SAP BusinessObjects BI Security - Hardcover

Ah-Soon, Christian; Gonzalez, David François

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592294375 ISBN 13: 9781592294374

Publisher: SAP PRESS, 2012

Synopsis

"Don't talk to strangers"—if only data security policies were this easy. Learn to keep your SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence data truly safe from unauthorized actions with this comprehensive guide. Begin with security basics and work your way to advanced concepts; along the way, you’ll explore functional and data security, define a rights model, and secure data sources and universes. Step-by-step instructions ensure that you can implement important security techniques in your administration and design work. This book puts the master key to data security in your hands.

1. Best Practices Unveiled Implement a security system that is easy to understand, use, and enhance by using basic workflows.

2. Rights Framework Put the rights framework to work for you using group and folder inheritance and custom access levels.

3. Specific Rights Explore the specific rights of system and content objects stored in the CMS repository, as well as BI 4.0 suite applications.

4. Universe Security Compare security features of universes created with Universe Design Tool side by side with its successor, Information Design Tool.

5. SAP NetWeaver BW, LDAP, and Active Directory Learn how to secure your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 system using external authentication systems and data sources.

Highlights Include:

• SAP NetWeaver BW, LDAP, and Active Directory authentication
• Single sign-on
• Rights framework and inheritance model
• Access levels
• General and specific rights
• Secured connections
• Universe security
• Access restriction
• Data and business security profile
• Scheduling, publications, and personalization profile

About this title

About the Author:

Christian Ah-Soon has worked for SAP BusinessObjects for 13 years as a program manager on areas like administration, security, internationalization, and installation. Christian holds a Ph.D. in computer science and graduated from TELECOM Nancy.

David François Gonzalez is an SAP BusinessObjects product expert engineer with the research and development group based in France. David has worked for SAP BusinessObjects for 13 years, starting with the BusinessObjects V5 and the Supervisor product and later managing a team in charge of BusinessObjects V6 suite testing. David shifted to customer contact with XI R2 and XI 3.1, where he was in charge of customer environment replication. Four years ago, he started working very close to both the field and the customers, providing best practices and white papers on internal and external websites. Since then, he has participated in conferences such as Utilisateurs SAP Francophones and TechEd, and he regularly helps customers troubleshoot site problems and implement SAP BusinessObjects solutions.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAP PRESS
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1592294375
• ISBN 13: 9781592294374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 562