Business intelligence (BI) involves gathering, storing, and analyzing data to help users make business decisions. It includes technologies like reporting, analytics, and data mining. A business object represents real-world things like customers or orders with attributes, behaviors, and relationships. In SAP, BI tools extract data from sources into data warehouses for analysis. Consultants help clients optimize processes and determine BI needs. SAP BI consultants design, implement, and deploy BI solutions, while SAP BO consultants focus more on technical aspects. Salaries for BI and BO consultants range from around $60,000 for entry-level to over $150,000 for more experienced roles.

1. BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE &
BUSINESS OBJECTS

2. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE(BI)
Business intelligence (BI) is a broad
category of applications and technologies
for gathering, storing, analyzing, and
providing access to data to help enterprise
users make better business decisions.
BI applications include the activities
of decision support systems, query and
reporting, online analytical processing
(OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting
and data mining.
BUSINESS OBJECT(BO)
A business object is a representation of a thing active
in the business domain, including at least its business
name and definition, attributes, behavior, relationships
and constraints.
A business object may be a person, place or concept
The representation may be in a natural language, a
modeling language, or a programming language.

3. BI in SAP
Business intelligence, is an umbrella term that
refers to a variety of software applications used
to analyze an organization’s raw data.
BI as a discipline is made up of several related
activities, including data mining, online
analytical processing, querying and reporting.
ROLES
SAP delivers pre-configured role and task-based information models and
reporting scenarios for SAP BW that are based on consistent metadata.
SAP BI Business Content offers selected roles in a company the
information they need to carry out their tasks.
The information models delivered cover all business areas and integrate
content from almost all SAP and selected external applications.

4. BO in SAP
• Business object technology and business object programming are based on the concept of
"business objects".
• Real world objects, for example an employee or a sales order, are modeled as business
objects in business application systems, such as the R/3 System.
• We can visualize the SAP Business Objects as "black boxes" that encapsulate R/3 data and
business processes, thus hiding the details of the structure and implementation of the
underlying data.
STRUCTURE
To achieve this encapsulation, the SAP Business Objects are constructed as
entities with multiple layers:
Core layer:
Kernel
Second layer: Integrity layer
Third layer:
Interface layer
Fourth and outermost layer: Business Object is the access layer

5. SAP BI KEY CAPABILITIES
DATA WAREHOUSING
(SAP BW ADMINISTRATOR WORKBENCH)
• Extraction, transformation, and loading
• Data warehouse management
BI SUITE OF TOOLS
• Business modeling
( SAP BW BUSINESS EXPLORER)
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BI PLATFORM
• Online analytical processing
(OLAP)
• Data mining
• Alerting
• Meta data repository
• Planning framework
Query design
Managed reporting and analysis
Visualization- web application design
collaboration
PRE CONFIGURED BUSINESS
CONTENT
• A localized template is provided as
part of the starter package that can be
used as a starting point for your
implementation, or your partner may
choose to use its own template as a
starting point

6. Enterprise structure of
Business Objects

7. SAP Business Objects Enterprise
(BOE) XI Architecture
Client tier
In client tier SAP BO is the only tier that
consist applications which interact with end
user for administration, publishing and viewing
of reports and other objects.
Application tier
It is the tier that hosts server side components to
handle user requests from Client tier and pass to
Intelligence tier of underlying system for processing.
Processing tier
It interacts directly with
database and generates
reports.
Data tier
It is made up of databases that feed
data used for reports.
Intelligence tier
It is heart of Business Objects Enterprise system.
It handles user requests, navigates them to
appropriate server, maintain security
information, audit information and stores report
instances.

8. Business Intelligence
Integration
Meta data management & business content
Data presentation
BI suite
Open interface
BI platform
Access
Data warehousing
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Data acquisition
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9. BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
ARCHITECTURE

10. Extraction, Transformation and Loadin
Open for any source
Flexible set of ETL
capabilities
Integration on
application level
Open to third-party
tools
Support of open
standards
To get complete view of your business

11. Operational data store and data
warehouse layer
Data warehouse
Non volatile
Granular
Integrated
Historical foundation
Built with ODS objects
Operational data store
Operational reporting
Near real-time/volatile
Multidimensional models
granular
Multidimensional analysis
Built with ODS objects
Aggregated view
Integrated
Built with info cubes
To provide right information for all users

12. JOB role of SAP BI CONSULTANT
The BI Data Consultant is responsible to identify and obtain the data
required to satisfy the requirements of the BI project. This data may
include:
SAP R/3 data
New Dimension product data
Data external to SAP within the organization
SAP Business Intelligence (BI) SAP from outside the organization
Data external to Consultant will be involved in various
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 Projects, goal is to help the client to optimize processes and to determine the information
 The BI Consultant role has a broad range of responsibilities and may require multiple
individuals to satisfy the role depending on the scope of the BI project and the complexity
and quality of the data.
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 If SAP R/3 and New Dimension data only is required to satisfy requirements and if this
data is included in the standard Business Content of BW, this role may be combined with
the BW Application Consultant role. This standard Business Content allows for extraction of
R/3 and New Dimension data in a straightforward and rapid manner

13. JOB role of SAP BO CONSULTANT
SAP Business Objects professionals design, implement and
deploy SAP business intelligence solutions, applications and
technologies which are used to gather, provide access to, and
analyze data and information about company operations for
end-to-end data warehousing and analytics.
Roles
Supervising process and functional design activities
Creating functional requirements as an input to application design
Developing and testing detailed functional designs for business solution components and
prototypes
Performing/supervising application build, test, and deploy activities
Planning and executing data conversion activities (e.g., test data)
Driving test planning and execution
Training of internal staff on the SAP Business Objects Toolset

14. SALARY RANGE FOR
SAP BI CONSULTANTS
freshers
lessthan 1year
1-4 years
5-9 years
10-15 years
15 years and more
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15. SALARY RANGE FOR
SAP B0 CONSULTANTS
freshers
lessthan 1year
1-4 years
5-9 years
10-15 years
15 years and more
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16. CONCLUSION
SAP BIBO modules are more of related to technical sector and of course
functional sector also.
These BIBO modules are integrated with each other modules.
The scope for BIBO module is very good, but it need technical
skills, professional who has technical background exists in the industry.
According to PAYSCALE.com INDEED.com, LINKEDIN.com and
ITJOBSWATCH.com the opportunities are huge in technical sector like
software companies etc.
Of course there are opportunities in other companies like FMCGS, supply
chain companies also.
The pay scale range for both BI BO module are almost same, it is
increasing from year to year, compare to previous the salaries are
increased slightly between 1-3% in current year
This data is according to the http://payscale.com, http://itjobswatch.com
etc.