SAP BO Consultant - Certified Consultant
Location: WA
The
Consultant shall provide guidance for validating existing efforts to
combine 2 SAP/BO environments (XI R2 and XI R3.1) into a single SAP/BO BI4.0
environment. Additionally, they will review and recommend improvements
for the report deployment, universe design, data connections and hardware
configurations for an SAP/BO BI 4.0 deployment. Specifically this work will
include but not be limited to the following:
1.
A Business Intelligence (BI) Health Check of the current/proposed
SAP/BusinessObjectsTM (BO) BI Release R4.0 and HRMS SAP Netweaver BW/BI v7
environment (including BEx and Portal reporting functionality);
2.
A Migration Assessment and validation to BI 4.0 from the XI 3.1, the XI 2.0
reporting environments; and
3.
To make recommendations for the SAP/BO BI R4.0 based on the environments
created, sized and configured as well as perform an assessment and make
recommendations related to potential long-range integration and/or migration
efforts for the transition from the HRMS SAP Netweaver BW/BI v7 environment
(including BEx and Portal reporting functionality) to the SAP/BO BI R4.0
environment for the ETS division of DES. Examples of applications
supported include the SAP Business Warehouse and the Results through
Performance Measures (RPM) Application.
The
selected consultant is expected to deliver practical feedback and
recommendations to the DES/ETS team and stakeholders to help us meet the goal
of ensuring that our SAP/BO BI environment is functionally, technically and
architecturally optimized for our current and future business needs.
Scope of
Work
To assist
us in this endeavor, the Contractor shall perform the following activities:
A.
Review the SAP BO BI 4.0 and HRMS SAP Netweaver BW/BI v7 environment with
changes (including BEx and Portal reporting functionality) in order to assess
the current architecture design and then provide detailed validation/recommendations
against the existing set-up for deployment of a SAP BO BI 4.0 platform that is
designed and configured to meet current and future Business Intelligence needs
for WA State.
B.
Review and assess the current SAP BO XI R2 and R3.1 environments with changes
in order to make a recommendation and provide a migration strategy document
that details if the newly created environments do in fact combine content,
users and security into a single SAP BO BI 4.0 environment. This will include
identifying risks and mitigation strategies for the period between contract
engagement and completion of the project.
C.
Review the hardware infrastructure in order to recommend any possible design
changes to what has already been formulated and to determine if the
configuration modifications already made for SAP BO BI 4.0 platform are
sufficient. And as such, verify that the configuration, as established,
is optimized for maximum performance.
D.
Explain what value the OLAP Analysis tool brings and compare features and
functionality to Web Intelligence tool.
E.
Review data selection practices used for report and pick list values to
recommend possible improvements in the SAP BO BI 4.0 environment.
Assist in
defining the differences between Row Level Security universes, as well as
Crystal Reports with universes. Then upon review of what is presently
established to make recommendations moving forward.
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