Sudhir Kumar Thakur

SAP HANA AND BOBI

thakursudhir1611@gmail.com 

                                                                         Contact#347-601-4737

 

 

·  Having 9 years of Extensive experience as Senior Team Lead on SAP HANA, SAP BO and SAP BODS with experience on implementation and support projects including data modeling, extraction and report creation.

·  Produced estimates for projects.

·  Had worked on multiple projects, coordinated design efforts within streams, handled interdependencies.

 

Key function areas:	Experience
HANA	·  Extensively Worked on SAPHANA Modeler (HANA Design Studio), Designing Schemas, Creating Packages, Attribute View, Analytical View, Calculation view, Analytic Privileges, Stored Procedures and CE Functions. ·  Exceptional record of delivering effectiveness, in design, development and implementation of business applications as Techno Functional consultant.  ·  Strong expertise in SAPHANA Data Provisioning/Replication techniques like SLT, SAPBODS 4.0/4.1 and Direct Extractor Connection (DXC)  ·  Designing the data flows to load the data from non-SAP source systems to SAPHANA.  ·  Good understanding of SAPHANA user management and security. ·  Development, Testing, Documentation, Requirement analysis, End user documentation, Data extraction, Data modeling, Data loading, Reporting and Production Support. Involved in building reports using SAP BO 4.0 and integrating BO with BI and HANA.
ETL: Business Objects Data Services (BODS)	·   Designing the data flows to load the data from non-SAP source systems to SAPHANA. ·   Building complex ETL Data flows/Jobs in SAP Business Object Data Services 4.x by implementing Source/Target CDC and extracting SAP standard business extractors from SAP ERP systems.
Reporting: Business Objects (BO):	·  Experience in SAP BO BI 4.0 including Crystal Reports 2011, Dashboard Design, Information Design Tool, BI Launch Pad, Web intelligence Rich Client, Universe Designer Tool, Information Design Tool, BO Explorer, Analysis Edition for OLAP, BI workspace, BO widgets, managing Central Management Console (CMC), Upgrading CMS using Upgrade management Tool.    ·  Worked on BEx Reports providing insight of Business Intelligence for Business Analyst for decision making using Formulas, Selections, Structures, Calculated Key Figure, Restricted Key Figure, RRI Jumps and Variables with User Entry/Default Value, Replacement Path and Customer Exit.    ·  Experience in building OLAP connections, Universes and creating reports using Business Objects & Web Intelligence Tools.

 

OLAP	SAP HANA, SAP BO 4.1.
OLTP	SAP  ECC,SAP CRM
Ticketing Tools	Remedy ticketing tool, Track It.

 

Certification

·   SAP Certified Application Associate- SAP HANA

Project1

Client Name-: Suntrust Bank

Location: Atlanta Georgia

Role: SAP HANA, BI, BODS Consultant

Duration: Jan 2014 – Till date

Description

SunTrust is the seventh largest banking institution in US, with $125billion in assets and $81billion in deposits. SunTrust primarily operates in the Southern US states of Georgia, Maryland, Florida, Virginia, etc. Five major Lines of Business: Retail Banking (3.8million households), Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, Mortgage ($69bn portfolio) and Private Client Services ($181bn assets under advisement). The requirement is to calculate the Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Average Balance across various business subjects like Product and its hierarchy, Roles like Agency, Line of Business.

Contribution: 

• Gathered and analyzed the requirement to replicate the ECC content in HANA using data provisioning.

• Created blueprint for Technical/Functional specifications and standard modeling documents for HANA. 
• Strong experience in carrying Functional, Integration, Latency, Performance, reliability testing for various Business Objects Enterprise suite products. 
• Established the best modeling and recommended strategies and architecture for SAPHANA. 
• Worked on trigger based data replication for SAP ECC using SAP Landscape transformation (SLT) 
• Import data to build information model for user consumption (Attribute View, Analytical View, and Calculation View. 
ETL: 
• Develop ETL jobs with heavy transformations for data acquisition from SAP ECC and Non SAP systems. 
• Monitored, Debugged and followed ETL best practices for efficient data loading. 
• Imported Flat files using SAPHANA import wizard. 
• Used SAP BW/SAP CRM/Oracle as source and HANA as target with SAP Data Services as the data integrator 
• Performed trigger based data replication using SLT technique for SAP ECC SD, FI. 
• Monitored triggers, data loads for SLT schema. 
• Involved in creating transformation in SLT for enhancing BP Role, BP Status and business required fields. 
• Data Load via SAP BW extractors (DXC) to HANA from EDW. 
Modeling: 
• Build HANA Information models (Attribute Views, Analytical Views, Calculation Views and Column/Row based tables) in HANA design studio for efficient data integration. 
• Build and imported SAPHANA optimized Infocube's and DSO's into SAPHANA environment. 
• Created SQL script based Calculation Views using CE functions. 
• Developed Real-Time Information models to support SLT replicated tables from SAP ECC. 
• Created Variables, Input Parameters and Calculated/Restricted columns on Calculation Views. 
• Build Schemas, analytic privileges and granted permissions for BI users. 
• Identified expensive statements using HANA monitoring traces for performance optimization. 
• Transported objects by creating delivery units between SAP landscapes. 
Reporting: 
• Integrated Microsoft Office to HANA reporting. 
• Build universes on top of HANA information models for WEBi/Dashboard reports. 
• Customer Sales Analysis for Denied Party Screening (Sales organization Drilldown, Business Unit Drilldown, Customer Type) 
• Customer Touches/ Visits Reporting (The purpose of this report is to allow Business Users to have transparency into the level and type of activity that is occurring with our customers, prospects and suspects. This can provide insight into how effective and frequent the marketing and sales activities are for different cross sections of the customer base)

 

Technology used in project:

SAP HANA, SAP BO 4.1 and SAP BODS

 

Project2

ClientName: - Morgan Stanley

Location: New York

Role:SAP HANA and BI Developer

Duration: – Mar 2012 - Jan 2014

Description

Morgan Stanley is an American multinational financial services corporation that, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides securities products and services to customers, including corporations, governments, financial institutions and individuals. The company operates in three business segments: Institutional Securities, Global Wealth Management Group, and Asset Management.

Roles performed:
• Gathered and analyzed the requirement to replicate the ECC content in HANA using data provisioning. 
• Leverage SAP SLT and Business Object Data Services (BODS) to acquire the data into SAPHANAData Mart. 
• Integrated BOBJ 4.0 and BODS 4.0 with SAPHANA 1.0 (SP6) 
• Configured BODS ETL jobs in data services to call process chain in BW to send data to SAPHANA 
• Resolved issues related with delta loads to SAPHANA via data services. 
• Loading data into table definitions, suspending data loads, resuming data loads. Creating information 
objects (packages, attribute views, analytic views, calculation views Graphical and SQL script based) 
• Involved in Monitoring and troubleshooting data loads. 
• Created Technical specifications and standard modeling documents for SAPHANAdataflows. 
• Performed user training sessions for SAPHANA Information Models. 
ETL: 
• Build complex BODS jobs to perform full/delta loads using Source/Target CDC techniques from SAPECC to corresponding SAPHANA tables. 
• Created complex transformation's in BODSdataflows as per modeling requirements. 
• Loaded SAP ECC tables using SAP SLT data replication. 
• Performed SLT transformations and enhanced tables with missing fields. 
• Performed data loads via SAP BW extractors (DXC) to HANA from legacy BW. 
• Extracted Data from FI sources like Accounts Payable, General Ledger (GL) and enhanced 
Standard data sources like 0FI_GL_4, 0FI_AP_4, to meet the client's requirements. 
• Worked with Production Support team to solve issues like failure due to invalid characters, data inconsistency and job failures. 
 Modeling: 
• Performed data modeling and developed Analytical views for the transactional data, Attribute views for the master data, and the calculation views as final model in HANA Studio. 
• Migrated HANA content from development, testing environment to Production environment using delivery units. 
 Reporting: 
• Build BO universes on top of HANA calculation views and developed Webi reports and dashboard reports using IDT. 
• Established the recommended SAP best practices for developing Universes, reports and dashboards from HANA data sources. 
• Created Project Actuals and Planning reports based on HANA models. 
• Designed, Developed and Maintained Universes by defining joins, cardinalities between tables applying contexts and alias tables to remove cyclic dependencies.

 

Technology used in project:

SAP HANA, (SAP-BI 7.0)

 

Project3

Client Name: - Epson

Location: Long Beach, CA

Role: SAP HANA, BODS and BI Developer

Duration: – Jan 2011 - Mar 2012

Description:

Epson offers an extensive array of award-winning image capture and image output products for the consumer, photographic, business and graphic arts markets. The company is also a leading supplier of value-added point-of-sale (POS) printers and transaction terminals for the retail market.   

Roles performed:
• Full life cycle implementation, which involve Requirements gathering, Blue printing, Development, Testing, Reporting, Go-live and Post Go-live support. 
• Analyzed and translated the client's business requirements and functional specifications into technical specifications, data flow diagrams and data models

 

Reporting: 
• Worked with Business managers, architects and end users in documenting requirements, providing estimates, creating High level design and Detail design specifications. 
• Migrated from Business Objects 3.1/4.0 during project life cycle. 
• Created and Migrated Projects with Exploration views 
• Designed universes and eventually reports & executive dashboards with Oracle Financials as source system. 
• Involved in developing, designing and maintaining new and existing universes by creating joins and cardinalities responsible for Design of the universe with Classes, Objects and Condition Objects. 
• Created Aliases and Contexts to resolve the Loops and Traps. ). 
• Created and formatted the reports as per the users requirements using the BO feature such as Master/Detail, Charts, Cross tabs, Slice and Dice, Drill down, @functions and formula to analyze the data. 
• Developed SQL queries and stored procedure to reduce crystal report processing time and efficient performance. 
• Used Report Conversion Tool to convert the DeskI reports into WebI and maintained the folders in the Info view. 
• Wrote SQL conditions for Context and filtering data at various levels based on the specification. 
• Created Master Detail reports using open document (Hyperlink) function to pass the prompts and open the corresponding detail information in a new window. 
• Created Cross tab reports, Charts, Drilldown reports, Formulas, hyperlinks, percentage reports, Prompts using Crystal Reports 2008. 
• Used Variables, User defined objects, Scope of analysis, Drill mode, Slice and dice mode, Prompts, and Conditions to create reports which is accurate and easier for the analysis. 
• Developed dashboards and data visualizations using Crystal Xcelsius and connected dashboards to live data sources using web-services. 
• Developed various multi-chart models that connects to real-time enterprise data using Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) 
• Created folders, users, groups and granted permissions in Central Management Console according to company requirements. 
• Published Crystal Reports on to BO Info View and provided access to the end users.

 

Technology used in project:

Business Objects 4.0/XI 3.1 SP4, BI work Spaces, SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g R2, Crystal Reports 2008, Xcelsius 2008. 

 

Project 4:

Client: Johnson & Johnson

Location:Edison,NJ

Role:  SAP BI Developer

Duration: – May 2008–Jan 2011

Description:

Johnson & Johnson, incorporated in 1887, is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the health care field. The Consumer segment includes a range of products used in the baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care and women’s health care fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, and wellness and prevention platforms. The Baby Care franchise includes the Johnson’s Baby line of products. The brands in the Skin Care franchise include the Aveeno, Clean & Clear, Johnson’s Adult, Neutrogena, RoC, Lubriderm, Dabao; and Vendome product lines.

Roles performed:

·                                                                                                                              Creating new reports after gathering the requirements from business user or modifying the existing ones using Business Objects XI. 

·                                                                                                                              Worked with the team for migrating BO version 6.5.1 to BO XI R2.

·                                                                                                                              Worked on installation and configuration of Business Objects XI R2 Enterprise Suite (Desktop Intelligence, Central Management Server, Central Management Console, Auditor and Dashboard Manager). 

·                                                                                                                              Creating Technical Design Documents and write Pseudo Codes and create Mock ups for the reports. 

·                                                                                                                              Coding and testing of new reports and mocking up data as necessary. 

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

·                                                                                                                              Extensive testing and migrating the reports or objects from development to Production system.  Worked along with the testing team to derive test cases for efficient Data reporting. 

·                                                                                                                              Working on the SQL tuning and optimization of the Business Objects reports. 

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

·                                                                                                                              Worked on various Data Integrator jobs to change the current mapping of the existing tables or adding new table in the database creating dataflow for them. 

Technology used in project:

Business Objects XIR2/ XI/6.X, Crystal  Xcelsius ,Web Intelligence XI/6.5/Info view, Data Integrator ,Enterprise Performance Manager , Oracle 10g,SQL Server 2005, Excel, MS Access 2003

 

 

Project 5:

Client Name: Wells Fargo

Location:Iowa City;Iowa

Role:  BI Developer

Duration: – Mar 2006 - May 2008

Roles performed:

•                                                                                                                                  Crystal Reports design, development and Resolve the database connectivity issues.
•                                                                                                                                  Performed Administration tasks for our Project, Which Included Creating Folders, creating users/ Groups giving Appropriate Access levels on Central Management Console.
•                                                                                                                                  Business View development, programming and database connectivity
•                                                                                                                                  Extracted data from sources like Oracle and Flat files.
•                                                                                                                                  Published existing reports to corporate intranet through WebIntelligence.
•                                                                                                                                  Gathered information from users and Created Store Procedures in SQL Server.
•                                                                                                                                  Conducted weekly meetings to gather the necessary requirements.
•                                                                                                                                  Business objects Row-level security development for User Level security.
•                                                                                                                                  Exported Reports into PDF, Excel, word & RTF from Enterprise and resolved formatting issues.
•                                                                                                                                  Designed, developed and maintained various Complex reports like Sub Reports, Detail Reports and Parameterized Reports, Crass tab.
•                                                                                                                                  Created complex Financial and Inventory Crystal Reports.
•                                                                                                                                  Scheduled the Crystal reports & E-mail them to the necessary departments through Info view.

·   Created different reports containing charts showing revenue and operating income by different divisions, market share of Beverages.

·   Created complicated reports including sub-reports, graphical reports, formula base and well-formatted reports according user requirements.

·   Implemented Security Features of Business Objects like row level, object level and report level to make the data secure.

·   Provided the security access management by creating users/groups and folders.

 

Technology used in project:

Crystal Report XI, Business objects XI, Web Intelligence, InfoView, Business Views, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2005, AIX-WebSphere, Visual Source Safe, IBM Informix and PL/SQL.