Promotion Management Tool for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0 is a
web-based tool that enables you to move BI resources from one system to another system, without
affecting the dependencies of these resources. It also enables you to manage different versions of BI
resources, manage dependencies of BI resources, and roll back a promoted resource to restore the
destination system to its previous state.
Main tasks:
• Promotion -This feature enables you to create or update infoobjects in the destination system. Apart
from promoting infoobjects, it enables you to perform the following tasks:
• Managing Dependencies - This feature enables you to select, filter, and manage dependents of
infoobjects in the job that you want to promote.
• Scheduling - This feature enables you to specify a time for job promotion, rather than promote a job
as soon as it is created. You can specify the time for job promotion by using any of the following
parameters: hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly.
• Security - This feature enables you to promote infoobjects along with the associated security rights.
You can also use this feature to promote infoobjects associated with application rights.
• Test Promotion - This feature enables you to check or test the promotion to ensure that all the
preventive measures are taken before the actual promotion of the infoobjects.
• Rollback - This feature enables you to restore the destination system to its previous state, after a
job is promoted. You can roll back an entire job or a part of the job.
• Auditing-Theeventsgeneratedby thelifecyclemanagement consolearestoredintheauditdatabase.
The Auditing feature enables you to monitor the events that are logged in the audit database.
• Administration options - This feature enables the administrator to configure the parameters of the
lifecycle management console.
• Version Management -This feature enables you to manage different versions of the same document.
It also enables you to track the changes in the directory.
• Promoting Overrides - This feature enables you to promote the overrides through a job promotion.
The main purpose of this tool is creating LCMBIAR for backuping your SAP BO objects. This tool help you to save LCMBIAR in
web-based tool that enables you to move BI resources from one system to another system, without
affecting the dependencies of these resources. It also enables you to manage different versions of BI
resources, manage dependencies of BI resources, and roll back a promoted resource to restore the
destination system to its previous state.
Main tasks:
• Promotion -This feature enables you to create or update infoobjects in the destination system. Apart
from promoting infoobjects, it enables you to perform the following tasks:
- Create a new job
- Copy an existing job
- Edit a job
- Schedule a job promotion
- View the history of a job
• Managing Dependencies - This feature enables you to select, filter, and manage dependents of
infoobjects in the job that you want to promote.
• Scheduling - This feature enables you to specify a time for job promotion, rather than promote a job
as soon as it is created. You can specify the time for job promotion by using any of the following
parameters: hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly.
• Security - This feature enables you to promote infoobjects along with the associated security rights.
You can also use this feature to promote infoobjects associated with application rights.
• Test Promotion - This feature enables you to check or test the promotion to ensure that all the
preventive measures are taken before the actual promotion of the infoobjects.
• Rollback - This feature enables you to restore the destination system to its previous state, after a
job is promoted. You can roll back an entire job or a part of the job.
• Auditing-Theeventsgeneratedby thelifecyclemanagement consolearestoredintheauditdatabase.
The Auditing feature enables you to monitor the events that are logged in the audit database.
• Administration options - This feature enables the administrator to configure the parameters of the
lifecycle management console.
• Version Management -This feature enables you to manage different versions of the same document.
It also enables you to track the changes in the directory.
• Promoting Overrides - This feature enables you to promote the overrides through a job promotion.
The main purpose of this tool is creating LCMBIAR for backuping your SAP BO objects. This tool help you to save LCMBIAR in
- FTP
- Send by mail (little file only)
- Local folder of Server
- Local folder of other computer, for example user computer
Other
