Syed Sadiq Basha A
Email: mlmesadq24@yahoo.co.in
Mobile: (+91) 9952082183
SUMMARY
Having 8 years of IT experience in software application development and
implementation Data Warehousing business intelligence projects includes Administration,
Requirement Analysis, Application Maintenance, Functional Studies, Quality Reviews,
Design, Testing with assignments in India, UK and Saudi Arabia.
EXPERTISE DETAILS
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Extensive experience in SAP Business Objects BI 4.1/4.0, SAP Business objects XIR3.1,
SAP Business Objects XIR2, Business Objects 6.5, and Integration with SAP BW 7.3,
ORACLE and SYBASE.
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Worked on Business Intelligence administration, designing universe and development of
reports using Central Management Console (CMC), UDT, IDT, Web Intelligence,
Desktop Intelligence, Xcelsius, Crystal Reports, BI Laundpad, Infoview and Business
Objects Enterprise.
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Developed OLAP & OLTP universes with measures and dimensions objects, Join conditions,
Filters, LOV, cardinality, Aliases, Contexts, Aggregate Awareness using Business Objects
Designer.
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Developed simple to complex report from SYBASE, ORACLE database and SAP BW using
Hyperlink, Rank, Combined Queries, and Merged Dimension.
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Worked on creating users, user groups, universe and folder access using Central
Management console (CMC).
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Created Dashboards using Xcelsius 2008 SP3 and Live Office.
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Experience in creating reports using Crystal Reports 2008 version.
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Experience in interaction with the Business users during assignments in UK & Saudi
Arabia identifying the needs & the requirements of the system and involving in requirement
study of the system.
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Experience in Full Life Cycle Implementation & Support of SAP BO Projects from Design,
Development, Testing, Go-live and Post Go-live activities.
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Good analytical and reasoning skills.
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY
SKILLS
Operating Systems
Languages
Databases
Data warehouse Tool
SAP BI Tools
Technologies/TOOLS
Windows NT/2003/XP, IBM MVS/ESA, IBM
3090, UNIX, Open VMS
COBOL, JCL
IDMS, ORACLE 9i/10g, SYBASE
SAP BW 7.0/7.3
SAP Business Objects BI 4.1, BI 4.0, XIR3.1,
XIR2, BO 6.5, SAP BW, BEx Queries, SAP EP
WORK HISTORY
Duration
Organization
Role
Jun 2013 – Till Date
HCL Technologies
Consultant
Jul 2012- May 2013
Logica Pvt. Ltd.
IT Consultant
Sep 2008- Jun 2012
SAMBA Financial Group (via
Nahil computer Company) ,
Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
Consultant
May 2006 – Aug 2008
Data Software Research Co.,
Chennai – India
Software Engineer
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1. Jun 2013 – Till Date
Project - AnnTaylor
Client – AnnTaylor, US
The Ann Taylor is an exclusive ladies showroom embodied the well-dressed woman. Ann
Taylor has regional brand to a national brand with 47 stores across the United States. HCL
providing business analysis system through SAP BW and Business Objects. HCL provides
enhancement and support of Data warehousing.
Responsibilities:
 Hands on maintaining the Servers, Users, Groups, and access rights at CMC level.
 Worked on OLAP universe creation, objects and conditions.
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 Developed BO Webi OLAP complex reports and testing in different environments.
 Developing and analyzing BEx queries.
 Scheduled BOXI reports across 57 stores using Event based scheduling in current
project.
 Configuration of user’s, CMC Configuration, Security during initial phase and
continuous admin activities Documentation
 Providing support and development for SAP BOXI universe and reports.
 Fixing BO reports production issues on time by quickly drilling into the issue.
 Implemented BOBJ Auditing in the current project to monitor and record key facts
about Business Objects Enterprise deployment.
 Resolving BO production tickets on timely.
 Involved in creating roles/iViews/portal configuration in SAP Portal for BOXI reports.
Skill set used: SAP Business Intelligence 4.1/4.0 – BI Launchpad, UDT / IDT,
WebIntelligence, Rich Client, CMC, BW 7.3, BEx Designer / Analyzer. SAP Enterprise Portal
(EP)
2. July 2012 – May 2013
Project - SambaPlus
Client – Bundes Bank, Germany
SAMBAplus is reporting project to generate reports for German Central Bank to observe
banks and to secure the stability of the financial system.
Responsibilities:
 Created Business requirements documents for the modifications required for the
reports and Universe, which included testing strategy, Business Objects fix and
Business requirements etc.
 Design and development of Universes by defining connections and retrieving data from
database.
 Exported the Universes to the Repository to make resources available to the users.
 Supported/created Webi reports with the following functionality subqueries, alerters,
charts, filters, and merged dimensions, etc.
 Involved in the troubleshooting of universe schema & tuning the performance of
reports.
 Involved in Business user meetings in fixing and explaining the reports for its errors
and fixes.
 Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), to
validate universes & reports.
Skill set used: SAP Business Objects XI R3.1 – Designer, Infoview, Desktop Intelligence,
WebIntelligence, ORACLE, SVN
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3. Sep 2008 – Jun 2012
Samba Information Management System (SIMS)
Client – Samba Financial Group
Responsibilities:
 Interacted with the Business Users and involved in gathering, analyzing, and
documenting business requirements and data specifications for Business Objects
Universes and Reports.
 Involved in Migration and testing of BOXI upgrade from XI R2 to XI 3.1.
 Used import Wizard to migrate users, groups, reports, folders, universes from different
environments.
 Implementation & Installation of Business Objects application and integration with
their core banking solution which runs on Sybase & Oracle database.
 Configuration Sybase & Oracle database for client access to database.
 Added/modified Users, Groups, folders and security rights using Central Management
Console (CMC).
 Scheduled and published the business objects reports based on the user requirements.
 Worked with SAP support to resolve any BO related tickets/issues.
 Design and development of Business Objects Universes using designer that suits
standards and reporting requirements of the Business Objects users.
 Provide technical support to resolve Production issues involving Web Intelligence
Reports.
 Monitored and solved the issues encountered in Universes and reports while migration
and tested before moving to production.
 Created Aliases and Context to resolve loops, defined the cardinalities as defined in data
model.
 Created Derived tables in the Designer to enhance performance of the universe.
 Set up Aggregate Awareness to enhance the performance of SQL transactions.
 Created Dashboards using Xcelsius.
 Designed and developed reports with sub-reports (linked and unlinked) using Crystal
Reports 2008 version.
 Constant Interaction with users in going over the use cases for new Business needs and
validation of the existing implementations.
 Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), to
validate universes & reports.
 Supporting the Go-live and Post Go-live activities.
Skill set used: SAP Business Objects XI R3.1 / R2 – Central Management Console (CMC Administration), Designer, Infoview, Desktop Intelligence, WebIntelligence, Xcelsius 2008 &
Crystal Reports 2008, UNIX, SYBASE, Oracle, CCM.
4. Dec 2007 – Aug 2008
Cellcom Billing System (deputed in Tech Mahindra Ltd, London - UK)
Client – Carphone Warehouse, UK
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CBS is the customer support system, linked to a variety of external systems, including
the network providers, BACS (for processing Direct Debit payments), BMS (for processing
Credit Card payments), Equifax (for credit checking) and Formation (for bill and letter
production).
The primary business functions performed by CBS are:
 automated connection of services to the cellular networks
 subscriber management
 call data collection and billing.
Responsibilities:
 Interaction with the Business Analysts, users and business leads to understand
Business needs.
 Created BO Universes & reports based on Business requirements.
 Involved in joining the tables by creating aliases to resolve the loop.
 Creation and testing of complex reports and documentation of test cases and report
specifications.
 Involved in unit testing and user acceptance testing of BO Reports at various levels.
 Involved in design, coding and enhancement as per the requirement.
 Preparing unit test plans and data build.
 Unit testing of the code and delivering to QA.
 Supporting the QA / Live.
Skill set used: Business Objects 6.5, RPL, Open VMS, ORACLE, CVS, TOAD, Bugzilla
5. Jul 2006 – Aug 2007
CSS-Billing (deputed in Tech Mahindra Ltd, Pune - India)
Client – British Telecom, UK
CSS is British Telecom’s (BT) largest integrated on-line customer support system,
comprising a set of applications supporting BT in its dealings with customers. It manages all
aspects of Customer Services on the Telephone Network covering Customer Record
Management, Billing, Repairs, Job Management, and Network Management etc. It contributes
around 74% towards BT revenue and 87% of profit. Therefore, CSS is considered as Business
Critical System. This project delivers the end to end solutions right from calculations,
Payments & productions of bills.
The Customer Service System having three major modules, there are
 Billing
 Service & Resource Management System
 Network & Resource Management System
The offshore team completely manages requirement definition, estimation, design, coding, unit
testing, system testing, maintenance and support activities of all these areas.
Responsibilities:
 Analyzing the Batch and Online codes
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Involved in design, coding and enhancement as per the customer requirement.
Preparing unit test plans and data build.
Unit testing of the code and delivering to VVT.
Supporting VVT (system testing) / UCT.
Solving the Bridge Cases (Faults) from Live, Pilot, UCT and VVT.
Involved in migration from CSS to new stack (Open Reach).
Skill set used: MVS/ESA, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, IDMS, XPEDITOR, XMODS & File-AID.
ACADEMICS
Master of Computer Application, July 2004
Bharathidasan University
Bachelor of Computer Science, July 2001
University of Madras
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth
: 08-09-1980
Gender
: Male
Marital Status
: Married
Nationality
: Indian
Passport Validity
: till 2021
Permanent Address:
2/575, Babu Nagar,
3rd Main Road, Mambakkam Road,
Medavakkam, Chennai – 600100,
Tamilnadu.
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