Saurabh D         

SAP BI HANA Architect

Phone:310-892-8441

 

Professional Summary

Ø      Working as a Solution Architect in Business Intelligence area to help Customers build Solutions using various SAP tools including BI / BW, HANA, BODS & BOBJ. Total IT experience of 8+ Years at various MNC clients in verticals like Banking, Financial Services, Pharmacy, Telecom, Retail and O & G. Capabilities include Ability to easily adopt to new technologies/tools, Providing Solutions to Analytical problems, Analytical Ability and Leading Teams in Onshore-Offshore models.

Ø      More than 6 Years’ experience in SAP BI/BW and Business Objects and 2 Years’ experience in Hana.

Ø      Undergone 4 complete life cycles implementations of SAP BW/BI and one SAP R/3 full Implementation which dealt with  Blue Print, Realization, Data Modeling, Data Extraction , Data Loading(Full / Delta Up-loads), Scheduling, Monitoring, BEx Analyzer, Query Designer, Web Applications Designer and Testing and 1 full life cycle implementation in Business Objects XI 4.0/4.1.

Ø      Worked on SAP EPM Suite Of tools SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) 10.0.

Ø      Worked on SolMan 7.1 (Solution Manager) and CRM (Change Request Management) for all the CTS (Change & Transport systems) to move objects within environment. 

 

HANA Experience In Detail:

Ø      Hana RDS / Hana Live experience  (Hana Live is nothing but a type of RDS Solution, but with higher performance)

Ø      Brief exposure to Hana Hybrid (Hana live + BW on Hana )

Ø      SAP HANA Live scenario (Private Views, Reuse Views and Query Views)

Ø      Worked with HANA data provisioning tools like: SLT, Business Objects Data Services (BODS)

Ø      2 years’ experience as HANA modeler / Hana application developer

Ø      Involved in Enterprise HANA /BW HANA implementations & BOBJ reports development

Ø      Involved extensively/partially in different phases of HANA projects implementation: Functional Spec Solution proposal/Address the Gap as part of solution/Technical Spec Development/Build the solution using HANA artifacts & other tools / FUT Testing Phase

Ø      Hands-on experience with Hana Studio Perspectives: Modeler/Developer/ Debug /Admin /Lifecycle Perspectives

Ø      Worked on Hana analytics, RDS/Accelerator, Operational/Agile Data mart scenarios. Basic touch base with BW on HANA version.

Ø      Experience in creating SAP HANA information models such as Packages, Attribute Views, Analytic Views, and Calculation Views with graphical and script based methods, using SQL, SQL Script, and CE Functions as needed.

Ø      Troubleshoot the issues in production reports  & fixed through optimizing the underlying graphical/scripted models

Ø      Data analysis/Data mapping in top-to-bottom approach  while designing Hana views for reporting requirements

Ø      Experience in Configuring and Consuming SAP HANA models in BI clients such as Webi, Business Object Explorer & MS Excel.

Ø      Experience with SAP HANA Data Provisioning using SAP LT Replication Server (SLT) & BODS

Ø      Experience with SAP HANA Administration including Monitoring SAP HANA systems and services with system monitor, performance tuning, adding systems, setting modeler preferences, import/export delivery units etc.

Ø      Experience with SAP HANA Security including User Management, Roles, and Analytical Privileges to enable coarse grained and fine grained access control.

Ø      SAP BW/BI: More than 6.5 years expertise in Data Modelling creating infoproviders, DSO (ODS), Multiproviders and Infosets. Extraction from COPA, FI, SD, MM, APO (SCM), SRM, CRM and FI-SL modules. Experience with Data load management, event processing, experience also in Scheduling Start Process and Process Chains of Events, Data source Enhancement, OLTP data extraction, Loading (Full /Delta Up-Load), Monitoring, Remote Cubes, Data Mart and Open Hub Service, Performance Tuning, Aggregates, BW Transports and BI-VSITEX flow.

Ø      BEx -Reporting - More than 6.5 years expertise in front-end Business Warehouse components for Queries, workbooks, Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Structures, Variables, Exceptions, Conditions, R/RI, Ad-hoc Queries and Web application designer, Web Items and Web Reports. Also experience using Report Painter in R/3 creating sever FI/CO reports.

Ø      Worked on BI 7.0 Upgrade Technical and Functional Upgrade projects upgrading BW 3.5 to BI 7.0, SAP BI 7.0 to 7.3 and BI 7.3 to SAP 7.4.

Ø      Training: Conducted training sessions for end-users in planning using BPS/IP, BW reporting. Also created training manuals for the super users and end-users.

Project Lifecycle:

·   Implementing BI CoE with EDW as a focus , Effort Estimation, Writing RFPs and helping Pre-Sales

·   Meeting stakeholders for Requirements gathering, Design workshops and Sizing Requirements

·   Task assignment to Offshore and Onsite Team Members and Tracking Project’s progress

·   Client liaison during UAT Phase and Code Walk-through sessions

·   User Training and related documentation and Tracking Quality Assurance compliance

 

Professional Experience

Clients:  Novartis Group of Companies

Role: SAP HANA Consultant and BI/BW Architecture                                                                      January 2014 - till

Responsibilities:

 

·               Developed optimized HANA models/views for Wire line business Close reports. Close reports are business requirements to run period end close reports. Developed around 10 reports based on highly optimized Hana calculation views/models.

·               Developed optimized HANA models/views for Wire line business Audit reports.  Audit reports are business requirements for the audit purpose. Developed around 8 reports like: Trial Balance Audit Reports – BS/IS views, GL Line item analysis, Transaction Details – COSPSGA  (Period wise/Daily),  Income Statement/Balance Sheet views of the special ledger line items source tables

·               Developed Hana models in finance domain for BW virtual providers.

·               Developed optimized HANA views to be used as source for BODS Extract jobs.

·               Worked on around 7 BODS extracts

·               BODS jobs created with minor transformations as per SAS target requirements

·               Worked with Special ledger line item table (ZZFSL01A), COPA table (CE11000), new GL Totals (FAGLFAEXT), New GL Line items (BKPF, BSEG)

·               Worked with Functional Team in understanding the proposed solutions to the requirements

·               Helped Functional Team in addressing few key items, to have high performance from technical perspective

·               Worked with BOBJ team while developing the solution & played a key role  in deciding where to put what (Like prompts/filters – These are very important w.r.t. performance to the end user)

·               Able to coup up with dynamic nature of functional specs & able to deliver optimized Hana models/views

·               Created Analytical Views to support multi-dimensional reporting by joining Fact table (data foundation) to modeled dimensions (attribute views), selected attributes and measures.

·               Created Calculation Views using database tables, attribute views, and analytic views, Created SQL Script based calculation views to address complex business requirements.

·               Created calculated attributes, calculated measures, restricted measures, calculated columns, filters, hierarchies, variables, input parameters to satisfy reporting requirements using SAP HANA IMCE studio.

·               Used process content objects functionalities such as Switching Ownership, Viewing version history, generating auto documentation, Mass copy(To Copy SAP Content), Migrate to enable multilingual support for objects etc.

·               Monitored Job Loads, Expensive SQL statements, landscape systems using administration console, optimized queries using CE Functions, SQL Plan cache, Explain Plan and Visualize Plan functionalities.

·               Hana analytic privileges created graphically in the Hana studio as per requirements

·               HANA Server side java scripts/ODATA services developed for executive dashboards.

·               Worked on ABAP in writing code and debugging Routines, and User Exits.

·               Extensively worked on front end reporting by using BEx, WAD and publish report in portal, configure information broadcasting involved in analyzing, documenting business requirements, functional requirements for developing universes and reports.

 

Environment: SAP HANA SP5/SP6, SAP BW 7.4 SP9, SAP Business Objects 4.0, SAP ECC, ABAP/4, SAP HR, Web Intelligence, Dash Board Designer, Solution Manager.

 

Client:  Sandoz AG, Germany / Switzerland

Role: BI/BW Architecture and HANA Developer                                                      January 2013- December 2013

Responsibilities:

·                       Coordination with Business and Functional Team to understand business requirement.

·   Created Analytical Views to support multi-dimensional reporting by joining Fact table (data foundation) to modeled dimensions (attribute views), selected attributes and measures.

·   Created Calculation Views using database tables, attribute views, and analytic views, Created SQL Script based calculation views to address complex business requirements.

·   Created calculated attributes, calculated measures, restricted measures, calculated columns, filters, hierarchies, variables, input parameters to satisfy reporting requirements using SAP HANA IMCE studio.

·   High Level Data flow Design.

·   Worked on conversion of Infocubes, Standard DSOs to HANA Optimization in BW on HANA landscape.

·   Built Composite Infoproviders using BW HANA optimized Infoproviders along with HANA Views

·   Converted the BW Infocubes and DSOs to HANA optimized Infocubes and DSOs

·   Developed Hana models for: FxAll Options (Outstanding/Expired) to be used in AO by Treasury team. Tables used: VTBFHA/VTBFHAPO/VTIFHAZU/VTIFHAPO/VTVBAR/VTIOF/VTIFHA

·   Developed Hana models for : FxAll Forwards (Outstanding & Expired) to be used in AO by Treasury team. Transactions relevant to Forwards are created in fxAll and interfaced to SAP using FxAll interface. Tables in SAP are replicated to HANA thru SLT. Tables used: VTBFHA/VTBFHAZU/VTBFHAPO/VTVBAR

·   Developed Hana models for Money Market drill down report. Treasury uses this report as a primary report for their daily reporting needs. Based on same VTXXXX tables used for FxAll reports

·   Developed Hana models for Bank exposure summary for - country / bank - based.  Used tables: VTBFHA/VTBFHAPO/BSEG/T012/BNKA/FEBKO/T005/TCURR

·   Experience in HANA modeling/ HANA Application Development (Using Native (XS) & Database client interfaces)

·   Monitored Job Loads, Expensive SQL statements, landscape systems using administration console, optimized queries using CE Functions, SQL Plan cache, Explain Plan and Visualize Plan functionalities.

·   Created schemas and data provisioned using SAP LT Replication Server (SLT).

·   Responsible for SLT Replication Server (SLT) configuration/monitoring, SLT advanced replication settings

·   Created master data objects as Attribute views, joined multiple master tables when necessary, selected key figures and attributes to give context to the master data.

·   Worked on Business Objects 4.0 Environment (Web Intelligence, Dashboard Designer) Creating the Universes, Creating Webi Reports and OLAP reports.

·   Created Universes based on Multiproviders after interacting with the key business Users.

·   Created Dash Boards making connection using Query as a Web-service.

·   Development review.

·   Collection of Objects in Transport request and review the transport log if warning or failures comes.

·   Setup table filling and rescheduling V3 Jobs.

·   Delta Initialization for New data source.

·   Prepare and Review Unit Test Script.

·   Modified Existing Process Chain and Designed New Process Chain along with Load Balancing for New Data flow and    existing data flow.

·   Root Cause Analysis and providing solution for same.

·   Data load Monitoring and ticket resolution for Daily, Weekly and Monthly Process Chain

·   Extensively worked with Logical Extractors (LBWE), ODS, Cubes, Flat file loading for Transactional data, and Master data-Attributes, Texts and Hierarchies for Procurement-Procure to Pay (P2P) and Sales-Order to Cash (OTC) (Sales, billing) processes.

·   Worked extensively on customizing the LO Cockpit and Vistex extractions. Extraction & loading Logistics & ECC Sales - Vistex data for Claim Request, Revenue/Cost Adjustment, Billbacks, Chargebacks, Purchasing Rebates, Sales Incentives  from R/3(ECC-Sales) to BI.

·   Worked on SAP PP for filling setup tables for SAP PP extractors 2LIS_04_P_MATNR and 2LIS_04_P_COMP for Production Orders & BOM Material order reporting requirements

·   SAP BPC 10.0 Environment, Model, Dimensions, Context, Input forms, Report Editor, EPM Pane, Page axis, Row axis, Col axis, Shift, Report options, Sheet potions, Dynamic Formatting, Work space, Logic Script, Business Rules, Consolidation Central, Journal Manager, Process central, Activities, DM Packages Delta initialization, Transport at granular level, BI 7.3.

Environment: SAP BW 7.3 SP8, SAP ECC, ABAP/4, BOBJ 4.0, Information Design Tool, Web Intelligence, Dash Board Designer, Solution Manager, BWA, HANA 1.0 , BI Launch Pad.

 

Client:  Adidas AG, Herzogenaurach, Germany

Role:    Project Lead (SAP BI / BW / HANA)                                         January 2012 – December 2012

Responsibilities:

·   Involved in analyzing and gathering of client requirements and worked on stages of BI implementation: Data Analysis, Modeling, Data Extraction and BEx Reporting.

·   Prepared design documents from the Business Requirement docs and identified the relevant Data Targets to meet the customer requirements.

·   Created Functional Specs and Technical design documents.

·   Worked extensively on standard and custom defined LO cockpit Extractions. Used LO structure for extracting sales order, delivery, billing information. Filled setup tables, performed initialization and started delta process.

·   Extensively worked on extracting the Inventory data.

·   Developed reports on Sales order, Delivery, Billing, and Inventory, Account receivable and general ledger.

·   Involved in BW user roles and security design and customized role menus for different User levels.

·   Activated standard extractors for the required Application components in LO cockpit.

·   Installed Business content objects including InfoCubes, ODS Objects, MultiProvider, InfoObjects, InfoSources, Infopackages, Transfer Rules, Update Rules, Process Chains, etc.

·   Uploaded master data and transactional data from Flat File and SAP R/3 to BW system.

·   Worked extensively on standard and custom defined LO Extractions. Used LO structure for extracting sales order, delivery, billing information. Filled setup tables, performed initialization and started delta process.

·   Created DSO for Sales orders and Purchasing.

·   Worked on ABAP in writing programs and debugging Routines, and User Exits.

·   According to requirement written some ABAP transfer routines and update routines and some enhancements and return table.

·   Created Info packages for uploading the master and transaction data, Process chains for daily delta loads.

·   Responsible for the on-time delivery of the end-to-end solution within a limited timeframe.

·   Handled Project documentation and trained end users.

Environment: SAP BI 7.3, BW on HANA, ECC 6.0, ABAP/4, BEx Query Designer, WAD.

 

Client:  CIBA Vision Inc., Duluth, GA

Role: SAP BI/BW Consultant                                                   February 2011 – December 2011

Responsibilities:

·   Interacted with Business Users to analyze the business process and gathered the requirements.

·   Heavy Technical concentration in designing Info Packages, Info Sources, Transformation, Reports for Sales and Distribution.

·   Extensively worked on BEx Analyzer and WAD to create Queries, Variables, Structures, Exceptions, Conditions, Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Formula Variable, Replacement Path, Customer/User Exits, Tables and charts.

·   Designed data model and Info Cubes for FI and COPA modules.

·   Performed detailed analysis to improve the Performance of Cubes using BW Statistics, Aggregates and involved in Production Support.

·   Performed various tuning techniques (aggregates, statistics, partitioning and multi-providers, OLAP Cache) to optimize the query performance.

·   Used Delta update mechanisms for uploading data to BW from R/3 in specific intervals. Extensively used Process chains to load data to the data targets.

·   Developed flexible queries using filters, navigational attributes, variables, calculated key figures, restricted key figures in BEx analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill down or summarized way to give detailed level of information.

·   Created Reports with several Types of Graphical Representations such as Pie, Bar charts, and Graphs involving complex calculations.

·   Created user Prompts, conditions, and filters for various reports to specify the reporting parameters as per business requirements.

·   Created hierarchies, complex objects using various @functions and aggregate aware objects in the universe.

·   Created new Views and Aggregate tables for enhanced report performance.

·   Created the reports using Crystal Reports functionalities like Add Queries (Command), Sub Reports, Drill down, Cross-Tab, Formulas, Parameter.

Environment: SAP BI 7.0, ECC 6.0, ABAP/4, SD, MM, Project Systems, FI – AA AP AR , BEx Query designer, WAD, EP,BO .

 

Client: Hostess Brands, Kansas City, MO                                

Role: SAP Techno-Functional Consultant                                                                     January 2010 – January 2011

Responsibilities:

·   Interacted with Business Users to analyze the business process and gathered the requirements.

·   Heavy Technical concentration in designing Info Packages, Info Sources, Update Rules, Reports for Sales and Distribution.

·   Extensively worked on BEx Analyzer and WAD to create Queries, Variables, Structures, Exceptions, Conditions, Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Formula Variable, Replacement Path, Customer/User Exits, Tables and charts.

·   Designed data model and Info Cubes for FI and COPA modules.

·   Performed detailed analysis to improve the Performance of Cubes using BW Statistics, Aggregates and involved in Production Support.

·   Performed various tuning techniques (aggregates, statistics, partitioning and multi-providers, OLAP Cache) to optimize the query performance.

·   Used Delta update mechanisms for uploading data to BW from R/3 in specific intervals. Extensively used Process chains to load data to the data targets.

·   Developed flexible queries using filters, navigational attributes, variables, calculated key figures, restricted key figures in BEx analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill down or summarized way to give detailed level of information.

·   Created manuals for references and involved in training end users.

Environment: SAP BW 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6C, CRM, SD, MM SAP Business Explorer, BEx Query Designer, Web Application Designer.

 

Client: Bayer AG, Cologne, Germany

Role: SAP BI/BW Consultant                                                                                        December 2008 – December 2009

Responsibilities:

·               Responsible to define architecture and provide highly technical direction to high priority BI 7.0 Upgrade project.

·                           Worked on evaluating new technological development and evolving business requirements for BI 7.0.

·               Worked on Procurement Cubes, Cost Center Cube, Investment Cubes. Uploading the Master data and transactional data from SAP R/3 into BW via Data Staging to PSA, ODS and InfoCubes.

·               Worked extensively on configuration using Administrator Workbench (RSA1). Customized data Sources, InfoObjects, Info Sources and InfoCubes. Created FI-SL InfoCube by generating Transfer Structure, Extract Structure for FI-SL Totals table, and defined and assigned data source for a ledger.

·               Analyzed InfoCubes (via RSRV) created and maintained aggregates (RSDDV) to improve the query performance.

·               Heavily involved in customizing and activating standard delivered BW business contents in the areas of FI-AP/AR.

·               Responsible for providing in-depth technical and business knowledge to ensure efficient design, programming and implementation will be a key area of focus.

·               Worked on understanding performance issues in older version and approach them systematically for new BI 7.0 Upgrade. 

·                           Worked on BI 7.0 front-end upgrade, specifically migration of queries, workbooks and web reports.

·               Conducted Analysis to setup BI Accelerator for specific Queries considering various factors to enhance the Query performance.

·               Worked on setting up the Bex Information Broadcasting to send queries and workbooks to end users.

·               Conducted technical studies and evaluations of business area requirements and recommend appropriate technological alternatives.

·               Conducted independent analysis of business models, logical specifications and/or user requirements to design business solutions along with technical studies and evaluations of business area requirements and recommend appropriate technological alternatives

·                           Recommended new technologies and products which enhance operations and functionality of systems

·               Experience to help internal organizations to understand the impact of new BW solutions on existing processes.

Environment: SAP BW 3.5/7.0, SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7, ABAP / 4, SD, MM, HR, FICO, BEx Query Designer, Web Application Designer.

Client: Dainik Bhaskar Group (D.B. Corp Ltd.), India
Role: SAP BI / ABAP Consultant                                                                                   February 2006 – February 2008

Responsibilities:

·   Involved in complete Life-Cycle project for implementing SD, MAM and FI.

·   Interacted with the client for Understanding Base PI’s, Derived PI’s and Business Objects and also involved in maintaining the PI Glossary, Designing the Data Flow Diagrams, Developed the Bubble Diagrams and converted them to extended star Scheme views.

·   Involved in creating Generic Extractors using Function Module and view.

·   As  part  of  Data  Provider Layer migrated  data from SAP  R/3  using  LO, Business Content

·   Extractors.

·   Unit Testing in Development Box and Integration testing in Quality Box

·   Reviewing the Technical and ETL Documents.

·   Continuous status updating.

·   Developed the Delivery checklist Document and analyzed all the documents against that before submitting it to the clients.

·   Involved in developing the Functional reporting requirements of reports and also converting the

·   Functional specs into Technical Specs.

·   Intelligence for Business Analyst for Decision making using Formulas, Selections, Structures, Calculated Key Figure, Restricted Key Figure and Used Variables with User Entry/Default Value, Replacement Path and Customer Exit.

·   Involved in changing the Existing data model of an Info Cube by adding new Characteristics and Key figures, involving the Re-initialization of Data Sources from SAP R/3.

 

Environment: SAP BI 7.0, SAP ECC 6.0, ABAP / 4, MAM, SD, HR, FICO, BEx Query Designer, Web Application Designer.

 

Qualifications: - Master of Computer Science (MCA) from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, India (2002-2005)