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Supported Platforms (PAM)
Initial Publication: June 12, 2021
Last Update: December 9th, 2022
Applicability: BI 4.3 RTM - SP03
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Appendix
▪ Minimum Hardware + Operating System Patch Requirements + Supported Locales + Glossary
Minimum Latest
Provider Name Name Notes
Supported version certified version *
SAP BusinessObjects BI server components only support 64-bit operating systems. Only 64-bit OS are supported: details. This is not a complete list of platform/connectivity services.
Dashboard and Explorer are removed from BI 4.3, for complete details, refer to SAP Note 2801797.
*By backward compatibility, the Operating System coming releases are compatible by reference but will be planned for certification as soon as they will be released.
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Language Support by Products
UI: The user interface for all BI 4.3 products is localized into the languages listed below.
Data: Data stored in Unicode format can be accessed and displayed in all products and is not restricted to the languages below.
Kazakh (***)(*4)
T Chinese (*1)
Hebrew (***)
Portuguese
Norwegian
Arabic (***)
S Chinese
Japanese
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovenian
Slovakian
Ukrainian
Swedish
Spanish
Russian
German
English
Finnish
Korean
(***)(*4)
French
Danish
Turkish
Polish
Italian
Dutch
Czech
BusinessObjects Enterprise
Thai
Products
BusinessObjects BI Server
Products ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BusinessObjects BI Desktop
Products ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Minimum Latest
Provider Name Name Notes
Supported version certified version
The current version of Google Chrome is supported based on testing with earlier
versions of Chrome. Although SAP will work to maintain compatibility with Google
Google Chrome - 106.x
Chrome, please be aware that issues may be introduced when significant changes to
between releases.
12.2 12.2 4.3 SP00 Central Management Console (CMC) application and AOLAP are not
Oracle WebLogic Server supported on Oracle WebLogic 12C and 14 application server (see SAP
14.1 14.1 4.3 SP02 Notes 2900108 and 3060695).
7.1 7.2 4.3 SP00 To use JBOSS with Mobile Server, refer SAP Note 2207211.
Red Hat JBoss EAP
7.3 7.4 4.3 SP02
IIS is supported for Integration option for Microsoft SharePoint (IOMS) only.
8.5 ✓ - -
IIS
10 - ✓ ✓
Azure SQL Server Microsoft ODBC Driver 13 Not supported with Linux and Unix platforms.
Minimum Latest
Provider Name Name Notes
Supported version certified version
Computer
CA Directory - 14.0
Associates
Except for eTrust Siteminder, only Windows operating system are supported.
Minimum Latest
Provider Name Name Notes
Supported version certified version
Computer Associates
eTrust Siteminder 12.52 12.8 All Platforms supported.
Access Management
Microsoft Active Directory
2012 R2 2019
(including LDS support)
- SPs of Microsoft Office that are higher than the minimum listed SPs
Microsoft are supported by reference.
- MS Office 64 bit is supported on Live Office.
Microsoft Office 2013 Office 365 - Live Office Panel for Outlook is not supported.
- No support for integrating with Office 365 cloud offerings as such.
Office 365 support is only for the version of Microsoft Office being
supported.
Reverse Proxy
Apache HTTP Server 2.2 and 2.4
WebSEAL 6 and 7
Not supported for Mobile Server
Server Virtualization
Refer to the SAP Note 1492000 for the general statement on virtualization technology support, and related notes for virtualization support on operating
systems supported in this release.
Desktop Virtualization
Refer to the table below:
Windows Linux
Desktop Virtualization
Citrix XenApp 7.15 [Windows Server 2016] ✓ -
Docker Docker - ✓
SAP Business Intelligence 4.3 solutions can be deployed on cloud infrastructure for productive and non-productive purposes.
The following cloud infrastructure offerings are certified for deployment:
Additional Notes
Cloud Infrastructure Offering
(for supported combinations, client/server components)
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) Support via HEC Solution Portfolio List (*1)
SAP Business Intelligence 4.3 solutions can be configured with cloud storage platforms for publication and sharing of corporate documents.
Refer to the table below for supported cloud storage offerings:
Additional Notes
Cloud Storage Platform Offering
(for supported combinations, client/server components)
(*1) Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive are only supported by SAP BI Platform, Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports
(*2) To access Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, need to first configure an Authorization Server (OAuth 2.0) in SAP BI Platform
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Authorization Server (OAuth 2.0) Support (*1)
SAP Business Intelligence 4.3 solutions can be configured or deployed on infrastructure supporting OAuth authentications.
The following infrastructure offerings are certified for configuration via Authorization Servers:
. (*1) The above mentioned versions are explicitly tested Authorization Servers, out of available OAuth 2.0 protocol supported Authorization Servers.
. (*2) OpenID Connect Authentication is only supported through the Enterprise Authentication.
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for NetWeaver (*1) v10.1 BICS
SAP HANA See SAP HANA and SAP HANA Cloud slides BICS / MDX (*2)
v16 XMLA
Teradata OLAP (*1)
v17 XMLA
(*1) Not supported on Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports for Enterprise and Semantic Layer (*3) Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports for Enterprise could consume Universes on supported
(*2) SAP HANA via MDX interface is only supported by Web Intelligence and Semantic Layer OLAP sources, and could also consume directly OLAP connections on SAP BW / SAP HANA
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SAP BW Minimum version per product - Overview (*1)
Please refer to SAP Note 1869560, for details on the level of support for BEx query elements, and typical BEx query functionality for all BI client tools.
(*1) The most recent version tested and certified is BW 7.5 SPS24. (*3) Use Analysis, edition for MSFT Office 2.8 SP3 version or higher with BI 4.3. Refer to the Analysis,
(*2) By backward compatibility, BW 7.5 coming releases are compatible by reference with SAP BI, but will be edition for MSFT Office PAM for details.
planned for certification as soon as they will be released. (*4) Please consult SAP notes 1476156 and 1541365.
Connectivity Last certified SP20 (*2) Last certified SP12 (*2) Last certified SP03 (*2)
Product
Analysis, edition for OLAP BICS (Direct to BEx) ✓ ✓ ✓
Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office BICS (Direct to BW) ✓ ✓ ✓
Crystal Reports for Enterprise BICS ✓ ✓ ✓
Web Intelligence (Direct to BEx and via a dimensional UNX) ✓ ✓ ✓
Crystal Reports 2020 Direct to BW query ✓ ✓ ✓
Live Office UNV or relational UNX and via Web Intelligence ✓ ✓ ✓
Please refer to SAP Note 2631562, for details on the level of support for HANA features, and typical HANA view functionality for all BI client tools (*3).
(*1) The most recent version tested and certified in HANA 2.0 SPS06. (*4) Please refer to the Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office PAM for details.
(*2) By backward compatibility, HANA 2.0 coming releases are compatible by reference with SAP BI, but (*5) Range prompts not supported for relational UNX created on HANA.
will be planned for certification as soon as they will be released. (*6) Use Analysis, edition for MSFT Office 2.8 SP3 version or higher with BI 4.3.
(*3) SAP HANA 1.0 is no longer supported by SAP. (*7) With Hana 2. HANA 2 the SAP HANA plugin EPM-MDS is required.
(*1) To connect to SAP HANA Cloud via INA, make sure user has EXECUTE privileges on EXECUTE_MDS procedure and InA role.
(*2) To connect to SAP HANA Cloud via JDBC/ODBC, make sure to use SAP HANA Client version 2.4.167 (or 2.4.67 for the JDBC driver) or later. See SAP HANA Cloud slide.
(*3) HANA Calculation views available on SAP HANA Cloud are not supported in relational universes via JDBC/OBDC. Only HANA tables available on SAP HANA Cloud are supported in relational
universes via JDBC/OBDC.
Useful link: SAP Note 2900388 about maintenance for the SAP S/4HANA product line until 2040.
• Hewlett Packard Vertica (UPGRADE) Windows and Unix platforms are supported for all
• Hortonworks HDP Semantic Layer data sources. For ODBC connections on
Unix, UnixODBC or DataDirect OBDC can be required.
• IBM Db2 for i, Db2 for LUW, Db2 for zOS, Db2 Warehouse, Informix (UPGRADE), Netezza
• MapR MEP (UPGRADE) Refer to Deprecated Semantic Layer Data Sources for
data sources deprecated or removed in this BI release.
• MariaDB MariaDB (NEW)
• Microsoft Azure, MS Access and Excel, MS Parallel Data Warehouse, MS SQL Server, Text Files Refer to the Semantic Layer Data Source Support Policy
• MongoDB MongoDB (UPGRADE) for support conditions on vendor databases by SAP.
• Oracle MySQL, Oracle Database and Exadata (UPGRADE), Oracle Cloud (NEW), Oracle e-Business Suite
• Teradata Teradata
• Trino Trino (NEW)
(*1) In this table, a data source family is defined as supported if the majority of its databases is supported by the product. Otherwise see additional notes if available.
(*2) Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CR4E) Direct to Data (D2D) covers both reports created via ‘Connection by Vendor’ in CR4E Designer, and reports based on BI platform relational connections. If a DB vendor
or version is not available in CR4E Designer ‘Connection by Vendor’ list, use BI platform relational connection instead.
(*3) Refer to the Universe (SSU & MSU) columns if your CR4E report is built on a Universe (UNX).
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Semantic Layer Data Source Support by product [2/2]
Relational Semantic Layer Data Sources
(*1) In this table, a data source family is defined as supported if the majority of its databases is supported by the product. Otherwise see additional notes if available.
(*2) Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CR4E) Direct to Data (D2D) covers both reports created via ‘Connection by Vendor’ in CR4E Designer, and reports based on BI platform relational connections. If a DB vendor
or version is not available in CR4E Designer ‘Connection by Vendor’ list, use BI platform relational connection instead.
(*3) Refer to the Universe (SSU & MSU) columns if your CR4E report is built on a Universe (UNX).
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Amazon Athena
Relational Semantic Layer Data Sources
Athena JDBC Athena JDBC42 Driver 2.0 4.3 SP02 Athena Engine Version Reference
MariaDB in Amazon RDS JDBC Use MariaDB JDBC connection 4.3 SP03 RDS for MariaDB
MySQL in Amazon RDS JDBC Use MySQL 8.0 JDBC connection 4.3 SP03 RDS for MySQL
Oracle in Amazon RDS JDBC Use Oracle 21c JDBC connection 4.3 SP03 RDS for Oracle release notes
PostgreSQL in Amazon
JDBC Use PostgreSQL JDBC connection 4.3 SP03 RDS for PostgreSQL release notes
RDS
Denodo 7 JDBC JDBC Driver for Denodo Platform 7.0 4.3 SP00 Denodo Platform 7.0 Documentation
Generic Java Beans JavaBean N/A 4.3 SP00 No SQL. Only exposed as stored procedures.
Generic JDBC JDBC N/A 4.3 SP00 Java JDBC API Reference
BusinessObjects ODATA 2
Generic OData 2.0 ODATA 4.3 SP00 OData Version 2.0 Reference
connector
(*1) Generic: Standard connectivity or middleware tested by SAP on a reference source: MS SQL for ODBC and OLE DB or MySQL for JDBC. For customer drivers based on Generic, see the Data
Source Support Policy statement
BigQuery JDBC Google BigQuery JDBC 1.2.25 4.3 SP03 Google BigQuery Release Notes
Greenplum 5 JDBC / ODBC DataDirect 7.1 – GreenPlum 7.10 4.3 SP00 Greenplum 5 Release Notes
Db2 for i v7 ODBC Db2 iSeries Access ODBC 13.00 4.3 SP00 Only on Windows.
MariaDB JDBC MariaDB Connector/J 3.0.7 4.3 SP03 MariaDB Release Notes
MS Access / Excel
ODBC Office Access ODBC 16.00 4.3 SP00 Only on Windows.
2016
MS Text Files ODBC MS Text ODBC Driver 4.3 SP00 Only on Windows.
MySQL 5 JDBC / ODBC MySQL JDBC / ODBC 5.3.4 4.3 SP00 MySQL 5.x Release Notes
Oracle 21c ODBC Oracle ODBC version 21.03 4.3 SP03 Oracle Database 21c Release Notes
JDBC / ODBC /
Oracle Cloud Database Oracle JDBC/ODBC/OCI 21c-based drivers 4.3 SP03 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OCI
SAP HANA JDBC/ODBC HANA JDBC / ODBC Driver 2.0 SP6 4.3 SP03 On Solaris and AIX Unix platforms, use
HANA ODBC Driver 2.0 SP03
(02.03.0123) because of a product issue.
SAP MaxDB JDBC / ODBC MaxDB JDBC / ODBC 7.9.08.23 4.3 SP00
Vora 1 JDBC SAP OEM HANA Vora JDBC Driver 4.3 SP00
Vora 2 JDBC SAP OEM HANA Vora JDBC Driver 4.3 SP00
SQLite Documentation
SQLite BO OC SQLite C Library version 3.38.5 4.3 SP03
Only supported on Windows and Linux
Teradata 16 JDBC / ODBC Teradata JDBC / ODBC Driver 16.20 4.3 SP00 Teradata 16 Release Notes
Trino JDBC Trino JDBC Driver (trino-jdbc-395.jar) 4.3 SP03 Trino Release Notes
Vendor Database Name / Version Middleware Type Deprecated since Replaced by Notes
Hewlett
Vertica 8 / 9 JDBC/ODBC 4.3 SP03 Vertica 10 End of maintenance by vendor
Packard
Db2 for z/OS 11 Db2 Client/JDBC 4.3 SP03 Db2 for z/OS 12 End of maintenance by vendor
Informix Dynamic Server 11 JDBC/ODBC 4.3 SP02 Informix Dynamic Server 12 End of maintenance by vendor
IBM
Puredata (Netezza) Server 7 JDBC/ODBC 4.3 SP02 Netezza Performance Server 11
(*1) Deprecated: Used to be supported in the past but not anymore; excepted if mentioned as renamed, or replaced by another version. For more details, see the Data Source Support Policy
statement
Database Name /
Vendor Middleware Type Deprecated since Replaced by Notes
Version
Excel / Access 2010 ODBC 4.3 SP02 Excel / Access 2012 End of maintenance by vendor
Microsoft
SQL Server 2012 JDBC/ODBC/OLEDB/DataDirect 4.3 SP02 SQL Server 2014 End of maintenance by vendor
Oracle Oracle / Oracle Exadata 11 JDBC/ODBC/OCI 4.3 SP02 Oracle / Oracle Exadata 12 End of maintenance by vendor
SAP HANA 1.0 JDBC/ODBC/OLAP 4.3 SP02 HANA 2.0 End of maintenance by vendor
(*1) Deprecated: Used to be supported in the past but not anymore; excepted if mentioned as renamed, or replaced by another version. For more details, see the Data Source Support Policy
Support by certification
By default, Semantic Layer data sources are tested and certified internally by SAP for given database and middleware versions set as
reference versions. In issue cases, SAP provides support that is conditioned on the ability to reproduce the incident on the certification
reference versions.
Suggested way to view find needed information: select Operating system + filter on Sources for your choice of data access.
Please refer to SAP Note 1740516 for information regarding the compatibility of Data Services and Information Steward.
Lumira:
Please refer to Lumira PAM.
Note: a mandatory upgrade to Lumira 2.4 is needed for Lumira support on BI 4.3.
Refer to SAP Note 2903302 for additional information.
Note: Compiled binaries of SAP BusinessObjects BI software is supported on versions of the Linux operating system running on CPUs made by AMD or
Intel.
Required components for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x and based Red Hat Linux OS (eg Amazon Linux, Oracle linux etc )
For a list of minimum patch requirements, refer to the following link
Required components for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x and based Red Hat Linux OS (eg Amazon Linux, Oracle linux etc )
libnsl-2.28-42.el8.i686
libxcrypt-4.1.1-4.el8.i686
glibc-2.5-18 (RedHat advisory RHBA-2007:0619-3)
For a list of minimum patch requirements, refer to the following link
All OS versions: Higher patches beyond the specified minimum patch level may be used.
All OS versions: Higher patches beyond the specified minimum patch level may be used, but
they may not be officially tested by SAP.
OLAP UNV Universe based on an OLAP source defined with Universe Design Tool.
OS Operating System.
SAP software that has a version number, is delivered at a particular point in time and has defined maintenance phases. The terms “release” and “product version”
Release
are often used as synonyms.
RHCK Red Hat Compatible Kernel for Oracle Linux.
RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
RTC Release To Customer: date that marks the initial availability of software product for productive use during the controlled delivery phase.
SCN SAP Community Network.
SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
SP Support Package is a bundle of software corrections available as a support package for a Java support package.
Support Package Stack is a set of support packages and patches for the respective software product version that shall be used in the given combination. Support
SPS package stacks should be seen as an entity in themselves; customers must heed the minimum requirements and dependencies between individual components and
apply the support packages and patches specified in the support package stack together.
SSU Single Source Universe: UNX modeling data from a Single Source.
TLS Transport Layer Security. It encrypts data sent over the Internet to ensure a better protection.
UEK Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux.
UDT Universe Design Tool: application to define and manage UNV universes.
UI User Interface.
UNV Relational Universe defined with Universe Design Tool (UDT). It can be converted to UNX file in Information Design Tool.
UNX Relational Universe defined with Information Design Tool (IDT).
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