We’re running Business Objects & Webi on Oracle 7.2 with success, but we’re
developing a distributed object scheme to provide consistent functionality to
many applications across our enterprise, and currently Business Objects does not
support such a non standard data source. I’m wondering if anyone else has any
experience with this technology or is heading in the same direction. What’s
available for reporting, is there a bridge to BusObj universes, what are the
pitfalls… (The objects will most likely be Java based using CORBA or RMI.)
We have the same thing going on overhere. A multiple database systems
environment partly written in house and partly standard solution. Also
we are about to implement a Data Abstraction layer to keep the whole
sha-bang consistent (currrently a manual process) Ofcourse it would be
great to design Universe(s) based on this data tier. There are (at
least) two solutions to this:
Implement an ODBC driver which reads from the propriatary data layer.
It doesn’t have to be complete as long as it implements all
functionality BO uses for design and reporting.
Write an BO extension that “talks” to the data layer. For this you
probably need extensive knowledge of the BO internals and I’m sure BO
will not provide you easily with all their secrets.
Anyone else has a better option? Business Objects itself?