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 4x migration

Content Analysis to prepare for 4x migration

Content Analysis to prepare for BI4 migration

BO environmentDashboard - Number of reports, report type anduniverses

Content Analysis to prepare for 4x migration Out of the box reports

Content Analysis to prepare for 4x migration

Content Analysis to prepare for 4x migration

Content Analysis to prepare for 4x migration

Content Analysis to prepare for 4x migration

Content Analysis to prepare for 4x migration

Impact Analysis

It can be useful before altering a database object to check the impacts

Real time view without running a report

Real time view without running a report - Users

• Add User• Insert• Remove• Delete• Group Membership• Bulk User Management• Purge Inboxes

Real time view without running a report - objects

• Copy/Move/Shortcut• Delete• Purge Webi

Real time view without running a report - universes

• Copy/Move• Delete

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)

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) Search Options

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

Content transfer – drag and drop

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

Highlight differences or export them to Excel:

Compare different versions

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

Explore & analyze BO metadata

Audit and control your metadata over time and

across versions

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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