Natalie, I think you're best bet is to connect to the custom DB and then create a new universe with only the tables you want. You will get optimal performance that way without including all the unnecessary objects from the ITSM universe.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 17, 2014, at 11:27 AM, "Stroud, Natalie K" <[email protected]> wrote: > > ** > That’s part of what we were looking for – thanks, Terry! J > > Natalie > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 9:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] BO and Analytics > > ** > Hi Natalie et al: > > Not sure if this was mentioned prior, but I thought I would kick in this > license entitlement just for everyone's information. > > When using the BOXI provided by BMC as part of the Analytics solution, you > are restricted as to it's use. It is mentioned below as taken from the > online docs. > > Accessing non-BMC data > > The BMC Analytics for BSM license provides the ability for the licensee to > use the SAP Business Objects technology embedded in BMC Analytics for BSM for > the purpose of accessing data from BMC products. It does not provide the > ability to use the product as a standalone enterprise Business Intelligence > system outside the context of BMC products. All data accessed by BMC > Decision Insights must either come from BMC products directly or if there is > data from non-BMC products, this data must be presented in context of BMC > data. > > For example: > > it would be acceptable to use BMC Analytics for BSM to create a report that > shows incident ticket information (from BMC product) as well as the cost > center of the person logging the ticket (from a non-BMC data source). > It would NOT be acceptable to create a report of employees and their cost > centers (from non-BMC data source and not in context of BMC data) > > Hope this helps in some small way.. > > Terry > > on Mar 17, 2014, Stroud, Natalie K <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Yes, Tauf: You’re correct that ITSM is not installed on our custom apps > server. > > And Keith: Our BO license is for BMC Analytics. So I guess that makes it an > OEM? We do already have a linked universe for some extra data related to > ITSM such as KM, Kinetic Survey data, some extra date variables to allow > querying incident data by our Fiscal Year and Fiscal Quarter, etc. I, too, > am curious as to an answer to Tauf’s question. Does adding our custom app > data to our linked universe make sense when the data is not directly > ITSM-related and located on a completely separate server to boot? > > 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 Tauf Chowdhury > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 8:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: BO and Analytics > > ** > 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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