Approaches to Development, Test, and Production Universes

As BI deployments have matured, many companies now deploy BI across the enterprise. However, version management used extensively in software development is not quite as robust in the BI environment.

In SAP BusinessObjects 4.0, LifeCycle Manager replaced what was previously known as the Import Wizard, and in Feature Pack 3, LifeCycle Manager has been integrated with the Central Management Console (CMC) as two separate tabs: Promotion Management and Version Management.

Promotion Management uses Business Intelligence Application Resource (BIAR) files to allow you to move content from one environment to the next. A BIAR file is a type of zip or archive file that contains XML files for documents, ...

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