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ARI
Jawahar KonduruBI ADMIN
How ARI Boosts BusinessObjects Life Cycle ManagementBackup, Promotion, Disaster Recovery & Auditing Sébastien GOIFFON, Nathan Crook GB&SMITHJawahar Konduru, Technical Lead/ BI AdminARI
100 – 90K user deployments1,000,000 administrated users
> 30 countries> 98% renewal rate> 500 clients50 people
Boston – London – Lille
2015 Technology Fast 500 EMEA and 3 times in a row
2014 startup North of France
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
SAP BusinessObjects portfolio
Holman Enterprises - founded 1924 - $2.6 billion in sales
CAUS MX UK EU
Family Owned For Over 90 Years
Dealerships
Who is Automotive Resources International?
Headquartered in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey
Largest Privately Held Fleet Management Company in the World
Founded 19482800 Employees
1.1 Million+ Managed Vehicles
Truck Expertise
Global Reach
Innovative Technology
Best Workplaces for Millennials
• Since 2000 (6x, XI R2, 3.1, 4.1 – in 2016)• Primary reporting tool for Internal and External clients (Billing, Telematics, Budget, Fleet Utilization etc)• 145 PROD universes• Webi, Deski, Rich Client, Explorer, Lumira, Design Studio• Total 950,000 reports (870,000 Deski , 80,000 (WEBI) and 2.5 million Instances• Single physical PROD server + QA + DEV (3.1)• 6 server clustered physical/VM PROD servers + QA + DEV (4.1)• ~600 reports scheduled daily and ~4000 reports scheduled for month end
Business Objects at ARI
• Identifying unused reports/duplicate reports
• Cleanup Instances - Oldest and unused ones
• Migrating the In-boxes of all users – is it necessary?
• Cleanup Universes – Unused universes and objects
• Need dedicated resources to develop programs using SDK
Challenges in migration
360Eyes and 360Plus1. Content analysis to prepare for BI4x migration2. Real time view without running a report3. Access to many AUDIT reports ~404. Back up & Recovery and Recycle Bin5. Multiple BO environments comparison and content transfer
• Installed on one of the QA server (TOMCAT 7)
• Oracle 11G DB• Allowing access to BO’s AUDIT DB
Content Analysis to prepare for BI4 migration
BO environmentDashboard - Number of reports, report type anduniverses
Real time view without running a report - Users
• Add User• Insert• Remove• Delete• Group Membership• Bulk User Management• Purge Inboxes
Backup and Recovery (Recycle Bin)
1. Empty folder on a server/NAS/SAN with plenty of disk space
2. SMTP server properties for email notifications3. Schedule backup jobs
• Small BO installations – on a root level• Large BO installations – Several jobs
(Universes, users, Reports)5. Run every day
Backup and Recovery (Recycle Bin)
1. Select “Objects” tab and click on the Recycle icon
How to recover a deleted report
2. Enter search parameters
Backup and Recovery (Recycle Bin)
3. Deleted report if found in the recovery DB (if it was a part of back up job that run before it was deleted)
4. Recover the report back by clicking on “Import” button
Rollback
Restore any object one by one (universe, personal & corporate documents, users, CAL). Rollback/undo any action/object. 5 versions are available. Automatic cleaning.
Multiple BO installations comparisonAbility to log on to more than one BO environment for side by side comparison and content transfer
Benefits• Easy management of content in BO environment• Easier and more intelligent clean up process• Audit easy to access• Recycle Bin• Backup and recovery• Easy install and initial setup of configuration
Challenges• Initial 360 Jobs run time (next runs are incremental)• Few less than intuitive options (document retrieval, content transfer)• Identifying some of the icons like recycle bin and drag & drop
• 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
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
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
User activity and inactivity
How can we get system usage statistics and information?This can be covered by 360Eyes user activity reports:
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
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