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Broadcast Agent: Demo and Tricks

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Broadcast Agent: Demo and Tricks

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    1. Broadcast Agent: Demo and Tricks John Levy AVP IS, Renal Care Group, Inc.

    2. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 2

    3. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 3 Background Renal Care Group, Inc. is a specialized dialysis services company that provides care to patients with kidney disease. The Company currently treats over 20,800 patients in over 270 owned outpatient facilities, in addition to providing acute dialysis services at approximately 120 hospitals. Over 6,500 associates provide services across the Company's 27-state network. Using Business Objects for four years to deliver reports on patient test results, facility statistics, and internal HR data Deploying reports through company intranet using WebIntelligence and via network printers using Broadcast Agent

    4. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 4 Broadcast Agent Features Document scheduling Document delivery Document bursting Conditional action Supports BO security model Scalable

    5. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 5 Advantages of BCA Automates creation and distribution of reports Allows reports to be created at non-peak times It remembers what you do not Allows batch handling of jobs which are unwieldy for interactive users

    6. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 6 How we use BCA at Renal Care Group Scheduled delivery of key patient lab data to each facility every day ~300 documents per day Each document is printed to a specific device Each document is also distributed electronically Scheduled printing of long reports Cumulative patient history reports that are typically 500 pages Generation of key HR and labor cost reports for delivery through corporate portal

    7. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 7 Topics What is Broadcast Agent? Broadcast Agent Demonstration Issues and Workarounds

    8. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 8 BCA Demo: Document

    9. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 9 BCA Demo: Send to Broadcast Agent

    10. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 10 BCA Demo: General

    11. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 11 BCA Demo: Actions

    12. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 12 BCA Demo: Actions

    13. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 13 BCA Demo: Scheduling

    14. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 14 BCA Demo: Scheduling (Daily)

    15. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 15 BCA Demo: Scheduling (User Defined)

    16. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 16 BCA Demo: Distribution

    17. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 17 BCA Demo: Document Refresh

    18. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 18 BCA Demo: Retrieve from Broadcast Agent

    19. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 19 BCA Demo: Receiving a Document

    20. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 20 BCA Demo: Receiving a Document in WebI

    21. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 21 BCA Demo: Receiving a Document in WebI

    22. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 22 BCA Demo: Report Bursting

    23. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 23 BCA Demo: Report Bursting

    24. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 24 BCA Demo: Console

    25. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 25 Topics What is Broadcast Agent? Broadcast Agent Demonstration Issues and Workarounds

    26. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 26 BCA Issues Report ‘refresh on open’ Printing not supported by report bursting Cannot see job details from BCA Console Deleted jobs sometimes execute No e-mail support No support for dynamic date ranges

    27. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 27 Report ‘Refresh On Open’

    28. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 28 Printing not supported by report bursting Workaround: Submit each job separately

    29. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 29 Cannot see job details from BCA Console Workaround: Submit each job with a different document name

    30. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 30 Deleted Jobs Sometimes Execute Workaround: Run Scan / Repair on your Security domain after job deletion

    31. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 31 No E-Mail support Workaround: Buy BCA Publisher

    32. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 32 No support for dynamic date ranges

    33. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 33 No support for dynamic date ranges Define an expression that will translate to a date at runtime The date variable is evaluated in the document or in the universe Examples: Get today’s date and subtract 7 to get the last week Get the month and determine how many days are in it to change from a 31 day range to a 28 day range Use the start and end dates of the prior month Example expressions supported: SDm1 = System Date minus 1 (yesterday) SMm3 = System Month minus 3 (three months previous)

    34. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 34 No support for dynamic date ranges

    35. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 35 No support for dynamic date ranges

    36. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 36 Run that by me one more time…

    37. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 37 No support for dynamic date ranges

    38. Copyright © 2000 Business Objects SA - All Rights Reserved 38 Broadcast Agent Summary Heavy-duty, enterprise solution for report scheduling Robust platform for report execution and delivery We enjoy huge time savings from report automation – schedule once; run many times Resolves ‘interactive use’ problem for long running reports Some issues that require workarounds; we have solid solutions for most

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