BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE &BUSINESS OBJECTS

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 conceptThe representation may be in a natural language, a modeling language, or a programming language.

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.

BI in SAP

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.

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• 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.

STRUCTURETo achieve this encapsulation, the SAP Business Objects are constructed as entities with multiple layers:

Core layer: KernelSecond layer: Integrity layerThird layer: Interface layerFourth and outermost layer: Business Object is the access layer

BO in SAP

SAP BI KEY CAPABILITIES

DATA WAREHOUSING (SAP BW ADMINISTRATOR WORKBENCH)• Extraction, transformation, and loading• Data warehouse management• Business modeling

BI PLATFORM• Online analytical

processing (OLAP)• Data mining• Alerting• Meta data repository• Planning framework

BI SUITE OF TOOLS( SAP BW BUSINESS EXPLORER)• 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

Enterprise structure of Business Objects

Data tierIt is made up of databases that feed data used for reports.

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.

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.

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Meta data management & business content

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE

To get complete view of your business

Extraction, Transformation and Loading

Open for any sourceFlexible set of ETL capabilitiesIntegration on application levelOpen to third-party toolsSupport of open standards

Operational data store and data warehouse layer

To provide right information for all users

Data warehouseNon volatileGranularIntegratedHistorical foundationBuilt with ODS objects

Operational data storeOperational reportingNear real-time/volatilegranularBuilt with ODS objects

Multidimensional models Multidimensional analysisAggregated viewIntegrated Built with info cubes

JOB role of SAP BI CONSULTANT

SAP Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant will be involved in various

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.

  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

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 dataNew Dimension product dataData external to SAP within the organization Data external to SAP from outside the organization

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

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

JOB role of SAP BO CONSULTANT

SALARY RANGE FOR SAP BI CONSULTANTS

15 years and more

10-15 years

5-9 years

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SALARY RANGE FOR SAP B0 CONSULTANTS

15 years and more

10-15 years

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CONCLUSIONSAP 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 yearThis data is according to the http://payscale.com, http://itjobswatch.com etc.