Hello all I was hoping to get some information on the Edge series solution for mid-markets in comparison to the full Enterprise solution - Premium. I am awaiting my accout rep to contact me to go over in detail, however, while waiting word from him thought it wouldn’t hurt to get some insight from those on the forum.
My specific questions regard around the Standard edition of Edge which seems to be a scaled down version of Premium Enterprise, from talking with others at the conference last week the limitation is on the users (only 20 concurrent users). Does this statement sound correct? I see in the description that Edge offers Life Office, WebI, Crystal and Xcelsius. I know this is a blanket statement, however, is there any other differences besides the limitation of users?
I appreciate any feedback or statements as we only have a user base of 250 and this looks like it may be a good start, Kevin!
I`m deploying Edge (well BO Crystal Decisions - they rebranded in a few months!) Professional for a customer at the moment.
From what I can see, the 20 CAL is the only limitation, plus I don`t think you can scale it across servers, so if you deploy it, make sure you use a server that you can scale if your WEBi use becomes a bit intense.
Webi is the full thing, the BOXI architecture is the full thing, you can plug Xcelcius and Crystal Reports into it. So it`s a full Adhoc, Production and Dashboard reporting solution.
The version of Data Integrator is non standard, but it seems to have most of the features of regular 11.7 (apart from data quality stuff and it also can`t be scaled). It even has Metadata integrator.
You can do all the report distribution, so maybe you can cater for a lot uf users with that.
All in all, I like it because it`s quite a neat tidy product, you know exactly what you get without having to buy loads of other bits.
Plus if you needed to go beyond 20 CAL, this could probably done with a license key change as opposed and actual migration.
From what I have heard from an account rep, looks like it won’t be possible to even have a remote location for your CMS Database (let’s say a remote Oracle instance) and/or shared storage on the network for the FRS file store.
I can understand if they limit us from distributing the BOXI services on to multiple machines, but it is hard to believe that we can’t even put our repository and filestore on a remote machine.
I have placed the CMS Database on a separate database server (MS SQL Server 2005). I have not yet placed the input/output files on a different machine.
The big limitations to this product are:
The 20 Concurrent Access License/20 Named User License limit
You can deploy it on a single server only.
If that’s not a problem then your in good shape. I would get yourself a server with quite a bit of hardware if you intend to approach the 20 CAL/20 NUL limit.
One other thing I’d like to mention. This product does not install the Business View Manager. You can’t get it with a client tool install. You also can’t get it with a custom server install. Just wanted to share that tidbit.
I am new to BO XI version. We are also deploying the Crystal Decisions (standard version). I have a question about the hardware infrastructure for dev-qa-prod. We are looking to install everything, including DI on one development box. But for QA and Prod, what is the best way to set up hardware? Where to put CMS database, where to put DI repository, etc…especially for a simple migration path.
Any advice you can share would be great.
Also, we were able to buy 50 CAL’s for our implementation of Crystal Decisions.
Hi, i just wonder now has launch BOE XI3.0 and it has new features.
If i purchase BO Edge Series (formerly BOCD) now, is it come with XIR3.0 engine? such as in BOE XI3.0, it has “changes track” feature in WebI, is it feature come with in the new purchase of Edge series?
And can BO Edge series integrate with Crystal Report 2008 and XCelsius 2008?
I just installed at Client and the CMS was on a DB2 server. As far as I know there isn’t a restriction on where the CMS or Audit repositories are located.
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