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Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects

You're reading from   Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects Create and maintain powerful SAP BusinessObjects Universes with the SAP Information Design Tool

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782170907
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Taha Mahmoud Taha Mahmoud
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Preface 1. Introduction to BI and the Semantic Layer FREE CHAPTER 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

Information Design Tool

The Information Design Tool is a client tool that is used to develop BO Universes. It is a new tool released by SAP in BO release 4. There are many SAP BO tools that we can use to create our Universe, such as SAP BO Universe Designer Tool (UDT), SAP BO Universe Builder, and SAP BO IDT. SAP BO Universe designer was the main tool to create Universe since the release of BO 6.x. This tool is still supported in the current SAP BI 4.x release, and you can still use it to create UNV Universes. You need to plan which tool you will use to build your Universe based on the target solution. For example, if you need to connect to a BEX query, you should use the UDT, as the IDT can't do this. On the other hand, if you want to create a Universe query from SAP Dashboard Designer, then you should use the IDT. The BO Universe Builder used to build a Universe from a supported XML metadata file. You can use the Universe conversion wizard to convert the UNV Universe created by...

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