In October I introduced the topic of Integration capabilities between SAP BusinessObjects and Microsoft SharePoint, highlighting the benefits of the integration for those companies that want to streamline their Business Intelligence content through their company portal. In this article I reported a comparison of the integration software that SAP offers to BO customers, based on the different system configurations, and presented the features of the leading product currently available, called Integration Option for Microsoft Sharepoint – IOMS.

In follow up to the initial investigation, one of our customers recently asked us to implement IOMS on an existing BusinessObject XI R3 Edge and Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007 platform. Based on this customer success story, I will explain the requirements and the steps I went through in order to set up and install the IOMS software.

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Nowadays many companies are making a considerable effort to guarantee the constant sharing of information, knowledge and expertise across their organizations. It comes as no surprise that Information Technology plays a key role in responding to this challenge.

A very popular IT solution for organizing enterprise information is the use of company portals. From an IT professional perspective, portals combine enterprise data and applications that reside on the company intranet into a tight infrastructure. From a business perspective, portals provide users with easy access to data and applications through personalized views.

Business Intelligence is also an important part of this discussion for companies that want to use their intranet portal to deliver reports and dashboards to end users. For example, one of our customers has recently asked us to investigate the integration capabilities of Business Objects XI R3 with the leading portal-solution on the market, Microsoft SharePoint.

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