Business Objects - Discoverer

Hi Folks,
I have a customer with a number of business objects universe
(V4) at a number of different sites.
Is there any toolkits and/or white papers which can help to
grease the transition to Discoverer.
Many Thanks,
Barry
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Hi Barry,
Look at the Discoverer documentation (in Appendix A I think).
There was a migration kit that consisted of a PL/SQL packages
that can map from a Business Objects repository to a Discoverer
repository.
The kit was shipped as part of the Discoverer 3.1 release.
Regards
John
Barry McGillin (guest) wrote:
: Hi Folks,
: I have a customer with a number of business objects universe
: (V4) at a number of different sites.
: Is there any toolkits and/or white papers which can help to
: grease the transition to Discoverer.
: Many Thanks,
: Barry
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Business object to Discoverer

Hi All,
Any documents available, for migrating reports from BO to Disc?
Thanks

I too am not aware of any way to migrate Business Objects reports to Discoverer.
We are coming from a B.O. environment, though we are in the midst of an ERP implementation (non -EBS to EBS) so we are starting from scratch. Here are some of my thoughts:
-If your data sources are not changing (e.g. your data warehouse or your relational database), I would closely examine your existing universes. I would anticipate a correspondence between your B.O. universes and your business areas in Discoverer. I would encourage creating ER Diagrams of the existing universes and this would be the building blocks for your work in Discoverer. I too am unaware of any nice tools to ease your pain.
-I like John's suggestion: You could maybe look at doing custom folders, where you could copy in the SQL statement, and then rebuild the report in Discoverer from that custom folder
-Our B.O. universes were pointing at a relational database and so we heavily leveraged using multiple Business Objects data providers with manual links between them. There is nothing like this in Discoverer. Brace yourself if you relied on this. This has been somewhat painful for me.
-Discoverer appears to have more functions available in creating calculations.
-Discoverer appears to me to be more rigid in totaling.
-Discoverer has features to allow calculations that take into consideration context (like groups) that are similar to B.O., but feel less intuitive. I hope I change this feeling, but right now they feel awkward yet.
-A lot of our old B.O. reports had multiple tables on one tab. You cannot do this in Discoverer. Discard any thoughts of trying this.
-If your company has great aspirations for using the Discoverer scheduler, please lower its expectations. Emailing and output to files in multiple formats is not out of the box. Armstrong's book does provide some good alternatives if you still have great scheduling aspirations.
-Memorize the Armstrong's Oracle Press Discoverer book.
-Lastly, the user community does not seem/feel nearly as big, but people try to help one another.
In many respects, I am still learning a lot (I have only been seriously working with Discoverer for about 8 months). If I made a wrong assertion, I am sure someone will correct me.
Prepare yourself for a lot of work.
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I'm working on a large 'BI' project that is replacing Business Objects with OBIEE ( actually its not really a BI project its more of a give us what we've got now using OBIEE project ) - which is proving challenging in some areas.
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I have set Implict Fact at the Presentation Model, however this doesn't work (it misses off Total Level aggregation in the OBI Server SQL).
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Thanks for the helpful reply Turribeach, along with the interesting and informative link.
This is my first foray into the world of BO and I think some of the points you make in the link are right on the money. I've spent many years working with Oracle Tools (Dataquery,Data Browser, Discoverer and then OBIEE when Oracle acquired the tool ). There are difficulties in the modeling with OBIEE, certainly when it comes to trying to replicate a 'fairly' complex BO universe they become apparent.
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SAPBI data accessing from Business objects and other OLAP tools

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if the export to XML file is successful, the file will not be deleted if you are creating it from Metadata Exchange.
The file gets deleted in case you are using the create universe option and by default the file is created in %LINK_DIR%\log\MetadataExchange, you will also see ME_errorlog.txt and ME_outputlog.txt if there are any errors, do you see and erros in these files if you are creating the Universe directly from DS Designer ?
to use Metadata Exchange do the following
Open Data Services Desginer
Click on tools Menu -> Metadata Exchange
In the Metadata Exchange window
Select Export Data Services metadata to a file
Select DI CWM as metadata format
enter location for xml file (C:\temp)
Select the datastore you want to create Universe for
Click OK
Check for file named repo_export.xml in the C:\temp folder or the folder that you specified
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Data Integrator bridge
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What's Business Objects...

Could you please provide the link where I can find the documentation for Business Objects. OR
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Thanks

look at : http://www.businessobjects.com/

Migration from business object to oraclediscoverer

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use discoverer. can you give details and utilities to archieve
this in oracle. this is urgent.
Larry.

Hi,
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Regards,
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HI,
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>> You can also combine the data by using a MultiProvider in BW which is access the data in BW and the data in the legacy system and an additional alternative is to move all the data into BW.
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Hi,
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How to WorkDay() Excel Function in Business Objects Web Intelligence 12.2.7

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I am calculating OTD SLA metrics using the Business Object Web Intelligence, but I am stuck with the WorkDay() how to use this in BO, as it is available in Excel. Requirement is that I need to add business days (Saturdays and Sundays should not be considered) to a particular date. Greatly appreciate if some one can help me immediately as this is high priority right now and need to complete it <REMOVED_BY_MODERATOR>. Thank you, Shiv. Thanks in advance.
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What exactly I need is that:
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EXPORTING
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EXCEPTIONS
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