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Universe Designer & WEB Intelligence

This document provides an overview and introduction to SAP Business Objects training for day 2. It covers topics like universe designer overview, building universes, using SAP metadata in OLAP universes, optimizing and managing universes, an overview of Web Intelligence, and designing Web Intelligence reports. The document explains concepts, tasks, and features related to universe design, connecting to data sources, creating objects and joins, using functions, filtering data, and more.

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Universe Designer & WEB Intelligence

This document provides an overview and introduction to SAP Business Objects training for day 2. It covers topics like universe designer overview, building universes, using SAP metadata in OLAP universes, optimizing and managing universes, an overview of Web Intelligence, and designing Web Intelligence reports. The document explains concepts, tasks, and features related to universe design, connecting to data sources, creating objects and joins, using functions, filtering data, and more.

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SAP Business Objects Training

Welcome
Day 2 - Dated 05-Jan-2010
Contents

1. Universe Designer Overview


2. Building universes
3. SAP Meta-data in OLAP universes
4. Optimizing and Managing universes
5. Web Intelligence Overview
6. Web Intelligence Report Design
Universe Designer Overview

 In order to report data using Business Objects reporting tools, we need to create universe on top of the
underlying database.
 Business Objects provides a tool known as Designer to create universe on top of any database.
 Universe act as a semantic layer. Connection parameters for one or more database middleware.
 The role of a universe is to provide an easy to use and understand interface for non technical Web
Intelligence users to run queries against a database to create reports and perform data analysis
Universe Designer Overview

 As the universe designer, you use Designer to create objects that


represent database structures, for example columns and database
functions, that users need to access and query, to get the information
necessary to meet their business requirements.
 A universe contains the following structures: - Classes ,Objects
 Classes

A class is a logical grouping of objects within a universe. It represents a


category of objects. The name of a class should indicate the category of
the objects that it contains. A class can be divided hierarchically into
subclasses.
Universe Designer Overview

 Objects

An object is a named component that maps to data or a derivation of


data in the database. The name of an object should be drawn from the
business vocabulary of the targeted user group
 Required skills and knowledge

A universe designer should have the following skills and level of


technical knowledge
- Ability to analyze user needs
- Database knowledge
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
Universe Designer Overview

 Tasks of the universe designer

- Conducting user needs analysis


- Designing and creating the universe
- Distributing the universe
- Maintaining the universe
Building Universe

1. Data Access driver


2. Connection and login parameters
3. Object creation
Building Universe – Data Access drivers

 A Data Access driver is the software layer that connects a universe to your middleware. When you create a new connection, you
select the appropriate Data Access driver for the RDBMS middleware that you use to connect to the target RDBMS.
For Example
- SAP BW

- SQL

- Oracle

- MS Excel
Building Universe-Connection and login parameters

 Types of Connections

- Personal

- Secured

- Shared

 Login parameters

- User Name

- Password

- Use database credentials associated with BO user account


Building Universe

 Design Schema - A graphical representation of database structure.


 Create Joins
A join is a condition that links the data in separate but related tables. The tables
usually have a parent-child relationship. If a query does not contain a join, the
database returns a result set that contains all possible combinations of the rows in the
query tables. Such a result set is known as a Cartesian product and is rarely useful.
 Create Cardinalities – Similarity between two tables

Cardinality is a property of a join that describes how many rows in one table match
rows in another table.
- One to one
- Many to one
- One to many
Building Universe
SAP Meta-data in OLAP Universes

 Universes enable business users to access and analyze data stored in a relational database and
OLAP cubes. This is core business intelligence (BI) technology that frees users from IT while
ensuring correct results.
 When creating an OLAP universe based on an SAP BW (Business Warehouse) data source, you
can build the universe based directly on an Info Cube/MultiCube, or based on a BW Query
enabled on top of any Info Provider. An Info Provider can be:
• an InfoCube
• a MultiCube or Multi-InfoProvider
• an Operational Data Store (ODS)
• an InfoSet
SAP Meta-data in OLAP Universes
SAP Meta-data in OLAP Universes

SAP BI Element Universe Object

Dimension Class

Characteristic Subclass with dimension and detail


objects
Characteristic with hierarchy BI Query: Subclass containing
dimension and detail objects for each
hierarchy level in the currently defined
hierarchy
Key Figure Measure object in the class

Navigational attribute Subclass with dimension and detail


objects (identical to characteristic)

Display Attribute Detail object for the dimension


SAP Meta-data in OLAP Universes
Optimizing and Managing universes
 Optimizing universes

- Using aggregate tables


- Using @Functions
- Using external strategies to customize universe creation
- Using analytic functions
 Managing universe

- Deploying universes
- Setting access restrictions on a universe
- Linking universes
- Managing users and logins
Web Intelligence Overview

 Web Intelligence is a powerful analysis tool for creating ad-hoc


reporting. It allows business user to analyze data from data
warehouse. The reports created in WebI (.WID format) are accessed
through BO portal InfoView.

 WebI Rich Client- SAP introduces WebI Rich client to fill the DeskI
functionality in WebI. It is a standalone Microsoft Windows
Application to work with WebI documents off line without any
InfoView connection and Application server installed. So business
user can now work with WebI on line and off line
Web Intelligence Report Design

 You can create or edit Web Intelligence documents using one of


several tools:
- Java Report Panel
- Query – HTML
- HTML Report Panel
 You can also use Web Intelligence Rich Client to create WebI
Documents. You can work with following modes.
- Connected
- Offline
- Standalone
Web Intelligence Report Design

 There are a number of reasons for using Web Intelligence Rich Client
to work with WID documents:
- You want to work with Web Intelligence documents but you are
unable to connect to a CMS (while traveling, for example).
- You want to improve calculation performance: Web Intelligence Rich
Client performs calculations locally, rather than on the server, and
local calculations can perform better than server calculations.
- You want to work with Web Intelligence documents without installing
a CMS or application server.
Web Intelligence Report Design

 According to your security rights in the CMS, you can do the


following:
- Import documents from the CMS
- Import universes from the CMS
- Open local documents
- Create documents
- Edit documents
- Refresh documents
- Save documents locally
- Export documents to the CMS
Web Intelligence Report Design

 To create a new document in Web Intelligence Rich Client in Offline


mode, you need to have a connection server installed on your
computer.
1. Click Document > New.
2. In the New Document dialog box, click Universe and then Next.
3. In the Universe dialog box, select a universe.
The query panel opens to let you build your report.
Web Intelligence functions

 Web Intelligence divides functions into the following categories:

- Aggregate
- Character
- Date and Time
- Document
- Data Provider
- Logical
- Numeric
- Misc
Web Intelligence Features

 Using alerters to highlight results


 Merging dimensions from multiple data providers
 Ranking data in Web Intelligence reports
 Tracking changes in data
 Using sections, breaks and sorts
 Filtering reports
 Drilling on report data
Web Intelligence Features

 Filtering data using prompts


 Displaying data in tables
 Displaying data in free-standing cells
 Displaying data in charts
 Formatting numbers and dates
Thank You
Questions

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