BusinessObjects Enterprise - Administering Users and Content with the CMC

The target audience for this course is system architects/administrators who are new to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise and will be responsible for maintaining SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise users, groups, and objects in their organization.

Transforming data into actionable information

• Features & Benefits
• Prerequisites
• Technical Specifications

• This 10 to14-hour E-Learning course explains how to perform the tasks in the central management console (CMC).


• These tasks involve supporting SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise users and groups so they can access corporate data through SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise's Web portal.


• This corporate data can take the form of Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, or SAP Desktop Intelligence documents, OLAP intelligence reports, program objects, object packages, and popular third party objects such as Microsoft Word and Excel files, among others.
  
  Please note: This course does not discuss maintaining SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise servers, which is taught in the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R1/R2: Administering Servers - Windows course.


• The business benefit of this course is that it provides a foundation for system architects/administrators to effectively manage both users and content on the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise platform.

• Understanding SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise – What is SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise? Working in InfoView and working in the CMC.


• SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise architecture – Understanding the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise architecture


• SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise security – Creating users, groups, and folders, the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise security model, categories, guidelines for planning security and profiles.


• Planning Your content – Creating a content plan.


• Application security – Securing applications


• Authentication and mapping third-party accounts – Authentication and single sign-on, mapping third party accounts to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise.


• Publishing and configuring content – publishing objects.


• Scheduling – Scheduling objects, scheduling on events, scheduling with business calendars and managing instances.

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• Prerequisite education:
  • Not applicable for this offering.
• Prerequisite knowledge/experience (While not required for this course, experience with these products or technologies will be helpful):
  • Windows conventions
  
  
  • Familiarity with Windows NT/2000 and NT administration
  
  
  • NT enterprise security concepts (global and local groups, and directory structure)

Minimum User Desktop Hardware Requirements

• Processor: Minimum 400 MHz processor, recommended: Pentium IV 1.6 GHz


• RAM: 256 MB RAM minimum, 512 MB RAM recommended


• Sound: 16-bit sound card, with speakers or a headset (optional)


• Screen resolution: 1024 by 768 (minimum)

Minimum User Desktop Software Requirements

• Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Vista.


• Browser: Internet Explorer (IE) version 6 or higher, with JavaScript support in the browser configuration (see Note below)


• Required plug-ins:


• Courses require Flash 9 subversion 115 or above plug-in in order to function. (see Note below)
• If Flash is not pre-installed on the computer it may be obtained for free at: http://www.macromedia.com/downloads
• For web assessments, the Java plug-in JRE 1.31_03 or higher is required
• If JRE is not pre-installed on the computer it may be obtained for free at: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
• Acrobat PDF Reader
• If Acrobat PDF Reader is not installed on the computer it may be obtained free at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
• Pop-up Blockers: Must be disabled in order to view the course content properly.

Note: Later versions of Flash and IE are available. These updated releases have introduced new security changes that may affect the performance of certain features in the courses. If you are using a later release of these software components and encounter problems, we request that you identify the problems and report them to SAP as soon as possible.

Connectivity requirements

• Minimum Connection speed: 128 kbps, DSL. (We recommend at least 128k for high quality performance. While the course will function even at dialup speeds, due to the multimedia nature of the materials, serious performance degradation may occur.)