This space contains information about the BMC Decision Support – Database Automation Version 8.2 release.
- Featured content
- Where to start
- SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise documentation
- About BMC Decision Support – Database Automation
Featured content
For a description of the features in BMC Decision Support – Database Automation, see Features-in-version-8-2-00.
Where to start
Installing BMC Decision Support – Database Automation for the first time
If you are using the product for the first time, you might want to review the information in Key-concepts and then continue to Suggested role-based topics.
Suggested role-based topics
The following table provides suggested topics to read based on your role within the organization.
Your role | Topics |
|---|---|
System Administrator or Server Engineer | |
Database Administrator (DBA), Database Engineer, or Operator | |
DBA Manager, Data Center Manager, or IT Director |
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise documentation
For information about viewing a comprehensive set of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise documentation, see Additional-SAP-BusinessObjects-Business-Intelligence-platform-documentation.
About BMC Decision Support – Database Automation
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
