Tools for BusinessObjects Deployment

Although of course this is a form of advertisment, we genuinely believe that those tools are beneficial even critical I should say to a sound BusinessObjects deployment. We use to picture those who are not putting safety gate are very similar to a biker riding a bike at 100 km/h withouth helmet rushing toward a mall parking with a big smile on his face.

We are more than happy to discuss why each of those tools can benefit your organisation, we are not a sales focus organasition ourselves, more like a pack of well experienced consultants knowing what can go wrong and when hence we are using those tools as our base toolkit on a daily basis.

The tools are are using at the moment, some of them we can resell some we are not, just proving the point mention above that we are not necessarily pushing purely on a financial basis.

- Enterprise Manager : Typically an auditing tool allowing us prior to a migration from V5/V6 to XI, to indentify in a pure Client/Server Deployment (BusinessObjects Full Client) which reports are used by who when, how often.
This allows us to quantify the effort required to proceed with the migration of those unknown reports otherwise. As you know Corporate Documents are the well known area, but lots of organisations gave the power to their power users to build their own reports. Ignoring this means that you discard the efforts those users have put in designing their business solution in order to do business more efficiently.

- Version Manager : Initially a versionning tool, allowing to systematically version a report or a universe when a modification has been made to it. You will then be able to identify the differences between 2 versions.
But also Impact Analysis before you are starting to think of modifying something at the database level, you can picture the entire lineage with which universe is impacted by the change as well as which reports and finally combined to Enterprise Manager which users are impacted, when and how often. There is reason to be careful not to impact some end of the month reporting at the month without giving it a serious testing first rather that than being under tremendeous pressure to reverse the change at the end of month.

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