SAP BO

Business objects:

·         A French company acquired by SAP AG in 2007.

·         Has flexible, scalable and reliable architecture.

·         Used for powerful and interactive reporting needs.      

Reports:

·         Can be served via internet, extranet, intranet, and portal.

·         Can be distributed via scheduled jobs, apart from on demand reports.

Architecture:

For one to gain a grip on application, it is better to understand the architecture, for better deployment planning or managing.

For achieving the performance the components can be deployed on one or many machines as applicable.

Client Tier:

·         Info view

·         Central management console

·         Report viewers

Web tier:

·         Java web application server

·         Microsoft IIS .Net web application server

Server Tier:

·         Intelligent tier:

o   Central Management Server

o   Input File Repository Server

o   Output File Repository Server

o   Event Server

·         Processing tier:

o   Web Intelligence Report Server

o   Web Intelligence Job Server

o   Crystal Report page Server

o   Crystal Report Job Server

o   Program Job Server

o   Destination Job Server

o   List of Values Job Server

o   Report Application Server

o   Connection Server

o   Multi -Dimensional Analysis Server

o   Adaptive processing Server

Universe:      

• This is the important component, which needs a careful design for project success.
• This represent the business and it's Data warehouse as per the requirement.
• A good universe would be the one which have optimal number of objects.

Important component, would consists of:

• Parameters - The DB connectivity information provider.
• Objects - The entities required for reporting.
• Classes - The logical grouping of the objects.
• Tables - The physical table which provide the data.
• Joins - required for building relationships between the tables.