Business Intelligence 

Business Objects Version 4

BY
Santosh Jeerlapally
http://santosh4bo.com
Agenda

Introduction
Whats new in Business Objects 4
Client Components
Web Tier
Management

Upgrading to SAP BI 4
Product Changes
About Me - Santosh Gupta ( santosh4gupta@gmail.com)

Hello all this is Santosh Gupta, I am working as a BI Senior

Principal Consultant .
I worked in Public Sector, Manufacturing and Health care
sector.
Worked as a BI - PM, Architect, Team Lead, Administrator.
Implemented more than 8 Full life cycle BI projects,
I also have experience in implementing DWH Migration
projects.
Some of my clients include, DOL, FTC, Yahoo, Carrier,
CSX, Independent Health.
Also provide part time training to BI Folks.
Published a Book on Business Intelligence in the year 2007
Visit my website for more details http://santosh4bo.com
Whats New In BI 4.0
New Semantic Layer
New Information design tool, to support heterogeneous ac
over all sources.
New abstraction layer for multi-dimensional data sources.
Look & Feel
Unified Look and Feel.
More Interactivity with Charting, Alerting and Search.
New Auditing Features
New Monitoring and system diagnostics functionalities
Client Components -Whats New In BI 4.0
–Universe Design Tool ( Designer)
–Web Intelligence Desktop ( Rich Client)
–Web Intelligence
–BI Launch Pad * ( Info-View)
–Repository Diagnostic Tool* ( New Tool)
–Web Service Query Tool ( QAWS in older Versions)
–BI Workspaces* ( Dashboards + Xcelsuis )
–Information Design Tool* ( Designer with UNX format)
–Explorer
–Data Federation Administration Tool
–Upgrade Management Tool* ( Import Wizard in Older Versions)
–Translation Management Tool
Web Tier-Whats New In BI 4.0
–Web Server
–WAS
–WACS
–Web Applications
–Web Services
Processing Servers-Whats New In BI 4.0
–Adaptive Job Server
– Adaptive Processing Server
–Connection Server
–Connection Server 32
–Crystal Reports 2011 Processing Server
–Crystal Reports 2011 Report Application Server
–Crystal Reports Processing Server
–Dashboard Analytics Server
–Dashboard Design Processing Server
–Dashboard Server
–Explorer Exploration Server
–Explorer Indexing Server
–Explorer Search Server
–Web Intelligence Processing Server
Management-Whats New In BI 4.0
–CMS
–Event Server
–Explorer Master Server
–SIA
Data Tier -Whats New In BI 4.0
–CMS System Database
–Auditing Data Store
–Lifecycle Management Database
–Monitoring Database
–Universes(UNV)
–Universes(UNX)
–Business Views
–SAP Business Warehouse
–OLAP
Upgrading to SAP BI 4.0
Approach : No Direct Upgrade from Classic Versions to BI 4

Upgrade
Management Tool
Business
Objects XI

BO XI R2- SP3

BI 4.0
Version 5 Import Wizard
Version 6

BO XI R3
Preferred

Crystal Reports
8/9/10
Product Changes
XI R2/ R3 Versions BI 4.0 Versions
Info-view BI Launch Pad

Dashboard Builder BI Workspace

Performance Manager End of Life

Crystal Reports Crystal Reports 2011 and CR Enterprise

Desktop Intelligence End of Life

Web Intelligence Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence SDK No SDK in this version

Universe Designer (UNV Format) No change

N/A Information Design tool UNX format

Universe, Olap Universes
N/A Upgrade Management Tool
N/A Repository Diagnostics Tool
 Thank You,
Any Kind of Opportunities or Any
discussions Contact me at
santosh4gupta@gmail.com