Keith, From reading Natalie's question, she states that her custom AR app is on a different box than ITSM. I'm assuming then, that the custom instance does not have ITSM installed. If that's the case, why create a linked universe off the base ITSM universe? From my exp it adds a performance overhead. If it's a pure custom instance without ITSM, does it make sense?
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 15, 2014, at 10:20 PM, Keith Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > > ** > Good evening, > Business Analytics is a BMC product that contains a custom universe and > reports. These reports run on the SAP Business Objects platform and enable > reporting against your ITSM database. > > It is possible to customize your universe so that you can report on the > customizations you have built in, thus expanding the functionality. > > The reason you use BA is several reasons: Most large companies use Business > Objects for their analytical reporting needs and this ties in nicely with > that enterprise solution. It also enables you to set up a reporting database > thereby reducing the impact of running reports against your production > database. > > Natalie - My recommendation is to use the OTB universe and create a linked > universe for customizations. There are a lot of things built in to the OTB > universe that makes your life a lot easier than building one from scratch. > > The universe will not touch your apps. It will be linked directly to the db > you wish to use for reports. It will require access to the AR server for > authentication (in order to run an analytics report you have be an active > support member - this is a security feature). So I don't think this will > affect your licensing - someone else may know, but I don't think there is a > license for BA. > > If you are running the OEM version of BO you will have to license that from > BMC and I think you can get per user licensing. If you have the SAP > enterprise BO that will be licensed from SAP and I believe their licensing is > by cpu. > > In our setup - we actually have multiple connections so we can run reports > against all our environments (dev, test, prod...) this is very useful for > testing installs and customizations. > > Hope this helps > > > > Keith Parker > FAA ATO-IT > Business Analytics and Remedy Dashboards > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 14, 2014, at 10:12 PM, "Stroud, Natalie K" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ** >> Roger (or anyone else who is on the List and is responding to questions >> today): >> >> I know this is an older message you posted, but what do you mean by a “BMC >> Universe”? Does that mean the universe has to have been created by BMC, >> like the Analytics Universe is? Or does it just mean that the data needs to >> come from a BMC product? >> >> My reason for asking is that we are interested in being able to create >> Analytics reports on one of our custom Remedy apps, and it sounds like >> that’s possible from a technical standpoint, but I am trying to confirm the >> licensing standpoint. For whatever it may be worth, I’m pretty sure we have >> just a Professional BO license, because I know we’d be running Crystal >> Reports via the mid-tier if we had the Premium. >> >> Also, our custom Remedy apps are located on a different server than our ITSM >> server, which is, of course where our ITSM Universe points to. Does anyone >> know whether the Analytics/BO licensing limits how many different servers >> universes can be created from? My teammate who works with our ITSM Universe >> *thinks* this is allowed, but we’d like to hear if anyone knows for sure. >> >> Thanks for any help you can provide. >> >> Natalie Stroud >> SAIC @ Sandia National Laboratories >> ARS-ITSM Reporting Specialist >> Albuquerque, NM USA >> [email protected] >> ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 – Windows 2003 – SQL Server 2008 >> >> >> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Justice >> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 1:20 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: BO and Analytics >> >> ** Analytics the the BMC Name that includes the ARS/other BMC Universes that >> BO needs to be able to create reports. Also Analytics includes BO that has a >> limited use license that only allows BMC Universes to be used. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: patrick zandi <[email protected]> >> To: arslist <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 2:57 pm >> Subject: Re: BO and Analytics >> >> ** >> I believe they do the same things, however it is who is using the >> application that makes the diff... >> ANA is basically analytical reporting -- it can email and post to sharepoint >> reports.. as well. (nice feature).. >> ARS 8.1 can also do the Adhoc, and Bert reports by time as well.. CR is for >> reporting with pretty formats.. etc Like ANA but does not email or >> sharepoint them. >> Also CR can be used on the web for web based reporting as well. >> There are alot of minor differences, but with CR developer you can also just >> create an RPT and plop it into the report form and anyone can use it with >> the usertool.. Crystal reports viewer application (desktop app) can use it >> too... >> just depends who and for what are you using it. >> >> IMHO >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:51 PM, patrick zandi <[email protected]> wrote: >> https://communities.bmc.com/thread/30501 might be where you want to go. >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Sweety <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Experts, >> >> I heard that BO can be used for reporting then why do we need BMC Analytics ? >> >> How Analytics is different than BO ? 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