Category: SAP BusinessObjects

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SAP Business Objects Designer

 

Universe Designer is a graphical design tool used to create the rich “semantic layer” (metadata) that makes SAP Business Objects products intuitive for non-technical users. It’s a graphical abstraction of the dimensional models that exist in your data warehouse. It auto-generates the Structured Query Language that interrogates the database tables so that business users do not need to understand this language or even know that it exists.

When the SAP BusinessObjects SAP Integration Kit is installed you can also create a universe based on your SAP Business Information Warehouse data using Universe Designer. This XML based universe will use the MDX language. You can combine the SAP data with your relational data (e.g. Teradata) by synchronisation within Web Intelligence.

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Business Objects Universe Builder

Universe Builder is the SAP Business Objects software application that allows you to generate a universe from XML metadata sources and Oracle Analytic Services.

After opening Universe Builder and connecting to a metadata source, a universe creation wizard maps the metadata structures to equivalent classes, objects, dimensions, and details used in a standard SAP BusinessObjects universe. When the mapping is complete the universe auto-generates.

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SAP BusinessObjects Central Management Console

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise and SAP BusinessObjects EDGE both come packaged with the Central Management Console (CMC). This is a .NET or Java Web-based environment for managing, deploying, and configuring the entire SAP Business Objects Enterprise/ Edge infrastructure. The CMC is used by SAP Business Objects  Administrators to access and configure the SAP Business Objects BI system. The CMC provides management of and configuration for the following system elements:

  • Security
  • Authentication
  • User and group creation and management
  • Object rights
  • License keys
  • Folder and Category management
  • Scheduling
  • Services/server configuration
  • Server groups (clusters)
  • Universes and data connections
  • User interface settings and preferences
  • Business calendars