Intelligent thinking, intelligent results
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`Noad Business Intelligence BV
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`Noad Americas Inc., One Rockefeller Plaza,
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`Amersfoortseweg 38, 3951 LC Maarn, Netherlands
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`Suite 1420, New York, NY 10020, United States
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`Tel: +31 343 449430, Fax: +31 343 449439
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`Tel: +1 (212) 397 7871, Fax: +1 (212) 265 6402
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`E: info@noadbi.com, W: www.noadbi.com
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`E: info@noadbi.com, W: www.noadbi.com
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`technical insight
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`System requirements
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`Noad Business Intelligence
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`Forward thinking
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`EQM functionality
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`From Noad Business Intelligence
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`EQM consists of a large number of functions and analysis
`reports that form the Quality Assurance system for
`BusinessObjects (Enterprise) Deployments. The software
`gives you full visibility and control of your BusinessObjects
`deployment, while providing the full life cycle control of
`universes and documents.
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`Systematic BusinessObjects deployment
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`Separated environments D(T)AP
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`EQM supports the separation of various environments for
`Development, Testing (optional), Acceptance and
`Production. Specifically for BusinessObjects, the use of
`multiple security domains, universe and document
`domains and WebIntelligence servers are also supported.
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`Change management
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`In the change management process of BusinessObjects
`universes and documents, EQM allows you to assign
`specific responsibilities to various users. The result is
`increased transparency in the BusinessObjects
`deployment process.
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`Automated transfers
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`Within BusinessObjects, transferring universes and
`documents from one environment to another can be
`complex. During this process files are manually moved
`from the source environment to the destination
`environment(s). In some cases this process can take up to
`14 manual changes, all with the potential to include
`errors. With EQM, transferring universes and documents
`(full client and WebIntelligence) between environments is
`simplified using drag and drop functionality.
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`Workflow
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`The EQM workflow ensures that all changes of
`the BusinessObjects deployment are performed
`in a controlled way. Only tested and approved
`universes and documents are taken to
`production stage. Segregation of duties ensures
`only approved actions can be executed, with an
`easy to use check in/check out mechanism for
`all versions.
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`Software requirements workstation:
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`• Windows XP, 2000 or NT (sp 6 or higher)
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`• ODBC or OLEDB for communication with EQM repository
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`• BusinessObjects 5.1.6 or higher and Enterprise 6
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`NOAD is the leading solutions provider of BI Quality
`Assurance. NOAD allows organizations to manage their
`BI environment by reducing control costs and increasing
`predictability. NOAD solutions help organizations control
`the quality of their overall BI and improve the return on
`investment from existing BI systems.
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`From North American headquarters in New York and
`European headquarters in Maarn; the Netherlands,
`NOAD maintains an intelligent Worldwide partner network
`including US, Canada, Australia, UK, France, Italy,
`Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland,
`Netherlands, Germany, Switserland, Austria and Israel.
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`EQM repository requirements:
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`• Oracle 8.1.7 or higher
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`• MS SQL Server 7 or higher
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`• DB2 7.1 or higher on AIX and Windows NT
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`• BO repositories can run on any BO supported database
`platform
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`EQM software requirements for WebIntelligence:
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`• Windows based OS; Unix versions are supported as of
`Q4-2004
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`• WebIntelligence 2.7 or higher
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`EQM software is the Quality Assurance solution for
`organizations that have adopted BusinessObjects as a
`strategic enterprise platform.
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`Developed specifically to support BusinessObjects and
`with a remarkably small footprint, (often implemented and
`delivering tangible benefits within just ten days), EQM is
`already used by the World’s leading businesses to deploy,
`maintain, improve and ensure adoption of Business
`Intelligence solutions.
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`These benefits include:
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`• Systematic BusinessObjects deployment
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`• Version control on universes and documents, both full
`client and WebIntelligence
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`• Comprehensive monitor capabilities
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`• Audit & reporting
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`Intelligent thinking, intelligent results
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`Version control
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`Track changes
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`Key performance indicators
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`EQM delivers capabilities that reach beyond the standard
`version control tools. EQM will not only control the different
`versions of your documents and universes, but will also
`analyze these and store the meta-data. EQM adds
`intelligence to version control which also results in a
`reduction in testing time.
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`EQM can determine changes in universes and documents,
`applied by BusinessObjects designers, using the EQM
`difference analysis reports. Any previous version of a
`universe or document, stored in EQM, may be compared
`with the latest version, highlighting those items that have
`changed.
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`EQM is delivered with a number of predefined indicators
`and graphics. Capabilities to create and customize
`key performance indicators are also included.
`Different connections for various indicators allow the option
`to access multiple databases.
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`EQM Architecture
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`EQM Log
`EQM Log
`Server
`Server
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`EQM
`EQM
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`EQM Performance
`EQM Performance
`Designer
`Designer
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`USER ACTIVITY
`USER ACTIVITY
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`INDICATORS
`INDICATORS
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`Alarms on indicators
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`With EQM you can set alert values for every indicator that has
`been defined. These values can be changed at any time
`according to the specific needs of each EQM user. When a
`value is reached, EQM will generate an alert.
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`Audit & Reporting
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`EQM provides capabilities that ensure complete control
`over quality, integrity and consistency of BusinessObjects
`deployments.
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`With EQM you can review:
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`• Changes made in universes and documents.
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`• Active and inactive users.
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`• Frequently used and non used corporate and end user
`documents.
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`• Trend analysis of usage documents.
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`• Trend analysis of usage universes.
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`• Frequently used and non used universes.
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`• Users per document and universe.
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`• Query times per data provider (full client only).
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`• Average query time per document, universe and user.
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`• Trend analysis query time per document. (Identify long
`running report).
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`• Usage of document versions which have been replaced
`by new version and identify the person(s) using these
`out-of-date documents.
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`• Universe and document analyses.
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`USER ACTIVITY
`USER ACTIVITY
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`EQM
`EQM
`REPOSITORY
`REPOSITORY
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`EQM Scheduler
`EQM Scheduler
`Server
`Server
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`SCHEDULED
`SCHEDULED
`INDICATORS
`INDICATORS
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`INDICATOR
`INDICATOR
`RESULTS
`RESULTS
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`DEPLOYMENT MANAGEMENT
`DEPLOYMENT MANAGEMENT
`WEBI SUPPORT
`WEBI SUPPORT
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`DEPLOYMENT
`DEPLOYMENT
`CONTROL
`CONTROL
`FULL CLIENT
`FULL CLIENT
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`WEBI
`WEBI
`SUPPORT
`SUPPORT
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`BO End User
`BO End User
`(EQM add-in
`(EQM add-in
`installed)
`installed)
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`WebI Server
`WebI Server
`(EQM WebI
`(EQM WebI
`support installed)
`support installed)
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`EQM Users &
`EQM Users &
`Business Objects
`Business Objects
`Developer
`Developer
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`USING BO
`USING BO
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`EQM CONTROLLED DEPLOYMENT
`EQM CONTROLLED DEPLOYMENT
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`BusinessObjects
`BusinessObjects
`Deployment
`Deployment
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`BO Technology
`BO Technology
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`EQM CONTROLLED
`EQM CONTROLLED
`DEPLOYMENT
`DEPLOYMENT
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`BO
`BO
`Development
`Development
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`BO
`BO
`Acceptance
`Acceptance
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`BO
`BO
`Production
`Production
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`Rollback universes and reports
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`Impact analyses
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`BusinessObjects stores a document as a Binary Large
`Object (BLOB). The details of which are not available to the
`user. As a result, it is not possible to determine the impact
`of universe changes on existing (corporate) documents.
`To ensure that existing documents work properly after
`changes have been applied, all documents using the
`modified universe should be tested.
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`When loading a document into the repository, EQM breaks
`down the BLOB and stores all relevant details. As a result,
`when a universe needs to be changed, detailed impact
`analyses can be conducted to identify the exact documents
`and queries in these documents that should
`be tested. This process results in a huge reduction in
`testing time.
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`Comprehensive monitoring
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`In real-time, EQM monitors all BusinessObjects user
`activities both full client and server based. The EQM
`repository stores all monitoring data for detailed analyses
`on historical BusinessObjects end user behavior. Out of
`box monitoring capabilities include:
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`• Monitoring the usage of universes and documents on full
`client, Web Intelligence and Broadcast agent.
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`• Monitoring user activity including creating ad-hoc
`reporting, saving and changing corporate documents.
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`• Possibility of monitoring as far as object level. EQM
`supports different detail levels of monitoring.
`This includes usage of documents and universes,
`dataproviders, generated SQL and used objects.
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`You can export older versions of universes and documents
`from EQM to the BusinessObjects repository by restoring
`back-ups after a system crash with a few simple click
`through commands.
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`No changes to universes or documents can be lost during the
`development process, as each and every version is stored by
`EQM and may be retrieved at any point in time.
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`Linked universes
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`When using linked universes, BusinessObjects development
`teams can achieve massive efficiency improvements, in both
`developing and maintaining their BusinessObjects
`deployment. The option of linked universes allows them to
`define typical kernel universes, which can be included in
`derived universes, preventing the BusinessObjects designers
`from creating unnecessary redundancy.
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`EQM enhances the use of linked universes with multiple
`BusinessObjects repositories. It is also possible to provide a
`detailed overview of the relationships between linked
`universes.
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`Bug fixing
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`Using local versioning capabilities, EQM allows creation of a
`bug fix environment. In this bug fix environment, developers
`can perform parallel development in BusinessObjects.
`Developers can work on the next version of a universe or
`document and at the same time another developer can create
`a bug fix to solve production problems. Bug fixes are created
`in a separate environment (apart from the production
`environment) to perform tests on the changes in the bug fix.
`All changes made during bug fixing are stored in the EQM
`repository, so all history is documented and previous
`versions can be restored.
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`Documentation
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`EQM generates detailed documentation of all universes and
`documents automatically ensuring continuity in the capturing
`of knowledge regarding BusinessObjects deployments.
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