Ayone know anything about Business Objects?

[DezUk]

Right I have a question here that the future mother in law is asking, she does a lot of work with excel and databases (not something I am very good at) and she is asking me a question around Business Objects.

The question is:

What do you estimate as being the man-hours required to build a Business Objects universe with WEBI?


Not sure if this is the correct forum!


Cheers

 

[NickK]

Well firstly that sentence has no meaning - from what I understand Business Objects is effectively a reporting tool. So what are you going to report?

 

[Dj_Jestar]

FYI, Business Objects is the successor to Crystal Reports.

 

[topbanana]

A business objects universe is a logical abstraction of a database. How complicated is it? How many tables? Impossible to say over a forum. Business objects provide their own consultants who'll be more than happy to come out and provide a quote. They're likely to be expensive, but it'll give an idea of the effort required.

 

[DezUk]

I know this is rather vague and I admit I don't know anything about Business Objects, I just said I would ask online about it to see if i could get any answers. I spoke to her klast night and she has made up this diagram, not sure if it will helop but worth a shot

 

[reefoid]

TBH, you're unlikely to get a good idea of man hours/price here as there are a lot of unknowns. For example - amount of data, refresh frequency, number of users, data quality, number of reports, SLA's etc. All of these will have a major affect on the project.

I ran a project a couple of years ago that included implementing BO against a Netezza datawarehouse. We got a BO consultant on the project full time, but it wasn't cheap. Consultancy alone was £1,000+ a day. Can't remember licensing and hardware costs off the top of my head, but it wasn't cheap.

I would suggest you contact BO for advice, they'll know how to gather your BO requirements and generate a quote from that.