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© SAP AG 2009. All rights reserved. / Page 2
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2. System Administration Overview
3. Operational Administration
3.1 User and Object Management
3.2 Server Management
4. Content Administration
4.1 Federation
4.2 Scheduling & Publishing
4.3 Content LifeCycle Management
5. Demo
6. Conclusion
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Aware of bad decisions
made due to insufficient
information
‘Instinct-Feel’ decisions
Top issue: information is not reaching
business users
Just right
Toomuch
41%21%
38%
Too little
Source: BusinessWeek Research Services Base: 675 US and European business executives and managers
3
36
42
16
3
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
100 75 50 25 0
77%
23%
No
Yes
Amount of information
available for important
business decisions
% of time
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The result: reduced profitability
Limited ability to react to changes in the business and the market
Incorrect decisions made based on
faulty data
Questionable data reduces productivity,
challenges consensus
Delayed decisions result in missed
opportunities, lost revenues and cost
escalation
Reduced confidence across
organization limits momentum
Pro
fit
Time
Potential Profit
Actual Profit
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The Solution: SAP BusinessObjects Platform
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SAP BusinessObjects XI
The Business Intelligence Platform
All information
• Unified view
• Best on SAP and non-SAP environments
• Trusted decision quality
One platform
• Complete integrated data and BI services
• Adaptive and extensible services
• Choice of delivery model
All people
• Full-spectrum BI
• Next-generation user experience
• Alignment of teams and business networks
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SAP BusinessObjects – A Primer
Four Interconnected Tiers
User interaction
Access, discover,
visualize, and interact
Developer services
Embed and integrate BI
into applications and business
processes
Platform services
Deploy, scale, secure, schedule,
publish, store, and manage
Data services
Comprehensive structured and
unstructured data access, data
integration, and metadata
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Four Interconnected Tiers
User interaction Access, discover,
visualize, and interact
Developer services Embed and integrate BI
into applications and business processes
Platform services Deploy, scale, secure, schedule,
publish, store, and manage
Data services Comprehensive structured and
unstructured data access, data integration, and metadata
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2. System Administration Overview
3. Operational Administration
3.1 User and Object Management (Security)
3.2 Server Management
4. Content Administration
4.1 Federation
4.2 Scheduling & Publishing
4.3 Content LifeCycle Management
5. Conclusion
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Central Management Console (CMC)
Control and administer all aspects of your SAP BusinessObjects XI deployment from a single tool – the CMC.
Web-based administration of
all platform capabilities,
including:
User and groups
Documents and folders
Universes and connections
Scheduling and publishing
Security
Servers
Federation
Metadata management
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2. System Administration Overview
3. Operational Administration
3.1 User and Object Management (Security)
3.2 Server Management
4. Content Administration
4.1 Federation
4.2 Scheduling & Publishing
4.3 Content LifeCycle Management
5. Conclusion
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User and Object rights management
CMC used to manage and
control/setup system
authentication mechanism
Integration with LDAP,
AD, SAP etc.
CMC used to manage User
and Object rights, system
authorization
Granular rights model
Simple Graphical
Interface
Security and
relationship query tools
simplify troubleshooting
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Server Management – Server Intelligence
Simplify the process of managing and
deploying BI servers
Clone deployments and
optimal default settings
Improve fault tolerance
and performance with
server intelligence agent
Allow administrators to add
new servers through
the CMC
Support server
configuration backup and
restore inside the cluster
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2. System Administration Overview
3. Operational Administration
3.1 User and Object Management (Security)
3.2 Server Management
4. Content Administration
4.1 Federation
4.2 Scheduling & Publishing
4.3 Content LifeCycle Management
5. Conclusion
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Federation
BI content replicated between independent BI systems
1-way or 2-way replication
Remote scheduling
Automatically inclusive of dependencies
Automatic conflict resolution
Head
Office
Subsidiary Partner
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Scheduling – Instance Manager
Manage scheduled jobs
View successful, failed, running, paused, pending and recurring jobs
Pause, resume, reschedule, and delete jobs
Search by time, owner, objects type, and status
Sort by job name, type, status, owner, completion time, and next runtime
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Publishing
Single-pass bursting combined with dynamic
recipients allows for very powerful information
sharing
Up to 1 million recipients!
Delivery rules
All major features of publishing component
incorporated
Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports and Desktop
Intelligence supported
Additional flexibility with Java publishing extensions
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Content LifeCycle Management (LCM)
Application for BI lifecycle management – promotions and rollback
Simplify BI content deployment
Reduce maintenance and maximize platform utilization
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CONCLUSION: Why SAP BusinessObjects XI?
Most effective way to reach everyone with trusted information
Targeted and configurable user experience
for improved productivity
The most trusted information available
Best integration and interoperability with
leading applications and environments
Only BI solution fully integrated to a
complete suite for bringing execution and
strategy together
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