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BOU320 - SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.0: Advanced Universe Design

enroll-button-RGB-1-.jpgDescription: This advanced two-day instructor-led course is designed to give you the comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge needed to design universes in BusinessObjects Designer.
 
Student Profile: This course is designed for anyone responsible for creating and designing universes using a BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 or XI 3.0 environment. The learners who attend the course will be most successful if they have experience in working with BusinessObjects Universe Designer.
 
Objectives: To learn best-practice methodology for creating universes that respond to your reporting requirements. Through well-designed universes, report designers and business users will be able to create reports without having to know anything about the underlying data source or structure.
 
Prerequisite Education: To be successful in this advanced course, you must have taken:

  • BusinessObjects XI R2: Universe Design & / or BusinessObjects XI 3.0: Universe Design
  • BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI R2: Report Design & / or BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI 3.0: Report Design

Prerequisite Knowledge / Experience:
To be successful in this advanced course, you must have working knowledge of:

  • SQL & relational database management systems concepts & structures
  • Familiarity with the metadata & logical structure of the databases in your organization
  • Familiarity with the BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report building
  • Familiarity with using BusinessObjects Universe Designer
  • Familiarity with the BusinessObjects Central Management Console

Duration:
2 days
 
Curriculum: Course topics include:
 
Reviewing Universe Design & Concepts
  • Use universe design & BusinessObjects Universe Designer knowledge to solve business problems

Working with Aggregate Awareness

  • Define aggregate awareness
  • Apply aggregate awareness to objects

Designing Advanced Objects

  • Combine database functions in objects
  • Construct relative date-time objects
  • Work with analytic functions

  

Creating Complex Predefined Conditions, LOVs & Joins

  • Create complex predefined conditions
  • Work with advanced LOVs
  • Work with advanced join syntaxes

Securing Universes

  • Define connection & user credential parameters
  • Work with Central Management Server (CMS) universe security

Implementing Universe Life Cycle Management

  • Move content from development to production

 

Maintaining & Optimizing Universes

  • Maintain universes
  • Optimize universes
  • Apply best practices for universe design
 
 

Creating Universes from Other Data Sources

  • Create a universe from an XML metadata file
  • Create stored procedure & JavaBeans universes
  • Work with OLAP universes