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SAP Business Intelligence Quick Start Guide
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Section 1: Introduction to SAP Business Intelligence
Overview of SAP BusinessObject Business Intelligence 4.2
BI and its benefits
Components of SAP BusinessObjects 4.2
Central Management Console
Central Configuration Manager
Lifecycle Management
Enterprise data sources for BI reporting tools
Information Design Tool
Creating a Universe with the IDT
Getting started with the tool
Creating a new relational connection
Creating a shortcut in our local folder
Creating a single source data foundation
Creating a new Business Layer with a file
Creating a query on the Business Layer using Query Panel
Creating a BEx query to directly access SAP BW as a data source
Displaying the SAP HANA view using the SAP HANA live browser
Local data sources
Summary
Section 2: Data Visualization, Analysis, and Reporting
SAP BusinessObject Analysis
Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft
A basic workbook with SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft
The list of groups
The Data Source group
The Data Analysis group
The Combine and Display groups
The Insert and Tools groups
Creating a SAP BusinessObjects Analysis workbook
Creating a SAP BusinessObjects Analysis workbook based on an existing BEx query
Report to report interface
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft PowerPoint
Inserting a data source in a workbook
Creating a PowerPoint presentation using SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for PowerPoint
Creating a PowerPoint presentation using analysis for PowerPoint based on SAP BW data
Summary
SAP BusinessObject Design Studio
Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Interface elements of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Working with the design tool
Design Studio architecture
Deployment platform as BI
Deployment on SAP NetWeaver
Deployment on SAP HANA
Architecture for local mode
Use case – creating an analytical application
Summary
SAP BusinessObject Web Intelligence
Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects WebI
Reporting with SAP BusinessObjects WebI
Querying with SAP BusinessObjects WebI
Analyzing with SAP BusinessObjects WebI
WebI calculations
Groups and sorts
Other features
Application modes
Creating a WebI document based on an existing Universe
WebI document based on SAP HANA view
Summary
SAP BusinessObject Crystal Reports
Introduction to SAP Crystal Reports
Toolbars in SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Data sources for SAP Crystal Reports
Data grouping and sorting
Creating a report in SAP Crystal Reports
Creating the report with SAP HANA view as a data source
Insight to Action
Summary
SAP BusinessObject SAP Lumira
Introduction to SAP Lumira
Use cases for Lumira
Data preparation
Prepare view
Date panel
Object Picker and column data manipulation panel
Data manipulation panel
Data editing and cleaning panel
Data filtering in columns and charts
Filter panel
Number and date formatting
Visualization and storyboards
Chart types in SAP Lumira
Sharing the charts, stories, and datasets
Sharing charts
Sharing stories
Sharing datasets
Sending charts by email
Introduction to SAP Lumira Cloud
Creating a SAP Lumira visualization
Creating a Lumira report based on the eFashion packages and Universe
Creating a visualization using a SAP BW query
Creating a SAP Lumira storyboard
Summary
SAP BusinessObject Predictive Analytics 2.0
Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics
SAP Automated Analytics and Expert Analytics features
The data understanding phase
The modeling and evaluation phase
A classification example using Automated Analytics
Model performance indicators
Automated Analytics – forecasting in SAP Predictive Analysis
Configuring the Modeler and exploring the data
Building a classification model and analyzing the results
Summary
Section 3: BI Platform Features and Deployment
BI Platform Features
Introduction to the BI platform features of SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform security
License type and access
User rights and permissions
Group hierarchy, groups, and subgroups
Rights in the BI platform
Object-level security
Folder-level security
Top-level folder security
Access levels
Inheritance
Document settings for mobile access
Web intelligence-specific settings for SAP BusinessObjects mobile and designing studio-specific settings
Scheduling and emailing an SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Report
Scheduling and sending a Webi document
Summary
BI Platform Deployment
Introduction to BI platform architecture
SAP cloud strategy – BI solutions
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Lumira
SAP BW/4HANA
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP BusinessObjects BI4 for cloud deployment options
SAP BusinessObjects on SAP HANA
BI platform system overview
SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 – deployment
Central Management Server database requests and system and API calls
Centralized versus decentralized
Agile Visualization functions and components
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP
SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics
Dashboards and applications
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
SAP BusinessObjects dashboards
Reporting in the BI platform
SAP BusinessObject Web Intelligence
SAP Crystal Reports
Universal semantic layer
Benefits of business views
Overview of the BI platform suite
Client-tier components for integration
Information Design Tool
Data-tier components for integration
Processing-tier components for integration
Storage, management, and web-tier components for integration
SAP BusinessObjects platform – a tool for integration
Web interfaces
Semantic layer
Report content types
Summary
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