Xcelsius Deployment

[p_m8]

Hi Gurus,

I have BOE 3.1, Live Office 3.1 and Crystal Report 2008 installed on the Window Server 2003 (my BOE 3.1 Server).

I am now working on how should we design/deploy the Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 architecture.

1) Instead of installing the Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 on the same Window Server 2003, I have installed Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 with SP2 on my local machine (I am developer) as what I understand Xcelsius is just a client application where we can connect to BOE 3.1 and build the dashboard, and publish it to BOE 3.1. From my local machine, I can use

Xcelsius to connect and publish the dashboard back into BOE 3.1 Server. All work fine.

After reading the Xcelsius installation help file, I am confused:

(http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/xcelsius2008SP2/en/sp2_xcelsius_install_en.pdf)

In the help file, it says we have 3 options to deploy Xcelsius:

A) Single machine deployment

OR

B) Client installation with Crystal Reports Server deployment

OR

C) Client installation with BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise deployment

Option A is quick clear, basically means we install all the software on single server.

Option B says:

You can install Live Office and BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise on a

client machine and deploy Crystal Reports Server and the BusinessObjects

Web Services on a server machine.

Is the BusinessObjects Web Services here refer to TomCat application?

Why do we need Crystal Rerpots Server?

Is this option is the same as what I have done in above Step 1?

Option C says:

You can install Live Office and Xcelsius on a client machine and deploy

BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise and the BusinessObjects Web Services

on a server machine.

Why do we need to install Xcelsius on Client machine, then BusinessObject Xcelsius Enterprise on Server machine again?

The Xcelsius and BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise is the same software component right?

We don't Xcelsius for Client version or Xcelsius for Server version right?

Very confusing.

Please advise, thank you.

[p_m8]

just install Xcelsius on client machine,

then BOE 3.1 on Server.

Forget about what mentioned in help file!

[amit_mathur]

Hey Lynn,

As per your requirements, you don't need to be worried as Xcelsius is a complete client tool and the Service packs and Fix packs for Xcelsius are completely different as those of BO enterprise.

You can connect Xcelsius to any BOE server from your client machine.

Thanks,

Amit.

[p_m8]

Dear Gurus,

I know this can be completed OR may be too stupid question to ask but appreciate your input.

Thanks.

[amit_mathur]

Hi Lynn,

Xcelsius and Live office both are client application and can be installed on any of the client machine.

Business Object enterprise is a server installation and you can connect to this server from any client machine.

To clarify your doubts, you should go ahead and install your client application( in this case Xcelsius and Live office) onto your client machine and just connect them to server machine where you have BO enterprise/server installed to publish your swf.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Amit.

[p_m8]

Hi Amit,

Thanks for your input.

Yes, I would like to install the Xcelsius on my client machine, but confused by the Xcelsius installation file.

I have downloaded the following Xcelsius installation from the website (https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/bosap-downloads/BOBJ XCELSIUS ENTERPRISE 2008):

51034814 XCELSIUS ENGAGE & ENTERPRISE 2008 SP1 WINDOWS (32B)

51037575 XCELSIUS ENGAGE & ENTERPRISE 2008 SP2 WINDOWS (32B)

So actually there is only one version of Xcelsius that we need to install on the client machine? There is no Client or Server version of Xcelsius right?

What I confused by the Xcelsius installation file are the option B and C as following:

Option B says:

You can install Live Office and BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise on a

client machine and deploy Crystal Reports Server and the BusinessObjects

Web Services on a server machine.

Is the BusinessObjects Web Services here refer to TomCat application?

Why do we need Crystal Rerpots Server?

Option C says:

You can install Live Office and Xcelsius on a client machine and deploy

BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise and the BusinessObjects Web Services

on a server machine.

Why do we need to install Xcelsius on Client machine, then BusinessObject Xcelsius Enterprise on Server machine again?

The Xcelsius and BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise is actually the same applicaito that I downloaded as above right?

Please help to clarify my doubts.

Thank you.

(P/s: point assigned!)