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CA Business Intelligence

(Optional) CA Business Intelligence is a set of reporting and analytic software that various CA products use for the purposes of presenting information and supporting business decisions. CA products use CA Business Intelligence to integrate, analyze, and then present, through various reporting options, information required for effective enterprise IT management.

Included in CA Business Intelligence is [assign the value for boe in your book] XI 3.1 SP3, a complete suite of information management, reporting, and query and analysis tools. CA Business Intelligence installs [assign the value for boe in your book] XI 3.1 SP3 as a stand–alone component. In this guide, this stand–alone component is referred to as the Report Server. Installing the Report Server is a separate step within the overall SOA Security Manager installation process. Installing the Report Server separately from SOA Security Manager–specific components lets other CA products share the same Business Intelligence Services.

The Report Server compiles reports to help you analyze your SOA Security Manager environment. The purpose of this component it to create the following types of reports:

• Audit
• Policy analysis

The Report Server communicates with the following components to compile reports:

• The Central Management Server (CMS) database (report database)
• An Administrative UI
• A Policy Server
• A SOA Security Manager audit database

More information:

SOA Security Manager Documentation