SAP BW Course Contents

Overview & Concepts

Overview of SAP R/3

Necessity of SAP BW & Version of BW
OLAP & OLTP
Data Ware Housing Concepts
Landscape of SAP BW
Integration of BW system with different systems
ERM, MDM, Star Schema & Extended Star Schema.

Objects in SAP BW

Info Area, Info Object Catalogs

Characteristics
Key Figures-Cumulative & Non Cumulative
PSA- Transfer Structure/Data sources
Transfer Rules
Info Source/Communication Structure
ODS- Info Cubes
Types of Info Cubes- Update Rules

Data Loading Using Flat Files

Master Data Attributes, Texts, Hierarchies

Transaction data-Delta data loading

Data Filtration Techniques

Transfer Rules level

Update Rules level
Start Routines

PSA-Maintenance scheduling the data

Data Packet by Packet

Complete scheduling
Scheduling in background
Transfer Rules & Update Rules
PSA-Processing Types
Monitoring & scheduling data loading
Scheduling the jobs on periodic values
Cancellation & Deleting the back ground jobs
SAP-Bi Concepts & Overview

Modeling: Data warehousing workbench

Components of data warehousing workbench

InfoObjects, data source,
Types of DSO's , Data Source Repository
Migration of 3.X data sources & Recovery of 3.X Data sources
Difference between ODS & DSO
Data Loading Master Data & Transactional Data.
Concepts of Transformation & Its Types
Controlling the data-flow with Infopackages (IP)& Data Transfer Process (DTP)
Data Loading into DSO & InfoCubes
Standard Direct DSO Write Optimized DSO.

Types of Info Cubes, Info Sets, MultiProvider

Open Hub & Performance Issue

Deleting data from data target
Query performance & Load Performances
Business Content

Important of business Content

Business Content Installation & Activation
Business Content Data Source, DSO's, Cubes, Reports, etc

Meta Data Repository

Important of Metadata Repository

Extraction

Flat file & LO Extraction

Generic Extraction & Generic Delta
FI-SL, Co-PA, DB Connect
Business Content Extraction
Data Enhancements- Tables, View, Query

Process Chain

Types of Process Chains

Process Groups & Meta Chain, etc
Transport Mechanism

Review of system Landscape

Collecting Objects
Creating Transports
Releasing Transport
Importing Transport
Monitoring Transport

Authorization Concepts

Authorization
Creating & Assigning Roles

BI 7.0 Reporting

BEx Query Designer

Introduction of BEx Query

Filters, Columns & Rows
Characteristic Restrictions & Free Characteristics
Formulas & Calculated Key Figures
Restricted Keyfigures & Variables with Texts.

Web Application Designer

Creating Web Templates

Web Item & properties
Drop-down Functions
Condition & Integration

Business Explorer Analyzer

Introduction to BEx Analyzer

Filtering Option
Properties Available in Analyzer

Report Designer

Creating Reports
Formatting columns & Rows
Changing font styles with background color
Inserting Rows & columns
Integrated Planning

Introduction & Planning Application- On web, MS Excel

Types of Projects

Real Time Implementation Projects

Up-Gradation project
Enhancements to the existing Implementation project
Support project

Advanced Topics in BI 7.0

Analysis process Designer

Modeling/Repartitioning
Data Mart
Open Hub Destination
Infoset
Multiprovider