Archive for the ‘Delivery Methodology’ Category

Automated Unit Testing in SAP Data Services. Part I

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Introduction One of the key drivers of this article is that although there are many articles on unit testing in general on internet there are hardly any on unit testing with SAP DataServices. Unit testing has been accepted as a key part of the software development lifecycle for projects building applications ...

SAP Data Services: 10 Reasons for never using Global Variables (and one where you can)

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

In software programming it is widely held that using global variables or other constructs to maintain global state is a poor programming practice[1] and many of those reasons can also be applied to development of jobs in SAP Data Services. The following is my list of 10 reasons for why you ...

SAP BOE Security Model Patterns

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Security Modelling is concerned with two areas: authentication - establishing who the user is, essentially the logon process and authorisation - controlling user access to different areas of the system. This article discusses four different design patterns for authorisation security models that can be used in SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise. In SAP ...

Developing BI Applications

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

This article looks at an approach to developing SAP BusinessObjects solutions where rather than just writing reports and universes we instead build a BI Application. The main benefit of this approach is a more efficient, streamlined and organised delivery process. A BI Application is viewed as a complete project where the ...

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI3 Deployment Patterns

Friday, March 19th, 2010

When deploying an SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise system there are a lot of choices for where you can deploy all the services that make up the system. It is then necessary to make sure that you choose the right deployment in order to meet your requirements, for example, is it easily ...