Business Objects Consultant

Role : SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ) Support Analyst

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About the role

Own the stability and performance of our SAP BusinessObjects platform while enabling trusted enterprise reporting on SAP BW on HANA and other sources.

What you’ll do

Primary: Platform & Report Support

• Administer BOE/BI Platform (CMC, BI LaunchPad), servers, nodes, SIA, Adaptive Job Server; manage upgrades, patches, and promotions (LCM/Promotion Mgmt).
• Troubleshoot Web Intelligence (WebI), Crystal Reports, and Lumira Designer issues (queries, prompts, scheduling, bursting/publications).
• Optimize report and universe performance (query stripping, aggregates, contexts, index awareness, caching); monitor Auditor/Monitoring.
• Manage security: users/groups/AD-SSO, row-level security, connection rights; maintain folders, schedules, calendars, and instances.
• Ensure reliable connectivity to SAP BW on HANA via BICS/OLAP connections and to SAP HANA calculation views/relational sources; configure SSO (SNC/SAML/SAP logon tickets).

Secondary: Development & BW Integration

• Build and maintain UNX universes with Information Design Tool (IDT): data foundations, business layers, @Functions, contexts, and shortcuts.
• Design performant WebI reports and Crystal layouts using BEx query metadata; implement prompts, variables, and conditional formatting.
• Partner with BW/HANA teams on modeling and query design:
• Consume BW CompositeProviders, ADSO, Open ODS Views, and InfoObjects through BEx queries for BICS consumption.
• Validate and enhance BEx query elements (RKF/CKF, structures, navigation attributes), query performance (RSRT), and aggregates/partitions.

Support SAP ECC/S/4 data extraction into BW:

• Work with LO Cockpit (LBWE) for SD/MM/FI extractions, manage setup tables (OLI*BW fill/initialize, clear, safety delta), delta queues (RSA7), and qRFC (SMQ1/SMQ2).
• Understand ODP-SAP (SAPI) vs ODP-CDS/SLT options, initialization/delta, and data quality checks before exposure to BOBJ.
• Create documentation, standards, and promote content across DEV/QA/PRD; participate in unit/functional/UAT testing and performance testing.

What you’ll need

• 5-8 years with SAP BusinessObjects (4.2/4.3), including WebI, IDT/UNX, Crystal; strong BOE administration.
• Hands-on connectivity to SAP BW on HANA via BICS; experience with HANA views and relational connections.
• Solid understanding of BW modeling (CompositeProvider, ADSO, Open ODS View), BEx query design, and performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of ECC/S/4 extraction concepts including setup tables, delta mechanisms, and LO cockpit.
• Nice to have: Lumira Designer/AFO, BW/4HANA exposure, SSO (SNC/SAML), Linux/Windows server ops, and scripting (Shell/PowerShell).

Key tools & technologies

• BOBJ 4.2/4.3 · WebI · Crystal Reports · IDT (UNX) · BEx Queries · BW on HANA (CompositeProvider, ADSO, Open ODS) · HANA Calculation Views · BICS/OLAP · CMC/BI LaunchPad · LCM/Promotion Mgmt · Auditor/Monitoring · SAP ECC/S/4 LO Cockpit, setup tables (OLI*BW), RSA3/RSA7 · SSO (SNC/SAML) · Git/DevOps (nice to have)