Discover SAP Analytics strategy and learn how you can easily find all your SAP BusinessObjects unused licenses to apply those resources to SAP Analytics Cloud and deliver greater agility to your organization thanks to hybrid analytics.
13. Make Data Driven Decisions to Optimize
Your SAP BusinessObjects Deployment
Get Evidence on Your
SAP BusinessObjects Deployment
• Expose your stockpile of unused licenses.
• Identify your abandoned reports.
• Rationalize your memory requirements.
• Document your scheduled jobs.
• And much more.
360Scan is a read-only, non-invasive program that is easy to delete, runs on-site, and generates
one-time outputs that displays anonymized metadata. Typically runs in less than 1 hour.
14. What we learned
Of license on avg are never used
20%
50% Of content is not used (13 months)
15. ● Find new partners through targeted marketing on Linkedin to BOBJ consultant
● Train the partners consultants on our solutions and use cases
● Find a lucrative incentive, the more client they bring, the more money they get.
The higher the sale the higher the percentage
● Create a referral website + success stories
Potential Licenses to SAC
● Understand which licenses (NUL and CSBL) are being used, not used, and at what
frequency.
● Get insight on the peaks.
SAC candidates reports based on SAP requirements:
👍 Identify Schedule vs Ad-hoc reporting.
👍 Reports that use complex formulas.
👍 Web Intelligence reports with Charts.
👍 Find SAP BOBJ Explorer, Dashboard (Xcelsius) and Lumira content.
👍 Data sources - Find what can be direct or via BOBJ.
⚠ Reports with multiple tabs and queries.
16. 360Scan
Technical Aspects
● Easy-to-run (no install required)
● No impact => handful of users logged on
● Typically runs in under 1 hour
● A workstation with SAP BOBJ libraries
● SAP BusinessObjects Auditor on
● 360Scan runs with your DB or a H2 local DB
● Anonymous => Pre canned reports not showing document names or user names