Business Objects Strengths

Business Objects Enterprise Strengths Includes WebI, DeskI, Designer (UDT / IDT), CMC, Xcelsius, and Crystal Reports.

 Analyzing, designing, building, maintaining, and testing reports, dashboards, universes, and systems while working directly with end-users and technical members of a data warehouse team.  Documenting universe and report design and related metadata, including automation of documentation.  Administering Business Objects and Crystal Reports, including configuration, installation of client and server products, and security.  Upgrading/Migrating from Business Objects version 4 to 5, 5 to 6, 6.1 to 6.5, and 6.x to XI, and XIr2 to XIr3. Assisted with installation of 4.0.  Report migration from legacy and other database systems (Cognos, Sagent) to Business Objects.  Reporting off of relational and OLAP universes.  Reporting and universe development in an environment integrated with SAP, involving BEx queries.  Providing software and hardware recommendations for installations, migrations, and upgrades.  User training on developed reports (including weekly training calls on many assignments).  Migration of reports and universes from one environment to another (development to system test and system test to production). Includes use of Import Wizard and BRIAR files.  Management, interviewing, and mentoring of other Business Objects developers.  Performance tuning of reports, universes, and servers.  Assessing and tuning performance of existing configurations.  Extensive experience with Business Objects in Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, Neteeza, MySQL, and SAP environments. Some experience with SalesForce and Oracle ERP.  Scheduling and publishing of reports.  Developing and implementing large-scale reporting solutions.  Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius report development. Advanced knowledge includes dynamic drills and groups; complicated lists of values (including cascading and hierarchical, use of wildcards, ALL, last xxx date, current date, …); linked reports; and alerters.  Creating Xcelsius dashboards sending and receiving XML data, interacting with databases and providing live information via external websites.  Development of Xcelsius dashboards using universes and Bex queries as data sources.  Providing guidelines and best practices for report and universe creation and architecture.  Preparation of analytics, dashboards, and related universes using Business Objects Performance Management and Xcelsius.  Providing resolutions for report, universe, and server errors, including Web Intelligence Server Memory Full.  Heavy experience with Business Objects SDK (Desktop Intelligence, Designer, and Crystal Enterprise).  Incorporated Crystal Enterprise and Designer SDKs in designing tool used in r2 to r3 migration to extract, store, and update CMS and universe information in Excel and a database. Allows for updates of users and groups. Includes users, groups, group membership and hierarchy, webi reports, universes, and all other cms items for which security exists (folders, categories, applications, ...). Stored all security details, include limits, rights, and principals for every item. Created related views and Data Services projects to compare different cms's and universes

Database Abilities

 Oracle database design, development, and documentation, including tables, views, stored procedures, functions, indices, constraints, and packages.  SQL Server database design, development, and documentation, including tables, views, stored procedures, functions, indices, and constraints.  Neteeza database design, development, and documentation, including tables and views.  ETL work includes over three years with SSIS, nine months with Genio, and five years with Data Services (including Data Quality transforms) and Data Integrator. Additional ETL performed with stored procedures, functions, and packages (Oracle specific).  ETL experience includes replication, transformation, and cleansing of mainframe data into Oracle and UDB databases,  Neteeza specific ETL experience includes sourcing from flat files, SQL Server, Oracle, and Neteeza.  Other ETL experience includes using the following for sources and targets: flat files, XML, Excel, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, and SAP.  Bulk loading against Oracle, SQL Server, and Neteeza databases. Implemented bulk load packages in SSIS to pull information from flat files into Neteeza.  PL/SQL coding experience with both SQL Plus and TOAD.  Database performance optimization, including index management, explain plans (for Oracle), and query tuning.  Understanding of common data warehousing methodology and architecture.  Experience with multiple databases, including Neteeza, Oracle, SQL Server, Hyperion Essbase, Teradata, UDB, DB2, and Sybase.  Experience with ERP systems: SAP, Salesforce, and Oracle Financials.  Logical and physical data modeling, including knowledge of star and snowflake schemas.  OLTP, OLAP, and ROLAP experience.  Documentation of databases, including data dictionary and other metadata development.