DATA WAREHOUSING CONCEPTS/BUSINESS OBJECTS

TRAINING COURSE CURRICULUM

DATA WAREHOUSING CONCEPTS:

• Identify the basic concepts and terminology of data warehousing.
• Identify the different processes and tasks involved in an integrated warehouse environment.
• Identify the different data warehouse architectures: ROLAP, MOLAP and HOLAP.
• Identify the different data warehouse models.
• Star Schemas and snow flake schemas.

DESIGNER:
Learn how to translate end user reporting requirements into an optimal universe design to ensure that
your company's Business Intelligence needs are met. Business Objects Universe Design provides you
with all the skills needed to efficiently create and maintain universes for Web Intelligence, allowing
users to easily build, access, and run reports. This course helps you to quickly learn how to create,
distribute, maintain, and optimize universes for Web Intelligence deployments.

• Launching a Designer Session

• Entering Universe Parameters
• Selecting the tables and Columns
• Organizing the Tables and Columns
• Joins (Method of Creating and Editing the Joins)
• Resolving the Join Problems
• Loops
• Using Aliases
• Using Contexts
• Using Universe Pane
• Creating and editing Classes
• Creating and Editing Objects
• Testing the Integrity of a Universe Hierarchies
• Saving the Universe and Exporting the Universe

INFOVIEW:
• Overview
• Logging on to Infoview
• Infoview Homepage
• Setting Preferences
• Navigating through folders or categories
• Viewing objects
• Organizing objects
• Scheduling objects
• Discussions
 • Encyclopedia

WEB INTELLIGENCE:
• Overview
• Preferences settings in Infoview
• Accessing WebI via Infoview
• Creating and Editing WebI Documents
• WebI Report Panel overview
• Filters and its types
• Inserting and Formatting Tables
• Charts and Chart templates
• Formatting Numbers and Dates
• Sections and Breaks
• Alerters
• Calculations and using Formula Editor
• Drill options
• Limitations

DESKTOP INTELLIGENCE:
Desktop Intelligence is an integrated query, reporting and analysis solution that allows business
users to access the data in their corporate databases directly from their desktop and present and
analyze this information in a Desktop Intelligence document.

• Introduction
• Creating Your First Report
• Selecting and Filtering Data
• Evaluating Data
1. Sorting
2. Grouping
3. Calculations
4. Breaks
5. Ranking
• Formatting Your Report
• Working With Data
• Charting
• Advanced Functions and Variables
• Advanced Queries
1. Creating Multiple Queries
2. Synchronizing Data
3. Using Sub-queries

BROADCAST AGENT (BCA)

 • BCA Console
• What is BCA?
• Why BCA?

BUSINESS VIEWS:
• Introduction to Business Views 11
• Business View Architecture
• Creating a Business View
• Business View Manager Overview
• Migrating the Business Objects Enterprise Repository
• Creating Data Connections
• Creating Dynamic Data Connections
• Managing Data Foundations
• Managing Business Elements
• Dynamic Prompts and Cascading Lists of Values
• Managing Business Views
• Business Views Security Concepts

CENTRAL MANAGEMENT CONSOLE (CMC)

The Central Management Console (CMC) allows you to perform user management tasks such as
setting up authentication and adding users and groups. It also allows you to publish, organize,
and set security levels for all of your Business Objects Enterprise content. Additionally, the
CMC enables you to manage servers and create server groups. The CMC is a web-based tool and
hence it does not need a software installation for it to work.