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Thursday, January 20, 2011

BODS Course Content

BODS

         Duration: 45 Hours

Data warehousing/Dimensional modeling Practical Concepts

  OLTP vs. OLAP

  Types of OLAP

  Dimensional modeling

  Data mart/Data warehouse Life cycle

 Star/Snow/Extended Star schema design

Database Concepts needed for Data warehousing

  Joins & Cardinality

  Views/Materialized Views

  Date/Time Functions

  Conversion functions

  Package

  Derived table & Stored Procedure

BOXIR3 Architecture

  Architectural overview

  Client tier components

  Application tier components

  Intelligence tier

  Processing tier

  Data tier

  Security management

  Information flow

Universe Design

  Understanding Business Objects Universes

  Creating the Course Universe

  Building the Universe Structure

  Creating Dimension Objects

  Creating Measure Objects

  Resolving Loops in a Universe

  Resolving SQL Traps

  Using List of Values

  Applying Restrictions on Objects

  Using @Functions with Objects

  Using Hierarchies

  Deriving Tables & Indexes

  Working with Aggregate Awareness

  Designing Advanced Objects

  Creating Predefined Condition

  LOVs & Joins

  Securing Universes

  Implementing Universe Life Cycle  Mgmt

  Maintaining & Optimizing Universes

 Creating Universe from Other Data sources

Web intelligence

  Understand concepts of Web intelligence

  Create Web Intelligence documents with Queries

  Restrict data returned by a query

  Design a report

  Enhance the presentation of data in reports

  Format a report

  Calculate data with formulas and variables

  Use multiple data sources

  Analyze data

  Manage and share Web Intelligence documents

  Work with Advanced Query techniques

  Work with calculation contexts

  Create formulas with character & date string functions

  Use "If" logic

  Work with additional reporting techniques

  Create hyperlinks

Crystal Reports

  Planning a Report

  Selecting Records

  Formatting a Report

  Representing Data Visually

  Distributing Reports

  Creating Basic Formulas

  Organizing Data on a Report

  Applying Section Formatting

  Applying Conditional Reporting

  Using the Repository

  Using Report Templates

  Creating Formulas

  Building Parameterized Reports

  Summarizing Data with Cross-Tabs

  Using Report Sections

  Managing Reports

  Presenting Data Visually

  Add hyperlinks to a report

  Dashboard Builder

  Understanding Dashboard Manager

  Setting Up Dashboard Manager

  Creating Metrics

  Automating Dashboards with Rules

  Creating Analytics

  Creating Personal Dashboards

  Creating Corporate Dashboards

  Guiding Dashboard Navigation

Xcelsius-Scorecard Builder

  Creating a Model

  Adding Interactivity to a Model

  Creating a Connected Model

  Connect to Crystal Reports data and create Dashboard

  Connect to Web intelligence report data and

  Create Dashboard

  Connect to Business Objects Universes

  Using Query as a web service and create Dashboard

  Use Live Office data and create Dashboard

  Use other connectivity components and create Dashboard

Migration from BO5.X to BOXIR3

  Migration fundamentals

  How Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.0

  Compares with versions 5.x and 6.x

  Migration concepts

  Import Wizard Concepts

  Understanding object migration

  Understanding user and group migration

  Migration planning and assessment

  After migration with the Import Wizard

Administration

  Understand the Business Objects

  Enterprise interface & architecture

  Manage Business Objects Enterprise content

  Secure Business Objects Enterprise content

  Secure application security

  Schedule content

  Publish reports

  Identify Business Objects Enterprise architecture

  Perform common server management tasks

  Manage the Business Objects Enterprise servers

Widgets

  Installing BI Widgets

  Using BI Widgets to Access BI Content

  Working with widgets

  BI Widgets Content Authoring Guidelines

  Auto refresh of Widgets

Desktop Intelligence

  Introduction to desktop intelligence

  Scope of analysis

  ZABO

  Report creation

  Saving the reports in local repository

  Publishing the report

  Report conversion (desktop) to (Webi)

Webi-rich Client

  Installing Web Intelligence Rich Client

  Web Intelligence Rich Client working modes

  Launching Web Intelligence Rich Client

  To set user preferences in Web Intelligence Rich Client

  Working with documents

  Working with universes in Web Intelligence Rich Client

  Accessing Web Intelligence from InfoView

  Working with queries in Web Intelligence Rich Client

  Working with reports

Universe Builder & Query Builder

  Universe Builder basics

  Building universes from XML metadata sources

  Updating XML metadata source universes

  Exporting a universe to a XML file format

Query as Web service

  Configuring the QWS with BO System

  Creating Webservice report from Universes

  Creating WSDL reports

  Using WSDL reports in external application

Voyager

  Getting Started with Business Objects Voyager

  Using Queries to Analyze Cube Data

  Using Charts to Visualize Data

  Selecting Members to Display in Crosstabs and Charts

  Sorting, Filtering, and Ranking Data

  Highlighting Exceptions in Data

  Saving and Sharing Voyager Workspaces

Security Implementation

  Creating Secured users & group

  Creation secured connections

  Creation of Secured objects

  Creation of security at Table, Column &row level

  Creation of secured restriction set and mapping to users or groups

OLAP Universe

  Creation of OLAP Universe by connecting to an Info cube

  Updating the OLAP Universe (Cube)

  Creating the Custom Hierarchies in OLAP Universes.

  Accessing multiple info cubes to create an OLAP Universe

Import Wizard\Publishing Wizard

  Using Import wizard

  Creation of BIAR

  Migrating the BO objects

  From one CMS TO ANOTHER CMS

  Migrating the objects from one

  domain to another (dev/stage/Prod)

  Backup & Maintenance Deployment

Business View Manager

  Creation of Semantic layer for Crystal reports

  Creation of Dynamic list of values in Crystal reports

  Creation of Cascading list of values in Crystal reports

  Creating Data connection and Dynamic data connection

  Creation of Data foundation

  Creation of Business Element

  Creation of Business View

  Creation of LOV

  Saving the Business view to repository

  Accessing the Business View in Crystal reports using Database expert

  Creation of Crystal reports using Business

  View

Performance Management

  Creation of Metric Universe

  Creation of Metrics & Analytics

  Creation of Dashboard using Metric

  Creating Performance dashboards using set analysis

Live Office Reporting

  Describe the benefits of using Live Office

  Connect to the repository

  Navigate the Live Office menu

  Insert charts, crosstabs, and fields from a Crystal report

  Insert report parts from a Web Intelligence document

  Insert a new query based on a Universe

  Insert Live Office objects into an email

  Navigate and refresh Live Office objects

  Enable consolidated prompts

  Set refresh settings for objects

  Set parameter binding

  Take a snapshot

  Save Live Office documents to the repository

  Open and view Live Office documents from the repository

BO-SAP Integration/Edge Series

  Understanding BO-SAP Integration kit

  Configuring single sign on authentication

  Creating SAP Authentication in BO

  Importing the roles of SAP into BO

  Entitlement settings of SAP & BO System

SAP Webi/Dashboard Reporting:

  Creation of Web intelligence reports using Info cube & BW Query

Introduction to BO-SDK

  Introduction of BO Enterprise SDK

  Choosing the right SDK

  Customizing the Webi reports using SDK

Introduction to BO Extension points:

  How to use & Leverage BO Extension points in Business Objects

Comparison of all BO Versions (5.x/6.5/XIR1/XIR2/XIR3)

  Architecture changes

  Report creation charges

  Universe level changes

  Security level changes

  Addition of new features

Performance Tuning of Database w.r.t BO

  BO Query tuning

  BO Execution plan/Tracing

  Combined Query

  Views/Derived tables

Performance Tuning of BO

  Universe Tuning

  Webi report Tuning

  Database Tuning

  Deployment methods

  Crystal reports tuning

  BO Query optimization & Customization

Installation of BOXIR3 suite with System/Audit/Performance mgmt repositories using Oracle/SQLSERVER/SAPBW

  BO installation with Oracle

  BO installation with SQL Server

  BO installation with MYSQL

  BO installation with SAPBW

Testing & Migration of BO components from Dev/Stage/Production environment

  Migrating the BO objects to Stage & Production

  Testing the BO Reports using TOAD Developer

  Creating LDAP Security model for migration

Polestar/Business Explorer

  Creating Polestar Reports

  Configuring Pole star with BO System

BO XI R3 Certification Guidelines:

  Sample questions on Business Objects Certified Professional – Business Objects Web Intelligence XI 3.0 – Level One

Sample questions on Business Objects Certified Professional – Business Objects Web Intelligence XI 3.0 –Level two

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