SUMMARY

• Substantial experience in installation, configuration and administration of Business Objects BI 4.x, XI R3 and XI R3.
• Worked on various SAP Business Objects modules like CMC, CCM, LCM, Import Wizard, Infoview \ Launch pad.
• Experience in using Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Business Objects XIR2, XIR3 and BI 4.x.
• Extensive knowledge in migration of objects within same version as well as from older versions to newer ones.
• Excellent trouble shooting skills in server related as well as user related issues.
• Configured SSO using Windows AD with Kerberos.
• Experienced in developing audit reports which will be helpful for administrating the Business Objects environment.
• Worked in SAS version 9.13 as an Administrator.
• Knowledge in building, extraction, transformation and loading (ETL).
• Have working experience in Data Warehouse applications, directly responsible for the Extraction, Transformation & Loading of data from multiple sources into Data Warehouse.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Intelligence Tools: Business objects XI R2, XI R3, and BI 4.x, SAP IPS, SAP DS

Operating systems: Windows 2003/XP, UNIX, Solaris 10

Languages: ‘C’, C++ and core JAVA programming

Scheduling Tools: Control M, Argent

ETL Tools: SQL Server DTS, Ab Initio

Database Package: Oracle, SQL, MS Access, Teradata

Change Management: HP Service Desk, Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP BO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in installation, configuration and administration of Business Objects BI 4.x.
• Upgraded the environment from SAP BI 4.1 SP2 to SAP BI 4.2 SP6 Patch - 1.
• Composed scripts for restarting the BI Services and to check the availability of BI Application.
• Experienced in installing SAP BI Platform support tool 2.0 and generate various reports to enhance and manage the BI environment.
• Configured SSO & SSL on SAP BI 4.1 SP6 Patch-1.
• Experienced in users & security management. Performed promotion of objects from one environment to another by using LCM.
• Customized the BI LaunchPad login page as well as home page by modifying the configuration files.
• Composed various Audit reports to generate the stats of report failure, long running reports, user activity details etc.
• Worked with SAP on HIGH severity issue and resolved the same on timely manner.

Confidential

SAP BO Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in User Administration of BO environment for setting up user accounts and groups using Central Management Console (CMC).
• Installed SAP BI 4 SP2 along with SAP DS 4.1 SP5 on Linux environment.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting server related issues.
• Extensively worked on CMC in maintaining objects, Universes, Connections, Resources, Users, User Groups, and Categories in BO XI 3.1.
• Experience in installing SAP IPS 4.1 SP 4 and SAP Data Services 4.2 SP3 on Linux environment.
• Expertise in resolving the daily issues in the daily production environment.
• Promoting objects using Life Cycle Management (LCM) and Import wizard.
• Maintained & managed different versions of the same document using Life Cycle Manager.
• Creation of Folders in CMC and implementing security on various objects of CMC (folders, Applications, Universe and Connections).
• Scheduling the reports based on clients requirement.
• Developed audit reports to identify the usage of BOBJ environment.
• Have good understanding on architecture and functionality of the latest SAP BOBJ components.

Confidential

Business objects Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led Business Objects off shore team. Implemented Business objects landscape for global support while supporting in Enterprise Portal and Basis activities.
• Experienced in installation, configuration and administration of Business Objects XI R2 \ R3 and BI 4.0.
• Configured Windows authentication setup in all 3 versions (R2, R3 and BI 4.0).
• Enabled SSO configuration in all 3 versions (R2, R3 and BI 4.0).
• Designing, Configuring and Managing Servers and Service properties in SIA, CCM and CMS.
• Responsible for overall Business Objects infrastructure maintenance, applying Patches, Service Packs and Hot Fix to upgrade the BO environment.
• Have enabled the trace on web intelligence processing servers to find the root cause for Webi report failures and performed FRS Scan.
• Logged into high severity issues and worked with SAP to resolve the issues in a timely manner.
• Have enabled the trace on CMS and web intelligence processing servers to find the root cause for webi report failures and CMS services issue.
• Promoted Crystal reports, universes and web intelligence reports to the production with the help of import wizard and Life Cycle Management (LCM).
• Developed many audit reports to manage the BOBJ environment.
• Experience with deploying and supporting Business Objects security profiles.

Confidential

Business Objects Administrator (Level-2)

Responsibilities:

• Created Users, Group and provided the security level as per the organization standards.
• Developed an Event Based Reporting Model (EBR) via which all the reports will trigger based on the completion of the load jobs.
• Created a file based events and calendars depending on the business requirement.
• Created alerts for critical report failures with the help of Job sever.
• Captured daily instance statistics and perform root cause analysis on all critical failures.
• Diagnose failures with Universes, Crystal Reports, Webi Reports and taken appropriate actions.
• Modified the recurrence of a reports based on the user requirements.
• Interacted with clients on production issues monitoring / support.
• Worked in SAS version 9.13 as an Administrator.
• Have modified the report schedule and decommissioned the reports as per requirement.
• Developed Publication reports and personalized as per the business requirement.