I’ve had a number opportunities to see BI 4 from both the perspectives of a demonstration as well as hands on. The more I see it, the more excited I get for what lies ahead for us. So as I try and fight my way through a two-month case of writer’s block, I intend to start gearing us all up for what we need to start considering to strategize for those well-planned upgrades (you know you want to). The first thing I want to tackle being an “all-things-server” lover, is what the new semantic layer means to your environment.
Tag: Landscape Planning
SAP Business Objects Delegated Administration
I actually kind of dig the security model with XI. Call me crazy. I do believe it is more than a few steps up from the days of 6.5 and older. I know it has its shortcomings but it is getting better.
One challenge I’ve dealt with a few times is delegated administration. The goal is in putting user administration in a corporate information security group’s hands rather than a Business Objects Admin’s hands. This makes perfect sense in a deployment that didn’t necessarily start on a Windows AD or LDAP deployment or relies heavily Enterprise groups for access control.