SAP Business Intelligence Quick Start Guide电子书

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SAP Business Intelligence Quick Start Guide

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Section 1: Introduction to SAP Business Intelligence

Overview of SAP BusinessObject Business Intelligence 4.2

BI and its benefits

Components of SAP BusinessObjects 4.2

Central Management Console

Central Configuration Manager

Lifecycle Management

Enterprise data sources for BI reporting tools

Information Design Tool

Creating a Universe with the IDT

Getting started with the tool

Creating a new relational connection

Creating a shortcut in our local folder

Creating a single source data foundation

Creating a new Business Layer with a file

Creating a query on the Business Layer using Query Panel

Creating a BEx query to directly access SAP BW as a data source

Displaying the SAP HANA view using the SAP HANA live browser

Local data sources

Summary

Section 2: Data Visualization, Analysis, and Reporting

SAP BusinessObject Analysis

Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft

A basic workbook with SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft

The list of groups

The Data Source group

The Data Analysis group

The Combine and Display groups

The Insert and Tools groups

Creating a SAP BusinessObjects Analysis workbook

Creating a SAP BusinessObjects Analysis workbook based on an existing BEx query

Report to report interface

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft PowerPoint

Inserting a data source in a workbook

Creating a PowerPoint presentation using SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for PowerPoint

Creating a PowerPoint presentation using analysis for PowerPoint based on SAP BW data

Summary

SAP BusinessObject Design Studio

Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Interface elements of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Working with the design tool

Design Studio architecture

Deployment platform as BI

Deployment on SAP NetWeaver

Deployment on SAP HANA

Architecture for local mode

Use case – creating an analytical application

Summary

SAP BusinessObject Web Intelligence

Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects WebI

Reporting with SAP BusinessObjects WebI

Querying with SAP BusinessObjects WebI

Analyzing with SAP BusinessObjects WebI

WebI calculations

Groups and sorts

Other features

Application modes

Creating a WebI document based on an existing Universe

WebI document based on SAP HANA view

Summary

SAP BusinessObject Crystal Reports

Introduction to SAP Crystal Reports

Toolbars in SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Data sources for SAP Crystal Reports

Data grouping and sorting

Creating a report in SAP Crystal Reports

Creating the report with SAP HANA view as a data source

Insight to Action

Summary

SAP BusinessObject SAP Lumira

Introduction to SAP Lumira

Use cases for Lumira

Data preparation

Prepare view

Date panel

Object Picker and column data manipulation panel

Data manipulation panel

Data editing and cleaning panel

Data filtering in columns and charts

Filter panel

Number and date formatting

Visualization and storyboards

Chart types in SAP Lumira

Sharing the charts, stories, and datasets

Sharing charts

Sharing stories

Sharing datasets

Sending charts by email

Introduction to SAP Lumira Cloud

Creating a SAP Lumira visualization

Creating a Lumira report based on the eFashion packages and Universe

Creating a visualization using a SAP BW query

Creating a SAP Lumira storyboard

Summary

SAP BusinessObject Predictive Analytics 2.0

Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics

SAP Automated Analytics and Expert Analytics features

The data understanding phase

The modeling and evaluation phase

A classification example using Automated Analytics

Model performance indicators

Automated Analytics – forecasting in SAP Predictive Analysis

Configuring the Modeler and exploring the data

Building a classification model and analyzing the results

Summary

Section 3: BI Platform Features and Deployment

BI Platform Features

Introduction to the BI platform features of SAP BusinessObjects

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform security

License type and access

User rights and permissions

Group hierarchy, groups, and subgroups

Rights in the BI platform

Object-level security

Folder-level security

Top-level folder security

Access levels

Inheritance

Document settings for mobile access

Web intelligence-specific settings for SAP BusinessObjects mobile and designing studio-specific settings

Scheduling and emailing an SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Report

Scheduling and sending a Webi document

Summary

BI Platform Deployment

Introduction to BI platform architecture

SAP cloud strategy – BI solutions

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Lumira

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP Crystal Reports

SAP BusinessObjects BI4 for cloud deployment options

SAP BusinessObjects on SAP HANA

BI platform system overview

SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 – deployment

Central Management Server database requests and system and API calls

Centralized versus decentralized

Agile Visualization functions and components

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP

SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics

Dashboards and applications

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BusinessObjects dashboards

Reporting in the BI platform

SAP BusinessObject Web Intelligence

SAP Crystal Reports

Universal semantic layer

Benefits of business views

Overview of the BI platform suite

Client-tier components for integration

Information Design Tool

Data-tier components for integration

Processing-tier components for integration

Storage, management, and web-tier components for integration

SAP BusinessObjects platform – a tool for integration

Web interfaces

Semantic layer

Report content types

Summary

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