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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1One Strategy for Enterprise BI

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First pointrelease of SAP’smarket leading

BusinessIntelligence

Suite

4.1

All existing XIR2 and XI3

customers canmigrate to this

newest platformof SAP’s BI

Suite

Core stabilityand capabilityimprovements

from newinnovations to

incrementalproduct

advances from4.0 to re-

introducedfeatures from

XI3

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1What’s different about this release?


Features by product areas

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

Core BI platform

Self-service access to SAP BusinessObjects BI (BI launch pad)

BI Workspaces

Semantic Layer

SAP BusinessObjects BI client tools delivered with BI 4.1

SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for Enterprise

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

SAP Business Objects Dashboards

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP

SAP BusinessObjects BI clients supported by BI 4.1

SAP Lumira Desktop

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for MSFT Office 1.x and 2.x

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio up to version 1.4

SAP Business Objects Mobile BI 6.x

SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence 3.1 SP6 FP6.1


BI 4.1 Suite Install Packages (Platform and Clients)

• Available as a full install and update install• Full install: can be used for first time installation or side-by-side installation

• Update install: can be applied on existing 4.x environments

• First time installs can done using the BI 4.1 full install package

• Existing deployments:

• Supported upgrade scenarios (upgrading from previous major version [XI R2 or XI R3])• Full install package

• Supported update scenarios (updating from current major version [BI 4.x])• Update install package


BI 4.1 Supported Upgrade Scenarios

From XIR 2 and XI 3

• Direct upgrade path from XIR2 SP2 and XI 3.1 to BI4.1 SP5

• Separate Environments (recommended)• Install BI 4.1 SP5 [Full install package] on a separate server

• Use Upgrade Management tool to upgrade content to BI 4.1 SP5

• Side-by-Side Install• BI 4.1 SP5 [Full install package] can be installed on the BOEXIR2 SP2 or BOE3.x Server, provided:

• Server OS is 64-bit, and

• Meets BI 4.1 install prerequisites

From BI 4.x to BI 4.1 SP5

• In place update install package (recommended)• Update BI 4.0 deployment (overwrites binaries)

• Separate Environments• Install BI 4.1 [Full install package] on a separate server

• Run Promotion Management Command Line for Full system Promotion

BI platform

Core BI platform

Self-service access to SAP BusinessObjects BI (BI launch pad)

BI Workspaces

Semantic Layer


SAP BusinessObjects BI platformCore BI platform (1/3)

Lower Total Cost of Ownership through BI Platform Administration Improvements

System Configuration Wizard

Simple workflow to accomplish initial server configuration of the BI system

Command line facility to enable programmatic configuration

Upgrade Management Tool enhancements

Enhanced service dependency checking prior to upgrade

Simplified process to migrate 3rd party authentication type (AD, LDAP, SAP) users, eliminating the needto remap user groups on target system

Multitenancy

Recording tenant ID in auditing data

Ability to restrict concurrent logon session per tenant

Multitenant provisioning tool enhancement to support unx universe

Single sign-on to HANA

Enable single sign-on from BI client tools to HANA via SAML



Supportability

Ability to trigger Java server thread-dump from Solution Manager

Improved visibility to server status in case of error

Error message improvements

Software version is represented consistently and easily observable

RESTful Web services

Single sign-on with Active Directory authentication or Trusted authentication

JSON format support

Promotion Management

New support for Desktop Intelligence, Information Steward, Analysis OLAP

Security Improvements: Strengthened password security, SSL Support for CTS+, Remove excessivelogon sessions, HTTPS Support for Subversion in Version Management

New limit for webUI promotion – within the 20 min time-out, can promote over 1000 objects at a time

Use Command Line Interface (CLI) for handling over 1000 objects



User Management

Terminate User Session

Localization

Right to Left Support (including Hebrew)

BI Portfolio Integration

SAP Lumira Server Integration

Govern Lumira Desktop

Scheduling of Analysis Office Objects


SAP BusinessObjects BI platformSelf-service access to SAP BusinessObjects BI (BI launch pad)

Make better decisions as a team by sharing opinions and information about BI content

Collaboration enhancements

Ability to collaborate on document instance

Ability to collaborate while viewing BI document in the viewer

New security right to manage who can collaborate on the BI content

Collaboration service powered by SAP Streamwork or SAP Jam

Document upload workflow enhancement

Ability to replace existing document when uploading 3rd party documents


SAP BusinessObjects BI platformBI Workspaces

Streamlined information consumption by centralizing and personalizing regularlyaccessed information and analytics needed for daily work activities

BI Workspaces

Adding support for background image and/or color

Adding support for Explorer documents


SAP BusinessObjects BI platformSemantic Layer

Enhanced support for SAP data sources

Improved BW access performance for client design time

Direct access to HANA views (transient MDX universe, Crystal Reports for Enterprise only)

Consume HANA features (variables, input parameters, hierarchies, units of measures)

Automatic generation of universe on one or multiple HANA views with dynamic choice of thebest view at runtime

Improved access to ERP (optional parameters and enhanced automatic universegeneration)

New and updated agnostic sources

i.e. Teradata 14, Oracle Exadata, Hadoop on Amazon EMR, oData, XML, Cloudera

Important Information Design Tool (IDT) improvements

Data federation in IDT: support for federated tables / multi source universes

Improved user experience

Semantic layer SDKs

Extended version of the SL authoring SDK (includes universe creation)

BI clients delivered with BI 4.1

SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for Enterprise

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards



SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for EnterpriseStreamline Report Design

Introducing more efficient workflows and features focused on reducing time to create andformat reports

Freehand SQL command object

Customize the SQL to optimize the query torelational data sources

Verify database options

Ensure the report query reflects the modificationsto the underlying data source

User Experience

Prompt Reordering

Manual BW Prompt Entering


SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for EnterpriseData Sources

Enhanced performance and reliability is provided in BI 4.1 when accessing BEx queriesthrough Crystal Reports

Enhanced SAP BW integrationPersist variable values in query panel and consume in HTML viewerLevel selection for BW Hierarchy VariableLevel selection based on relative depth for BW Hierarchy VariableVariable selection before query panel displayToggle between technical name vs. member caption for BW variables

Enhanced SAP ECC supportSupport SAP ECC’s optional parameters with no default value when access through anauthored universe

Enhanced SAP HANA supportAuthored relational universeDirect OLAP access to Analytic and Calculated views including hierarchies and variablesDirect access through JDBC and ODBCSupport for JDBC SSL

Authored universe support for XML and OData


SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for EnterpriseMobile, Viewers and OEM

Other enhancementsChunking list of values in HTMLviewerDefault view action in BI launch padRight to Left Support

OEM/DeveloperAllow application developers to useOpenDoc API with very long URLSupport for OpenDoc POST request

HANA integrationRun Crystal Reports Natively onHANA


RESTful Web services additional APIsConsumption workflows of Web IntelligencedocumentData sources and data providers workflowsDocument authoring workflowsScheduling workflows

UI customizationPersonalized Web Intelligence clientsCustomization per user group in CMCCustomization per folder in CMCCustomization of UI elements and actions

SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceDeveloper Support

Provide RESTful Web services API and UI customization options


Freeze HeaderKeep table rows or columns visible while scrollingUser defined number of first rows or columns tofreeze

Custom color palettes and color assignmentCreation and edition of custom palettes tomanage chart coloringColor assignment improvements

Measure delegationAuto-refresh option at server & document levelReduce #unavailable by delegating measurecalculation when given against a simple formula

Merged ObjectsCan add/remove object to a merged objectAllow merged objects with hierarchy

SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceCore enhancement (1)

Enhanced user experience in reporting capabilities


Usability enhancementsReport header/footer properties re-organizationFold/unfold on table in reading mode in HTMLList of value (LOV) selector in formula editorSingle query execution in query panel

Input ControlsAll Values optionDuplication enabledMulti-Selection

Freehand SQLConvert FHSQL Desktop IntelligenceDocumentsRefresh converted FHSQL DeskICreate or Remove FHSQL DP via extensionpointSupport of @Variable function

SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceCore enhancement (2)

Enhanced user experience in reporting capabilities


SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceData source support enhancements

Enhanced workflow for HANA, BW and others data sources

Enhanced SAP BW integration

Level selection for BW Hierarchy Node Variable

Level selection based on relative depth for BW HierarchyVariable

Variable selection before query panel display

Set default level for Hierarchy Expansion

Manual Prompt Entry

Enhancements for HANA supportQuery stripping

Enhancements for other sources through universesSupport ERP optional parameters with no default value

OLAP connection overload

Query stripping

See https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-43488 for more details on what’s new in Web Intelligence 4.1.

https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-43488



Explorer 4.1 allows user to create Information Space on top of both universes UNV+ UNX.


SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerOptimizations

Explorer improved workflows:

Free FacetsYou now have the ability to define if you would like to enable “Optimization” for an Information space

In that case, opening an explor-ation becomes instantaneous

Real Time Datasources (HANA)Better understand whendata has been refreshed

User can force the refresh to retrieve the last minutes updates


SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerTool for Manage Space Administrator: change data source

Explorer now offers a tool to help Manage Space administrator:

Change Datasource:Change the original datasource to a production or another more up-to-date datasource

Keep your Information Space definition

Keep all eViews relying on your Information Space


SAP BusinessObjects DashboardsGeneral information

• Please navigate to the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile section of this presentation fordetails on the enhancements to Dashboards for mobile consumption

• Please refer to the Choosing the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client presentation formore information about when to use SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and when to useSAP BusinessObjects Design Studio for a dashboarding project

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-38981


SAP BusinessObjects DashboardsDownload online dashboards for offline sharing on desktop

Offline support for flash dashboards• In Designer, turn on offline support by

checking "Allow This Dashboard to beUsed Offline"

• During runtime, right click onDashboards, and click "Downloaddashboard with current data to local"


SAP BusinessObjects DashboardsDynamic Positioning of Components

• Support binding x, y position ofcomponents in Text, Containers,Web/Universe Connectivity, Art andBackgrounds categories

• Support binding width, height ofcomponents in Art and Backgroundscategory


SAP BusinessObjects DashboardsAccessibility

• Support assistive technology• Run dashboard (flash) and navigation among controls with keyboard• Keyboard navigation can be made among below components

• Buttons (Query Refresh /Connection Refresh/Push/Toggle/URL/Print/Reset)• Combo box• Scorecard• Text input


SAP BusinessObjects DashboardsUx harmonization

Charts name change for suite consolidation

Combination Chart -> Column Line ChartBubble Chart -> Bubble PlotXY Chart -> Scatter Plot



Enhanced SAP BW integration

Enhanced Prompt Dialog to allow easy processing of largenumbers of prompts

Added support for consuming and creating SAP BW variants

Prompt Merging

Manual entry of Prompt Values

Report-Report Interface

Visualize Conditional Formatting defined in the BEx Query

Enhanced Conditional Formatting options

Enhanced OpenDocument with support for passing in SAPBW prompt values

Sharing

Export to Design Studio for mobile device rendering

Empower business analysts to share their data via “mini”applications

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Conditional Formatting in Analysis

Export to Design Studio



Expanding the Market

Oracle Essbase 11

Oracle OLAP

Enhanced HANA integration

Support for Hierarchies

Support for Prompts

Simplify and Expand Analysis

Custom Grouping for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Servicesand Oracle Essbase

Filter by Measure for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Servicesand Oracle Essbase

Expand to Level

Waterfall Charts

Multilingual Support

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Custom Hierarchies with Custom Grouping

Waterfall Charts in Analysis


Right-to-Left SupportSAP BusinessObjects BI platform and SAP BusinessObjects client tools

SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceWeb Intelligence Rich Internet Application

Web Intelligence Rich Client o Mirrored user interface

o Bi-directional text support

o Right-to-left renderingSAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition forOLAP

SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports forEnterprise and Crystal Reports 2013HTML viewer

BI Launch pado Mirrored user interface

o Bi-directional text supportBI WorkspacesView mode

SAP BusinessObjects BI Mobile

o Right-to-left support within the currentiOS framework

o Right-to-left objects rendered right to left

o UI string Arabic translation

o UI string right alignment

o Web Intelligence and Crystal Reportscontent support


Integration of BI Suite with SAP NetWeaver BW & SAP ERP

Design time performance• Performance improvement in the design time user experience for reporting on top of SAP

NetWeaver BW in SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise and Web Intelligence

Prompting• Merge prompts from multiple SAP NetWeaver BW queries into one prompt list so prompt

values are entered once in Analysis OLAP

Variable Variants• Save and use public and private stored prompt values collection in Analysis OLAP and

Design Studio

Scheduling and publications• Broadcast and publish of Analysis Office workbooks via the SAP BusinessObjects BI

platform

BI clients supported by BI 4.1

SAP Business Objects Mobile BI

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for MSFT Office

SAP Lumira

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence


Mobilizing the SAP BI Suite

Discover

Report

Analyze

Visualize

PredictCollaborate


SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 6.xInteractive Reports & Visualizations

Make informed decisions withinstant access to personalizedinformation

Leverage existing BI investments& skills to quickly reach mobileusers

Ensure secure access toinformation across a range ofdevices

Receive alerts on critical events

Investigate problems andopportunities

Take immediate action


SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 6.xMobile Dashboards

iPad gesturenavigation

Support offlineusage

Mobile compatibility panel andpreviews to enable easier design

Author once anddeliver to both

desktop and iPad


SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 6.xSAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Self-service, simple and fast

Smart search and explore

Augmented reality and location-based analytics

Share insights with SAP Lumira

Access and explore big data


SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 6.xExplorer - Location Based Analytics

Analytics and GPS technology viaGoogle Maps

Visual map overlay on point-of-interest data

Data overlay through on-devicecamera visuals

Next step exploration and analysis


Instant Insight for Decisions MakersSAP Lumira on your tablet

Access and mash up datafrom multiple sources

Explore and analyze withcrisp HTML5 visualizations

Storytelling with boardsand infographics

Easy to share andconsume


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for MSFT Office 1.4Context-Sensitive OLAP Functions

New options for the end-userExcellent integration into the overall Office look & feel

Define conditional formatting (formerly “exceptions”)

Define filter by measure (formerly “conditions”)

Define basic and dynamic calculations

Excel commentary on data cells (kept in right place if crosstab changes)

Write-back to BW-IP and Planning Application Kit for SAP HANA

Pause refresh

New hierarchy featuresCollapse into hierarchical structures (“display hierarchy”)

Show/hide hierarchy levels

Sort breaking hierarchies


Analysis Office - Enrich Corporate Data using PersonalData and SAP BW Workspaces

Enable agile scenarios with self-service BI and IT governance

Empower users to enrich corporate BW models with personal Excel data

Available with BW 7.3/BW Accelerator 7.2 or BW powered by HANA

Analysis forMS Office

BusinessAnalysts

SAP BW

IT

PersonalExcel Data


Mobilize Analysis with Interoperability to Design Studio

Create a Design Studio application from Analysis

A tab is created for each Analysis worksheet withcrosstabs, charts, and filter controls


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for MSFT Office 1.4OLAP analysis in Microsoft Excel

Enhanced BI Platform Support

• Single Sign-On and LCM

• Save Analysis content as BI InfoObject (instead ofExcel/PowerPoint format)

• Broadcasting via BI Platform

• Launch Query Designer

Innovation

• Waterfall Charts

Continuous Improvements

• Read mode, Versioned/time-dep hierarchies, de-/activatehierarchies, Data Refresh, Member selector for mass data(note 1824726)

See http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-44114 for more details on what’s new in Analysis for Office 1.4.



SAP Lumira 1.22 (1)Acquire data

SAP Lumira empowers business users to instantly access, combine, and transform data

Personal, corporate, and custom dataMicrosoft Excel, CSV, Text files, web data

SAP HANA, SAP Universe, SAP BW, Query withSQL

Add custom data through extension

Big data, big insightsAmazon EMR Hive

Apache Hive

Cloudera Impala

Lumira CloudCreate new dataset from Microsoft Excel and CSV

Connect to on-premise data via HANA CloudIntegration (HCI)

Schedule data refresh using SAP Lumira Agent


SAP Lumira 1.22 (2)Prepare data

Cleanse, combine, and enrich data without the help of IT

Transform dataDuplicate, hide, split, remove, rename columns

Edit or replace values, add or trim text, convert case

Enrich dataCreate groups, measures, calculated dimensions,calculated measures, numeric ranges as dimensions

Define time, geography, and custom hierarchies

Gain additional insightsMerge or append other data

Analyze associated data in facet view

Create new datasets from existing visualizations


SAP Lumira 1.22 (3)Visualization support

Visualize data with drag-and-drop interface. Create, use, and personalize custom charts usingextensions

Powerful visualizationsRich library of charts, trellis, and tables

Conditional formatting on table

SDK for custom visualizations and extensions basedon D3

Geospatial analyticsGeo bubble, choropleth, pie charts

Esri ArcGIS Online base maps with choropleth,bubble, marker layers and clustering

Grey, topographic, satellite, and streets views of Esrimaps

Interactive user experienceDrag-and-drop chart creation

Animate data movements

Easily copy, re-order, email, print visualizations


SAP Lumira 1.22 (4)Explore and discover new insights

Business agilityExplore from desktop, server, cloud, and mobile

Easily add calculations, apply filters, sort or rank data

Drill down and filter from the story

Visual discoveriesAutomatically discover related visualizations

Discover dimensions that influence the performance

Adaptable user interfaceExplore data in list or facet view

Collapse or expand panels for optimal working area

Move chart feeder position to left or right

Find answers to your questions, new insights and what is influencing your performance


SAP Lumira 1.22 (5)Build beautiful and engaging stories

Instantly create storiesDrag-and-drop interface to create compositestoryboards

More layout templates to get you started right away

Free form or snap to grid lines

Powerful infographicsVisually engage audience with info charts, images, andpictograms

Wide range of customization options

Dynamic storiesExplore with input controls, filters, and drill down option

Embed hyperlinks to text, images, pictograms, andshapes

Add links to jump to another page or story

Create interactive stories and link related contents


SAP Lumira 1.22 (6)Share your insights

Share with othersPublish to trusted SAP platforms of your choice*

Export stories to Adobe PDF for sharing and printing

Embed stories into web pages via URL

Visualize, annotate and share insights from tablet

Bring insights togetherLink stories with web sites and SAP BI resources

Consolidate access to important day-to-dayinformation using SAP Fiori

Jump from SAP Smart Business KPI tiles to Lumira

Share your datasets and stories to platform of your choice and form collective insights

* SAP Lumira Server, SAP Lumira Cloud, SAP BusinessObjects BI, SAP Lumira, Edge(standalone)


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1Govern access to Lumira Desktop auto-updates, datasources and sharing

Manage Lumira documents, datasets, and stories from BIplatform

Monitoring, auditing, lifecycle management support

Schedule or refresh stories based on Universe

Data lineage and impact analysis with SAPInformation Steward

View lineage between universe and Lumira stories anddatasets

Detect which Lumira artifacts are affected when universeis changed

Lumira Server and Lumira CloudPowered by SAP HANA

Localized to 10 languages

Mobile enabled

Lumira makes it easy for IT to govern the use of SAP Lumira according to organization’sstandards

SAP Lumira 1.22 (7)Trusted platform


SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioKey Features Design Studio 1.4

• Drag and Drop in NavigationPanel & Navigation Panel Usability• Context Menu in Crosstab• Cell Locking (for Planning Apps)• Report to Report Interface• Script API Extensions & Global Functions• Multi Language Support• Enhanced Standard Analysis Template• Online Composition of Apps & Bookmarking• Data Source SDK• Lumira (CVOM) SDK• Real-time Streaming• Fiori / sFin Integration• New Partner Extensions


Context menu

• For example: Sort, Display, Hierarchy, Totals, Filter,Change Drilldown, Attributes

• Report-Report Interface „Jump to“

“Drag & Drop” for Navigation- and Filter Panel

• Intuitive navigation via drag & drop in navigationpanel

• Designer can set drag & drop options in navigationpanel properties

New Components

• e.g. „Checkbox Group“, analogto Radiobutton Group plus Multi-Selection

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4Panel Drag & Drop and Context Menu

Drag&Drop withinNavigation Panel

Contextmenu


SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4RRI & Planning enhancement

Report Report Interface

• With the RRI, it is possible to call a jump target onlinefrom an application during runtime.

• Queries, transactions, reports and Applications fromdifferent source systems can be jump targets, alongwith web addresses.

• Parameterization of the target action is taken from thedrilldown of the cells from which you jump.

New component „Context Menu“ gives the designer fullflexibility

Cell lock Planning

• It is now possible to lock individual input-ready cells inan application for planning purposes

• During runtime you can now freeze one or moreselected values while planning others.


SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4Scripting Extensions

Global Scripting Functions

• In complex application script code is calledseveral times, Prior to 1.4, it was usuallyassigned to an invisible button.

• It is now possible to create any number ofthe new technical component type "Global ScriptObjects“, which provides a grouping of globalscript functions.

• Easier building and maintanance of Applications.

e.g. set visibleand set CSSclasses forsuch panels


SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4Multi Language Support

Multi Language Support

• Work with Design Studio Applications innative language

• Design Time is still English, DSApplications are fully translatable

• New component „text pool“ to addtranslations centrally


SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4Online Composition – Fragment building blocks

User Empowerment

• Users can now autonomously create BIApplications online

• Self-service approach eliminates the time-consuming process of consulting withdevelopment for every little applicationchange

App Designer can determine the behaviorand the degree to which apps can bemodified and (re)-composed

• AppDesigners can create different onlinecomposition apps for different users &purposes

• Fragment Galleries store and display allthe users personal, cross-applicationfragments

• End-users create a new personal layoutssimply via Drag & Drop

Fragment Gallery


Real Time / Data Streaming

Design Studio 1.4 comes with a real time dataextension package.

This supports the ability to create visualisationswith streaming data from ESP. (Push Use Case)

“DS Timer Component” allows to pull data nearreal-time (regular updates 3/5 secs) from HANA orBW (Pull Use Case)

Time based line charts with time axis scaling allowto better visualise data in real time whether that isstreamed or pull based.

Geo Maps will be supported for 1.4 as a CVOMextension and will use ERSI Note: SAP Event Stream Processor enables

you to create and run your own complexevent processing (CEP) applications toderive continuous intelligence from streamingevent data in real time.


SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4CVOM SDK

Lumira (CVOM) SDK integration to DesignStudio

• Build custom CVOM extensions once anduse them both in Lumira and DesignStudio.

• Application designers can use these chartcomponents together with the componentscreated with the Design Studio SDK andthe standard components of Design Studioin their applications.


“Compatibility Pack” for Desktop Intelligence 3.1 SP6Web Intelligence is the way forward

Scope Key benefits

DeskI Compatibility Pack (DCP) allows use of DeskIcontent in BI 4.1 using Desktop Intelligence 3.1 client

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 3.1 SP6 FP6.1 willprovide the Desktop Intelligence client the capability toconnect to a BI 4.1 CMS

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 3.1 EoL timelines are stillapplicable on Desktop Intelligence

Important and critical Desktop Intelligence documents canbe stored in BI 4.1

Customers gain additional time to convert DesktopIntelligence documents while on BI 4.1

Reduced TCO, as customers can retire SAPBusinessObjects Enterprise 3.1 completely

See http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-43592/ for an FAQ on the DeskI Compatibility Pack.


• SUP 2.2 & SUP cloud support• QR Code & Barcode Scan Support• Android for WebI & Dashboards• Enhanced SSO Support• Enhanced Controls

• Single Sign-on• Automatic universe generation

on HANA views• Crystal Reports direct access to

Analytic & Calculated Viewsincl. hierarchies & variables

• Crystal Reports for Enterpriserunning Native on HANA

• RESTful Services, SLAuthoring, WebI,Mobile, MobileDashboards, etc.

• Offline mobileand desktopdashboards

• More visualizations

• Simplified deploymentand migration tools

• More Multi-tenancyfeatures

• RTL in CR, WebI,Launchpad & Mobile

• SAP Lumira Integration• Terminate Sessions• Improved Lifecycle

Management

• Oracle Exadata, Hive,Oracle OLAP, OracleEssbase, Hadoop onAmazon ElasticMapReduce, Teradata14, Teradata OLAP,OData, XML, WebServices

• Multi Source Universes• Freehand SQL for

WebI

• Variable VariantSupport (A OLAP,Design Studio)

• Publishing (A Office)• Convert analysis to

Mobile (A OLAP, AOffice)

• Manual Entry for BWVariables in WebI /CR4E

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1Summary of new features


Key Links

sapbusinessobjectsbi.com

sap.com/learnbi

sap.com/bivirtualization

sap.com/bisizing

service.sap.com/roadmap

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