Hi All.
Greetings for the Festive Season. Merry Christmas & a Very Happy New Year to All.
Although it might sound a bit wierd looking at the question - BOXI 3.1/4.X - Does SAP BO support connectivity of CMS through 3rd Party Applications,
I would appreciate if someone could really advise on the risk involved in allowing such connectivity.
There is a requirement come up with one of our clients who are wanting to connect to Business Objects from Ab initio Metadata Hub. Not clear what exactly is going to be the added advantage of that. Am not familiar with Ab initio. And there is not much information available on the net too. But when I went through some material -
first they are wanting some client tool to be installed on BO Server.
- for that asking port22 to be opened up.
Can anyone advise on the risks involved from network security point of view.
Secondly - they are talking of importing universes/ webi / deski. And asking for CMS connectivity. This makes me all the more uncomfortable.
Am not sure whether am right in asking this question on this forum.
But would appreciate if anyone could highlight such risks involved.
Or if anyone has done such connectivity to other 3rd party applications and BO, I would appreciate if they could share their views.
I have only heard of people using APOS with BO for various reasons. And somebody suddenly coming and asking for access to all BO repository through some 3rd party application, for whatever reasons, makes me a bit uncomfortable.
I would like to understand :
Does BO SAP support these ? even if it is read only access.
What are the chances of a possible repository corruption in allowing these?
What are the risks involved in allowing access to all the jar files of the installation folders of BO application.
Thanks for your help.
Kind regards
Indumathy.