Documentation and useful resources for SAP BusinessObjects

Business Intelligence Platform

Product Documentation:
The documentation of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform is published in
SAP Help Portal
For more information, see: http://help.sap.com/bobip

Product Availability Matrix (PAM):

Product Availability Matrix contains information about SAP software releases:

Release type (for example: standard release, early adoption release, or custom
development project release)
Planned availability
Maintenance durations
Upgrade paths
Platform availability, including database platforms and operating systems
Compatibility with third party platforms (for example: database, web application,
operation systems)
For more information, see: http://support.sap.com/pam

BI eLearning Tutorials:
The product tutorials are designed to help you learn how to use SAP BusinessObjects Business
Intelligence (BI) products.
For more information, see: http://sap.com/learnbi or http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7725

SAP BusinessObjects Pattern Books:

Deploying SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform can involve more than just
installing BI platform software on a single machine. To fully leverage SAP BI platform in your
company's environment, you may want to complete the following tasks:
Set up firewalls, reverse proxy servers, and load balancers
Configure your company's existing software, such as application servers and database
servers
Install and configure BI platform software on multiple machines for scalability and
redundancy
 Integrate with your company's existing security infrastructure
The Pattern Books provides step by step instructions on different deployment scenarios of SAP
Business Intelligence Platform.
For more information, see:
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+Business+Intelligence+Platform+Pattern+Books

Adaptive Processing Servers Best Practices:

Adaptive process servers summarizes the following:
Best practices, tuning, configuration and troubleshooting to make your SAP
BusinessObjects Adaptive Processing Server perform best.
A handy summary for an administrator familiar with SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise BI
platform.
For more information, see: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31711

Business Intelligence Sizing Guide:

Properly deploying your SAP BusinessObjects BI4 or SAP Lumira landscape is critical. It is
necessary to properly size and deploy the SAP BusinessObjects products.
For more information, see: http://sap.com/bisizing or http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-33183

Business Intelligence Upgrade Resources:

To upgrade your Business Intelligence, planning is an important aspect to ensure smooth
process, mitigate risk, and provide more capabilities and value.
For more information, see: www.sapbi.com/upgrade

Visit http://support.sap.com for more resources.