K PRAVEEN

SAP BO/BW Consultant

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mobile: + 9581886023
Email ID:

Professional Summary:

↪ 7.5 years of experience in the field of Information Technology as a SAP BO / BW Consultant.

↪ Involved in BO and BW projects spanning 2 full life cycles. Responsible for requirement gathering,
technical design, development and testing.
↪ Strong Exposure in Data warehousing Methodology and Schema modeling.

↪ Experience in Designing SAP BO reports and Dashboards on SAP Sources as well as Oracle.

↪ Experience in SQL and PL SQL.

Key Skills:
↪ Extensively worked on SAP BO XI R4 tools like CMC, Information Designer, Web Intelligence, BI
Launch Pad and knowledge on Dashboard, Crystal Reports.
↪ Good Working experience on SAP BO XI R3 tools like Universe Design Tool, Web Intelligence, Info
view and knowledge on Xcelsius 2008, Crystal Reports.
↪ Worked on creation of new users, groups and folders to provide security access levels by using
CMC.
↪ Worked on Universes by using single and multisource connection on top of SAP and Non SAP data
sources(SQL).
↪ Developing the WEBI Reports by using BI Launchpad and WEBI Rich client tool.

↪ Worked on various functionalities like Merge Dimensions, Combined Queries, Hyperlinks, Alerts,
Breaks, Section, Filters, Element linking and Input Controls.
↪ Creating Interactive dashboards for the end users using Query as a Web Services (Qaaws) and Live
Office (LO) connections on Universe.

↪ Worked on scheduling reports by using publication report schedule and event based schedule.
↪ Deployed the WEBI report from Dev to Test and Prod by using Promotional Management Tool.

↪ Good working Knowledge in Data Extraction from Multiple SAP and Non SAP (Legacy) Systems
using LO, Flat File, Generic Extraction Methods for legacy data.
↪ Expertise in Report Generation - Worked extensively in BEx Analyzer in building Queries and
saving in Workbooks (Excel work Sheets) and created Custom Queries using Conditions,
Exceptions, Variables & Structures and created aggregates for frequently used queries.
↪ Expertise in BW performance tuning. Experience in performance tuning of queries by maintaining
aggregates, compression, and partition, process chains, indexing of info cubes and use of statistics
for the same.
 ↪ Expertise in creating process chains, Data load management, Scheduling Start Process, event
triggers, event chains.
↪ Excellent communication, interpersonal, training, analytical and technical skills.

Work Experience

↪ Working as a SAP BO/BW Consultant with CSE, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from Sep 2014 to till date.
↪ Worked at Infosys, Hyderabad from July 2010 to Sep 2014.

Academic History

↪ Bachelor of Science specialized in Computers from Kakatiya Degree and PG College in the year of
2010.

Project # 3:
Organization: Computers and Systems Engineering.
Client :SAGIA
Duration :Sep 2014 to Till Date
Role : SAP BO/BW Consultant
Environment: SAP BO 4.0 and BW 7.3 and SQL

Responsibilities & Support Roles:

↪ Responsible for requirement gathering and Analysis of the business requirement that could be
satisfied with SAP Business content and created the necessary objects required.

↪ Worked on Information Design Tools by using importing tables from SQL and making the joins
between the tables based on relationship and created the custom Hierarchy’s, navigation path
for users selections available at prompt query level.
↪ Worked on derived tables and alias table based on requirement and resolving loops by using
aliases, shortcut join and contexts, aggregate conditions, parsing of objects, LOV.
↪ Worked on performance tuning to improving the report performance by using shortcut join,
filters, self-restrictions, aggregate function, query stripping, row & column level restrictions,
uncheck all LOV for measures, index awareness and check integrity before exporting to
repository.
↪ Created folders, Dimension, details and Measure Objects for available in query level.
↪ Worked on creation of Web Intelligence(WEBI) report by using Add queries, Merge
dimensions, combined Queries, Multiple Data Providers, Prompts, break, Sections, Rankings,
Tracking, Drilling, Charts, Slice and Dice, Cross Tab, Master Detail and formula, filters, sorting,
ranking and Variables.
↪ Exported reports into various formats like PDF, EXCEL and WORD for End users.
↪ Scheduling the reports on daily, weekly and monthly basis by using Created Calendars &
Recurrence as per user requirement.
↪ Worked on scheduling the report by using events based.
↪ Worked on CCM ,SIA and CMC admin activity’s.
↪ Worked on Transport the reports from Dev to QA to PROD by using Promotional Management.
↪ Worked in SAP BW for extracting the data by using the custom data sources for the details analysis
of FDI reports.
↪ Created Generic Data Sources on tables and Views to pull data from CRM customized tables.

↪ Created BW objects like Info objects, Info Packages, DSO and Cubes to transform data from Source
to BW system.
↪ Created and Modified the necessary transfer rules, transformations between DSO’s and worked on
the start routine and end routine in order to modify data as per requirement.
↪ Worked on the reconciliation to check data accuracy by comparing Source and BW data.

↪ Analyzing and resolving the errors that occur during data loading and activation process. And
maintaining track record for future reference.
↪ Worked on the BEx query designer to build queries, which supports BO reporting functionality.

↪ Creating Webi reports using BICS connection with all available features. Creating Dashboard using
Query Browser and BI services.
↪ Created Hierarchal Webi reports to analyze FDI of the country easily. And used many functions to
achieve user requirement.
↪ Generated reports using reporting functionalities like Combined Queries, Alerts, Break/Section, Drill
and chart.
↪ Purging the reports before saving them to the repository.

↪ Designed and Developed Webi Reports using the features like Master/Detail, Charts, Cross Tabs, and
Drill Down.
↪ Handling the content administrator activates like creating the groups, folders setting up the security.

↪ Transporting the Content from one environment to another environment.

↪ Designing and Formatting of the reports as per the requirement.

↪ Created Dash board using BICS and BI Web services to get required output.

↪ Worked on different Components like maps, charts to get user friendly feel and also for easy
understanding purpose.
↪ Used different type of selectors and Excel formulas to play with dynamic functionality in Dashboard.

↪ Created Dashboards for IPod and Mobile users with respective compatible components.

↪ Worked on performance issues of Dashboard.

↪ Created User Manuals for End user reference.

↪ Providing End user training for Clients to access reports and Dashboard.

↪ Monitoring of BO Publication reports and scheduling and Re-scheduling failed WEBI report,
↪ Worked on WEBI report scheduling failure issues and re-scheduling reports after fixed issues.
 ↪ Working Enhancement Reports on WEBI Reports and UDT to create classes and dimensions as
per requirements.
↪ Create and delete user accounts add to specified groups and provide the access levels as per
requirements.
↪ Providing the fresh WEBI reports data export to PDF and EXCEL formats.
↪ Involved on Report bursting WEBI Scheduling’s based on profile values as per requirements.
↪ Maintain the servers, if servers is down re-start servers by using CCM, CMC.
↪ Involved on outages of production environment systems both SAP BOBJ and SAP BW.

Environment: SAP BOBI 4.0, WEBI 2011, SAP BW 7.3 and SQL Server

Project # 2:
Organization: Infosys
Client : Harley - Davidson
Duration :Feb 2013 to Sep 2014
Role : SAP BO Consultant
Environment: SAP BO 4.0, SAP BW 7.0

Responsibilities:

↪ The project involved in the development of reports using Business Objects Web Intelligence and
Dash boards.
↪ Created BEx Queries and reports using WAD for Enterprise Portal as per business requirement.

↪ Created BO reports on BEx Queries to deliver more user friendly reports to the client.

↪ Involved in Creating detailed critical webi reports like product wise sales, region wise manufacturing
quantity and customer satisfaction.
↪ Created reports using Business Objects functionality's like Queries, Drill Down, Cross Tab, Master
Detail and Formulae's. Created the reports using Business Objects functionalities like Combined
Queries, Drill down, Cross tab, Master detail and Formulae.
↪ Worked on different reporting functionalities like Breaks, Sections and Filters at Different Levels of
the reports and applied ranking in the Webi reports.
↪ Created Dash boards on QAAWS to get most summarized data from Webi reports. Used Maximum
components to design dashboard user friendly.
↪ Involved in testing the Reports by executing them with live data and comparing it with BW Data.

↪ Involved in complete Architectural Design of BO Xi 3.1 as Global Reporting Portal.

↪ Implemented Data warehousing schemas like Star-Schema, Snow-Flake Schema.

↪ Involved in the designing and Building of Universes, Classes and objects

↪ Resolved loops and Traps using Contexts and Aliases while designing Universes.
Set up Universe level conditions to restrict data based on report requirements.
↪ Developed and created classes with Dimension, Detail & Measure objects and Developed Custom
hierarchies to support drill down
 ↪ Created Derived tables in the Designer to enhance the capabilities and performance of the universe.

↪ The project involved in the development of reports using Business Objects Web Intelligence to cater
Ad-hoc reporting needs.
↪ Developed Dashboards using Xcelsius 2008 according to user specifications.

↪ Wrote complex views, functions and stored procedures using SQL, PL/SQL, to be used in Reports
development.
↪ Maintaining Excel Sheets with issues and their resolutions for future reference.

↪ Designed Technical documents for user reference. Provided user training to different levels of people
to execute ad-hoc reports.
Project # 1
Organization: Infosys.
Client : Rio Tinto Group
Duration : July 2010 to Jan 2013
Role : SAP BW Consultant
Environment: SAP BI 7.0/ 7.3

Responsibilities:

↪ Our main objective is to provide 24 * 7 reporting access with 3 major data refresh a day. We also
refer these as “Major 3Run cycles” are meant to cover 3 reporting regions.
↪ Primary contact from Offshore for all Complex and Urgent changes, which are classified under P1 &
P2 service call SLA.
↪ Mentored the Team technically for any issues and have conducted multiple induction training
sessions for new team members regarding the scope of the project and Work.
↪ Supported the end-users when they get issues in reports through service calls.
↪ Done the changes in reports(like creating conditions, adding new fields, changing RKF&CKF etc)
using query designer to change the functionality as required by the users.
↪ Added new fields to the existing cube and made it available in the report.
↪ Done multiple outages to reload the data to the cubes and performed selective deletions when
necessary.
↪ Involved in Info Cubes maintenance and Performance Tuning issues like Creation of Aggregates,
Partitioning Data Targets and Compression etc.
↪ Have a strong knowledge in Process chains monitoring the data loads.
↪ Supported the monitoring team to resolve the errors in the data loads.

PERSONAL INFO

Date of Birth: 29th July’90

Linguistic Proficiency: English, Hindi and Telugu
Habits: Reading Books and Playing Chess.
Passport: Yes