• OLTP vs. OLAP   
• Types of OLAP
• Dimensional modeling  
• Data mart/Data warehouse Life cycle
• Star/Snow/Extended Star schema design

• Joins & Cardinality   
• Views/Materialized Views
• Date/Time Functions  
• Conversion functions
• Package    
• Derived table & Stored Procedure

• Architectural overview  
• Client tier components
• Application tier components 
• Intelligence tier
• Processing tier   
• Data tier
• Security management  
• Information flow

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Understanding Dashboard Manager 
• Setting Up Dashboard Manager
• Creating Metrics   
• Automating Dashboards with Rules
• Creating Analytics   
• Creating Personal Dashboards
• Creating Corporate Dashboards 
• Guiding Dashboard Navigation

• 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 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

• 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

• Installing BI Widgets  
• Using BI Widgets to Access BI Content
• Working with widgets 
• BI Widgets Content Authoring Guidelines
• Auto refresh of Widgets

• Introduction to desktop intelligence
• Scope of analysis
• ZABO
• Report creation
• Saving the reports in local repository
• Publishing the report
• Report conversion (desktop) to (Webi)

• 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 basics
• Building universes from XML metadata sources
• Updating XML metadata source universes
• Exporting a universe to a XML file format

• Configuring the QWS with BO System
• Creating Webservice report from Universes
• Creating WSDL reports
• Using WSDL reports in external application

• 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

• 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

• 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 

• 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

• 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

• Creation of Metric Universe
• Creation of Metrics & Analytics
• Creation of Dashboard using Metric
• Creating Performance dashboards using set analysis

• 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

• 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

• Creation of Web intelligence reports using Info cube & BW Query

• Introduction of BO Enterprise SDK
• Choosing the right SDK
• Customizing the Webi reports using SDK

• How to use & Leverage BO Extension points in Business Objects

• Architecture changes
• Report creation charges
• Universe level changes
• Security level changes
• Addition of new features

• BO Query tuning   
• BO Execution plan/Tracing
• Combined Query 
• Views/Derived tables

• Universe Tuning   
• Webi report Tuning
• Database Tuning  
• Deployment methods
• Crystal reports tuning  
• BO Query optimization & Customization

• BO installation with Oracle  
• BO installation with SQL Server
• BO installation with MYSQL  
• BO installation with SAPBW

• Migrating the BO objects to Stage & Production
• Testing the BO Reports using TOAD Developer
• Creating LDAP Security model for migration

• Creating Polestar Reports
• Configuring Pole star with BO System

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