Used Aggregate awareness in universes.
Involved in full life cycle of Business Objects reporting applications.

Webi Reports created and deployed through Info View

Oracle 8i, Erwin, BOXIR2 (Designer, Web intelligence, CMC, Performance ManagementDashboard Designer), Data Integrator BODI, Crystal Xcelsius 4.5, Citrix, Windows XP

Training / Continuing Education Summary

Program or Course
Crystal Xcelsius 4.5 Designing
Interactive Presentations

Interpreting People CMM for

Software Organizations

Coverage
Importing Excel files and preparing a model for Dashboard Reports
Dashboard reports Connecting a chart to a series
Using Graphic Selectors
Publishing Models
Setting up Alerts
Setting up Dynamic Visibility
Setting up drill down functionality in charts
Overview of the People CMM
Interpreting the Level 2 Process Areas
Interpreting the Level 3 Process Areas
Interpreting the Level 4 Process Areas
Interpreting the Level 5 Process Areas

Personality

Disciplined team player with good communication skills.

Keenly interested in learning and developing project management, consultancy skills related to Data
Warehousing Management and ETL.

Personal Details
Nationality

Indian

Fathers Name

K. V. Swamy