Benchmark Your Best Practices through the ASUG/SAP Enablement Survey

One of the most frequent questions asked by companies implementing SAP is u201Chow do other companies get their employees ready to use the system?u201D They want to know how similar companies have addressed the most critical success factors for preparing and sustaining their end users for new technology deployment. SAP is consolidating knowledge of best practices used in the market through the ASUG and SAP Enablement Survey.
ASUG and SAP have teamed together to build a survey that will allow respondents to gain insight into how the market is addressing enablement, and how similar companies rate their achievements. All responses are consolidated to provide insight on enablement practices by industry, company size, region, budget allocation, and more. Individual responses remain confidential.
As a respondent you will receive a report outlining the most critical enablement practices implemented by comparable companies. The report provides specific insight about your enablement practice in relation to similar companies. Please take the time to complete this short survey (10-15 minutes) today. Your voice matters and we really appreciate you taking the time and completing the survey.
Click on the link to access the survey:
[ASUG/SAP Enablement Benchmarking and Best Practices Survey|http://www.benchmarking.sap.com/cgi-bin/qwebcorporate.dll?idx=CUX8C2&SHSP1Q2A=ASUG&LNG=0]
Edited by: Claudia Mandelli on Feb 22, 2012 11:53 PM

Hi ,
Please find my answers below:
1. The roles will be created in BW and should automatically appear in BO CMC Authentication SAP roles, if there is a connectivity setup between BO and BW irrespective of the SSO.The roles are transported by the BW security team.
2. Every environement will have a unique connection to the corresponding SAP BW environment.For example SAP BW DEV will be mapped to BO DEV, SAP BW PROD will be mapped to BO PROD.So these settings cannot be migrated through Promotion Management.
3.This authentication can be applied to all tools , the SSO does not depend on the tool ,it depends on the integration between two systems which in this case are BO and SAP BW
As mentioned earlier, after integration all tools can have SSO
You can refer to a lot of help documents on this site which will help you to setup the integration between SAP BW AND SAP BO.
Kind Regards,
Priyanka

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