Relationship Between Web Intelligence Reports and BusinessObjects

[Former Member]

I'm fairly new to BO and web intelligence, so this may be a very naive question.

What is the relationship between BOXI and WEBI? I have the idea that the queries designed in WEBI lead an independent existence in BOXI, but I can't find any documentation that answers this one way or another.

Can anyone give me an authorative answer, or point me to some documentation that might explain the architecture better? Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi,

This is very simple and staright forward question.

The Business Objects Enterprise XI R2 is the total product suite that is leveraged by Business Objects

The BOE product suite consists of various tools/modules

1) Designer and Business View Manager: these two are used to cretae a connection with the existing Datwarehouse/ Database

2) Desktop Intelligence and Web Intelligence: these two are used for Query and Analysis purposes ( for Reporting)

Desktop Intelligence: this is a stand alone application used to creat reports

Web Intelligence: as the name suggests this is reporting tool available on web through browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape etc

3) Central Management Console(CMC) and Central Configuration Manager(CCM): these two are used to administer the servers, users and content.

CMC: This is a web tool used to manage users, content and servers.

CCM: this is a stanalone tool used to mange servers.

4) Performance Manager and Dash Board manager: these two are used to create scorecards,dashboards, goals and track the performance.

5)Infoview: This is comon plat form which provides access to all documents, to web Intelligence, performance manager etc.

Hope this finds helpful and answers your question!