1. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training Log onto Network using Training IDs ID: RATRNxx Password: exmob0504 Ratrnxx exmob[YRMO]

2. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training Business Information Warehouse Casual User Training

3. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User TrainingAgenda Introduction to BW Reporting Introduction to BW Reporting BEx Browser BEx Browser BEx Analyzer BEx Analyzer Class Exercises Class Exercises Questions Questions

4. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training Before we get started...

5. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training Extract from SAP R/3 Information Access Business Information Warehouse Master Data ODS Objects Business Rules InfoCubes Data Flow in BW

6. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training Terminology and Objects

7. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User TrainingTerminologyODS InfoCubes This is the central data container for queries and evaluations. InfoCubes contain two types of data, namely key figures and characteristics and typically contain summarized data Operational Data Store. The ODS contains the data at the lowest level of detail available in BW

8. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User TrainingTerminology InfoProvider Is the term for an object that you can use to create reports in Business Explorer (BEx) Types of InfoProviders Physical data stores : InfoCubes ODS Objects InfoObjects Logical data stores : MultiProviders

9. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training InfoCube and Master Data

10. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training BW Browser = Excel Workbook / Query Manager - A graphical front-end “file manager” - Used to store Excel workbooks containing pre-defined BW queries - Customized to provide access to frequently used reports BW Analyzer = “Souped-up” Excel - Add-in for Microsoft Excel; data querying tool - Interface for building and working with ad hoc queries - Links queries to cells in Excel workbooks - Excel functionality still utilized BW Explorer Components

11. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training Sub-Folder Search Excel Workbook Toolbar Folders BWBrowser BW Browser

12. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training Sections of the BEx Browser  The BEx Browser is divided into the following sections:  Favorites and Roles – a Favorites folder stores workbooks unique to the user Therefore, only the user who is logged on to the system can access the workbooks that appear in this folder  Role folders are defined by the user’s profile and only appear if the user has access to those workbooks  Clusters Area – different workbooks are displayed depending on the folder selected in the Favorites and Roles section.  Search Tool – allows a user to search for a workbook within BW  Toolbar – allows a user to navigate within BW Browser

13. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training BWBrowser Toolbar Functionality BW Browser Toolbar Functionality 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

14. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training BW Analyzer Results Free Characteristics Tool Bar Filters Query Name

15. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training BW Analyzer Toolbar Functionality 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

16. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training Changing a Query Locally Preview Area Free Characteristics Rows Columns Just drag-drop to select new fields or change order. Run Query

17. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User TrainingExercisesExercises

18. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User Training Let’s Look at Things You Care About!

19. Corporate Overview MyITgroup.com, Ltd. ©2002 All Rights Reserved. Contains Confidential and Proprietary Information of MyITgroup and may not be disclosed to any third party. CONFIDENTIAL Casual User TrainingQUESTIONS&ANSWERSQUESTIONS&ANSWERS