Business Objects assessment provides valuable information such as insights on maturity of the Business Objects deployment and the Business Objects user adoption.

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Business Objects BI on BI Assessment
For the last decade, we helped our Business Objects clients to maximize their SAP BI investments
and reduce associated costs. One of the key milestones of any SAP BI and Analytics project is to
perform a Business Objects Assessment also known as a Business Objects Health Check. It is one
of the critical steps you need to perform before a migration or an upgrade. This is very IT centric,
it helps you identify the overall landscape and clean up the unnecessary and unused objects.
The goal is to minimize your Business Objects migration/upgrade project costs and time-frame
while reducing the risks. Those topics have already been discussed within several blog posts or
white papers made available on our website. Thus it is a cyclic operation to perform (every time
a new SP needs to be applied or major migration). It can also help you to better define memory
needs and your licensing needs based on effective usage; especially the number of CSBL
licenses.
Assessments are traditionally used by IT and can also be used by Business. Valuable information
is provided to businesses, such as insights on maturity of the Business Objects deployment and
application adoption.
360Scan is our tool for Business Objects Health Checks. We use Full BI on BI analyzing information
from CMS, Auditor and FileStore. 360Scan is easy to install allowing information to remain on site
(not on the cloud) and that is reported in Pre-canned IBCS like webis for IT and Business.
360Scan from an IT perspective will:
Define Memory needs
Get crystal clear licensing requirements
Analyze unused Content, Universes Objects, and Reports
360Scan from a Business perspective will:
Gain deep insights on user adoption
Find sponsors for your BI journey
Adapt BI tools to real usage

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Below are a few reports, please note they are in Webi and following IBCS rules to get to the point
and avoid unnecessary eye distractions.
The first topic is based on the effective trends of your current deployment. The aim is to make sure
while you are increasing the BI content, the usage is following the same trend (see image below).
The same assessment should be done for users, while the number of users is increasing… what
about the sessions? The aim is to anticipate future needs and adapt them based on trends. You
can leverage those trends on user adoption to better define the number of CSBL currently
needed and the one needed in the future!

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The second topic is based on finding the most active users on your Business Objects platform to
use them as sponsors. This could be users or departments within your organization.
The last output generated by the Business Objects assessment is about making sure deployed
tools correspond to effective usage. This can help you propose a traditional BI platform like (mode
1) such as Business Objects WebIntelligence and a modern BI platform like (mode 2) such as
Lumira 2.0.
IT centric or Business-oriented Business Objects health check is the first step to help you maximize
your investment and bridging IT and business!
Request a Free Business Objects assessment today from https://360suite.io/
The Journey to Success by 360Suite Customers https://360suite.io/sap-business-objects/use-
cases/