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2 years ago ::
Jun 28, 2011 - 2:31PM
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Live Q&A with Dr. Bjarne Berg: Get expert guidance to design, deploy, and enhance Xcelsius dashboards Thank you for joining us in this moderated forum with Dr. Berg here on July 13, from 3:00-4:00 pm EDT (US Eastern Daylight Time). In this one-hour Forum, we invite you to post your dashboard questions, including your specific questions on leveraging the new SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0. Dr. Bjarne Berg, a featured speaker at the upcoming Xcelsius Dashboards Bootcamp, will be responding to your questions. To post a question, first log in to Insider Learning Network, and select the "Post Reply" button below. Dr. Berg will be posting his answers today from 3:00-4:00 pm EDT. Please be sure to refresh your browser to see the most recent posts. If you are not yet an Insider Learning Network member, join today! For those who have not yet registered for the Q&A, click here to receive an exclusive download of Dr. Berg's presentation “Step-by-step instruction to build and enhance Xcelsius dashboards for optimal performance, availability, and usability,” which takes you through the process of building and optimizing an Xcelsius dashboard. Sponsored by 
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2 years ago ::
Jun 30, 2011 - 11:18AM
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what version of BOBJ does this presentation related to 3.X? or 4.0?
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2 years ago ::
Jun 30, 2011 - 9:28PM
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Dear Dr Berg, I would like to check if it is possible to use web services to pull the data from ERP to be displayed in Dashboards, along with the necessary authentication of user credentials. i.e. without staging the R3 data in BW (not via BICS). I have tried to pull the data from ERP into dashboard successfully using web services but have no idea about how to pass the user credentials for necessary authorization control. Look forward to your advice and more information on how to achieve the above. Thanks & regards, Anitha
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2 years ago ::
Jul 05, 2011 - 4:22PM
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How to monitor usage? specifically via the Business Objects Audit Tables How to monitor performance? specifically tracing of bottlenecks Thanks
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2 years ago ::
Jul 07, 2011 - 8:50AM
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We have around 5 dashboard's which are creted with Xcelsius. They use QAAWS fro data retrieve. Now we are going to upgrade our BO to BI 4.0. How to export and import Xcelsius files? The XLF files are ok but the QAAWS? Thank you.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 11, 2011 - 12:41PM
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what version of BOBJ does this presentation related to 3.X? or 4.0?
Hi Barnaby- The slides provided are from one of Dr. Berg's conference presentations, so examples reference 3.X. However, during this Q&A Dr. Berg will answer questions pertaining to both 3.X and 4.0 releases. I hope this helps!
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2 years ago ::
Jul 11, 2011 - 2:46PM
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Hi Dr.Berg Good day. We are using BW7.0 and BO3.1 SP3. With current BW version Xcelsius cant read Bex Query directly. we got two options one is using BEx query as source of crystal reports via live office it will be present in Xcelsius.other option is creating an Universe, Webi and Xcelsius. Which method will be the best with the versions i mentioned above in all aspects (performance, integration and access), we have to live with current technical landscap. Upgrades are on the roadmap in coming months (hopefully next year). Please let me know with which approach we can impress business with effective Dashboards. Your comment on this regard is much appreciated. Kind Regards, LR.Yemineni
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2 years ago ::
Jul 12, 2011 - 9:06AM
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Hello Dr. Berg, We are using SAP BW 7.0.1 (i.e. with EhP1). We are not using BO however have planned to use Xcelsius directly with BW to create dashboards. In this scenario I read that BICS is to be used for connections. Hence would like to request you to kindly provide necessary information/demonstration on Xcelsius developments with BW directly (i.e. without BO) Regards Anujit Ghosh
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2 years ago ::
Jul 13, 2011 - 2:05AM
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Hi Barnaby, The session is focusing on BI 4.0 and Xcelsius, but questions on XI 3.1+ are also 'fair game'
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2 years ago ::
Jul 13, 2011 - 2:10AM
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Dear Dr Berg,
I would like to check if it is possible to use web services to pull the data from ERP to be displayed in Dashboards, along with the necessary authentication of user credentials. i.e. without staging the R3 data in BW (not via BICS). I have tried to pull the data from ERP into dashboard successfully using web services but have no idea about how to pass the user credentials for necessary authorization control.
Look forward to your advice and more information on how to achieve the above.
Thanks & regards,
Anitha
Hi Anitha, BusinessObjects supports a variety of protocols for accessing the data and providing authentication between systems. In general, the most populars are Active Directory (AD), LDAP and SAP 'native' security. For example to import roles to BI-4.: go to the administrator tab--> click "authentication" and select SAP. In SAP, configure a user account that has read access to import SAP roles into BI 4.0. Make sure you give it the authorization objects "Authorization for file access", Authorization Check for RFC Access, and User Master Maintenance: User Groups. Then, create an entitlement.When the entitlement System is created it will generate a new folder structure in BOBJ-BI. You can configure this to drop in the root parent folder. Under the “Role Import” tab in the entitlement system setup, go to the SAP system and select the roles that you want to transfer to SAP BI system. For each role that is imported, BI will generate a user group: [SAP system ID] ~ [SAP client number] @ [SAP role]. Once the roles are imported you can enable the logon tickets for Single-Sign-On (SSO) using standard SAP functionality. Jay Riddle, has created a great presentation with lots of screenshots on BOBJ security configuration that also shows LDAP and Active Directory setup. If you are interested in this, please provide your email and I will get you a copy. Thanks, Dr. Berg
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