Anand Soni

SAP Business Objects Engineer

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Professional Experience

● IT professional with a total work experience of 4.0 years.

● Currently designated as an Engineer with KPIT Technologies Ltd. Pune

● Expertise of around 4.0 years in administering SAP Business Objects R3.1 and BI 4.0,BI 4.1

● Excellent analytical, organized, superior problem-solving abilities and achieving high customer

Satisfaction.

● Experience of working in severity production environment issues

● Exposure of working with fortune 500 companies.

● Communicate clearly through verbal and written channels including progress and issues.

● Excellent communication skills and technical documentation skills

● Experience in requirements gathering, business analysis, testing, and project coordination.

Skills Set:

● SAP Products: SAP Business Objects XI3.1 and BI 4.0 BI 4.1, Crystal Report Developer, Crystal Viewer,

SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation version 7.5 and 10

● Databases: Oracle 10g/11g, MS SQL Server 2005 and 2008, MySQL 5.0

● Operating System: MS Windows Server 2003/2008, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, AIX, Solaris

● Application Servers: Tomcat 5.0/6.0/7.0, Web logic 10.3, IIS 6/7 Web Sphere.

● Virtualization: VMware 6.0/7.0

● Others: HTML, MS Office 07/10, C, C++, Core Java, Advanced Java

● Knowledge Based Article creation

EMPLOYMENT SCAN

March 2013 – Till date : Engineer, KPIT Ltd, Pune

Work Experience:

Company: KPIT Technologies Ltd.

Location: Hinjewadi, Pune

Designation: Engineer

Duration: March 2013 – Present

Responsibilities:

● Manage and participate in all phases of the implementation lifecycle

● Adapt in end-to-end troubleshooting of Business Object products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, testing, documentation and implementation.

● Understand business needs and be able to translate them into a technical solution

● Perform root cause analysis and provide solutions, remote consulting in complex environments

● Perform knowledge transfer to internal staff and external customers & partners

● Communicate clearly through verbal and written channels including progress and issues.

Scope:

SAP Business Objects Architecture – consulting scenarios, of various Clients like Citigroup, Walt Disney, DMI Big Data, Warner Bros., Toronto Stock Exchange, Bose, Volkswagen America Inc., Daimler Chrysler, Conoco Phillips, and General Electric, U.S. Navy to list a few.

● Deployment, Clustering, capacity planning, Server sizing, Performance tuning, upgrade, migration.

● Working on Security Management Model for BOXI R3.1, BI4.0 and BI 4.1

● Migration of Objects using Import Wizard

● Configuring Business Objects Auditor on Oracle, SQL and other supported Platform

● Performance related issue on Business objects XIR3.1/R4.X servers.

● Troubleshoot issues related to installation, deployment, web server configuration, scheduling, authentication, rights management, and performance tuning in BOXIR3.1,BI 4.0 and BI 4.1

● Customization of CMC and InfoView

● In house installation and configuration of BOXI R3.1,BI 4.0 and BI 4.1 server and testing, load balancing, Disaster recovery etc.

● Handle planning and implementation of end to end Business Objects product suite.

● Live Office use and management

● Test and replicate bugs in Business Objects before escalating them to Product Group.

Administration:

- Business Objects Performing Server Management Tasks, using Central Configuration Manager (CCM) and Central Management Console (CMC).

- Creating Server groups for specific servers to load balance the requests.

- Assigning rights to objects (users, severs, applications).

- Building a security model - Access levels, granular rights and application specific rights.

- Configuring Servers performance settings like Max Jobs, Timeout settings, Temp working directory according to server hardware specifications for optimal performance.

- Configuring all types of authentication types like (windows AD, SAP, LDAP etc).

- Integrating and managing roles of the third party users.

- Editing services in Adaptive Processing Server and grouping common services.

- Monitoring server health status. Understanding watches, probes

- Performance tuning, sizing

- Scheduling recurring reports to be delivered to end users.

- Configuring Web portal InfoView, CMC, web.config and web.xml files.

- Have a good understanding of querying the repository database using Query Builder tool.

- Profiles and Publications

- Experience with SAP Business Objects administration, security (including creating users, groups, folders and categories and Setting up Custom and Access level Security for Business Objects contents and applications), backup and restore process

Deployment:

- Performing different types of deployments

- New installation, Expand installation, Custom installation, Upgrade installation

- Clustering and Un-clustering different BOE servers.

- Configuring Distributed and Clustered environments.

- Deploying Business Objects Enterprise products

- Installing Client tools (Web Intelligence Rich Client, Desktop Intelligence, Designer, Crystal Reports).

- Modifying Installation

Migration:

- Migrating BusinessObjects repository from one environment to another using the following methods.

- Import Wizard.

- Manual Migration (Copy Data Source from CCM tool)

- Upgrade Management Tool, Life Cycle Management

- Migrating old versions of Business Objects XI R2 to XI 3.1 and BI 4.X

- Importing Users, Groups, Reports and Rights from one environment to another.

- Promotion between Dev, UAT to Prod systems.

Design:

- Basic understanding of How to use Crystal Reports Designer tool, Web Intelligence Rich Client and Universe Designer.

- Knowledge of building Crystal Report using the CR Designer 2008, 2011 version and CR for Enterprise

- Knowledge of building Desktop intelligence report using the Desktop Intelligence client tool.

- Basic knowledge of building Web Intelligence report using the Rich Client tool.

- Basic knowledge of Dashboards/Xcelsius

Education

Masters of Computer Application, year 2012

RGPV, Madhya Pradesh

Personal Information

Name: Anand Soni

Nationality: Indian

Languages: English, Hindi

Date of Birth: 28-11-1987

Current Address: Pimple Saudagar, Pune

Interests: Listening to music, inspiring others.

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