Foodmart store has having sales in Canada and United States more than 25 stores and 1000+ employees with different brands.

Food mart store sells 2000 products in stores with annual turn over of 50 billion $ sales with two years of sales information is stored in sales_fact table with product , store , promotion time customer dimensions .

company top level management want improve the business by taking timely decisions using historical data by adding new production and services to customers , so company wants to build the reports using business objects 4.0

Creating Foodmart Universe Using information Design tool

The information design tool is an SAP BusinessObjects metadata design environment that enables a designer to extract, define, and manipulate metadata from relational and OLAP sources to create and deploy SAP BusinessObjects universes.

A universe is an organized collection of metadata objects that enable business users to analyze and report on corporate data in a non-technical language.

Business Object universe is to provide the business user with semantically understandable business objects. The user is free to analyze data and create reports using relevant business language regardless of the underlying data sources and structure

Some advantages of Universe or Semantic Layer are:

1. The objects are represented in Business Terminologies which makes easy for them to create a report.2. Users dont need to knowl SQL. Business User can simply drag drop the objects and the tool will generate the required query to fetch the data.3.Integrated security: All types and security can be applied on Universe making it data secure and only available to related person.4.Intuitive interface for developers and end-users5.Maintenance/change management: With the universe model all of your logic is in one place, making maintenance straightforward.

Creating Universe

Create Odbc connection to foodMart Data source

Creating Project IDT

File>New>Projet

A Project will allow us to organize and maintain the different object needed to create the universe.

Choose a name and location for the project

Create Relational Connection.

Go to File> New> Relational Connection. Indicate the

Now we need to indicate the Data Provider we want to use, in this case we are going to use the Odbc connection MsAccess

ce

Select the Datasource

Now Local Projects Show Relational Connection look below

create a Data Foundation. Go to

File>New>Data Foundation

In this case we are going to use a single data source, the relational connection that we have created before.

Insert the Tables into to the Data Foundation

Define the join

Detect Cardinalities

Now we need to create the Business Layer, to do this we need to go to File>New>Business Layer.

Select the type of data source you are going to use, in this case we are going to use a Relational Data Source.

Select Data Foundation

Crate Class & Objects

Deleting Class from the Business layer

Ew

Crating Class in the Business Layer

Creating Dimension Objects

Check integrity

Publish the Universe