Bo Universe Design Specification
Webi Intelligence Interview Questions
The following questions represent typical the typical sought after information when attending an interview for a Business Objects Web Intelligence Reporting role: 1. How would you describe Web Intelligence? a. A tool designed for query/data extraction, reporting, analysis and export into other formats. 2. What is a SAP Business Objects Universe and how does it fit in with Web Intelligence Reporting? b. The universe represents the semantic layer over the database; it contains one or more connections to data sources, you can link table graphically and set up business friendly named objects that point to the columns of tables. These objects can be used by a report writer to query the databases and write reports using Business Friendly objects; this creates SQL in the background without the user requiring SQL knowledge. 3. What are the components of a universe in SAP BO version 4? c. Connections, Data Foundation, Data Foundation Views, Business Layer and Business Layer views 4. What is a data provider? d. A data provider represents the refreshable results from a query. From the data provider, a number of blocks and report tabs can be created within a document. 5. What standard presentation styles are available? e. Table, Crosstab, Form and any number of Charts. 6. Can you schedule Web Intelligence reports? If so how? f. Yes you can use either Infoview in version 3 or the BI Platform in version 4. 7. What is wrong with this formula syntax? =Max(<Sales Revenue>) ForEach <Year>) g. The for each syntax for an input context is typically inside the second parenthesis, we’re also a missing a bracket. I would expect the bracketing to be around year. For example Max(<Sales Revenue> ForEach
The following questions represent typical the typical sought after information when attending an interview for a Business Objects Web Intelligence Reporting role: 1. How would you describe Web Intelligence? a. A tool designed for query/data extraction, reporting, analysis and export into other formats. 2. What is a SAP Business Objects Universe and how does it fit in with Web Intelligence Reporting? b. The universe represents the semantic layer over the database; it contains one or more connections to data sources, you can link table graphically and set up business friendly named objects that point to the columns of tables. These objects can be used by a report writer to query the databases and write reports using Business Friendly objects; this creates SQL in the background without the user requiring SQL knowledge. 3. What are the components of a universe in SAP BO version 4? c. Connections, Data Foundation, Data Foundation Views, Business Layer and Business Layer views 4. What is a data provider? d. A data provider represents the refreshable results from a query. From the data provider, a number of blocks and report tabs can be created within a document. 5. What standard presentation styles are available? e. Table, Crosstab, Form and any number of Charts. 6. Can you schedule Web Intelligence reports? If so how? f. Yes you can use either Infoview in version 3 or the BI Platform in version 4. 7. What is wrong with this formula syntax? =Max(<Sales Revenue>) ForEach <Year>) g. The for each syntax for an input context is typically inside the second parenthesis, we’re also a missing a bracket. I would expect the bracketing to be around year. For example Max(<Sales Revenue> ForEach