The document discusses SAP Business Objects reporting tools. It provides an overview of ERP Technicals Inc. and their expertise in SAP Business Objects components like data warehousing, rapid marts, data cleansing, product migration, reporting, dashboards, proofs of concept, and training. The agenda outlines topics on SAP Business Objects architecture, universes, Web Intelligence, Crystal Xcelsius dashboards, and a demonstration.

1. SAP Business Objects
Reporting
SHAKIL AHMED
Sr. Technical Director
ERP Technicals Inc.
February 10, 2010
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2. ERP Technicals Inc.
• We are consulting and systems integration firm
• Our expertise in providing actionable business
intelligence solution for the following SAP Business
Objects components
 DATA WAREHOUSE
 RAPID MART
 DATA CLEANSING
 PRODUCT MIGRATION
 REPORTING AND DASHBOARD
 PROOF OF CONCEPT
 OEM INTEGRATION
 SUPPORT
 TRAINING

3. Presenter Introduction
Professional Experience
• 18 years Professional Experience in IT Industry
• 12 years in SAP Business Objects and Data Warehouse consultant with
the following multinational clients
Education and Certificates
• MSc in Information Technologies, UK
• MBA in Finance
• Business Objects Certified Professional

4. Agenda 1. SAP Business Objects Xir3 Architecture
2. What is Universe?
 Universe Fundamentals
 Role of a Universe
3. Introducing Web Intelligence
 Web Intelligence Benefits
4. What is Crystal Xcelsius?
5. Demo
6. Web Intelligence Reports
 Running the Query
 Restricting Data (Single Value Condition)
 Using Presentation Styles
 Applying Calculations to Data
 Ranking Data
 If...Then...Else...
7. Crystal Xcelsius Dashboards
8. Conclusion
9. Q & A

5. SAP Business Objects Xir3 Architecture
End • Corporate Reports | Ad-hoc Reports | Dashboard
Users Reports | Live Office
• Corporate Reports | Webi Ad-hoc Reports | Deski
Reports Reports | Crystal Xcelsius Dashboard | Crystal
Reports | MS Live Office | QAAWS | Voyager
• Sales & Marketing | Human Resources | Finance |
Universe Account Payable | Account Receivable| General
Ledger Universes
EDW • Oracle | MS SQL Server | Teradata | DB2 etc;
ETL • Data Integrator | Informatica | SAP Rapid Mart
ETL
Source • SAP Applications | Non SAP Applications
Data • Operational Structured Data | Unstructured Data

6. What is a Universe?
• Users can do data analysis and create reports
using the objects in a universe, without
seeing, or having to know anything about,
the underlying data structures and SQL in the
database.
Universe Fundamentals
• Business Objects Designer is a software tool
that allows you to create universes for Web
Intelligence, Desktop intelligence, Crystal
Xcelsius, and Crystal Reports users.
Role of a Universe
• The role of a universe is to provide an easy to
use and understand interface for non
technical Web Intelligence users to run
queries against a database to create reports
and perform data analysis.

7. INTRODUCING WEB INTELLIGENCE
Web Intelligence provides business users an easy to use interactive and flexible user interface for
building and analyzing reports on corporate data over the web, on secured intranets and extranets.
Intuitive,
web-based,
drag and drop
interface
Control ad
Synch hoc usage
seamlessly and maximize
when online. system
resources
Web
Intelligence
Create Benefits Business
queries, terms hide
reports in complexity of
offline mode. data
Stay
connected Re-usable
with calculations
corporate and report
data