BOE330 SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1: Designing and Deploying a Solution

4 days instructor-led course

Course Description

This four-day instructor-led course teaches system administrators the skills and knowledge required to design and deploy a BusinessObjects Enterprise system.
In this course, students will learn how to analyze and identify customer requirements in order to design a BusinessObjects Enterprise solution using the concepts of High Availability, Scalability, Sizing, Disaster Recovery and Lifecycle Management.
Using a case study, students will design, build and troubleshoot a system and then produce a content management plan using advanced security and replication techniques.
 The business benefit of this course is that it provides system architects/administrators with an understanding of the concepts necessary to effectively design and deploy a Business Intelligence solution using the BusinessObjects Enterprise platform.

Audience

The target audience for this course is system architects/administrators who are experienced with BusinessObjects Enterprise and will be responsible for designing and deploying solutions for their organization.

Prerequisite

Prerequisite Education (Students must have attended the following courses)

  • BusinessObjects Enterprise XI3.0/3.1: Administration and Security
  • BusinessObjects Enterprise XI3.0/3.1: Administering Servers–Windows

Prerequisite Knowledge/Experience (While not required for this course, experience with these products or technologies is strongly recommended)

  • Windows conventions
  • Familiarity with Windows Server 2000/2003 administration
  • Windows Server 2000/2003 security concepts (global/local groups, and directory structure)
  • BusinessObjects XI R2: Universe Design and/or BusinessObjects XI 3.0: Universe Design
  • BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI R2: Report Design, and/or BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI R2 3.0: Report Design

Course Topics

Reviewing BusinessObjects Enterprise Architecture, Administration, and Security
  • Reviewing BusinessObjects Enterprise architecture
  • Reviewing BusinessObjects Enterprise security
Identifying Requirements
  • Identifying requirements
Ensuring the Availability of your Business Intelligence Solution
  • What is a Business Intelligence Solution?
  • High availability in the Application Tier
  • High availability in the Intelligence Tier
  • High availability in the Processing Tier
  • Creating a disaster and back up recovery plan
Performance, Scalability, and Sizing
  • Designing a scalable system
  • Sizing a BusinessObjects Enterprise deployment
  • Designing an architecture plan
Deploying a System
  • Installing and configuring BusinessObjects Enterprise
  • Trouble shooting BusinessObjects Enterprise
Content Management
  • Designing a secured content management plan
  • Designing an instance management plan
  • Designing a system auditing plan
  • Managing Content in Multiple Deployments
  • Understanding the Import Wizard
  • Managing BusinessObjects LifeCycleManager
  • Managing the Federation Services