Define, run, and monitor your SAP BusinessObjects tasks in the Workload Scheduler environment to gain greater control over the creation of your SAP BusinessObjects reports. In addition to generating reports ad hoc as your business users request them, you can easily shift them into regularly scheduled jobs and combine them with other SAP and non-SAP processes into a single and meaningful workload. The integration enables you to manage and monitor SAP BusinessObjects and any other dependent operations from a central location and automatically detect problems and apply recovery actions to ensure that future strategies and decision-making are based on relevant and reliable data for you, your customers and coworkers.

Business scenario

Every night the Order Book is processed at P&HWare, a large manufacturer of personal and household goods. The IBM Workload Scheduler Administrator creates a job stream containing jobs that process the daily orders. When this process has completed, SAP BusinessObjects is triggered to create reports and they are sent to all interested parties.

It's crucial to P&HWare that business and financial analysts receive their daily reports early in the morning. To achieve this, they want to reduce the time spent in problem determination when failures occur during the creation of reports or during the delivery of them. P&HWare wants to automate and monitor SAP BO report creation and improve the integration and control of the entire process. The solution is IBM Workload Scheduler integration with SAP BusinessObjects. A new job type, SAP BusinessObject, encapsules SAP BusinessObject reports, triggering and monitoring report creation, returning the completion status as successful or failed, and scheduling any subsequent jobs.

The solution is IBM Workload Scheduler integration with SAP BusinessObjects. A new job type, SAP BusinessObject, encapsules SAP BusinessObject reports, triggering and monitoring report creation, returning the completion status as successful or failed, and scheduling any subsequent jobs.