Report Delivery Tools for Scheduling, Bursting, Subscription

scheduling XI Scheduler
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Hello,

My client is looking at report delivery tools to implement on top of SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence to enable the requested capabilities below. They’ve mentioned Infosol’s InfoBurst; would someone be able to:

  1. Share more information on InfoBurst or recommend other report delivery tools that other clients have implemented?
  2. Comment on whether the client’s planned upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects v 4.3 will improve scheduling / bursting capabilities?

Requested Capabilities:

  • Report Scheduling and Bursting
    -----------Shared directly by Email or other Electronic means without requiring access to a portal
    -----------Shared to a reporting repository (E.g. Laserfiche)
  • Subscriptions
  • Embedded reports

Other context:

  • They’re currently experiencing performance issues when scheduling for a large number of users (30+)
  • The current scheduling tool in BusinessObjects requires them to manually edit a separate instance of a report for each intended recipient (e.g. a power user has to create 400 instances of the same report)[/list]

nprasad7 (BOB member since 2020-07-10)

2

Those last 2 bullet points make me think that;

A) They dont know how to scale the job servers in SAP BI. B) Dont know how to use report bursting properly.

ABILtd :uk: (BOB member since 2006-02-08)

3

They were stuck on a old CPU-based license model that prevented them from scaling their servers. They’re now transitioning to a user-based license model which should help.

Can you expand on your second point?

nprasad7 (BOB member since 2020-07-10)

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Wow, they must be mature, CPU based licenses havn`t existed for years.

On the second point, you can create a publication from a single document that will be burst to multiple external emails with personalised data, isn`t that whats required?

ABILtd :uk: (BOB member since 2006-02-08)

5

Yep, that’s the requirement.

Any known issues / barriers with using Publications?

nprasad7 (BOB member since 2020-07-10)

6

Can`t answer that without knowing the specific use-case.

ABILtd :uk: (BOB member since 2006-02-08)