SAP BO Data Integrator and Data Services

Pre-requisites: Data warehousing concepts, SQL (Basics) / PL/SQL,SAP BI/BW Concepts, SAP HR Concepts Goals: SAP BODI/DS enables you to create warehouse from SAP & Non-SAP Data source using BTL concept. DS installation & integration with SAP

Installing DS Configuring Repositories (Local, Central & profile) Integration with SAP & Configuring access server & metadata integrator

Configuration management

Data stories creation (DB, SAP R3, BW, HANA, Adaptor, Web service, ERP, Data Federator, Legacy system) File format (Flat file, Xis, DTD, XSD, Cobol copy books, SAP Transports) Miscellaneous (Linked, Persistent & Memory Data Stories)

Data profiling

Setting up Profile repository Submitting column & Relationship Profile task

Data quality & Text Data Processing Transforms

Understanding standard content directories &* postal directories Address cleansing Data cleansing Geo coding, Text data processing Match and Consolidation

Data Integrator & Platform transforms Data Integrator transforms

Data_transfer Date_Generation Effective_Date Hierarchy_Flattening History_Preserving Key_Generation Map CDC operation Pivot (Columns to Rows) Reverse_Pivot (Rows to Columns) Table comparison XML Pipeline

Platform transforms

Case Map_Operation

Merge Query Row_Generation SQL Validation

ETL jobs (Batch & Real time)

Batch jobs Real-time jobs and embedded data flows Reusable objects Object hierarchies Nested data Reading multiple files formats

Testing, Validation & Debugging of jobs

Push down operations Descriptions & Annotations Validation & Tracing jobs Locks (Monitor, statistics, error) Interactive debugger, filters and break-points Tracing & job execution options

Error handling & Recovery mechanism

Understanding recovery mechanism, recovery units & recovery mode & recoverable work flows & automatic recovery Try-catch blocks Handling partially loaded data and processing data with problems Audit points, rules, actions, labels and applying auditing in data flow

Administration, Security & Scheduling

Repositories User roles Status interval of jobs Logo retention Executing jobs Scheduling Monitoring Server Groups Central repository security SAP RFC connections Realtime jobs Access server Profile server management DS 4.New features at BO-CMC

Data Migration & Deployment

Understanding migration tools Choosing a migration mechanism Using data store config & migr Creating multiple configurations in data store Creating a system configuration Migrating a multi-user environment Migrating a single user environment

Scripting Functions, Parameters & Variables

Understanding Local & Global variables Scripting syntax & semantics Understanding Built-in & Custom functions Expression Working with Local & Global & Substitution parameters

Multi user environment & Meta data management

Environment test strategy Measuring performance Tuning overview Maximizing push-down operations Using caches Using parallel execution Distributing data flow execution Using bulk loading Source & Target-based performance options Job design performance options

DS with SAP R3 & SAP BW

Integration between SAP Bi, R3 & Data services Creating SAP application Data store SAP BW source and SAP BW target data store BODS Vs. BIBW terminology Normal data flows Vs ABAP data flows Reading SAPR3 Meta Data (Tables, Hierarchies Extractors, Idocs, function modules) Reading SAP BW Metadata (table) Loading SAPR3 &Ext data to BW SYSTEMS USING DATA SERVICES: Master transfer structure Transaction transfer structure Connecting to HANA DB

Scenarios

FF->BW (Attributers/Cube/DSO) R3->BW (Attributers/Cube/DSO) BW->SQL (DB)/FF (DSO/Cube/ Attributers)

DS with SAP & Non-SAP Rapid marts

Rapid marts introduction and usage advantages & disadvantages SAP Vs Non-SAP Rapidmarts Rapidmart versions Rapidmart installation Rapidmart configuration Rapidmart customization Rapidmart Best practices and naming conventions Rapidmart perf tuning techniques Recovery mechanism & delta load implementation in rapidmarts Rapidmart testing Rapidmart developments

Change data capture

Using source based changed Data capture Using changed Data capture (CAD) with time-stamped sources Initial and Delta loads Using target based CDC Using history preserving transforms

DS with HANA & Data Federation & BO

HANA Data store creation Data federation data store Creation of BO somatic layers using data stores Loading data into in-memory DB (HANA)using ODBC Array loads Working with HANA modeler using data services Replication of BW Data into HANA using Data services Data remediation

Information Steward

Developing Cleansing packages specific to custom data requirements

Miscellaneous
Server management Life cycle management Monitoring & Security User & Rights management Server management Life cycle management Monitoring User & Right management Data services SLD Reg Performance monitoring Data Assessment Multi-user environment setup Smart editor Metadata in repository tables & views

Local & Multi-byte functionality Data quality fees Python & Adaptors & Web services Using BODS as a web services provider Consuming external web services in SAP BODS Message client API SAP application security levels SAP user authorization SAP environment options IDoc interface connectivity SAP application profiles Authorization for Data services in SAP Transport_Format & Data flows Custom ABAP transformations Optimizing ABAP IN Data services SAP Real time jobs & Specific DS objects Executing batch jobs that contain ABAP Reading multiple open Hub tables Data services objects