BO Encyclopedia?

[n30er]

Our company is evaluating the BO Analytic Applications and were shown their Encyclopedia product, which looks really great. It allows us to see information about a column in a report and see where that data actually came from in our Oracle ERP. We have Webi now and are curious if this product leverages Universe or is separate metadata. The sales people told us it all uses the Universe, but our Dashboard Manager doesn't use the Universe, so I don't believe them anymore. Can anyone help debunk the sales speak?

Thanks - Mike

 

[skrandel]

Encyclopedia in 6.5 does not use your universes at all. It is an application that requires that you store stuff manually in a database.

In XI, it works very well. The metadata is brought over from the universe directly.

Steve Krandel
Symantec