Description
Gain a comprehensive overview of the SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence tools. These front-end applications allow you to view, sort and analyse business intelligence data, providing real time access to data for critical business decisions.
SAP BusinessObjects BI (also known as BO or BOBJ) is a suite of front-end applications that allow business users to view, sort and analyze business intelligence data. The suite includes the following key applications:
Pack inclusions:
- SAP BusinessObjects: Crystal Reports
- SAP BusinessObjects: Web Intelligence
- SAP BusinessObjects: Dashboards and Analytics
- SAP BusinessObjects: InfoView
- SAP BusinessObjects: Business Intelligence
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Audience
Anyone looking to expand their SAP BusinessObject skills.
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SAP BusinessObjects: Business Intelligence
Description
Businesses generate a large amount of data in the everyday operation. This data is extremely valuable and may be used by employees at every level of an organization. Before it can be utilized optimally, it must be formatted in such a way that an enterprise can capitalize on the vast amounts of data in its possession.
SAP Business Intelligence (BI) is an enterprise solution that provides businesses with a comprehensive suite of tools to collect and prepare the enterprise's data for reporting and analysis purposes. With proper use of BI, an enterprise may become more organized electronically, spot trends in business, and generally have a competitive edge simply because of its ability to securely and accurately report on and analyze a myriad of data.Learning objectives
- Identify business challenges that can be overcome by adopting an enterprise data warehousing strategy
- Match the three components of the Business Intelligence solution with corresponding descriptions
- Recognise key activities within the closed-loop business analytics process
- Recognise features of the Data Warehousing Workbench interface
- Match components of the Data Warehousing Workbench interface with corresponding definitions
- Recognise Business Intelligence key concepts
- Recognise the procedure for opening a query in Business Explorer
- Identify tasks you can perform using Business Explorer Analyser
- Recognise the procedure for importing data from an external database using Business Explorer Query Designer
- Use SAP Business Explorer to open a query
- Rse SAP Business Explorer to import data from an external database
Audience
Individuals, such as managers and project team members, who are responsible for extracting and analyzing information using SAP BusinessObjects
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
SAP BusinessObjects: Crystal Reports
Description
Business data comes from a variety of sources and is stored in various formats. The volume and variety of business data presents immense potential for understanding and responding to customer requirements and business process optimization. In order to realize this potential, SAP provides the Crystal Reports reporting tool. Crystal Reports has supplanted the BusinessExplorer report designer as SAP's standard enterprise reporting tool. Crystal Reports provides the interface to allow business users to extract and present formatted, layout-centric reports from business data. Crystal Reports provides a very user-friendly interface to various data sources, including data sources outside of the SAP realm.
This course provides an introduction to the Crystal Reports reporting tool, including an initiation to the user-friendly interface, the various formatting and layout options, as well as the various methods of data access made available to all levels of users through Crystal Reports.Learning objectives
- Identify the features of the Crystal Reports user interface
- Recognise the relationship between the information in the Explorer tools and what appears in a report
- Identify the steps for hiding details in a web-based report
- Cetermine whether to use live or saved data for a given report
- Recognise the key features and concepts related to Crystal Reports
- Recognise the procedure for using the report creation wisard to create a report
- Recognise the procedure for creating a report using the Blank Report option
- Recognise the procedure for adding and formatting a report title
- Recognise the procedure for using the Dependency Checker tool
Audience
Individuals, such as managers and project team members, who are responsible for extracting and analyzing information using SAP BusinessObjects
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
SAP BusinessObjects: Web Intelligence
Description
Data may be an enterprise's most valuable proprietary asset. Each enterprise possesses unique data that, when used strategically, provides a competitive advantage. Data can reveal significant information about customer behavior and preferences, and provide insight into business processes that may ultimately influence what a company sells, how products are made, and how they are sold. Getting the most out of this data will determine the ultimate value it provides to the enterprise.
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is one of the industry's most flexible, user-friendly and powerful reporting solutions. It provides ad hoc query, analysis, and reporting tools in a package that is geared toward the business user. You do not have to know structured query language (SQL) to take advantage of the power offered by Web Intelligence. You can easily create and publish high-quality reports that contain drill downs, and allow readers to track changes and share business information across the enterprise. This course provides an introduction to BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, highlighting some of its key features and benefits. You will also be able to practice using Web Intelligence tools to perform common tasks.Learning objectives
- Identify the core functionality in Web Intelligence
- Match Web Intelligence terms with their corresponding definitions
- Recognise how to change the default report creation tool in Web Intelligence
- Recognise how to create a report using Web Intelligence
- Recognise the procedure for creating a table from a template and Web Intelligence
- Recognise how to change the layout of an existing table
- Recognise the procedure to set the scope of analysis
- Recognise how to extend the scope of analysis for a drill-enabled data element
Audience
Individuals, such as managers and project team members, who are responsible for extracting and analyzing information using SAP BusinessObjects
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
SAP BusinessObjects: Dashboards and Analytics
Description
The typical enterprise generates hundreds of management reports on a weekly basis. As companies grow and continue to add new channels, benchmarking and weekly reporting are key to helping top management keep a finger on the pulse of the business. With all those reports to wade through, business executives need a reporting format that provides the information they need at a glance. The corporate dashboard report does just that. It contains a series of dials in a corporate cockpit that reflect the key performance metrics from each department. Dashboarding involves the presentation of key business data in a very concise visual manner.
SAP's BusinessObjects offers dynamic, customizable data visualization tools that allow you to create insightful and powerful dashboards from various data sources. These tools are intuitive and appropriate for users of all skill levels. This course provides an introduction to dashboarding. You will learn how to create dashboards using SAP BusinessObjects InfoView, Xcelsius, and Dashboard Builder.Learning objectives
- Identify the characteristics of a dashboard
- Match types of dashboard analytics with the types of information that each one is designed to portray
- Recognise the procedure for creating a dashboard using InfoView
- Recognise the procedure for creating an analytic using Dashboard Builder
- Recognise the panes of the Xcelsius designer interface
- Recognise the procedure for creating a dashboard using Xcelsius
- Create an analytic using Dashboard Builder
Audience
Individuals, such as managers and project team members, who are responsible for extracting and analyzing information using SAP BusinessObjects
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
SAP BusinessObjects: InfoView
Description
SAP BusinessObjects provides various tools for enterprise reporting purposes. InfoView is a web-based application that provides an interface for users to perform common activities, such as viewing or modifying reports, without having to install any additional software on their systems. InfoView can work with Xcelsius, Crystal, and Web Intelligence documents. It allows you to publish reports to common formats, such as PDF or MS Word, as well as alter a report's underlying data.
This course provides an introduction to the essential features and functions of SAP BusinessObjects InfoView and provides a look at some of the common activities performed using InfoView.Learning objectives
- Recognise features of the InfoView user interface
- Recognise how to access the sample reports in InfoView
- Match descriptions of InfoView reporting applications with key characteristics
- Recognise the procedure for creating a new folder, category or document in InfoView
- Open a sample report in InfoView
- Create a new folder or category in the navigation panel
- Recognise the procedure for saving an InfoView document
- Recognise the procedure for giving an InfoView report a title
- Recognise the procedure for publishing an InfoView report
- Match InfoView publishing options to their corresponding benefits and drawbacks
- Create a report using InfoView
- Publish a report using InfoView
Audience
Individuals, such as managers and project team members, who are responsible for extracting and analyzing information using SAP BusinessObjects
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
