Good Practice Guide

[chogben]

My company has only recently started to use BO. We've got to the point where we are trying to compile a good practice guide.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could go in it. What works for you? Even better, has anyone already created such a guide?

I'll try to put a version out in the FAQ area when it's finished.

 

[Maiden]

Hi
There is are a few guides I've obtained: one is called Global Deployment Strategies for Business Objects 2000. It covers:
❑ Overview of Sample Business Objects Environment
❑ Architecture and Repository Deployment Scenarios
Scenario 1: Centralized architecture
Scenario 2: Decentralized architecture - centralized security domain
Scenario 3: Decentralized architecture - reproduced security domain
Global deployment scenario matrix
❑ Capacity Planning for a Business Objects System
How many servers do you need?
Estimated number of servers - Windows
Estimated number of servers - UNIX: Sun Solaris
❑ Business Objects Cluster Design for Failover
Implementing failover
Broadcast Agent deployment
❑ Performance Factors
The database or data warehouse
The Business Objects repository database
The server hardware
The network
Number of users
Type, size, and number of documents
❑ Distribution of Server Components
❑ Security and Auditing
❑ Parameters for Capacity Planning

is that the sort of thing you are looking for?

 

[chogben]

Hi Maiden,

Thanks for the post, but I was after more of a guide to creating useable reports. Things such as adding the author's name, the refresh date, providing descriptions of what the data means, the values of prompts, that sort of thing.

Chris

 

[AlisonC]

Maiden

where did you get the guides from they sound like useful information to have

Thanks

Alison