SAP Business Intelligence - BI Modeling

AP Net Weaver and BI: Overview, Positioning and Fundamentals

• Fundamentals of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
• SAP Net Weaver Business Intelligence (BI) Overview
• SAP Net Weaver Business Intelligence: Data Warehousing Overview

Logical Model

• Requirement Analysis
• Logical Data Model
• BI Data Model

Modeling Characteristics and Key Figures

• SAP BI Star Schema
• Characteristic InfoObjects
• Key Figure InfoObjects

Modeling DSO Objects and InfoCubes

• Defining DSO Objects and InfoCubes
• Standard DSO Objects and InfoCubes in the SAP BI Data Warehouse Layer

Multidimensional Modeling

• Designing the Dimensions of the SAP BI InfoCube
• Aggregate Modeling

Special Modeling Aspects

• SAP BI InfoSets
• Partitioning of InfoCubes
• Data Mining

Objects in the BI Data Warehouse Layer

• Data Warehousing Workbench
• Info Providers: Business Purpose
• Info Objects: Characteristics
• Info Objects: Key Figures
• The BI Info Cube: An Extended Star Schema
• Creating Info Cubes

Data Acquisition and Transformation from SAP Source Systems

• Data Flow: Overview
• Loading Master Data from an SAP Source System
• Loading Transaction Data from an SAP Source System

Data Acquisition from Other Systems

• Extraction from Non-SAP Systems: Overview
• Flat File Loading

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• BI Content Discovery (Metadata Repository)
• BI Content Activation

Other Info Providers

• Data Store Objects
• MultiProviders and BI InfoSets

Administration of Data Targets

• Administration of InfoCubes
• Administration of Data Store Objects
• Process Chains

Introduction to Query Performance Optimization

• Introduction to Query Performance Optimization in BI
• BI Aggregates
• BI Indexes.

SAP Business Intelligence - Reporting & Analysis

First Steps in the BEx Query Designer

• Query Designer
• InfoProviders in the BEx Query Designer

Key Figures

• Restricted Key Figures
• Calculated Key Figures
• Properties of Key Figures

Characteristics

• Properties and Attributes of Characteristics

Variables

• Variables

Exceptions and Conditions

• Exceptions
• Conditions

BEx Analyzer

• BEx Analyzer

Report-Report-Interface

• Report-Report-Interface

Introduction and overview of Query Designer and Web Application Designer(WAD)

• SAP Business Intelligence - Data Staging & Extraction

Data Transfer with the Service API

• Generic Data Extraction
• Logistics Data Extraction
• Enhancement of Business Content DataSources

Open Hub Service

• Introduction to the Open Hub Service
• Implementing the Open Hub Service

Application-Specific Extraction

• Extracting Data from CO-PA
• Extracting Data from FI-SL (Special Ledger)
• LIS Data Extraction

Error handling and Real-time issues will be covered accordingly with the topics