I can’t seem to find a clear documents that clearly explains the Deployment Differences for the following two scenarios…
1.) Deploying the PeopleSoft OEM version of BOE-XI (5-Cal) on an infrastructure without any other BO environments.
2.) Existing separate infrastructure for PeopleSoft 8.9 and BOE-XI (Premium). Deploying the PeopleSoft Integration Kit (PSIK) to “bridge” between the two infrastructures.
If anyone can link me to docs/training/webinars it would be appreciated.
Half of the config info was in the BOE documents for PSIK, the rest was in the Oracle PeopleSoft documents. Never found a single-master document that covered it all.
Ended-up working side-by-side with a PeopleSoft Admin to get the servers talking to each other.
…and since the SAP Support site started, I can’t even give you the old BOBJ links to those 1/2 documents…
My understanding is that it allows you to generate CRYSTAL REPORTS and WEB INTELLIGENCE reports against your PeopleSoft data ONLY (no non-PeopleSoft data).
It also allows you to use your PeopleSoft security to control-access to reports hosted on BOE-XI (R2)…with a maximum of Five (5) users accessing the reports at any given time.
By the way - Oracle used to bundle BO Crystal/Enterprise with their JD Edwards ERP system. Same sort of licensing as you mentioned above. Maybe they do that for Peoplesoft too.
But they just discontinued the JD Edwards BOE OEM’ed license, and are now bundling their own BI tools.
So I would wonder if the future of BO OEM’ed into Peoplesoft will be rather short.
Crystal Reports has been OEM’ed into PeopleSoft forever…I think that too many users have too many reports in that format to have it “replaced” at this point without some serious client push-back.
I recall the grand vision of “Fusion” when they merged OpenWorld with Connect and talked about combining Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, etc. together for perfection… Hasn’t happened yet, but doesnt mean it isnt right around the corner!
Thanks for the input Gentlemen, I will take a swing at this and see what I get!
-Glenn
This was my experience with BOE / PS integrations as well. I’ve been thinking about putting together a whitepaper covering both sides of the integration and common pitfalls, but I was never sure if there’s much of an audience for it…
I too am curious what the future holds for BOE PSIK product - I have to assume it has a few years of support left minimally, as SAP put out the R3x version…
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