2. BusinessObjects 4.2 SP3 What's new for System Administration in CMC
Minith Patel, InfoSol

3. New /updated features of BI 4.2 sp3 platform
Administrators Cockpit X
Recycle Bin
User Notification
Commentary Service
Upgrade Management Tool
Promotion Management
Publications
Rest API
Audit

4. 3.1 vs 4.2 sp3 – What’s new in cmc

5. What’s new in CMC ?

6. BI administrators cockpit
Quick overview of Systems and Jobs state
Start stopped and failed servers
Restart scheduled jobs
Contents usage and statistics
Helps identify active and inactive contents
Stats on content type (crystal, webi etc)

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22. Recycle Bin Most awaited feature of BO Restore deleted contents
Works just like windows Recycle Bin
Option to automatically empty
Recycle Bin at N days
Note:
Needs to be enabled
Only Public Folder contents are supported

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26. User notification
Broadcast information within BI Launchpad and display notifications in My alerts as well
Specify timeline for notification to be visible
Option to send notification via
Can be send to specific user/groups

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30. Bi Commentary service Commenting within BI4.2
Option to store in Audit database or selected database
Comments can be copied
Managed by new security rights
Authorizations on commenting can be defined on folder or object level

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36. Upgrade management tool
Improvements in performance and selection process
Specify log level
Specify Temp folder location
New filter option to reduce objects presented for migration by Time selection of modified objects between start-end date, object type and Objects already migrated.
Export pending/recurring instances
View Approximate sixe of selected content

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43. Promotion Management Selective retrieval of OBJECTS from LCMBIAR file
Performance improvement
Less load on App server
Not dependent on Flash anymore
Revamped Override workflow

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BO 4.1
Greyed out.
Cannot be selected
BO 4.2 SP3

46. Publication
Delete Publication when no recipient is processed

47. Publication
Enhanced Log file

48. Audit & Rest api Audit Rest API Added recording by Audit Engine
BI Commentary
Web Services Client (Analysis office & Dashboards)
Scalability
Improved audit scalability for large environments for all events that are turned on. (can now accommodate larger number of users access the repository)
Rest API
Rest API for User Management
Add / Create / Modify Workflows
Rest API for Publication (All Workflows)
Uploading and Downloading of Documents

49. BI system update specific to BO 4.2SP3
• Phase-wise update installation – GUI mode & CLI mode – users can now perform the update installation of BI 4.2 through Graphical User Interface (GUI) mode and Command Line Interface (CLI) mode. • Deploying Web Application Contents – New Web Application Deployment window has been introduced in BI 4.2 and it can be decided when to deploy Web application. The Web Application Deployment window displays two radio button options – Deploy web applications now and Deploy web applications later. • SAP HANA Database is supported as CMS and Audit Database from BI 4.2 SP3. • BI Administrators’ Cockpit has Users and Sessions information – Introduction of Users and Sessions in BI Administrators’ Cockpit, you can get the number of active users, number of active sessions, and filter related details ass you wanted to show in your report. Also you can export the BI admin data into CSV format. • Server Group Exclusivity – Now you can create exclusive server groups and Exclusive server groups contain servers or server groups that are not part of any other server group or common server pool. • Mapping user group to server group – You can map a user group to a particular server group with the introduction of Default Settings option and choose to map an exclusive server group to a user group by selecting any of the ‘servers in the selected group’ or ‘Only use servers in the selected group’. • Recycle Bin application in the BI Launch Pad – If user deletes any of the documents / item from their BI system it will move to Recycle Bin and temporarily stored until emptied manually by the user. • New rights in BI Commentary – New Hide Comments and Bulk add comments are introduced in BI commentary. Using the hide comments right you can hide the comments in your BI document and using bulk add comments you copy or promote multiple comments on a document from source to destination system. • Promotion Management Tool supports BI commentary –When you promote a document with comments, the comments are also migrated from source to destination system. • Promotion Management Tool supports tenant promotion – Promotion Management tool supports promotion of tenants along with its dependencies from source to destination system by providing options to select and add tenants, and corresponding tenant objects to a job. It also establish the relationship between tenant and their object dependencies. • Central Management Server Database Driver – SAP Business Objects Data Access Driver enables you to use a universe to query the CMS Database (CMS repository) and develop a universe and do report analysis of Server Connection, Semantic Layer, Reporting clients, etc.,

50. Questions ? The End おわり-owari समाप्त-samapt અંત-aant शेवटी-Shevati
Minith Patel
Sr. Infosol

51. Thank You!