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Business Performance Management (BPM) Reporting consists of a collection of universes and standard reports. Universes provide actuals, budget amounts, and dimensions for producing standard reports and ad hoc queries in Business Objects Web Intelligence. All standard reports run on Maconomy's transactional database through one or more universes.

This section provides steps for installing BPM Reporting and setting up Maconomy. This process includes:

• Installing and configuring SAP BusinessObjects.
• Importing universes and reports that are contained in Lifecycle Management Business Intelligence Archive Resource (LCMBIAR) files.
• Managing users and single sign-on settings.
• Entering the necessary setup data in Maconomy.

This data is required for the universes and reports to work correctly.

For specific requirements for hardware, see the documentation for BusinessObjects, Pentaho, Maconomy, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Tip: This document does not contain information about hardware, sizing, performance tuning, or maintenance.

Note:

Access Control

In BPM, access control applies in the same way as in Maconomy. In BPM Analysis, access control is not applied on dimension tables. The reason is that the analysis universes are used in another why where fact tables are typically involved in queries. When doing so, access control applies in the same way as in Maconomy.