Deployment is the distribution and arrangement of Business Objects query,reporting and analysis tools within a network infrastructure.Each deployment is different. How your deployment is structured and configured depends on the number of users supported, the type of information access that you want your users to have, the number and types of databases you’re using, the geographical distribution of your company, and so on. Before looking at the specific products Business Objects has to offer, it may be useful to review some basics, and to look at the reasons companies choose Business Objects as their database query, reporting, and analysis tool.
Contents of this Deploying the SAP Business Objects System tutorial
Chapter 1 Introducing BusinessObjects 6.5 23
Standard SQL reporting configurations . 26
The secure Business Objects configuration . . . . . . . 27
What can you do with the Business Objects solution? . . . . . . . . 28
BusinessObjects 6.5 . . . . . . 30
Desktop products 31
Server products . 36
Administration products . . . . 46
Database Access Packs . . . 54
Demonstrations . 55
Developer Suite . 56
Organization of this guide . . 58
How terminology has changed . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 2 System Architecture and Communication 63
Deployment architectures . . 65
3-tier architecture overview . 67
The client . . . . . . 69
The middle tier . . 70
Database components . . . . 75
What products are associated with each architecture? . . . . . . . 76
What platforms are associated with each architecture? . . . . . . 79
What is a cluster? . . . . . . . . 80
Why use distributed configurations? . . . 82
What is CORBA? 83
The Application Server Framework . . . . 85
How the system accesses data . . . . . . . 89
Chapter 3 How the System Is Administered 93
The Administration Console 95
Administering Broadcast Agent . . . . . . . 98
Monitoring and analyzing system activity . . . . . . . 101
Command-line administration tools . . . 103
Chapter 4 The Repository and Security 105
Data security through the repository . . 107
Repository domains . . . . . . 108
How clients access the repository . . . . 110
Which components access the repository? . . . . . . 113
Using multiple repositories 115
The repository and your data warehouse . . . . . . . 116
How do users access the repository? . 118
Working with or without a repository . . 121
Repository compatibility issues . . . . . . 123
Chapter 5 Deployment Considerations 127
Pre-deployment checklist . . 129
Education: providing the tools to be successful . . . 130
Performance: what is acceptable and how can you attain it? . 131
Server sizing: efficiently supporting peak user activity . . . . . . . 132
Deployment configuration . 133
Data management: making data accessible . . . . . 134
Protecting your system and your resources . . . . . . 135
Users: know their numbers, profiles, groups and rights . . . . . . 136
Documents: what type, how complex? . 140
Load balancing: matching system processes and server resources . . . . . 141
Disaster recovery: what can you do about it? . . . . 142
Deployment procedure . . . . 143
Conclusion . . . . 145
Chapter 6 Modeling your System 147
Designing your architecture 149
Selecting your system’s software . . . . . 153
Selecting your system’s operating system . . . . . . . 154
Deployment models . . . . . . 159
Cluster architecture . . . . . . 161
Repository architecture . . . 166
Database and repository location . . . . . 168
Centralized or decentralized architecture? . . . . . . . 170
Global deployment scenario summary . 182
Chapter 7 Supported Deployment Configurations 183
Terminology . . . 186
Basic 2-tier deployments . . 188
Citrix configurations . . . . . . 190
3-tier architecture overview 192
Combined 2- and 3-tier deployments . 193
Basic intranet deployments 195
DMZ configurations . . . . . . 197
Extranet deployments . . . . 202
Deported application servers . . . . . . . . 208
Reverse proxies . . . . . . . . 211
IP redirectors . . 214
Multiple clusters in an intranet . . . . . . . 218
Single-cluster intranet/extranet deployment options . . . . . . . . 222
Multiple-instance servers under UNIX . 225
Multihomed configurations 227
Multilingual configurations using Unicode . . . . . . . 230
Heterogeneous clusters . . 232
Deployment configuration summary . . 234
Part III Practical Deployment Specifics
Chapter 8 From Development to Production 239
The development lifecycle . 241
Planning the pre-production environment . . . . . . . 246
Creating the lifecycle environments . . 252
Migrating between environments . . . . 261
Planning and building the production environment 265
Chapter 9 Overall Deployment Checklist 267
Setting up a Windows deployment . . . 269
Setting up a UNIX deployment . . . . . . 274
Setting up a heterogeneous deployment . . . . . . . . 280
Chapter 10 Implementing Supported Deployment Configurations 287
Installation and configuration for all 3-tier deployments . . . . . . 289
Implementing a Citrix configuration . . . 294
Implementing a basic intranet deployment . . . . . . . 298
Implementing a DMZ configuration . . . 299
Implementing an extranet deployment . 302
Implementing a deported application server . . . . . 307
Implementing an IP redirector . . . . . . . 311
Implementing a multihomed configuration . . . . . . . 319
Implementing a multiple-instance UNIX configuration . . . . . . . 321
Implementing heterogeneous clusters . 323
Implementing a single web server for intranet and extranet users . . . . . . . 325
Implementing Unicode corporate databases . . . . . 326
Chapter 11 Deploying and Managing the Repository 339
Choosing a repository database . . . . . 341
How much space should you allot for the repository? . . . . . . . 344
The location of repository domains . . . 347
Deploying and using multiple repositories . . . . . . . 349
Optimizing the security domain . . . . . . 352
Making documents available to users of other repositories . . . 353
Changing a cluster’s repository . . . . . . 354
Chapter 12 Deploying Specific Components and Products 355
Overall 3-tier deployment guidelines . . 357
Choosing your applications and how they are deployed . . . . . 362
Deploying Connection Server . . . . . . . 372
Deploying InfoView/WebIntelligence . . 380
Deploying BusinessObjects 391
Deploying Broadcast Agent 399
Deploying Auditor . . . . . . . . 411
Chapter 13 Deploying WebIntelligence for OLAP Data Sources 417
WebIntelligence OLAP server as part of the cluster . . . . . . . . 419
Setting up the dedicated OLAP node . 421
The WebIntelligence cache service . . . 423
The Universal Drill Through Service (UDS) . . . . . . 424
Installing the OLAP services on cluster nodes . . . 425
Configuring the OLAP services on cluster nodes . 427
Defining the OLAP connection in WebIntelligence 437
Part IV Securing the Solution
Chapter 14 Data Security 441
Security at the product feature level . . 444
Data security at the universe level . . . 446
Section and block security at the report level . . . . 462
Chapter 15 Network Security 465
Common protection techniques . . . . . . 467
Appendix A How Products Compare Functionally 475
InfoView vs. WebIntelligence . . . . . . . 477
BusinessObjects: 2-tier vs. 3-tier mode 479
BusinessObjects in 3-tier mode vs. InfoView/WebIntelligence 480
Processing different types of documents in InfoView . . . . . . . 482
Version 2.x/5.x vs. 6.5 . . . . 485
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