BusinessObjects Administration Intelligence

Paul Grill, InfoSol Inc.

The 360 Administration Intelligence Tools

• Power Tools for the BO Administrator

360 Eyes Features

• Exports your entire BOE metadata to a RDBMS

• 360eyes comes with a pre built universe and a set

of Webi reports allowing you to query your different

environments.

• Use your existing BOE platform to share your metadata with more users.

360 Eyes Features

• Document all the content of your platform: Documents (objects, conditions and variables used), universes, Auditor data and security.

• Compare different environments.

• Cross analysis between 360eyes data to:

Perform impact analysis (downstream and upstream effect of any universe or SQL change).

Detect unused documents and universes by mixing data from the CMS and Auditor.

Track duplicated objects (different version of the same report).

360 Eyes – Sample Reports

360 Eyes – Sample Reports

360 Eyes – Sample Reports

360 Plus Features • Securely backup your entire BOE platform

– Schedule the FULL backup of your SAP BOE platform (documents, universes, groups, security, users + all objects).

– Keep versions of the backup content (only modified content is backed up).

– Non intrusive and web based solution. No matter how big your SAP BusinessObjects deployment

• Selective restore of your SAP BOE platform content – Restore of any version is just a mouse click away.

– Restore even lost content (like a personal user document deleted by mistake) using our unique Recycle Bin feature.

– Undo administration tasks done by mistake only by restoring previous version of content.

• Compare CMS – Compare differences or similarities between multiple environments like Dev

and Prod.

– Choose between searching by ID, CUID, or Name of the object

360 Plus Features – Version Management

• Check In/ Out

• History

• Data Lineage

• Compare individual objects like universes and Webi reports

– See the difference and similarities between Universes, folders, Webi reports, etc…

– Objects highlighted in green represent differences

– Objects highlighted in blue represent additions to the current version

– Objects highlighted in red show deletions that have taken place in the current version

360 Plus – Automated Backup and Restore

360 Plus – Compare CMS

360 Plus – Versioning

360 View Features

• Provides Easy and Powerful Security Management in BI 4

• Instant Security Audit Documentation – Who has access to what?

– Output in easy to read tables in Excel

– Automated security auditing

• Bulk Actions

– Perform actions on related items easily

– quickly restrict access of all employees to a report

• Dynamic user/folder matrix – Instantly see access on the fly

– Change access with just a click

360 View – Security Documentation

360 View – Bulk Actions

360 View – Dynamic Matrix

360 Bind Features

• Fast and Accurate Report Regression Testing

• Compare Over Time and Across Versions – Supports XI R2 , XI 3.x, BI 4.x

• Create Categories to Compare Reports Electronically – All report outputs (Webi, Crystal, Deski)

– Compares both text and charts (images)

– Set level of precision (Down to pixel)

• Schedule through built in scheduler – Supported prompts, parameters etc.

• Summarizes matching and non-matching reports – Visually shows differences

360 Bind – Output Summary

360 Bind – Image Comparison

360 Live Features

• Manage BO content – Bulk update Webi / Bex queries used in Universes (UNV to UNX)

– Bulk edit user account properties (password etc.)

– Purge Webi reports

– Automate administration + cleanup tasks (Instances, active sessions)

• Document and Analyze – Map out and document BO environment (universes, reports etc)

– Explore content / Identify and analyze inconsistent data

• Monitor – Real-time analysis of platform performance indicators

– Detection and Alerting of performance issues (CPU, memory etc.)

– Alerts on instance size and running time

360 Live – Management and Monitoring

Paul Grill pgrill@infosol.com