New Features of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

Get your “Sneak Peek” of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 is the major release many SAP BusinessObjects users have been waiting for!

With new innovations and features built on the 4.0 framework, BI 4.1 re-introduces many popular features from XI 3.1, making it easy for existing XI R2 and XI 3.1 customers to migrate to the new version.

Featuring our special guest Adam Binnie, GVP & GM Business Intelligence/SAP (bio below) this “sneak peek” is not to be missed.

Key BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Features:

• Big Data ready – support of Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Hadoop Hive.
• Single BI Mobile application, including offline mode for dashboards
• Tight integration with SAP BW, ECC and HANA data
• Improved access to datasources including Oracle Exadata/OLAP/Essbase, Teradata 14, XML, Web services and more
• Agility for business analysts and business users with self-service BI for data discovery, predictive analysis and more
• Compatibility with Deski 3.1 to provide a smoother migration path

Achieving an objective to deliver BI experience optimised for people, 4.1 includes a list of enhancements and innovation that crosses all the tools, including C

Whats new in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0

Welcome to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform is the business intelligence platform that supports

the entire range of performance management, reporting, querying, and analysis applications. It has

proven architecture and platform support for semantic layers, data integration, and security. SAP

BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0 provides full web-based administration and

configuration of the entire system.

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0:

• Extends the information infrastructure provided by earlier releases and integrates seamlessly with

the existing product line.

• Supports all deployment models and lets you fine tune administration and configuration of the entire

system.

• Brings together features from across the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Suite to meet

your evolving reporting needs, from providing web access to Web Intelligence, to improving SAP

Crystal Reports interactivity and personalization.

• Facilitates migration from SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 5.x and 6.x to SAP BusinessObjects

Business Intelligence platform 4.0, however you need to migrate to Release XI 2.0 first.

• Delivers new tools to drive user productivity and self-service reporting.

• Delivers more reporting capability with fewer reports.

• Includes a variety of major enhancements spread across our data access methods, administration

capabilities, and report design options.

• Simplifies business monitoring with dashboard functionality and improved user experience.

• Delivers the strongest self-service query and analysis solution for SAP customers.

This document provides an overview of the features and enhancements available in SAP BusinessObjects

Business Intelligence Suite 4.0 and directs you to the available product documentation to get you started
using the new features.
For the list of supported platforms and databases and application servers, see the SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence Platform 4.0, Supported Platforms document, available on the SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence platform support section of the SAP Service Marketplace at: http://service.sap.com.

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