Key concepts

BMC Decision Support – Database Automation provides web-based reporting and is based on the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform reporting framework. This application is used with the BMC Database Automation solution to provide extensive reporting capabilities for databases that you manage with BMC Database Automation.

BMC Decision Support – Database Automation applies rich-data warehouse schema and dimensional modeling principles to access and report on historical data captured by BMC Database Automation. BMC Decision Support – Database Automation includes a wide variety of out-of-the-box reports and provides a way to create ad hoc reports that are customized for your organization's needs.

Use BMC Decision Support – Database Automation to understand the state of devices in your corporate database infrastructure, such as your implementation of compliance automation. BMC Decision Support – Database Automation helps you do this via data compilation and reporting on the following aspects of your database environment:

• Device activity
• Inventory
• Patching

This section provides a high-level overview of the BMC Decision Support – Database Automation product.

• User goals and features
• User roles