The modern enterprise running SAP BusinessObjects has become large and complex. From managing multiple environments across different geographies and of varying assets (Crystal Reports, SAP Design Studio, Analysis Services), or configuring and auditing security across thousands of users and even more objects and folders, the administration has also become increasingly difficult.

MetaMiner provides a single entry-point into your entire BI landscape and allows you to manage any number of environments, simultaneously.

MetaMiner makes managing your BI platform trivial and reduces typical administration workflows (impact analysis: from 3 days to 1 minute) dramatically. MetaMiner provides instant answers to complex questions that allow organizations to accelerate their deployments and ultimately realize a much faster return on analytics.

Here is a basic administrative scenario, retrieving a list of users who have logged onto SAP BusinessObjects in the last 6 months - with no answer in sight when left with basic SAP tooling:

Use Case
Richard manages a global SAP BusinessObjects XI3 deployment that spans 4 environments and 5000 users. In three months they would like to migrate to BI4 to exploit its new dashboarding and BI Launchpad features. Before doing this, he needs to know the most critical users to migrate to the new environment. To determine this, he needs the SI_LASTLOGONTIME and not concern himself with users who a) never logged on and b) have not logged on in more than 6 months.

SAP Query Builder as discussed in the previous section offers limited capabilities:

With MetaMiner, we are able to instantly retrieve these results and begin our migration analysis in less than 10 seconds:

The MetaMiner SQL workbench Meta Query is also provided and allows direct access to your BI landscape metadata using familiar SQL (also accessable using your favorite SQL tools):

MetaMiner aims to accelerate time-to-deployment through a number of innovative firsts in platform management, such as:

 

 
See also

Retrieveing BI Documents from CMS