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SAP BusinessObjects Automation

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Automation unlocks the full potential of existing assets, making it possible for IT departments to cut costs and boost efficiency. Automation also minimizes the burden of time-intensive routine tasks, freeing up BI professionals to focus on higher value-added activities.

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Automate Maintenance

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Find, flag and archive
or delete obsolete Universes, documents, and instances

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Delete excessive content from user inboxes and personal folders

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Monitor run times
and identify long-running documents

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Bulk updates passwords, report fields, and database connections

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Perform nightly incremental backups for easy rollbacks to any version of any object at any time

Watch – 41:11 min

How to Automate SAP BusinessObjects Platform Maintenance

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How to automatically purge SAP BusinessObjects user inboxes

Case Study- 3 min read
How the EPA is using automation to reduce the size of its SAP BusinessObject environment by 70%

Watch – 3:04 min
How to automatically purge or disable Business Objects users

Case Study – 5 min read
How automation helped a small BI team at a Fortune 500 energy company delete 15,000 WebI documents from a single department

Automate Scheduling & Distribution

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Trigger scheduled reports with enterprise job schedulers (e.g., Control-M, UC4, $U, TWS)

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Create dynamic prompts and filters using Excel or database SQL functions

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Update scheduling passwords in a single step

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Dynamically rename burst reports

Case Study- 2 min read

How Lockheed Martin used automation to shaved 24 hours off the time required to burst 1,000 reports

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Article – 5 min read
How 360Cast outshines SAP BusinessObjects native resources when it comes to scheduling and publishing

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Case Study- 2 min read
How a customer put automation to the test and created 374 sample reports in only 24 minutes

Automate GRC Initiatives

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Monitor suspicious activity and set up automatic alerts

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Find, flag, and disable or delete inactive user accounts

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Purge WebI documents containing sensitive data

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Bulk update permissions

White Paper – 8 min read

How to ensure that SAP BusinessObjects supports the goals and upholds the requirements of GDPR

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How to automatically document and bulk update SAP BusinessObjects security

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How to password-protect scheduled SAP BusinessObjects reports

Automate Object Lifecycle

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Promote documents and Universes in bulk based on flags

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Empower users to promote content without relying on the CMC Promotion Management Tool

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Compare report results over time and across environments and versions, highlighting differences in data, execution times, structure, style, and images down to the pixel level

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Reduce the likelihood of human error, improve accuracy, and increase trust

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