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More than a year has passed since the first actionable 4.3 versions were launched, which provided massive visual enhancements, a simplified WebI interface, a harmonized look and feel, and increased integration with SAP Analytics Cloud.
No need for costly in-house infrastructure makes it attractive for business owners — a low-risk venture with great reward potential. Businesses can take advantage of the fact that a cloud-based BI solution reduces the capital expenditure as there is no hardware or infrastructure to set up.
Al Faisal Holding, one of Qatar’s leading private companies, has signed a five-year agreement with SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, to deploy SAP business solutions. These solutions will enhance the integration of Al Faisal Holding’s operations as the Group continues its strategic expansion across a number of different sectors.
When trying to upgrade your SAP BusinessObjects (BO) Business Intelligence (BI) Platform from XI3.1 to 4.0 or greater and migrate your Windows AD Users and Groups, you will notice that they were migrated with Copy (1) in their name.
The resolution provided by SAP in this case is to manually rename the Users and Groups.
This is fine if you have up to 50 objects to rename; but in general this is not the case, so you will want an automated solution (unless you want to waste some good hours).
Now the question is: How you can create an automated solution? There is a simple answer: by taking advantage of the Platform SDK.
