BOID10 SAP BusinessObjects Information Design Tool

COURSE OBJECTIVE:
• 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.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
• Application Consultant
• Data Consultant / Manager
• Developer
• Program / Project Manager
• System Administrator

COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Essential

• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• OLAP database management concepts, systems, and structures

COURSE CONTENT:
Basic SAP BusinessObjects Universe Design

• Describing Universes
• Defining the Components of a Universe
Data Connections

• Defining Connections
Data Foundations

• Creating Data Foundations
• Using Joins
Business Layers

• Accessing Data through the Business Layer
• Integrating the Business Layer Components
• Validating Objects
• Creating Measure Objects
• Creating Shortcut Joins
Loops in a Data Foundation

• Resolving Loops with Joined Tables
• Resolving Loops Using Aliases
• Resolving Loops Using Contexts
• Detecting Contexts
• Editing Contexts
• Testing Contexts
• Resolving Recursive Loops
Data Restrictions

• Defining Data Restrictions
• Applying Mandatory Data Restrictions
• Applying Optional Data Restrictions
Lists of Values (LOV)

• Providing a List of Values
Parameters

• Illustrating Runtime Parameters
Object @functions

• Using Object @functions in Queries
• Applying the Aggregate Awareness Optimization Method
• Using Other @ Functions
Navigation Paths

• Defining Drill Down Navigation Paths
Derived Tables

• Creating Derived Tables
Key Awareness

• Defining Numeric Keys
Universe Management with Data Foundation and Business Layer Views

• Managing a Universe using the Data Foundation View
• Managing a Universe using the Business Layer View
Universe Optimization

• Optimizing Universes Using Parameters
Universe Deployment and Security

• Deploying a Universe
• Securing a Published Universe
• Creating Data Security Profiles
• Creating Business Security Profiles
• Assigning Security Profiles to Users
• Identifying the Priority of Security Settings
• Updating a Published Universe
SQL Clause Processing Problems

• Determining How the Order of SQL Clauses Affects Data Returned
• Detecting Ambiguity Caused by SQL Requests Run Against Joined Tables
• Resolving Ambiguity Caused by SQL Requests Run Against Joined Tables
• Identifying Fan Traps
• Resolving Ambiguity Caused by SQL Requests Run Against Joined Tables
Outer Join Problem Resolution

• Resolving an Ambiguous Outer Join Using @AggregateAware
Universe Creation from Different Data Sources

• Identifying the Different Data Sources
• Creating an OLAP Universe
• Creating a Multi-source Universe
Shared Projects

• Using Shared Projects
• Manipulating Other Designers' Resources
Universe Conversion

• Converting Existing .unv Universes
Translation

• Deploying Universes in Different Languages

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