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Creating an Analytics Multiuser Development Environment

Siebel Business Analytics allows multiple developers to work on repository objects from the same repository during group development of Siebel Business Analytics applications.

For example, after completing an implementation of data warehousing at a company, the administrator might want to deploy Siebel Business Analytics to other functional areas of the company. In this example, multiple developers need to work concurrently on subsets of the metadata and merge these subsets back into a master repository without their work conflicting with other developers.

In other organizations, a single developer might manage all development. For simplicity and performance, this developer might want to use an analytics multiuser development environment to maintain metadata code in smaller chunks instead of in a large repository.

In both situations, this is accomplished by creating projects in the repository file in the Administration Tool, and then copying this repository file to a shared network directory. Developers can check out projects, make changes and then merge the changes into the master repository.

NOTE:  To perform the tasks in this section, administrators must understand the metadata creation process.

This section contains the following topics:

• Setting Up an Analytics Multiuser Development Environment
• Making Changes in an Analytics Multiuser Development Environment