SAP BW Data Extraction Consultant: The BW Data Extraction Consultant is

responsible to identify and obtain the data required to satisfy the requirements
of the BW project. This data may include:

SAP R/3 data

New Dimension product data

Data external to SAP within the organization (legacy data)

Data external to SAP from outside the organization (provider data

D&B, Nielson)

The BW Data Extraction Consultant role has a broad range of responsibilities

and may require multiple individuals to satisfy the role depending on the scope
of the BW project and the complexity and quality of the data.

If SAP R/3 and New Dimension data only is required to satisfy requirements
and if this data is included in the standard Business Content of BW, this role
may be combined with the BW Application Consultant role. This standard
Business Content allows for extraction of R/3 and New Dimension data in a
straightforward and rapid manner.

If non-SAP data is required, if standard Business Content must be enhanced

significantly, if BAPI interfaces are being used, and/or if the data quality from
the source system is insufficient, this role can be quite complex and can
required significant resources. This complexity and quality of data is a primary
contributor to the size and scope of the BW project.

If legacy data is being extracted a close relationship is required with the legacy
extraction expert. In some cases, the legacy extraction expert may assume this
responsibility.

Specifically, the BW Data Extraction Consultant is responsible for:

Designing the data solution to satisfy defined business requirements

Identifying the data in the source environment

Mapping the data to the BW environment

Identifying data quality gaps

Developing a plan to close data quality gaps

Developing the required extraction programs, if necessary

Developing the associated interface programs, if necessary

Testing of all developed programs

Ensuring integration testing of data from various sources

Developing a production support plan

SAP BW Data Access Consultant: The BW Data Access Consultant is

responsible to assess the business requirements, and design and develop a data
access solution for the BW project. This solution may include use of:

BWs Business Explorer

Non-SAP Data Access tools (e.g., Business Objects, Cognos, Crystal
Reports, and other certified data access tools)

Visual Basic development

Web development

WAP (wireless) development

R/3 drill-through

The BW Data Access Consultant role has a broad range of responsibilities and
may require multiple individuals to satisfy the role depending on the scope of
the BW project and the requirements associated with data access.

The BW Data Access Consultant should work closely with the individuals
responsible for business requirements gathering and analysis and have a
thorough understanding of the way the data will be used to make business
decisions.

Often significant change management issues are generated as a result of

modifications required by end users to the data access design and
implementation. As a result the BW Data Access Consultant is in a key position
to provide valuable information to the change agent or change management
process.

Specifically, the BW Data Access Consultant is responsible for designing the

data access solution to include:

Understanding the data that will be available in BW in business terms

Identifying the way end users want to analyze the data in BW

Designing the data access solution to satisfy defined business

requirements

The BW Data Access Consultant is also responsible for developing the data
access solution to include:

Developing options for data access (i.e. web solution, R/3 drill through,
ODS reporting, master data reporting, 3rd party tools)

Developing prototypes of data access for review with end users

Developing the required data access solutions

Developing the associated interface programs and/or customized web

enhancements, if necessary

Configuring the Reporting Agent, if necessary

Configuring the GIS

Testing of all developed solutions

Ensuring integration testing of data access solution

Developing a production support plan

Working with training development to include data access solution in BW

course materials

SAP BW Data Architect: The BW Data Architect is responsible for the overall
data design of the BW project. This includes the design of the:

BW InfoCubes (Basic Cubes, Multi-cubes, Remote cubes, and

Aggregates)

BW ODS Objects

BW Datamarts

Logical Models

BW Process Models

BW Enterprise Models

The BW Data Architect plays a critical role in the BW project and is the link
between the end users business requirements and the data architecture solution
that will satisfy these requirements. All other activities in the BW project are
contingent upon the data design being sound and flexible enough to satisfy
evolving business requirements.

The BW Data Architect is responsible for capturing the business requirements

for the BW project. This effort includes:

Planning the business requirements gathering sessions and process

Coordinating all business requirements gathering efforts with the BW

Project Manager

Facilitating the business requirements gathering sessions

Capturing the information and producing the deliverables from the
business requirements gathering sessions

Understanding and documenting business definitions of data

Developing the data model

Ensuring integration of data from both SAP and non-SAP sources

Fielding questions concerning the data content, definition and structure

This role should also address other critical data design issues such as:

Granularity of data and the potential for multiple levels of granularity

Use of degenerate dimensions

InfoCube partitioning

Need for aggregation at multiple levels

Need for storing derived BW data

Ensuring overall integrity of all BW Models

Providing Data Administration development standards for business

requirements analysis and BW enterprise modeling

Provide strategic planning for data management

Impact analysis of data change requirements

As stated above, the BW Data Architect is responsible for the overall data
design of the BW project. This includes the design of the:

BW InfoCubes (Basic Cubes, Multi-cubes, Remote cubes, and

Aggregates)

BW ODS Objects

BW Datamarts

Logical Models

BW Process Models

BW Enterprise Models

SAP BW Application Consultant: The BW Application Consultant is

responsible for utilizing BW to satisfy the business requirements identified for
the project. As provided in the other roles, if the scope of the BW project is
tightly controlled and can use standard BW Business Content, InfoCubes, and
Queries, the BW Application Consultant may assume the responsibility to
perform several roles concurrently to include:

BW Data Architect

BW Data Access Consultant

BW Data Extraction Consultant

SAP Project Manager

Business Process Team Lead

Authorization Administrator

If this occurs, the BW Application Consultant must have a broad range of skills
and this position will be under significant pressure during the course of the BW

project. In this situation, the BW Application Consultant inherently must be

responsible for the overall integrated design and realization of the BW solution.

If the project scope is broad and must extend Business Content, InfoCubes
and/or Queries, then the project warrants resources being assigned to the roles
identified above. In this case, the BW Application Consultant is responsible for
the overall integrated design and coordinated realization of the BW solution.

If this role is assumed by an SAP Consultant, often the expectations are that
they are familiar with all components and functionality of Business Information
Warehouse. This role often naturally becomes a focal point for all design
consideration related to BW.

The BW Application Consultant (or one of the resources identified above) uses
the BW Administrator Workbench to perform the functions provided by BW:

Establish connections to the BW sources

Activate the standard Business Content

Enable the standard InfoCubes and Queries

Enhance the InfoCubes as required by the BW Data Architect

Enhance the Queries as required by the BW Data Access Consultant

Define authorization profiles and access

Evaluate statistical performance and make recommendations to Basis

support for optimization where possible
Manage the CTS layer

SAP BW Basis Consultant: The BW Basis Person must be able to advise on BW

Landscape issues, Transport environment, Authorisation, Performance Issues of

Database and BW, Installation of BW Server, Plug Ins and Frontend (For all
layers there are patches / support packages) that should be regularly installed.

This role can be assumed by the Basis Consultant (However, additional BW

skills are absolutely necessary)

BI Consultant Responsibilities and Duties

Support billable consulting to attain account objective and production
success.
Assess information system, recommend apt business and IT
infrastructure for cliens.
Participate in Finance focused projects and develop solutions.
Support, identify and debug SAP BI solutions based on financial
performance.
Develop and review technical documents.
Create cost benefit analyses and precede current projects through
consulting other business areas.
Develop and present recommendations to internal and external
audiences.
Assess, gather information and recommend apt business set-up and
solutions to OMS clients.
Involve in presentations, demos and presale activities as required.
Contribute to OMS knowledge through project documentation and
practice solutions.

Upgrade and maintain BI functionality knowledge and technical skills.

Provide BI consultancy on reporting selection, approach/design and
decision support solutions.
Define BI best practices commensurate to industry trends.
Attain information processing MciroStrategys software objectives
specifying business systems.
Gather, evaluate and report business process metric to control
operational management strategies.

Technical Skills

SAP-BW 3.5, SAP-BI 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6x , ECC6, Net Weaver 2004 Portel, BOBJ XI
3.1 & 4.0, SOLMAN.
Cross Functional Applications: SD, SCM, APO, FI.
Reporting tools : SAP- Bex Query Designer, BEx Analyzer, Web Analyzer, Web
Intelligence , Desktop Intelligence & Crystal Reports.

Live Office, Java InfoView, QWAAS.

Dashboard: Crystal Xcelsius & BusinessObjects Dashboards.

RDBMS : DB2, IMS, MS Access

Languages : ABAP/4

Operating Systems : MS-DOS, WINDOWS (98, NT ,XP ,Vista.)

Other Applications: Ms-Excel, PowerPoint, Word, MDM, VPN, Secude, Remedy, Net
Meeting, Telnet, Lotus Notes, Visio, Communicator, IPRO, AutoSys, IPRO, SharePoint,
MS Lync.

IBM Mainframe Software: COBOLII, VSAM, DB2, CICS, IMS, MVS/TSO, ISPF,
MVS/JCL

Role: SAP BW/BI Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

As a contractor worked on Global Demand & Supply Planning, Requisition to Check,

Order to Cash & Master Data(MDM-Demand Planning, MDM-Sales & Distribution) .
Developed staging write-optimized & standard DSO for demand history & forecast to APO,
region monthly shipments, future & cancel orders. Also developed extractors & DSO for
monthly inventory. Developing analysis & design documents using Microsoft Visio.

Worked on developing universe based on RDBMS data source & specification,

design & development of BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 Web Intelligence reports.

Role: SAP BW/BI BOBJ Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Worked on the analysis & enhancement of the bank end COPA sales data DSO,
Cubes & Multi Providers & front end development of business explorer(BEX) queries used
to developed the business objects (BOBJ XI 3.1) Universe & Web UI reports for the NMD
system.

Worked on developing Xcelsius dashboards against the data from MS Excel sheet &
SAP data (BI) based on the BI query with BO-Xcelsius using the SAP Net Weaver
BI Connection connectivity present within Xcelsius. Worked with IBM Data Stage (ETL
tool) to extract the data from non SAP data source & run it thru validation process to be
finally loaded in SAP/BW DSO or Cubes via Info Source.

Worked on developing analysis & design documents using Microsoft Visio.

Working on specification, design & development of WebI reports.

Project Description/Scope: SAP BI Support Logistics System

Role: SAP BW BI BOBJ Consultant
Responsibilities/Deliverables:
Created Process chains for Master data and Transaction data loads to automate the
data loading in the organization and these process chains were scheduled for periodic
loads.

Configured and extracted Inventory management data from LO Cockpit

extractors by making use of the SAP defined data sources.

In the BOBJ XI 3.0 environment developed Universe from SAP(BEX Query)

& non SAP OLAP datasource & developed Web Intelligence reports & Crystal Xcelsius
dashboard.

Development of Transformations, DTP, Data Sources (flat file source system),

Update Rules and Transfer rules for BI data flow and 3.x data flow.

Creation and maintenance of BI objects (Info Cubes, DSO objects, Infoset,

Multi Providers).

Scheduling and periodic monitoring of extractions through Info Packages and

Process Chains

Involved in documentation for the mapping, technical specifications, data

validations and Test cases

Worked on translating the legacy systems reporting into developing SAP front
end BEX queries.

As a team member worked on developing the functional & technical

specifications of the new reporting system developed in BEX.

Worked on daily basis with Extractors, Generic Extractors, Data sources, Info
sources, Transfer Rules, Update Rules, Info packages, Info package groups, Info
objects, ODS, Info cubes,

Supported the production system trouble tickets.