how business objects upgrade time can be reduced by 80% and keys to prepare next one
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How SAP BusinessObjects Migration time can be reduced by 80% and keys to prepare next one
Bruno MASEK GB&SMITH
Edge – 92K user deployments1,000,000 administrated users
> 30 countries> 98% renewal rate> 500 clients50 people
Boston – London – Lille
SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS PORTFOLIO
Backup, promote & version BO content
Schedule and burst your BO reports
Explore and analyze BO metadata
Ensure BO license compliance
Automate report qualification Non regression tests
Secure your SAP BO deployment
ARCHITECTURE
BusinessObjects server(s)
Web server
Application server
360Eyes database
MIGRATION PATH/20 YEARS OF MIGRATIONS
STEP1: PREPARE/ASSESSMENT
STEP2: CLEAN UP (MOST IMPORTANT)
• Optimize the content to be migrated/before backup (step 10)!
STEP2: CLEAN UP/UNUSED CONTENT
STEP2: CLEAN UP/DUPLICATED REPORTS
STEP2: CLEAN UP/DORMANT USERS
STEP2: CLEAN UP/INSTANCES
STEP2: CLEAN UP/INBOXES
STEP3: OPTIMIZE/UNIVERSES
STEP3: OPTIMIZE/DESKI
STEP3: OPTIMIZE/BULK SWITCH UNV TO UNX
STEP4: DEFINE LICENSE POOL
STEP5: IMPACT ANALYSIS/CALCULATION ENGINE
BEFORE 4.1 SP03 AFTER 4.1 SP03
Ex: Running Calculation not reset
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-39973
STEP5: IMPACT ANALYSIS/QUERY STRIPPING
http://scn.sap.com/people/cgnodtke/blog/2014/04/17/how-to-find-the-documents-impacted-by-calculation-engine-changes
STEP6: COMPARE/ SOURCE & TARGET
STEP6: COMPARE/ SOURCE & TARGET
STEP7: QUALIFY (MOST IMPORTANT)/DATA
http://www.gbandsmith.com/mitigate_sap_bo_conformity_risks_whitepaper
STEP7: QUALIFY (MOST IMPORTANT)/PIXEL
STEP8: PROMOTION/ DRAG&DROP
STEP8: PROMOTION/SCHEDULE LINK WITH ENTERPRISE JOB SCHEDULER
STEP9: SECURE/SETUP
STEP9: SECURE/DOCUMENT
Excel exports available:- Security matrix- User centric & Object centric
STEP9: SECURE/DOCUMENT
https://www.asug.com/discussions/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/41963-102-1-61554/3560%20Federal%20Mandate%20Annual%20Account%20Recertification%20within%20SAP%20BusinessObjects.pdf
STEP9: SECURE/GRC SOX, FISMA …
STEP10: BACKUP STRATEGY/BACKUP
STEP10: BACKUP STRATEGY/RECYCLE BIN
STEP10: BACKUP STRATEGY/DISASTER & RECOVERY
http://www.gbandsmith.com/mitigate_backup_risks_disaster_recovery_in_sap_bo
STEP1: PREPARE NEXT MIGRATION
- Keep control
- Recurring cleaning (automate it!)
- Predictive analysis
- Mitigate risks
MIGRATION PATH/20 YEARS OF MIGRATIONS
ROI
- Migration much faster. Saved months!
- Migration More Secure & Under Control
- Documentation/Audit of the system
- Less post Migration Assistance
- Mitigate risks
- Maintain accuracy and consistency of BusinessObjects reports
• User-friendly security management web interface replacing the CMC
• Document your deployed security
• Audit and clean your CMS
• Repoint UNV to UNX
• GRC: Find who has access to what on a click and export security in xls
• Bulk Update content
• Find and Remove unbounded documents
Secure your SAP BO deployment
Replace the CMC by a user-friendly web application
giving you a 360° view of your access rights
Backup, Incremental promote Restore & manage versions
• Set up a powerful backup strategy allowing restoring any object selectively (similar to rolling back or undoing changes on objects)
• Visual comparison of different versions of a given object
• 1 Biar per Object!
• Restore deleted content using our unique recycle bin, including personal files
• Manage versions
More than a simple Back up
• For large deployments replace import wizard or LCM
• Drag and drop objects accross CMS or Schedule promotions
• Schedule promotion of flagged content across platforms.
• Log on to multiple environments and compare them
Highlight differences or export them to Excel:
Compare different versions
Compare Webi, Crystal and Deski report outputs
over time and across versions
• Schedule report exports
• Compare report data in just a few clicks and highlight differences for fast potential regression discovery
• Optimize your non-regression tests and BO migration projects
• Maintain accuracy and consistency of BusinessObjects reports to mitigate risks
Automate report qualification
Non-regression testing
Audit and control your metadata over time and
across versions with Impact analysis
• Load your SAP BusinessObjects data (CMS, universes, documents and audit data) from a datawarehouse
• Query and analyze this data using pre-built BO universes and Webi reports
• Document your deployment
• Detect unused documents and universes, dormant users
• Perform impact analysis
• Follow the evolution of your metadata over time
• Compare environments or BO versions during migrations
Explore & analyze BO metadata
Explore & analyze BO metadata
Audit and control your metadata over time and
across versions
How good is your current licence coverage? Run 360Eyes compliance prior to LMBI. Unique BO license compliance expertise for >8years Ensure BO license
compliance
• Compare your SAP BO license pool with currently deployed licenses
• Make an accurate count of deployed licenses
• License compliance is just a mouse click away
• Unique and reliable solution and expertise
Dynamic and automatic report bursting management
Schedule & burst your BO reports
• Schedule and burst your BO reports using dynamic data
• Create your recipient lists using XLS files, SQL queries or BO reports
• For each recipient, specify different values to dynamically fill prompts or filters
• Customize values, format (PDF, XLS), destination (e.g. E-mail, SharePoint, Inbox)
• Schedule distribution jobs, then manage everything from the recipients list
• Any change to Excel / CSV Automate your report publications
• Easy to Install. Just a webapp.
• Schedule and burst BO reports using your Enterprise Job Scheduler (Dollar Universe, Control-M, UC4…)
• BO scheduling and report bursting is integrated along with other scheduling jobs, such as ETL jobs
• Link data warehouse loading and BO scheduling very easily
FUTURE PORTFOLIO
CONTACT
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