BOSSBusiness Objects Shared Service

Steve Rademacher – June 2009

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What is BOSS?

• The Business Objects Shared Service (BOSS) provides highly-available shared Business Objects systems to all areas of the BP Group.

• BOSS was created as a result of the distributed nature of BP and the excessive cost to operate many independent Business Objects systems.

• All servers, software, and capacity are monitored and maintained centrally by the BOSS support team.

• BOSS provides a core set of reporting services with additional services available for an additional fee.

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Distributed Environments

• Multiple BOSS environments in each region of the world

• Sandbox – VMware Based – for testing new versions, service packs, hot fixes and configuration changes

• Development – VMware Based

• Test – VMware Based

• OAT/Training – Dual VMware Based Web servers with 2 or more physical application servers. VMware based web server and physical application server for disaster recovery purposes.

• Production - Dual VMware Based Web servers with 2 or more physical application servers. VMware based web server and physical application server for disaster recovery purposes.

• Production Support – VMware Based environment purely for resolving production issues.

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Distributed Responsibilities

• Business Groups are responsible for Adding/Removing users from the Active Directory security groups. Each Business Group pays for the number of users that they have added.

• Business Groups can assign any security role within their area to their users.

• End Users are responsible for creating/updating/deleting/debugging Universes and Reports.

• Universe/Report development can be developed by each Business Group or purchased from the central team.

• Business Groups perform their own Universe/Report migrations between the different BOSS environments

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Centralized Support

• All server and software support is centralized.

• All SAP Business Objects trouble tickets can be entered centrally or entered by the Business Group.

• All capacity is monitored centrally.

• All Security Groups are created/deleted centrally. Security adds/removes performed through Active Directory.

• All Universe Connections are maintained and secured centrally.

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Integrated into Infrastructure

• Network based user-ids – No more password issues in Business Objects.

• Vintela Single Sign-On.

• SAP user-ids with pass-through security (coming soon) – Will be automatically associated with network based user-ids

• Tied into network email servers

• Ability to send reports to network file shares

• User self request silent install for client tools

• Security groups available for email distribution and maintenance in the corporate email system

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Highly Available Architecture

Internet

ExternalUsers using aWeb BrowserWith NetworkConnectivity

External InternetFirewall/Gateway

Load BalancerWith Session Affinity

Active DirectoryActive Directory

WindowsClient Tool

Users

Network

BOSS - Business ObjectsShared Service

Architecture

H/ASQL

Repository

TomcatVMware

Web ServerDR

BusinessObjects

DR DRSQL Repository

ReplicatedAutomaticaly

SQLData Sources

TomcatVMware

Web Server

BusinessObjects

TomcatVMware

Web Server

BusinessObjects

H/A Business ObjectsAll internal Network

Connections areredundant

Business ObjectsCluster

H/A NAS file share

DR NAS file share

ReplicatedAutomaticly

Business ObjectsCluster

E-Mail

File Server