Introduction: a) What is SAP Business Objects? b) Origin of Business Objects, History and its acquisition by SAP. c) Introduction and Understanding of various BO applications and commonly used terminology. d) Basic introduction of competitors of BO in the global market and how BO fares amongst them. e) BO earlier versions and it s comparison with the BO XI R 3.1 version. SAP BO Central Management Console a) What is CMC and how we can manage security with it? b) What is CCM? c) Creation of folders, groups, users, categories, events, schedules, recurring schedules, access levels, profiles etc. d) Hands on: Going through everything discussed, via examples.
DAY2
Basic Overview of SAP BO Development tools: a) Web Intelligence/Infoview b) Desktop Intelligence c) Crystal Reports Designer d) Universe Designer e) Live Office f) Webi Rich Client g) SAP BO Dashboards/Xcelsius. h) Hands on: Developing a sample BO webi, deski report using efashion universe. Overview of SAP BO Migration: a) Need for migration b) Introduction to Major BO Version releases, Service Packs, Fix Packs etc. c) Basic Idea of Import Wizard d) Basic Idea of Life Cycle Manager e) Planning a large scale BO Migration project. f) Best Practices to be followed for a Migration Project g) Hands On: Migrating a basic BO server.
DAY 3
SAP BO Architecture: a) Understanding SAP BO Architecture b) What is the Object Oriented approach in BO Architecture? c) Details of all BO Services in BO XI R 3.1 and how they communicate between each other. d) What is Auditing and what are the services responsible? e) What is scheduling, view on demand and what are the services responsible? f) What is difference between a report and an instance? g) What is Instance Manager?
h) Common types of errors that can be solved in BO CMC. i) Hands On: Using CMC and CCM to manage BO Architecture. Business Objects Security a) Importance of security in SAP BO. b) Understanding BO XI R 3.1 Security Model c) Comparison of BO