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MAY 5, 2011

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What’s New is Data Services 4.0What s New is Data Services 4.0BOE 4.0 New Product NamesWhat’s New in BOE 4 0What s New in BOE 4.0BI Launch Pad / BI WorkspaceC l RCrystal ReportsWeb IntelligenceDeployment ChangesThings to rememberBob’s Favorites

What’s New in Data Services 4.0

Common repository shared with BOECommon repository shared with BOEInformation Steward a combination of Metadata Management and Data InsightManagement and Data InsightData Services to include Text Analysis allowing to source unstructured datasource unstructured dataSingle interface for all application functionalitySAP Data Source Support (BW and HANA Support)SAP Data Source Support (BW and HANA Support)Alert information through SAP Solution Manager support which can connect to products like Tivolisupport which can connect to products like Tivoli

4.0 Renamingg

Renaming GuideRenaming GuideFormer Name New Name

SAP® BusinessObjects™ Enterprise SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence platform

SAP® BusinessObjects™Xcelsius Enterprise > Xcelsius Enterprise Interactive Viewing

SAP® BusinessObjects™Dashboards> SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Interactive Viewing

SAP® BusinessObjects™Advanced Analysis, Web Edition (This was the Pioneer project – it replaces Voyager)

SAP® BusinessObjects™Analysis, edition for OLAP SAP® BusinessObjects™Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

SAP® BusinessObjects™Advanced Analysis, Office Edition

SAP® BusinessObjects™Web Intelligence SAP® BusinessObjects™Web Intelligence (Installer name and documentation refers to “Interactive Analysis”)

Crystal Reports SAP® Crystal ReportsCrystal Reports SAP® Crystal Reports

Former Feature Name New Feature Name InfoView BI launch pad BI Widgets Widgets Universe Designer Universe design toolDashboard Builder BI Workspace

What’s New in BOE 4.0

What’s New PDF document

Feature Evolution Guide PDF document

Common query interface across all reporting tools built in the Information Design Tool. Many new features here including multiple data connection.

Data Federation included

Crystal Reports Enterprise – online report development based on universes built / converted in Information Design Tool

Installs many ERP and Portal integrations by default – recommended to only install what you need

Alert information through SAP Solution Manager support which can connect to products g g pp plike Tivoli

CMC Monitoring of Servers and thresholds related to their performance

New Search Engineg

LCM installed by default

Many more items!

BI Launch Pad

BI Workspacep

Crystal Reportsy p

In BOE4.0, two Crystal Reports versions are being released:, y p gSAP Crystal Reports 2011 (desktop installation required)

SAP Crystal Reports Enterprise (desktop installation required)

T t A di f C t l R t E t iTarget Audience for Crystal Reports EnterpriseExisting or New customers with no Crystal investments

Existing or New customers with Crystal reports connecting to BW only

Existing customers with Crystal Reports via universes or New customers that want to take advantage of the Common Semantic Layer

Target Audience for Crystal Reports 2011g y pExisting or New customers that must leverage direct-to-data sources

Existing or New customers that use reports on top of SAP ERP data

Existing or New customers that are embedding reporting into custom Existing or New customers that are embedding reporting into custom applications

Crystal Reports Enterprise 4.0y p p

Web Intelligence 4.0g

New development interfaceNew development interfaceRibbon style toolbarsNew charting interfaceNew charting interfaceFit (scale) to pageN i E l 2007 ll i f 65k Native Excel 2007 export support, allowing for 65k plus rows of dataT l Abili bl k i h Templates: Ability to create a blank report without a data source

Webi Report Queryp y

Webi Report Designp g

Deployment Changesp y g

Similar deployment topology

Native 64bit application. Still able to connect to 32bit data source drivers if needed.

Default deployment is MS SQL Server 2008 and Tomcat 6 64bit

New Paths for the web applications. The application build is very different. Full SDK not available until 4.1. CMC and BI Launch Pad are a single applicationa single application.

Wdeploy GUI – to help deployment and removal of web applications

LifeCycle Manager (LCM) automatically LifeCycle Manager (LCM) automatically deployed and Import Wizard is no longer available. All report promotion through this tool

Upgrade Mgmt Tool – Complete or incremental t t i il bl Mi t f XIR2 content move is available. Migrate from XIR2,

XI3.0 or XI3.1

Client tools are separate and are not included in the server installation

Things to rememberg

BOE 4.0 will be available end of Q2 – 2011 / Edge at the end of 2011

Desktop Intelligence is no longer supported. The conversion tools is still available but looks back at your XIr2/3 install and converts them to webion BOE 4

QaaWS is being deprecated in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards in later versions

64 bit platform needed to run BOE64 bit platform needed to run BOE

Better virtualization support but please work with DFT on licensing if you are not a new customer

64 bit SharePoint integration (IONS) will be release in a 4.0 support pack soon (not with the initial release candidate in May)

Web applications are a single app and locking down the CMC will be more difficult

Bob’s Favorites (not as cool as Oprah’s Favorites)

BI Launch Pad – tab interface that allows for BI Launch Pad tab interface that allows for tacking contentWebi charting is better and utilizing new central Webi charting is better and utilizing new central chart libraryWebi – Copy and Paste between reportsWebi Copy and Paste between reportsContent Linking in BI WorkspaceSAP Dashboards native access to the semantic layerSAP Dashboards native access to the semantic layerUniverse connections can now be managed in folders and connections can be shared between folders, and connections can be shared between software applications

Upcoming Eventsp g

What’s New in BusinessObjects 4.0 jDeep Dive Summer Series Begins June 2011

Using The New SAP Crystal Reports Enterprise for ReportingUsing The New SAP Crystal Reports Enterprise for Reporting

Preview the New Features & Enhancements Around Dashboards

Web Intelligence 4.0 in Action

Data Services 4.0 in Action

Using The New Information Design Tool For Creating & Publishing SAP BusinessObjects Universes

Will be on our Web Site Soon

Upcoming Eventsp g

Accelerate Your BusinessObjects DashboardsAccelerate Your BusinessObjects DashboardsMay 25th @ 2:00 pm Eastern

Supercharging SAP BusinessObjects BI with Sybase IQSupercharging SAP BusinessObjects BI with Sybase IQThu May 26th @ 2:00 pm Eastern

Sapphire – Joint Booth with Aster Group (BPC Partner)Sapphire Joint Booth with Aster Group (BPC Partner)Orlando, FL - Booth #2346Private Cocktail Party @ Café Tu Tu Tangoy @ gTue, May 17th 6:00 to 8:00

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