SAP Business Intelligence (BI) – Course Outline

SAP Overview

• SAP Navigation

Enterprise Data Warehousing

• Architecture of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI
• Overview of the most important objects (Info objects, Info Providers and so on) in BI and their properties
• Components of the data flow and extracting data from SAP source systems or other data sources in the BI
• Benefits and use of the business content
• Introduction to administration of BI data targets
• Basics for optimizing query performance (BI accelerator)

Reporting and Query Design

• Architecture and functions of the SAP BI analysis tools
• Navigation in SAP BI reports
• Creating query definitions with the BEx Query Designer and the BEx Web Analyzer
• Integrating key figures, characteristics, hierarchies, variables, properties, exceptions, and conditions in the query definitions

Extraction with UDI & XI and APD

• Universal data integration
• Exchange Infrastructure
• Process Designer analysis

Advanced Enterprise Data Warehousing and Reporting

• Data
• Modelling
• Report

Integrated Planning

• Status and tracking system
• Setting up planning structures and looking at modelling aspects
• Customizing and executing planning functions
• Setting up a planning query that is ready for input using the BEx Query Design
• Integrating the planning query in different end-user interfaces
• Displaying different query tools in a planning context
• Using characteristic relationships to integrate the correct business character
• Integrating the status and tracking system in planning, as a monitoring tool