Features | Benefits | FAQs

1. What is Object Manager?
Object Manager is a consolidated interface from which to centrally manage users and their object libraries across many business intelligence applications.

2. What does Object Manager allow administrators to do?
Object Manager makes it easy to migrate specific objects or entire projects from a development environment to separate test and production systems providing full life cycle project management for business intelligence systems.

3. What are the benefits of using Object Manager?
Object Manager ensures that the definition of business metrics across development, test, and production systems is kept consistent and that the impact of changes to these definitions can be communicated to the user community.

4. How long does it take to learn Object Manager?
Object Manager preserves the look and feel of popular desktop software such as Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office. As such, users are immediately comfortable with Object Manager.

5. How easy is it to copy objects from one project to another?
Object Manager can open connections to and display multiple projects simultaneously. A simple drag-and-drop interface copies a specific object, and any necessary dependents, from one project to another.

6. What happens if a chosen object already exists in the target project?
Object Manager opens a conflict resolution dialog that prompts you whether to create a new object, overwrite the existing object, or use the existing object.

7. How do I perform impact analysis?
Object Manager can display all dependent parent and child objects of any chosen report object. This makes it very easy to see which reports will be affected if there is a change to a metric calculation.