New Universe Wizard in BI4.1 Information Design Tool – Using it to create an ERP Universe

First you should watch this great tutorial by the SAP Product Education Team at http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-42033

You’ll notice the new welcome screen:

Notice in the lower left-hand corner the cheat sheets; it reminds me of the HANA studio.

I go ahead and select the Universe Wizard.

You can create an existing project or new project.

I create a new project.

Since I am creating an ERP universe I select Relational data source.

Give the relational connection a name.

Since this is a SAP ERP universe, I select the SAP JCO connection

Enter the parameters for the connection

Enter more parameters listed below.

This is a single-source universe

Now follow the normal steps of creating the data foundation and the business layer.  In my example I am creating a Universe against an ERP infoset.

The business layer – I have to turn the value into a measure:

Follow the normal steps of publishing the connection to the repository.