Business Intelligence with SAP Business Objects 4.3

Distributed enviroments with Desktop Intelligence installed locally on PCs generate a very high cost of ownership for the companies: - Software licenses for third party software, for instance for database connectivity - Support and maintenance costs for installation of software upgrades, patches, new releases. (estimates run as high as $1000 per desktop per upgrade) - Local helpdesk requirements - Local language support for end-users. Besides the cost, there is the potential risk that companies have installed different versions of the software throughout the organization, with even different service pack levels. This can require a huge administration effort. Every PC has software installed from different suppliers. Most software vendors frequently ship upgrades and these upgrades are not installed at the same time on all PCs which might lead to incompatible combinations of software, again putting extra pressure on the support and maintenance group. The combination of the busi

In order to understand Business Objects XI R3.x session management is necessary to  introduce the key objects that the system uses.  There are 4 key objects to note when referring to Infoview and CMC session management: Logon Token – created by the application ( both InfoView and CMC) when the users first log into the system. The expiry for this token is eight hours. Configuring the token duration is not supported.  Configuring whether to use this token is optional (enabled by default (true)).            - When this token is used the user will be silently logged back on to the system for the lifetime of                    the token. Web Session (Http Session) – lifetime of the web session is defined in the web.xml of each web-app (InfoViewApp.war, InfoViewAppActions.war, PlatformServices.war, AR.war and so on). - The default time-out value for each web-app is 20 minutes. - It is strongly recommended that when updating the time-out value for 1 web-app that all other web-a

SAP HANA:The future of database technology The capacity of main memory in servers has continuously increased over the years, whereas prices have dramatically dropped. Today, a single enterprise class server can hold several  terabytes of main memory. At the same time, prices for server main memory dramatically  dropped over the last few decades. This increase in capacity and reduction in cost makes it a  viable approach to keep huge amounts of business data in memory. This section discusses  the benefits and challenges. In few words you can understand SAP HANA plus  analyzing this evaluation: Typical access speeds Disk     4,000,000 ns Memory         0.4 ns Speed   10,000,000 Falling prices move processing from Disk/SSD to In-Memory In-Memory Computing The elements of In-Memory computing are not new. However, dramatically improved hardware economics and  technology innovations in software has now made it possible for SAP to deliver on its vision of the

How to use Import Wizard to export report and related universe  from a developing enviroment to production enviroment trough BIAR creation. Open Impor Wizard and select B.O. import origin enviroment ( for exampe developing env) and logon: Select BIAR as destination and give it a conventional name: Select  just folder and objects to import: Select to import Universe folder In order to update reports on destination enviroment you must select the 2nd  flag in order  to update destination objects You can also choose if to overwrite object content, universe content and connection Then you can choose every single report you want to import Then you can choose to import related universes: You also can  choose to import profiles Finally Import Wizard resumes objects list that will be imported:

How Business Objects XI R3.1 Auditing works. Before using Auditing in Business Objects   you need to know how to configure the auditing database, how to select actions to audit, and eventually how to create a custom auditing report. Auditing allows you to keep a record of significant events on BusinessObjects Enterprise servers. Auditor refers to any system responsible for recording or storing information on any auditable event. Auditee refers to any system responsible for performing an event that is audited. While the audit database can exist as part of the system database, it is recommended that it be kept separate, to minimize the impact on system performance due to the constantly growing size of the database. As the auditor, the CMS is responsible for collecting events and writing them to the auditing database. When an audited event is triggered, the server responsible will generate a record and store it in a local temporary file. At regular intervals the CMS communic

Lifecycle management console  in Business Objects 4.0 takes the place of Import Wizard tool in B.O. XI, so it's function is to transport new developing from developing B.O. enviroment  to production  enviroment. Let see GUI components in the lifecycle management console tool. The lifecycle management console tool home page is divided into the following panels: • lifecycle management console workspace toolbar • Workspace panel • Tree panel • Administrator and Details panel • Shopping Cart and Job Viewer page Promoting Overrides Promoting Overrides Through BIAR Files Using Lifecycle management console Promotion Job When you log into the lifecycle management console application, by default, you are taken to the "Promotion Jobs" page. The "Promotion Jobs" home page screen includes various tabs that you can use to perform the following tasks: • Select New Job to select job-related processes. You can also right-click the ho

Creating Dashboards with Xcelsius 2008       Xcelsius 2008 is a tool with an intuitive user interface used  for creating interactive dashboard  based on aggregated data sets. This tool can easily be used by business users, infact  no programming skills are necessary for creating Xcelsius dashboard.  That is possible because in  Xcelsius  data aggregation logic  and  creation of  objects (such as charts, tabs, gauges, sliders) is based on  Microsoft Excel functions and features.         Xcelsius 2008 uses the embedded Microsoft Excel spreadsheet        for three things at   design stage:   1.    row and column based staging area for  data aggregation. 2.    uses well knew Excel functions to provide additional logic. 3.    allow Excel formatting (for cell, colors, numbers).           The following image is shown Xcelsius canvass, the tool saves the dashboard project as an XLF file. Final Xcelisus output is obtained  with an export in several format: Flash