Business Objects User Group Meeting

Business Objects User Group Meeting

Enterprise Business Intelligence Solutions (EBIS), CUITJuly 26, 2012

Today’s Agenda•ARC Impact to the Business Objects Platform

•Review of Business Objects Policies and Procedures

•Self-Service Reporting

•Q&A

Business Objects Today’s Agenda

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ARC’s Impact to the Business Objects Platform

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Growth• Users: 250 to over 3,000 (200+ sessions/hr)

• Reports per day: ~100 to >3,500 (so far)

• 60+ complex reports with drill down/ drill across

New Business Processes• Implementation of OpenDoc for the ARC Portal

• Nightly load of security data from ARC

• Batch Reporting

• Report Promotion Process

• Financial Universes to be implemented for WEBI Reporting

Business Objects Utilization

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5am 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1pm 2 3 4 5 6 7

University Data Store - Reporting

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EBIS Reporting Solutions

University Data Store - Reporting

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•ARC Portal (FDS Reporting)

• HR Web site •Student desktop reporting (SDR)

NA • DARTS

•Ad-hoc reporting • Ad-hoc reporting •Business Objects •Data Warehouse report menu

• WEBI reporting • Ad-hoc reporting •Ad-hoc (Sybase)

• WEBI reporting

Most Utilized ARC Reports

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HRDS Reporting

•HRDS created in Oracle, replication of Sybase version database

•HR Data Warehouse reports converted to Business Objects platform

•Legacy version of reports will be sunset end of August

Other Changes

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Current Business Objects Services•Infoview Portal

• Provides report & folder organization and security

• Management of third party documents (i.e. Adobe PDF, Word,

Excel, PowerPoint)

•Reporting Tools

• Crystal Reports

• Web Intelligence

•Single Sign-On

• myColumbia Portal - WIND Authentication

Business Objects Review Policies & Procedures

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Report Promotion Process & SLA’s•Report Types

• Canned reports are created by developers and cannot be edited by users. These are published to report folders in Infoview

• Ad-hoc reports are created by users and cannot be saved to report folders, only to the personal document folder

•Support Model• All ‘Canned’ report development will take place in ‘Development’• Report migration will be performed by CUIT BO Team• User and folder management will be processed by CUIT BO Team

(excluding Dev) • Reports in ‘Dev’ should only access ‘Dev’ databases. Please Do Not

use the Dev envrionment as Production•Service Level Agreement (SLA)

• Requests logged by 4PM will be processed no later than the end of the next business day


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Report Scheduling•Support Model

• Developers/power users can schedule in ‘Development’

• Scheduling in production will be done by CUIT BO Team

• CUIT BO Team will coordinate schedules between different

departments to minimize contention and maximize throughput


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Developer rights by environment


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Dev Test ProdExport Report to Infoview X

Create/Manage Infoview Report Folder X

Add/Delete Users X

Create Webi Report and Save in Personal Folder X X X

Schedule Reports X

Review of PC and Browser RequirementsMinimum Hardware Requirements

2.0 GHz Pentium 4-class processor 2 GB RAM Hard disk space availability (with English language only) for full release

installs 2.0 GB for SAP Business Objects/Crystal client install

Operating Systems (OS) Windows XP SP3 Professional Windows Vista SP2 (1) Windows 7 (1), Windows 7 SP1 (1) (4) Windows Server 2003 SP2 (1) (2), Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (1)

(2) Windows Server 2008 (1) (2), Windows Server 2008 SP2 (1) (2) Windows Server 2008 R2 (2) (3)


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MS Windows BrowsersBrowsers JVMFirefox 3.6 Sun 1.6.0_xx IE 6.0 SP2 / SP3 Sun 1.6.0_02+ IE 7.0 Sun 1.6.0_02+ IE 8.0 Sun 1.6.0_xx

•Screen resolution of [1024] x [768] is recommended•New releases of browsers may work but are not officially supported by vendor until official release and also need to be tested thoroughly for all functionality•Google Chrome is NOT supported•If you experience issues with IE 9.0, please contact the Help Desk and you will be reverted to IE 8.0 •


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Apple Mac OS X

Safari 4.0.3+ Apple 1.6.0_xx

Safari 5 Apple 1.6.0_xx

Please visit us at http://enterprisereporting.cuit.columbia.edu


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Using Service Now• To initiate work requests for

• Promoting Reports to Production

• Scheduling Reports in Production

• Adding/Updating Folder Structure

• Adding/Updating Non-ARC users

• Service Level Agreement (SLA)

• Requests logged by 4PM will be processed by the next business

day• Contact Service Now @ https://columbia.service-now.com or (212)854-2122


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Production Universes as of July 2012

Business Objects Self-Service (Ad-hoc) Reporting

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Business Objects Universe Description

ARC FDS GL KK Universe developed against FDS tables and security access; covers GL and KK information.

ARC FDS AP PO Universe developed against FDS tables and security access; covers AP and PO.

ARC FDS LA Universe developed against FDS tables and security access; covers LA information.

ARC FDS PC Universe developed against FDS tables and security access; covers Project Costing.

ARC SFS_FDS Universe developed against FDS tables to replicate SFS/FAS Universe; also replicated three existing reports for user to review and sign-off.

HR HR Reporting Various reports recreated based on Focus HR Reports.

SFS SFS Reconciliation (FAS based version)

SFS/FAS Universe valid thru FY'12; this has been replicated see SFS_FDS.

SFS Tuition Exemption Being used by Functional Owner & Clients. To Cater needs of SAS and Tuex team for reporting , data reconciliation and improving data quality.

SFS Financial Aid Awards Released 7/2012 - To Cater needs of UFA for self servicing & more robust reporting on Fin aid for students in Powerfaids.

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Business Objects – Q&A

Please visit us at http://enterprisereporting.cuit.columbia.edu

Business Objects User Group Meeting

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