Archive for the ‘Business Objects SDK’ category

OpenDoc vs. CallReport

May 5th, 2010

We get a lot of question on how Open Document compares to Report Launch. In a conversation with our sales team I tried to summarize the vast differences. Opendoc is a single URL that can only call a single report at a time ….and for Webi can only return to the viewer or PDF

Report Launch’s “call report” is an application that will provide a consistent ways of calling both Crystal and Web Intelligence reports using single sign on.

  • On- demand refresh
  • On demand scheduling
  • Report List
  • Last Scheduled Instance
  • Last Bursted Instance
  • List of Historical Scheduled Instances
  • List of Historical Bursted Instances

    • It can also support the following formats

  • PDF
  • XLS
  • PPT
  • CSV
  • TXT
  • HTML
  • XML

    • These are the basics. There are also more complex features for complex solutions.

  • Cached Results
  • Report Parts by Name
  • On the fly Dimensional Slicing

    • - Challenge us with something you need and I can tell you if CallReport already handles that.

    Kevin McManus

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    Posted in Business Objects, Business Objects SDK, Crystal Reports, Report Launch, XI 3.1, web intelligence

    What I Do

    March 22nd, 2010

    What we do: Some asked recently for what was going on related to our tools. Here is a summary
    At a 50K foot level we have 5 tools

    1) Report Launch allows you to embed Crystal and Webi reports from any application without needing the SDK.

    2) Dashboard Launch (You will have to see this). Caches webi content and many other things for really fast dashboards. SAP certified too

    3) Admin Launch – bleeding edge web based BOE administration tool that you can train to do what you need it to do for you (beta just started).

    4) Audit Launch : Export extends BOE auditing for advanced analysis by syncing CMC attributes into an extended audit database. Audit Launch Import syncs security from 3rd party apps into BOE

    5) Activity Launch – allows you to create business activity monitoring events into report schedules and trach when a batch of schedules completes so you can continue the notification or event process

    All of our software is 100& web based on Java SDK so it runs on Windows, Unix, and Linux

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    Posted in Business Intelligence, Business Objects, Business Objects SDK, BusinessObjects, Report Launch, Uncategorized, bursting

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    Java or .NET

    January 1st, 2010

    Recent Question: Do you have any recommendations on installing the .NET (IIS) vs Java (Tomcat) versions? I liked the ease with which we implemented the SSO hack in IIS on our XI R2 server but I’m not if we can do the same on the 3.1 version. Also I remember that on sometime the .Net versions sometimes did not have all the functionality as the Java version is that still true?

    Answer:I usually lean towards whatever web platform that IT has optimization expertise in. If they don’t have optimization expertise in either then for several reasons, I usually do the Java.

    However for SSO the IIS setup is less steps than the Java version. The IIS pass through can still be done but is not a great solution if you are doing things like scheduling out reports with email links back to the system and still wanting SSO.

    If you do go with Java,Normally I work with people to setup the Vintella Kerberos SSO so that there is only one web platform running on the server rather than the pass through.

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    Posted in Business Objects, Business Objects SDK, XI 3.0, XI 3.1, web intelligence

    Stop before you develop with the Business Objects Enterprise SDK

    March 22nd, 2009

    I am verry passionate about not developing new code for something when it already exists in an application or widget form that can be absorbed without additional coding. With that premise I will be sharing some of the options that can be added to the Business Objects Enterprise system using the Report Launch framework. The marketing folks say that all the features are too much to put on the web site in detail so as I document these features please feel fre to coment and ask questions. My hope is that with so many features that someone will come accross this blog and find the one they need.

    http://www.mcmanussoft.com/ReportLaunch.htm

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    Posted in Business Objects, Business Objects SDK, Report Launch