Fact sheet presenting how the City of Chicago saved 200k$ upgrading to Business Objects BI4.2 using 360Suite products. City of Chicago's Dariusz Zyskowski, BI Manager, shares where he is finding ROI in a live interview regarding the 360Suite (www.360suite.io) of Business Objects tools at the 2017 ASUG conference in Nashville, TN. According to Dariusz, the top reasons for investing in the 360Suite are: 1. Reduced Consulting Costs – As a One-Man BI shop, with one of the larger BusinessObjects Landscapes out there (90,000 + Reports), he is able to scale the administration, and even migration work of SAP BusinessObjects with the 360Suite without consulting help. 2. Risk Mitigation – With 360Plus (360suite.io/360plus) for the Back-Up & Disaster Recovery solution, and 360Bind (http://360suite.io/360bind) to automate Regression Testing for Crystal Reports, & Webi Documents, he can be 100% comfortable on the recoverability & veracity of his reporting landscape. 3. Excellent Support – Dariusz discusses the support he receives from the 360Suite Customer Success team, and how it enables him to confidently support the City of Chicago’s BI landscape. For a deeper dive with Dariusz, check out this webinar: How the City of Chicago Boosts their SAP BusinessObjects Deployment. Click here https://youtu.be/f0xXtqDMTHk

1. 360Suite City of Chicago Business Objects Migration. Fact Sheet (ASUG BI annual conference 2016)
Business Objects at the City of Chicago
• Primary reporting tool since 2000
• Used by all Departments including Police, Fire, Emergency
Communication, Transportation, Finance
• 1500 users
• 90 PROD universes
• Webi, Deski, Rich Client, Crystal
• 130,000 reports (18,000 Deski)
• Two clustered PROD servers + TEST + DEV
• ~800 reports scheduled daily
360Suite Tools Used
360View
• Immediate access to real time reports in various formats
• Administration and security
• Multiple audit tools
360Plus
• Backup (recycle bin/disaster recovery) – our primary backup
solution
• Promotion management
• Real time view of several BO environments
360Bind
• Automated regression testing
• Migrated from 3.1 to 4.2 Deski and Webi reports comparison
360Eyes
• BI on BI solution to understand what’s going on
• Determine usage for cleaning
• Impact analysis
BI4.2 Migration Challenges
• 16 year old BO environment needed to be cleaned up, but how?
• 112,000 Webi reports taking up over 400 GB of server disk space.
Are they all used? What about the instances?
• 18,000 Deski reports. RCT is not enough. How do you analyze and
intelligently decrease this number keeping business happy?
• 300+ universes. Which ones are no longer used?

2. Before 360
• 112,000 Webi reports
• 18,000 Deski reports
• 300+ universes
• 175 connections
• Problematic and time consuming way of
retrieving deleted object(s)
• Reliance on CMC/LCM promotion
management tool and its limitations
• No way to report on and maintain BO
Inboxes
After 360
• 96,000 Webi reports
• 7,000 (-66%) Deski reports
• 220 (-30%) (90 PROD) universes
• 82 connections
• Immediate way to get practically anything
deleted back (as long as it was part of the
back up scheduled jobs)
• Drag and Drop ability to promote content
between BO environments
• Automated BO inbox clean up and weekly
Webi report
360 Tools helped us to…
• Get better and clear picture of our BO
environment (out of the box dashboards and
reports)
• Make educated and informed maintenance
decisions
• Reduce total number of objects by 25% (and
we are not done yet)
• Provide a great back up and disaster
recovery solution
• Automate converted report comparison
(regression testing) with the 360bind
solution saving at least $200,000 in
consulting fees
• Prepare for 4.2 migration with greatly
reduced workload and faster
conversion/migration process
• Preform many pre-migration tasks ourselves,
which again saved us time and $$$
360Suite City of Chicago Business Objects Migration. Fact Sheet (ASUG BI annual conference 2016)