SAP BI Lesson : What is an InfoObject ?

by james · 3 comments

InfoObject
SAP BI uses certain structures to model real world data. The InfoObject is one of these structures. InfoObjects are used to evaluate the smallest units of business data. An example is best to explain this.

A company like IBM will have products and customers. A customer is named John Smith and he buys a laptop with the model number LAP001. An InfoObject can be used to model the customer name and the product code. In this case, John Smith is an InfoObject which is the customer name. LAP001 is also an InfoObject

For today’s post, I will be talking about InfoObjects. SAP BI uses certain structures to model real world data. The InfoObject is one of these structures. InfoObjects are used to evaluate the smallest units of business data. An example is best to explain this.

A company like IBM will have products and customers. A customer is named John Smith and he buys a laptop with the model number LAP001. An InfoObject can be used to model the customer name and the product code. In this case, John Smith is an InfoObject which is the customer name. LAP001 is also an InfoObject.

Here is a video I posted on youtube on the topic. Don’t let the quality bother you, I am still struggling with Camtasia. It is a great tool though.
Have a nice day.

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1 mySAP November 21, 2009 at 4:17 pm

This video is very useful.. I can find more tutorials in Youtube, right? How to find in more tutorials in Youtube?

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2 james November 22, 2009 at 11:53 pm

Well, yes, the plan is to get more videos on youtube. I will post some in the next couple of weeks…

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3 ykhan December 17, 2009 at 3:14 am

Hi James,

Today I come across to your blog and found very small things in impressaive detail but very important and confuse stuff, I just attended my first lecture regarding BI 7.0 and found the small things very confusing like, why key figures, characteristics, text and more about infoOjects,but thanks man for explanation about all these and I will follow up for all the lesson, and please send these lesson through my email.

Thanks again and keep spreading knowlegde

khan

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