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Business ObjectsBusiness ObjectsArchitecture and Components

Presented By:

NEHA BHATIAEmp# 96133CMED


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DeclarationDeclaration

Author: NEHA BHATIADate(MM/DD/YY): 07/09/09

DeclarationI hereby declare that this document is based on my personal experiences and experiences of my project

members. To the best of my knowledge, this document does not contain any material that infringes thecopyrights of any other individual or organization including the customers of Infosys.

Neha Bhatia

Project Detailsy Projects involved ATTAVAYA

y H/W Platform: - Windows

y S/W Environment: - Unix

y Project Type : - Maintenance

Target readersAll Infoscions

KeywordsBusiness Objects, Designer, BO Reporter, BCA

Purpose of the documentThis document provides an overview of Business Objects architecture, explaining its variouscomponents. It also gives a demo on how to develop and schedule reports using BO.

ReferencesBusiness Objects: The Complete Reference


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ContentsContents

y Need for Business Objects

y

BO Architecturey Components of BO

y Demo


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Need For Business ObjectsNeed For Business Objects

y In todays world, data is everything. But making

sense of this data and displaying it in a manner whichenables one to view trends in it and make strategic

decisions is the real task at hand.

y Business Objects has provided business users with a

powerful and relatively simple querying toolwhichenables them to make quick and accurate decisions.


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Business ObjectsBusiness Objects

y Offers End-to-End Business Intelligenceproducts

for: Data Integration

Query, Reporting and Analysis

Analytics

y Help organizations improve

decision-making


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Business ObjectsBusiness Objects--ComponentsComponents

The basic components of the Business Objects are

y Supervisor set/grant user privileges to the reports.y Designer building universesy BO Report designer or BO Reporter creating

reports

Other Componentsy Broadcast Agent and Scheduler (BCA)y Web Intelligence / InfoView (Thin/web client)


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BO Architecture


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RepositoryRepository

y The repository is a database that holds the Business

Objects related documents.y A Business Objects repository is a set of data

structures stored in RDBMS

y The tables for this database can be created in the

same database where the data for the report lies or onsome other database. For most practical purposes it is

better to store repository in a separate database.


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Repository DomainsRepository Domains

To ensure security and manage user resources, arepository comprises three types of domains:

a security domain, which is unique to a repository & whichcontains the definition of the other domains as well as the definition ofusers

universe domains, which are meta-models of related databases,containing a description of the data to be accessed. They hold the list ofUniverses that BO accesses.

document domains, which contain the structures for storing shareddocuments and for executing tasks according to a time stampeddefinition. They hold BO reports and related files


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SupervisorSupervisorBO Component


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Supervisors TasksSupervisors Tasks

y It Sets up and maintains a secure environment for

Business Objects productsy The Supervisor module helps in building groups and

users with different access rights and privileges.

y It helps define the actions that a business user can

perform on the reports like refresh, save, publish etcy The user & role information are stored in the security

domain of the repository


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User ProfilesUser Profiles

SUPERVISOR offers several standard profiles for the

various types of users of Business Objects products.y General Supervisor -senior system administrator

y Supervisor - user administration

y Designer - responsible forCreating andMaintaining Universe

y Supervisor-Designer - create user profiles, user groups, and universes

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User- query, report, and analyze datay Versatile - customized user


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User Hierarchy and Resource AccessUser Hierarchy and Resource Access


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DesignerDesignerBO Component


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UniverseUniverse

y Universe is a semantic layer between database and BO reports, builtwith the Business Objects Designer tool.

y A Universe is a business-oriented mapping of the data structurefound in databases: tables, columns, joins, etc. With Supervisor,one can authorize users and user groups to access one or moreuniverses.

y The mapping can be either one to one or derived

y One to one[EMPLOYEE NAME] = [TBL_EMP_DATA].[EMP_NM]

y Derived[EMPLOYEE ANNUAL SALARY] =

[TBL_EMP_DATA].[EMP_SAL_PM] * 12


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Components ofUniverseComponents ofUniverse

y Tables

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Classesy Objects

y Joins

y Contexts


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ClassesClasses

y A logical way of grouping objects.

y Can be compared with a table but not always.

y Should make business sense.

y Appears with a folder icon


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ObjectObject

An object

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is the most refined component in a universe.y maps to data or a derivation of data in the database.

y represents a column or function in a database.

Objects are the data elements which perform the queryon the Warehouse, and are returned with

corresponding values.


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Types of ObjectsTypes of Objects

For the purposes of analysis, objects are qualified as

y Dimension Object

y Measure Object

y Detail Object


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Dimension objectsDimension objects

y The various parameters for an analysis are depicted

byD

imension objects. They relate to a hierarchy, forexample: geography, product, or time.

y In a report, the data that provides the basis for

analysis is retrieved from the Dimension Objects

only.y A dimension basically maps to one or more database

columns or functions

Dimension Object : represented by blue cube


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Detail objectsDetail objects

y Detail objects provide a description of a dimensionbut are not the focus of the analysis.

y Detail Objects are used to give more information onan entity.

y A detail is always attached to a dimension but canmap to one or more columns or functions in thedatabase that provide detailed information related toa dimension. Detail Objects : represented by green pyramid.For example: Phone Number in the Student Universe.


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Measure objectsMeasure objects

y Measure objects retrieve numeric data, or data that is

the result of calculations on data in the database. Measure Objects : represented by pink sphere.

For example: No. of students in the Students

Universe.


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Report DesignerReport DesignerBO Component


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Data ProvidersData Providers

y Data provider is the way by which Business ObjectsReports access data from the data sources. Data can be

accessed from different data sources like RelationalDatabase, OLAP databases, Text files and spreadsheets,and VBA macros

The types of data provider that Business Objects supportsare

y Queries on Universey Stored Procedurey Free Hand SQLy Personal data filey VBA Procedures


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Queries on UniverseQueries on Universe

y Queries enable you to retrieve data from a database,

via a universe. You build a query to bring data to areport, either when you create the report or when you

want to view new data.

y When you build a query, you select objects from a

universe, and then run the query.BUSINESSOBJECTS connects to the database, and

retrieves the data mapped by the objects you selected.


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Free Hand SQLFree Hand SQL

y Free-hand SQL is a type of data provider that enables

you to work withS

QL scripts inBUSINESSOBJECTS. You can open and run

existing SQL scripts; users who know SQL can write

their own scripts. You can also use free-hand SQL to

make changes to the database, if theBUSINESSOBJECTS supervisor has granted you the

right to do so.


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WEBIWEBI

y The WEBINTELLIGENCE system is a thin client, used forinteractive reporting and analysis.

y BO distributed solution relies on such an infrastructure asWEBI, so that the information can be accessed, analyzed, andshared among business users.

y The data in the corporate databases or data warehouses can beaccessed using WEBI, from within office (intranet), home, oraround the world (using extranet or Internet)

y WEBI runs in Internet Browser.

Three modules in WEBI are as followsy Web intelligence InfoViewy Web intelligence Reportery Web intelligence Explorer


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InfoViewInfoView

y Infoview is an e-Business Intelligence portal, usedmainly to view the documents generated with BO.

y With Infoview, users get a single entry point to all thedocuments they need.

The documents that can be viewed in Infoview arecategorized as:

y CorporateDocumentsy PersonalDocumentsy InboxDocumentsy Scheduled Documents


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BCABCA

y A document schedulerthat allows the user to scheduleand publish reports in a number of ways.

y BCA is a scheduler used for performing activities like

time based report refresh, publish, e-mail, file save etc

y BCA has to be installed in a separate server

(single/clustered).

y The documents that users send to Broadcast Agent arestored in the repositorys document domain. The

Scheduler periodically scans the domain and extracts

documents that are due for processing.


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Creating UniverseCreating UniverseDemo


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Developing &Developing &

Scheduling ReportsScheduling ReportsDemo


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