SAP BusinessObjects BI Essential Training 2026

Trace SAP’s rise as the largest enterprise software company and explore its five product lines, with a focus on business analytics, business intelligence, enterprise performance management, and governance risk compliance.

Learn how business intelligence collects data from internal management system and external data source, prepares it for analysis, runs queries, and creates reports to improve and optimize decisions and performance.

Discover the value of business intelligence despite upfront costs and long implementation. See how BI delivers accurate historical data, real-time updates, forecasts across data sources, and what-if analysis.

Identify and align business intelligence requirements by engaging management, the analytical team, and employees, classifying needs into executive, customer, and operations reporting for actionable dashboards.

Explore how SAP BusinessObjects integrates into the SAP analytics suite, covering reporting, dashboards, and data discovery with tools like Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Lumira, Explorer, and design studio.

Explore SAP BI platform architecture from diverse data sources and the semantic layer to data federation engine, data foundation, and business layer, then utilize the query, calculation, and presentation layer.

Log in to the SAP BI launchpad, explore folders and documents, navigate the layout, favorite charts, create shortcuts, customize page tiles, and log out.

Navigate the BI launchpad, the central web portal for business intelligence content, enabling daily operations through browsers and organizing reports, analytics, dashboards, scorecards, and strategy maps.

Administrators use the central management console (CMC) to securely manage SAP BI systems, control user access and authorizations, and manage services, servers, and platform settings.

Explore how a business intelligence universe acts as the semantic layer between data warehouses and end users, translating technical structures into business terms for secure, user-friendly reporting.

Learn to install and configure a fully functional SAP business objects trial environment, including server setup, remote access, client tools, and license renewal for a 30-day evaluation.

Explore Crystal Reports, a business intelligence tool that converts data from multiple sources into interactive, pixel-perfect reports with HTML export and minimal coding.

Design data connections and layouts using Crystal Reports' design expert and wizard. Place fields from multiple sources and apply formulas with formatting options for a professional standard.

Install Crystal Reports by downloading the free trial from SAP.com, run the setup wizard, and enter your key code to access Crystal Reports, then explore the user interface.

Explore the Crystal reports user interface, navigate the start page to create or open reports, and use five toolbars, menus, hover tips, and the export button to manage your reports.

Navigate a report with the bottom-right navigation toolbar—first, previous, next, last pages, and a page selector—plus refresh (F5) for live data and stop to manage long updates.

Walk through the Crystal Reports 2013 report wizard to create a new report, connect to an Excel data source, select fields, and group by month.

Create a blank report and link it to a data source using an existing data connection, such as a One XLS workbook, by selecting a sheet.

Open the blank report, display the Field Explorer, expand sheet one to view available fields, drag fields to the header and detail sections, and preview the report using print preview.

Save your edited SAP BusinessObjects reports in design view, adjusting the description and elements. Preview changes, then save with the file menu or save as for a new location.

Apply predefined templates in Crystal Reports using the template expert, select Gray Scale, and preview the result.

Learn to insert a side-by-side bar chart in a report by selecting a chart type, setting category axis from the center field, and adding the number of products as values.

Design a static report in SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise by connecting to the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform and using a BW query to group by year and summarize totals.

Empower business analysts to filter and manipulate data, identify trends and outliers, and share findings directly from Excel and PowerPoint using Businessobjects Analysis Edition for Office.

Analyze OLAP data in a browser with Analysis edition for OLAP, a lean deployment atop Business Warehouse without BI, contrasting with Office edition integrated with Excel for report contributors.

Explore the analysis edition design panel's key components, including the view section to navigate and filter data and the navigation section for drag-and-drop actions like filter, drill down, and slice.

Create a basic SAP BusinessObjects Analysis workbook using BW query elements to analyze NetWeaver BW data. Optionally experiment with accessing SAP Hana views directly within the analysis tool.

Discover how web intelligence lets organisations access data from multiple sources, drag-and-drop to create ad hoc reports, and export insights to Excel or pdf.

Explore the ease of use of Web Intelligence for quick reports and versatile export options, and see how it consolidates data from SAP BW and Oracle with simple formatting.

Explore the difference between Webby and Analysis edition: Webby is web-based and supports data sources via Unv or Unix, while Analysis edition supports only SAP BW and lacks mobile support.

Build a black-background WebI dashboard with a geo map, centered donut chart, HTML scrolling ticker, and interactive input controls, filters, and comments for dynamic data exploration.

Learn to design data-driven Web Intelligence reports in SAP BusinessObjects, using BW queries, a Universe Annex, or Hana view, apply filters, and save the report.

Log in to the BI launchpad, schedule a SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence document to run now, export as PDF, and send to the Buy in box; review in home page.

Explore why data visualization powers quick understanding of big data and dashboards, through pictorial representations like charts and maps, whether from familiar or external sources.

Learn why visualization engages audiences by tapping the brain's rapid visual analysis to reveal trends, gaps, and outliers, and explore dashboards as a key visualization tool.

Explore SAP dashboards, a data visualization tool for real-time, single-page interactive dashboards showing current KPIs, historical trends, and Excel-linked data for quick decisions.

Navigate dashboards in SAP business intelligence, drag a line chart to the canvas, adjust the properties window, and use the integrated Excel sheet to build your first dashboard.

Import the sample Excel into SAP dashboard design, create a line chart with a series, set B2 as the title and B3 as the subtitle, labeling months.

Explore SAP business intelligence explorer to retrieve answers from corporate data quickly and securely. Access information across executives, staff, suppliers, and partners with secure, scalable information spaces.

Explore SAP BI mobile, enabling ad hoc reporting and web and crystal reports on mobile devices, supported by a mobile server and BI platform integration.

Roambi turns raw transaction data into mobile interactive graphics, and now sits in sap's business intelligence offerings, connects to Excel, Salesforce, Cognos, and Microsoft sql, with a 30-day free trial.

Explore SAP Lumira, a self-service data visualization tool that enables business users to drag and drop charts, drill down in real time. Share reports and create storyboards for data interpretation.

Use SAP Lumira Designer to build an interactive analytical app with a tab strip, a filter panel, and pie, line charts, plus a crosstab of fashion sales data.