UNIT 1

SAP Net Weaver and BI: Overview, Positioning and Fundamentals

Describe the Enterprise Services Architecture and SAP NetWeaver, their components, and their position relative to other SAP products . List SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence tools and utilize some of them . Identify the advantages of BI integration in the SAP NetWeaver Portal . Explain the basics of the Data Warehouse layer of BI Describe the basic functions of the Data Warehouse of BI . Explain some important terms used in BI Data Warehousing . Discuss the basic concepts of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence tools . Explain Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and be able to distinguish between these environments . Explain why Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing are critical for the support of business management goals . Define the common benefits companies can expect from an Enterprise Data Warehouse . Describe the Enterprise Services Architecture and SAP NetWeaver, their components, and their position relative to other SAP products . List SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence tools and utilize some of them . Identify the advantages of BI integration in the SAP NetWeaver Portal . Explain the basics of the Data Warehouse layer of BI . Describe how SAP organizes software for installation and support . Define IT practices . Define IT scenarios and scenario variants . Define usage types . Describe the basic functions of the Data Warehouse of BI . Explain some important terms used in BI Data Warehousing

UNIT 2:
Objects in the BI Data Warehouse Layer
. List the functions available with the Data Warehousing Workbench . Identify the different elements in the Data Warehousing Workbench screens for performing common warehouse management functions . Execute basic navigation functions to accomplish your administration and modeling goals in the warehouse . Define InfoProvider . Explain the business and technical purpose of DataStore objects and InfoCubes . Explain the importance of InfoObjects in BI . Classify and organize InfoObjects . Define InfoObjects . Create characteristics InfoObjects . List the options for attributes . List the uses and options for hierarchies . Use and create InfoObject catalogs to group InfoObjects . Create key figures InfoObjects . List the options for key figures InfoObjects . Describe a generic star schema database design . Describe the BI InfoCube.s extended star schema design and the role of MasterData IDs (SIDs) . Explain the advantages to the BI InfoCube design as compared to a standard star schema . List the types of InfoCubes . Create InfoCubes . Explain the difference between display and navigational attributes and learn how to activate navigational attributes

Unit 3
Data Acquisition and Transformation from SAP Source Systems
. Explain how data flows from a source system into BI. . Explain the terms used in extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) in BI

. Define and explain the role of the Persistent Staging Area (PSA) in the data flow . State the purpose and functions of a DataSource . Load master data from SAP source systems into the respective master data tables in BI using InfoPackages and data transfer processes . Use the load and data transfer process monitors to monitor the data loading and transformation processes and to analyze errors . Explain the functionality behind emulated DataSources . List various transformation rule types . Utilize transformation rule type Routine . Describe the different aggregation methods for key figures . Explain where start and end routines can be used . Create a transformation and execute a DTP to move cleansed data from an Business Content DataSource to your InfoProvider . Identify the differences between the SAP BW 3.x ETL process and the current SAP NetWeaver BI ELT process . Explain how to load a hierarchy supplied by a SAP source system

Unit 4
Data Acquisition from Other Systems
. Identify extraction tools and explain why you would use each one . Describe extraction from other dataBases using DB connect . Describe extraction form other sources using the Java-based UD Connect tool set . Describe the rationale for loading with XML sources using SAP XI . Outline the flow of data when using flat files to load master data and transaction data . Explain the technical details of file interfaces and file formats . Design transformations using formulas and BI InfoSources . Explain the purpose of the error stack and filters in data transfer processes . Preview the data that would be loaded from a DataSource using flat files

Unit 5
Business Content
. Identify delivered role-based and industry-based content . Explain why delivered content is so valuable . Find BI-delivered content with the Metadata Repository . Leverage demo content to jump-start end-user training . Explain versioning in SAP BI . Describe how to activate content objects . Describe what happens to objects during an upgrade

Unit 6
. Describe the structure of DataStore objects (DSOs) . Name and define the types of DataStore objects . Compare PSA, DataStore objects, and InfoCubes . Position DataStore objects within an enterprise data warehouse . Load and activate data in a standard DataStore object . Integrate a new object into an existing data flow . Define the terms target and InfoProvider . Discuss the different tools in SAP BI for special reporting needs . Explain when to use VirtualProviders . Describe how SAP BI supports real-time operational reporting . Construct a MultiProvider . List some uses and limitations for MultiProviders . Explain queries for a MultiProvider . Explain the uses of BI InfoSets . State the difference between classic InfoSets and BI InfoSets

Unit 7
Administration of Data Targets
. Describe daily and periodic tasks needed to maintain the data warehouse . List the tools available for administration of the warehouse

. Explain where archiving fits into an administrator's job . Describe how to use the Manage tab of the InfoCube . Define compression and describe its use . Define request deletion and reconstruction, and explain when you would use them . Define selective deletion and explain when to use this function . Describe the functions available on the Manage tab for a DataStore Object . Identify the manual activation function on the Manage tab for the DataStore Object . Identify deletion and reconstruction features for standard DataStore Objects . List the options for reconstructing follow-on targets, such as InfoCubes or other DataStore Objects . Describe the purpose of process chains . Describe what is provided by different views of process chains . Create and execute a simple process chain

Unit 8
Introduction to Query Performance Optimization
After completing this unit, you will be able to: . List some factors that affect query performance . Explain why BI performance tuning is not primarily considered a Basis team function . Identify basic techniques and tools for query optimization . Define aggregates and list some of the advantages of using them . Use aggregate maintenance functions . Explain aggregate rollup and the read pointer . Explain why aggregate change runs are important . Create and fill an aggregate for an InfoCube . Define BI accelerators . Discuss the purpose of BI accelerators and their high-level architecture . Discuss the advantages of BI accelerators compared to other BI performance improvement tools . Identify BI Statistics Business Content . State the purpose of the BI Administration Cockpit