SAP BusinessObjects Universe Designer XI 3.0/3.1: Advanced Universe Design

Goals

• This two-day instructor-led advanced course is designed to give you the comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge needed to design universes in BusinessObjects™ Universe Designer.
• The business benefit of this course is that you will 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.

Audience

• The target audience for this course is anyone responsible for creating and designing universes using Universe Designer, using BusinessObjects XI 3.0/3.1.
• The learners who attend the course will be most successful if they have experience in working with Business Objects Universe Designer.
• New features covered in the XI 3.0/3.1 course that are not applicable to BusinessObjects XI R1/R2 learners include:
• • Creating universes from stored procedures and JavaBeans
  • Creating, modifying, and updating universes from OLAP data sources using the enhanced OLAP functionality in Universe Designer

Prerequisites

• * Prerequisite Education
• BusinessObjects XI R2: Universe Design, and/or BusinessObjects XI 3.0/3.1: Universe Design
• BusinessObjects™ Web Intelligence XI R2: Report Design, and/or BusinessObjects™ Web Intelligence XI 3.0/3.1: Report Design * Prerequisite Knowledge/Experience (To be successful, you must be familiar with:)
• The metadata and logical structure of the databases in your organization
• BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report building
• Using BusinessObjects Universe Designer
• Using and working with SQL and relational database management systems concepts and structures
• The BusinessObjects Central Management Console

Content

• Reviewing Universe Design Concepts
• • Use your universe design and BusinessObjects Universe Designer knowledge to solve business problems
  • Describe the course universe, database data, and structure
• 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
• Creating Complex Predefined Conditions, LOVs, and Joins
• • Create complex predefined conditions
  • Work with advanced LOVs
  • Work with advanced join syntaxes
• Securing Universes
• • Define connection and user credential parameters
  • Work with Central Management Server (CMS) universe security
  • Work with table mapping
• Implementing Universe Life Cycle Management
• • Move content from development to production
• Maintaining and Optimizing Universes
• • Optimize universes
  • Apply foreign key index awareness
  • Apply best practices for universe design
• Creating Universes from Other Data Sources
• • Create a universe from an XML metadata file
  • Create stored procedure and JavaBeans universes
  • Work with OLAP universes

Notes

• Additional Education
• • Not applicable for this offering.
• Applicable Certification
• • This course is not applicable to any Business Objects Certified Professional programs.
• Additional Information
• • Contact your SAP Education Representative.

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