Course Outline
Business Analysis & SAP BI
(
SAP Business Information Warehouse
)
This is a combo course of Business Analysis and SAP BI.
Business Analysis sessions will cover all the topics from enterprise analysis and
scope definition to requirements determination. The fast start in Business Analysis
course gives analysts a thorough understanding of conceptual design, the entire
Systems Development Life Cycle. Replace with both “hard” and „Soft” skills, this
course will build a sound strategy for analyzing business processes and demonstrates
how to apply concepts and practical techniques within the context of an experiential
learning environment. Students emerge from this course with a solid foundation of
business analysis thinking as well as greater understanding that doing the right things
is just as important as doing thing right.
Business Intelligence (BI) has features like and unlike typical data warehouses. Like
most data warehouses, BI is a combination of databases and database management
tools that are used to support management decision making. SAP BI is a
comprehensive business intelligence product centered around a data warehouse and
optimized for SAP's R/3 environment. SAP BI also includes preconfigured data
extractors, analysis and report tools and business process models. It is an integral
component of the company's mySAP Business Intelligence group of products.
The objective of data warehousing is to analyze data from diverse sources to support
decision making.
This Combo course will provide the participants with the much needed knowledge and
skills in Business Analysis, Business Information Warehouse leading to a career in
Database Development, IT Consultancy & ERP implementation.
Business Analysis & SAP FICO Course Curriculum
TOPIC
CONTENT
Business Analysis
Introduction
Enterprise Analysis
Defining the Scope
Define Business Analysis and what it means in
today‟s environment
Recognize the system Development Life Cycle and
various approaches
Define enterprise Analysis and state its purpose
Identify the types and sources of information useful
in this level of analysis
Define the current issues and future benefits of the
new system
Identify the functional areas and stakeholders
impacted by the issues
define the preliminary project scope and objectives
Procedure Analysis
Stakeholders Interviews
Define key terms important to procedure analysis
Analyze a written procedure and associated forms
and reports
Discuss key components and the importance of
process modeling
Create an activity diagram also known as a swim
lane diagram
Decompose activities into further details using a
process script
Recognize the importance of stakeholder
involvement
Understand the best techniques for preparing and
holding and an interview
Discuss Various questioning and listening
techniques
Learn how to recognize and capture stakeholder
requirements
Experience interviewing key stakeholders and
users
Requirement, Assumptions,
& Constraints
Defining a Solution
Define Effective requirements practices, and
SMART requirement attributes
Identify user, functional and quality of service
requirements
Define and Identify assumption and constraints
which will impact the project
Manage the project scope boundaries and change
while defining a solution
Understand system improvement vs. system
redesign
Consider the impact of the solution
Solution Implementation
Planning
Management Presentation
Recognize the task that must e done to implement
the proposed solution
Estimate time and resources for the implementation
Organize the appropriate deliverables into a quality
decision package presentation
Practice professional communication to a
management committee
SAP Business
Information Warehouse
SAP BW Basics InfoCube Basics Infocube design Business Scenario
Introduction to SAP BW
Basic Concept of Data Warehousing BW - SAP Data Warehousing Solution, BW Star Schema,
Info Objects, Info Area,
InfoCube Design ,
Creation of Info Objects.
Display and Navigational Attributes, Dimension and Fact Table
How to populate data into InfoCube Loading data into the infocube
Populating InfoCube
Creating a Source System
Creating an Application Component ,
Creating an InfoSource for Characteristic Data, Creating InfoPackages to Load Characteristic Data, Checking Loaded Characteristic Data,
Entering the Master Data, Text, and Hierarchy Manually,
Creating an InfoSource for Transaction Data, Creating update Rules for the InfoCube
Create an InfoPackage to Load Transaction Data InfoCube Basics and Infocube
design
BW Star Schema
InfoCube Design Alternative
InfoCube Design Alternative II-Dimension Characteristics InfoCube design
Creating Queries and Workbooks
Queries
Creating a Query Using BEx Analyzer Organizing Workbooks Using BEx Browser
Using a Variable to Access a Hierarchy Node Directly
Managing User Authorization Creating an Authorization Profile Using Profile Generator
Creating an Authorization Object to Control User Access to the InfoCube
Data Integrating
Profile Generator and BEx Browser
Advanced InfoCube Infocube design
BW Star Schema
InfoCube Design Alternative
Time-Dependent Navigational Attributes
InfoCube Design Alternative II-Dimension Characteristics InfoCube Design Alternative
Time-Dependent Entire Hierarchies Other InfoCube Design Techniques
Aggregates and Multi-Cubes Aggregates
Multi-Cubes
Operational Data Store (ODS) Creating an ODS Object
Preparing to Load Data into the ODS Object, Then into an InfoCube
Loading Data into the ODS Object Loading Data into the InfoCube
Using 0RECORDMODE for Delta Load
Business Content Creating an R/3 Source System
Transferring R/3 Global Settings Replicating R/3 DataSources
Installing Business Content Objects and Loading R/3 Data
Generic R/3 Data Extraction
Data Maintenance Maintaining Characteristic Data
Maintaining InfoCube Data
Performance Tuning BW Statistics
System Administration Assistant Tuning Query Performance
Tuning Load Performance
Object Transport ASAP for BW
a BW implementation methodology developed by SAP An overview of the SAP Basis 3-tier architecture. System Landscape
Development Class Object Transport ASAP for BW
SAP Basis 3-tier architecture
Achieving SAP BW Certificate How to prepare for SAP BW Certificate
Exam strategy
Sample Questionnaires Practices
SAP BW Basics InfoCube Basics Infocube design Business Scenario
Introduction to SAP BW
Basic Concept of Data Warehousing BW - SAP Data Warehousing Solution, BW Star Schema,
Info Objects, Info Area,
InfoCube Design ,
Creation of Info Objects.
Display and Navigational Attributes, Dimension and Fact Table
