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How SAP BusinessObjects Migration time can be reduced by 80% and keys to prepare next one
Bruno MASEK GB&SMITH
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Edge – 92K user deployments1,000,000 administrated users
> 30 countries> 98% renewal rate> 500 clients50 people
Boston – London – Lille
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SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS PORTFOLIO
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
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ARCHITECTURE
BusinessObjects server(s)
Web server
Application server
360Eyes database
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MIGRATION PATH/20 YEARS OF MIGRATIONS
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STEP1: PREPARE/ASSESSMENT
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STEP2: CLEAN UP (MOST IMPORTANT)
• Optimize the content to be migrated/before backup (step 10)!
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STEP2: CLEAN UP/UNUSED CONTENT
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STEP2: CLEAN UP/DUPLICATED REPORTS
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STEP2: CLEAN UP/DORMANT USERS
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STEP2: CLEAN UP/INSTANCES
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STEP2: CLEAN UP/INBOXES
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STEP3: OPTIMIZE/UNIVERSES
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STEP3: OPTIMIZE/DESKI
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STEP3: OPTIMIZE/BULK SWITCH UNV TO UNX
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STEP4: DEFINE LICENSE POOL
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STEP5: IMPACT ANALYSIS/CALCULATION ENGINE
BEFORE 4.1 SP03 AFTER 4.1 SP03
Ex: Running Calculation not reset
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-39973
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STEP5: IMPACT ANALYSIS/QUERY STRIPPING
http://scn.sap.com/people/cgnodtke/blog/2014/04/17/how-to-find-the-documents-impacted-by-calculation-engine-changes
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STEP6: COMPARE/ SOURCE & TARGET
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STEP6: COMPARE/ SOURCE & TARGET
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STEP7: QUALIFY (MOST IMPORTANT)/DATA
http://www.gbandsmith.com/mitigate_sap_bo_conformity_risks_whitepaper
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STEP7: QUALIFY (MOST IMPORTANT)/PIXEL
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STEP8: PROMOTION/ DRAG&DROP
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STEP8: PROMOTION/SCHEDULE LINK WITH ENTERPRISE JOB SCHEDULER
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STEP9: SECURE/SETUP
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STEP9: SECURE/DOCUMENT
Excel exports available:- Security matrix- User centric & Object centric
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STEP9: SECURE/DOCUMENT
https://www.asug.com/discussions/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/41963-102-1-61554/3560%20Federal%20Mandate%20Annual%20Account%20Recertification%20within%20SAP%20BusinessObjects.pdf
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STEP9: SECURE/GRC SOX, FISMA …
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STEP10: BACKUP STRATEGY/BACKUP
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STEP10: BACKUP STRATEGY/RECYCLE BIN
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STEP10: BACKUP STRATEGY/DISASTER & RECOVERY
http://www.gbandsmith.com/mitigate_backup_risks_disaster_recovery_in_sap_bo
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STEP1: PREPARE NEXT MIGRATION
- Keep control
- Recurring cleaning (automate it!)
- Predictive analysis
- Mitigate risks
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MIGRATION PATH/20 YEARS OF MIGRATIONS
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ROI
- Migration much faster. Saved months!
- Migration More Secure & Under Control
- Documentation/Audit of the system
- Less post Migration Assistance
- Mitigate risks
- Maintain accuracy and consistency of BusinessObjects reports
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• 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
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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
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Highlight differences or export them to Excel:
Compare different versions
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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
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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
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Explore & analyze BO metadata
Audit and control your metadata over time and
across versions
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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
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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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FUTURE PORTFOLIO
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