SAP BusinessObjects: Supervisor

Goals

• Information is an organization's most valuable asset. And managing that information throughout the entire enterprise is essential for success.
• In the BusinessObjects 6.5 Supervisor course, you will learn how to effectively use BusinessObjects Supervisor, a BI administration tool, to manage users and resources from a central point or within a distributed environment.
• A hands-on, real world approach ensures that you will quickly learn how to determine the appropriate repository architecture to optimize performance and security.
• You will be able to:
• • Create and manage repositories
  • Allocate and manage universe and document domains to minimize maintenance tasks and storage space requirements.
  • Determine appropriate strategies for organizing users and groups
  • Granting user and group access to a customized set of commands to balance performance and ease of administration.

Audience

• IT professionals responsible for security in a BusinessObjects implementation.

Prerequisites

• * Prerequisites
• Reporting with BusinessObjects

Content

• Introduction to Supervisor
• • Understand how the Supervisor module fits into your BusinessObjects system.
  • Become familiar with the main functions of the different types of supervisors and their associated tasks.
• Introduction to the course scenario
• • Introduces you to the business scenario which provides the context for future discussions and course workshops.
• Creating the Repository
• • Learn the differences between monolithic and distributed repositories, and how different repository architectures impact performance.
  • Create a repository and verify the location of the security files and their configurations.
  • Run a safe recovery to recover a .KEY file.
• Implementing Groups and Users
• • Understand the concepts of groups, inheritance, and customization.
  • Create and manage user and group access to modules, commands, universes, and documents.
  • Learn best practices for organizing users and groups to balance performance and ease of administration.
  • Learn how to automate the process for creating groups, users, and user properties by importing the relevant information from a text file.
• Command Restrictions
• • Learn how to define and override the access various groups and users have to the commands in the User, WebIntelligence, Designer, and Supervisor modules of BusinessObjects.
  • Understand the configuration issues relating to command restrictions.
• Distributed Repository Architecture
• • Create a distributed repository.
  • Allocate universe and document domains to different groups. Understand the technical specifications for setting up a repository server, and the advantages and disadvantages of multiple domains on multiple database platforms.
• Configuring Universes
• • Export and allocate a universe from the Designer module to a group and then configure it on a group-by-group basis.
• Maintain Document Domains
• • Allocate and manage document domains while learning how to minimize maintenance tasks and storage space requirements.

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