reduce cost and effort of sap businessobjects migration projects and daily administration

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Julien BrasProduct Manager

GB & Smith Associates (France)

Reduce Cost and Effort of SAPBusinessObjects Migration Projects and

Daily Administration

Main Message

BOE environments can be complex to manage, and to migrate. From an IT point of view, BOE is a powerful solution but generates important costs for a company either in daily administration and migration projects.

Let’s see how to reduce these costs &efforts with a specific toolset, the 360suite.

Mastering Business Intelligence with SAP & Mastering SAP BusinessObjects 2012 | 3

What I’ll Cover

• Introduction & Overview• BOE Security Management• BOE Backup & Restore• BOE Publish & Burst

• BOE Audit & Impact Analysis• BOE Migration projects• Questions• Key Points to Take Home


Introduction & Overview

• What is GB & Smith ?– 5 years of experience in SAP BO add-ons’ solutions.– 250 customers operating in 19 countries (including OZ):

– A set of solutions to help you with the SAP Business Objects administration


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Introduction & Overview

• What are the key issues on your SAP BOE administration ?


Manage & document

your security

Succeed in your

migration projects

Follow through

time your BOE systems

Audit your system &

BOE metadata

Link BOE tasks with enterprise

job scheduler

Schedule reports

Change management

control (migrate content)

Backup & restore objects

Run impact analysis

BOE Security Management

• Security Management of BOE is long and complicated with CMC tool• No global vision• No automatic documentation generated


BOE Security Management

• User friendly web interface to manage XI / BI4 security

• Document your deployed security

• Audit and clean your CMS


BOE Backup & Restore

BOE lacks of an easy backup & restoring tool on XI and BI4 platforms:

• Customer case:– An important user delete by mistake a

WebI doc– No way to restore it by default– It take hours to restore a backup on a

new system to get back the object !


BOE Backup & Restore

• Backup, version and restore content

• Drag and drop objects between CMS, schedule migrations

• Compare BOE environments


BOE Publish & Burst

BOE lacks of a centralized publishing & bursting solution:• Schedule have to be done for each document• Publications are not very flexible• Hard to launch schedules after end of ETL jobs


BOE Publish & Burst

• Schedule SAP Business Objects reports from an Excel spreadsheet or a SQL query.

• Dynamic scheduling and bursting: Fill in prompt, filter, format and destination values within Excel, CSV or SQL.

• Schedule your reports using your enterprisescheduler (Control M, Dollar Universe, VTOM…).


BOE Audit & Impact Analysis

BOE lacks of solution to audit your system:• BOE Audit is hard to query, and is not complete• No way to make BO queries on BO data...• Impact Analysis is not possible with default package


SAP Business Objects


• Load all your SAP BOE data within a data warehouse.

• Query and analyze these data using BO universes and Webi reports.• Document your deployment:

– Detect unused documents and universes.– Run impact analysis.

• Follow the evolution of your metadata through time.• Compare environments or BO versions during a migration project.


BOE Migration projects

BOE Migration projects are a high source ofstress & costs for IT organization: BI4 Migration Pack can help you before, during and after the migration process!• Fusion of 360view & 360eyes in a single package• Find out exactly what you need to migrate

– As usual the less objects you migrate the faster & cheaper the migration will be– Migrate your content. Test and compare with BO source deployment

• Prepare Deski End-Of-Life– Identify Deski users– Identify active Deski content


Key Points to Take Home

• SAP Business Objects daily administration & migration projects are expensive tasks.

• 360suite solutions can help you to reduce costs & secure your entire BOE deployment:– Manage your security with 360view– Backup & restore with 360plus– Schedule & Burst with 360cast– Audit & Analyse with 360eyes

• Give a try to 360suite products to see how BOE management can be easy with the right tools. Visit us at our booth !


How to contact me:

Julien BrasGB & [email protected] +33 6 32 01 81 86

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