Business(objects) Updated - SAP Business Objects BI 4.0

            As the BO users are increasing rapidly, so is the versions of BO.

The new BI 4.0 is completely Web based (from Administration, Configuration till Development) - Yes,an official end of life to Desktop Intelligence.

New Technology Introduced:

SAP has also introduced SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) an In Memory computing for real time data processing. For faster processing HANA stores data – Column Wise.

                        HANA is available as ODBC and JDBC connectivity upon which we can build our universes on.

Managed to get a diagram of "How it works "….

New server Requirement:

There is a 64 bit requirement for severs, though 32 bit clients are still supported.

And 64 bit OS support added for Data Access.

New Licensing Model: (User role based), previous license models are still supported.

BI Analyst: for content designers

BI Viewer: for content consumers

Name Changes…

 Universe          - Information Design Tool

 Xcelcius          - SAP Business Objects Dashboard Design BI 4.0 "

 Infoview          - BI Launch Pad

 Webi               - SAP Business Objects Interactive Analysis

(heard its been retracted again)

 Voyager          - Advanced analysis Tool

New Applications:

      1.   Upgrade Management Tool with 2 options:

-         Complete Upgrade ( replaces the functionality existed in the old CCM)

-         Incremental Upgrade ( replaces the functionality existed in the previous IW)

                       

      2. Monitoring:

-         Capture the runtime and historical metrics.

-         Useful for Admin's to check server Performance, test system availability and response time, analyze loads in CMS.

     3. Information Design Tool:

-         To create, publish new universe & connections.

-         New universe extn - .unx (.unv's are still supported )

-      .unx files can be used as source in

§         SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence BI 4.0

§         SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise BI 4.0

§         SAP Business Objects Explorer BI 4.0

§         SAP Business Objects Dashboard Design BI 4.0 ( Xcelsius)        

-  New Design Features :

§         Dimensional universes (support OLAP dimensions and hierarchies)

§         Multisource universes (can query multiple relational sources at once)

§         Facilitates designer teamwork and universe resource sharing

§         A security editor for universe data and metadata

§         Extended connection management

§         Easier management of repository resources

-   New in Design Aspect:

§         Create connection to OLAP / relational DS

§         Only for Relational, a Data Foundation (a Data Model) is created.

§         Based on DF or OLAP connection – Business layer is created.

§         Publish Business Layer (which exports and resources reference to created universe)

§         Resources are stored in projects and projects in repositories.

§         Designers can access these repositories simultaneously.

After we saw the new features, one's not to be missed is the below.        

Deprecated connectivity's - Existing connections will work but cannot create new connections

• MS SQL Server 7.x

• MS SQL Server 2000

• MySQL 4

• Oracle 9

• Informix Dynamic Server 7.3

• Informix Dynamic Server 2000

• Sybase Adaptive Server 12

• Teradata V2 R6

• RedBrick Decision Server 6.x

• DB2 UDB for OS/390 v7