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
Solution Implementation
Planning
Management Presentation
 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
 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
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SAP Business Information Warehouse
SAP BW Basics InfoCube
Basics Infocube design
Business Scenario
How to populate data into
InfoCube Loading data into the
infocube
InfoCube Basics and Infocube
design
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
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
 BW Star Schema
 InfoCube Design Alternative
 Time-Dependent Navigational tributes
Creating Queries and
Workbooks
Managing User Authorization
Advanced InfoCube
Aggregates and Multi-Cubes
Operational Data Store (ODS)
Business Content
 InfoCube Design Alternative II-Dimension
 Characteristics InfoCube design
Queries
 Creating a Query Using BEx Analyzer
 Organizing Workbooks Using BEx Browser
 Using a Variable to Access a Hierarchy Node Directly
 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
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
 Multi-Cubes
 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
 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
Performance Tuning
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Maintaining Characteristic Data
Maintaining InfoCube Data
BW Statistics
System Administration Assistant
Tuning Query Performance
 Tuning Load Performance
Object Transport
Achieving SAP BW Certificate
SAP BW Basics InfoCube
Basics Infocube design
Business Scenario
 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
How to prepare for SAP BW Certificate
 Exam strategy
 Sample Questionnaires
 Practices
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