SAP Knowledge Acceleration
Access, Analyze, and Share
Business Intelligence
Quickly Learn How to Leverage
Corporate Information
Versions of SAP® Knowledge Accelera-
tion software are available to teach
business professionals how to access,
analyze, and share corporate data
using:
• The business intelligence portal of
SAP BusinessObjects™ Enterprise
software
• SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence® Interactive Viewing
software
• SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence software
Business Intelligence Portal
(Formerly InfoView)
The course curriculum of SAP Knowl-
edge Acceleration, version for the
business intelligence portal, covers
the following topics:
• Getting started
– Overview of SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise
– Portal features
– Logging on
– Portal navigation
• Organizing documents
– Accessing, copying, and moving
documents
– Creating, modifying, copying, and
moving folders
– Creating and modifying categories
– Assigning documents to categories
– Creating shortcuts to and searching
for documents
– Filtering documents in a list
• Working with documents
– Viewing documents and their
history
– Subscribing to publications
– Using discussions
– Sharing documents with others
– Exporting, saving, and refreshing
documents
• Creating and adding components
– Accessing other applications
– Creating a dashboard
– Creating hyperlinks
– Adding documents
• Using the encyclopedia
– Accessing the encyclopedia
– Maintaining overview information,
business questions, glossary
terms, and guided analysis
Learn how to organize,
manage, and distribute
documents using
the business intelli-
gence portal – and
how to use SAP
BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence to create
documents, build queries,
and enhance documents
for easier analysis.
• Setting portal preferences
– Changing your password
– Setting general preferences
– Scheduling a document
SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence Interactive Viewing
The course curriculum of SAP Knowl-
edge Acceleration, version for SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Interactive Viewing, covers the follow-
ing topics:
• Getting started
– Introducing the software
– Selecting a view format for
documents
– Displaying menus and toolbars
Blending theoretical concepts with real-world busi-
ness activities, these versions of SAP Knowledge
Acceleration enable you to watch an animated dem-
onstration of a task and interact with the simulation.
2
• Modifying documents
– Adding data in a table
– Presenting data in tables and
charts
– Organizing data with breaks and
sorts
– Restricting data with report filters
– Formatting report elements
• Calculating data
– Understanding how data is
calculated
– Creating formulas using the
formula editor
– Creating a formula to calculate
sales tax
– Calculating data based on values
in a cell
– Comparing total values by
overriding a filter
– Creating a formula from a prompt
response
• Drilling on data
– Analyzing in the data cube
– Setting drill options
– Using the query drill mode
– Drilling in the business intelligence
portal
– Drilling on dimensions and charts
– Taking a snapshot as you drill
SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence
The course curriculum of SAP
Knowledge Acceleration, version for
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence,
covers the following topics:
• Getting started
– Java report panel
– Rich client
• Selecting a report panel
– Introducing report panels
– Selecting a report panel
• Introducing rich client features
– Enhancements
– Report filter toolbar
– New formulas
• Learning what’s new in service pack 2
– Enhancements
– Filtering with the results of
another query
– Navigating with the fold and
unfold toolbar
– Designing reports with input
controls
– Publishing as a Web service
• Creating rich client documents
– Creating a new document in
the rich client
– Importing and exporting
documents
– Editing a document’s query
– Working with query properties
• Restricting data returned by a query
– Modifying a query with a
predefined filter
– Applying a single value query filter
– Using prompts to filter data
– Applying complex query filters
– Prioritizing operators
• Designing reports
– Identifying report components
– Presenting data in tables and These versions of SAP Knowledge Acceleration
cross tabs include an assessment component containing
– Changing the table format
– Adding data to a table quizzes and activities to test your knowledge by
– Presenting data in charts performing tasks without any prompts.
– Converting tables into charts
– Presenting data in freestanding
cells
• Enhancing report presentation • Synchronizing data from multiple data • Advanced report design
– Organizing data providers – Creating and understanding
– Restricting data with report filters – Synchronizing data from multiple combined queries
– Ranking data to see top or bottom queries – Using subqueries
values – Adding a new query using a – Modifying the calculation behavior
– Highlighting results with alerters personal data provider – Grouping data
• Formatting information – Projecting data from a single – Using character and date string
– Working with the properties tab or multiple queries functions
– Modifying default properties of – Projecting data using multiple – Changing the data source
reports, tables, cells, sections, universes – Displaying document information
and charts – Synchronizing data from a local in a report
– Adding headers and footers to data source
a document – Synchronizing data with merged For More Information
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– Creating formulas and variables – Analyzing in the data cube /softwareproducts
– Creating a formula from a prompt – Building a drillable document /knowledge-accelerator.epx.
– Saving the formula as a variable – Drilling down in a hierarchy
– Creating a new variable in a report – Taking a snapshot as you drill
– Creating a variable from document – Drilling in charts
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