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Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects

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Published in Sep 2014

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ISBN-13 9781782170907

Pages 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Taha Mahmoud

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects

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Preface

1. Introduction to BI and the Semantic Layer

2. Aligning BI Solutions with Business Demands

3. Creating Our First Universe

4. Creating the Data Foundation Layer

5. Creating the Business Layer

6. Testing Your Universe

7. The Data Foundation Layer – Advanced Topics

8. The Business Layer – Advanced Topics

9. Data Security and Profiles

10. A Multiuser Development Environment

Index

Converting UNV to the new Universe UNX extension

The Universes created by Universe designer will be saved with the .unv extension; on the other hand, the Universes created by the IDT will be saved as .unx. We can still use the Universe designer to create .unv Universes but then we will not be able to make use of the new features provided by the IDT. We will also not be able to call this Universe from the new SAP tools such as SAP Lumira and SAP Explorer.

To convert a .unv Universe, let's perform the following steps:

Open the IDT and create a new empty local project.
Click on Convert .unv Universe…, as shown in the following screenshot:
Then, select the .unv Universe to convert it. We can browse and select a Universe from the local filesystem or initiate a session and retrieve a .unv Universe from a repository.
Then, select the destination for the converted version, as shown in the following screenshot:

You will get an error message that describes the reason behind the error if anything went wrong...

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Authors (1)

Taha Mahmoud

Taha M. Mahmoud (PMP, TOGAF, ITIL, and CSM) is a senior BI consultant, BI project manager, and solution architect. He has a BS degree in computer science and automatic control from Alexandria University, Egypt. He has a great passion for new technologies, especially those related to business intelligence. Taha has more than 9 years of experience in working on, consulting for, and deploying successful BusinessObjects projects in the banking and telecom industries. He is the author of Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects. You can contact him on Twitter at @tahama_2000 or visit his blog (http://business-objects-xi.blogspot.com/).

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