SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.

JAN 2016

SAPs Strategic Focus on Business Intelligence

Core

Self-service

Mobile

Extreme

Social

Core for
innovation
Complete BI
suite
Continued

Use by IT and
departments
Fast time to
value
Connection to
the
enterprise

First experience
for BI
Content to point
of impact
Expansion to
untapped users

Big data
Real time
Predictive

Ability to capture
the decision
Information in
context
Ability to
leverage the
network

leadership

One Strategy for Enterprise BI

One Suite for All Insight

Unified and Highly

Personalized

Improved interoperability
and usability across the
BI suite
Deliver engaging
information to users when
and where they need it
Create custom
experiences with
embedded analytic
extensions

Powerful
Visualizations

Monitor your business with

specialized charting and
geospatial analytics
Empower end users with
industry focused
visualizations and spatial
analytics
Detect outliers and discover
areas to optimize your
business

Faster More
Accurate Decisions

Create and consume BI

content from any mobile
device
Empower teams to deli
collaborative decisions ver
Simplified deployment to
accelerate time to value

One Place for All Information

Big Data Ready

Improved access to
Oracle Exadata, Oracle
OLAP and Oracle
Essbase
Enhanced workflow
capabilities in
conjunction with SAP
HANA and BW

Scale and Power

Immediate response time

regardless of data volume
Improved usability to build
pervasive BI applications
Integrate with SAP
monitoring, lifecycle
management, search, and
user management

Speed to Deliver

Enhanced design
experience with new
creation wizard and
integrated data
federation
Automated universe
deployment and lifecycle
management
Improved WebI
report design
performance
against BW
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One Standard for Enterprise BI

Professional Grade BI
Platform

For any size business,

small to large
For any type of
deployment, on-premise
or on-demand
For anyone across the
organization, individuals,
teams, or department

Quality Focused

Increased efficiency to
enhance decision making
capability and
productivity
Non-disruptive production
delivery and information
governance across the
organization
Simplified architecture for
increased IT responsiveness

Superior Breadth
of Ecosystem

Open and agnostic suite

of products that can
leverage existing BI
investments
Supported by global best
practices for enhanced
adoption
Enable speedy
deployment with
shortened time to value

SAP Business Intelligence

One Suite for All Insight
Build Engaging Experiences
Deliver engaging information to users where they need it
Track key performance indicators and summary data
Build custom experiences so users get what they need quickly

Dashboards
and Apps
Self-service

Reporting

Discover. Predict. Create.

Distribute Information

Discover areas to optimize your business

Adapt data to business needs

Securely distribute information across your

organization

Tell your story with beautiful visualizations

Answer related questions by interacting with

pre-defined reports
Build printable reports for operational
efficiency

Self-service
Discover.

Predict. Create.

Agility for business analysts and business users

Portfolio

Discover trends, outliers and areas of interest in your

business

Lumira

Adapt to business scenarios by combining, manipulating, and

enriching data

Analysis*

Tell your story with self-service visualizations and analytics

Explorer*
Predictive Analysis*

Forecast and predict future outcomes

Dashboards and Apps

Build Engaging Experiences
Build engaging, visual dashboards

Portfolio

Powerful environment to build interactive and visually

appealing analytics

Design Studio*

Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down,

crosstabs, charts

Dashboards (Xcelsius)*

Use custom code to extend and build workflows

Reporting
Share Information
High productivity design for report designers

Portfolio

Quickly build formatted reports on any data source

Web Intelligence*

Securely distribute reports both internally and externally

Crystal Reports*

Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users

to easily create and modify their own reports
Enhance custom applications with embedded
reports

BI Platform
Professional Grade

Mobile Devices

Browsers

Self-service

On Demand
Services

Dashboards and Apps

Embedded
Content

MS Office

Enterprise
Portals

Reporting

Business Intelligence Platform

Universe Semantic Layer

ERP

EDW

SAP HANA Platform

Oracle, IBM DB2,
SAP Business Suite
SAP NetWeaver BW
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle E-Business SuiteTeraData
and other relational data
PeopleSoft
Other data warehouses sources
JD Edwards
.

MS Excel

Unstructured data
in Social Media
and Hadoop

OLAP Cubes

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Features by product areas

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
Core BI platform
Self-service access to SAP BusinessObjects BI (BI launch
pad)
BI Workspaces
Semantic Layer
SAP BusinessObjects BI client tools delivered with BI 4.1
SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for Enterprise
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAP Business Objects Dashboards
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP
SAP BusinessObjects BI clients supported by BI 4.1
SAP Lumira Desktop
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for MSFT Office
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
SAP Business Objects Mobile BI

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BI 4.1 Suite Install Packages (Platform and Clients)

BI 4.1 will be available as a full install and update install

Full install: can be used for first time installation or side-by-side installation
Update install: can be applied on existing 4.x environments

First time installs can done using the BI 4.1 full install package
Existing deployments:

Supported upgrade scenarios (upgrading from previous major version [XI R2 or XI

R3])

Supported update scenarios (updating from current major version [XI 4.x])

Full install package

Update install package

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BI 4.1 Supported Upgrade Scenarios (from XIR 2 and XI 3)

Separate Environments (recommended)

Install BI 4.1 [Full install package] on a separate server

Use Upgrade Management tool to upgrade content to BI 4.1

Side-by-Side Install

BI 4.1 [Full install package] can be installed on the BOEXIR2 SP2 or BOE3.x Server, provided:

Server OS is 64-bit, and

Meets BI 4.1 install prerequisites

NOTE: There is a direct upgrade path for migrating and upgrading content from XIR2 SP2 and XI 3.1 to
4.1
Use Upgrade Manager Tool to upgrade content to BI4.1

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BI platform
Core BI platform
Self-service access to SAP BusinessObjects BI (BI launch pad)
BI Workspaces
Semantic Layer

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

Core BI platform (1/2)
Lower Total Cost of Ownership through BI Platform Administration Improvements
System Configuration Wizard
Simple workflow to accomplish initial server configuration of the BI system
Command line facility to enable programmatic configuration

Upgrade Management Tool enhancements

Enhanced service dependency checking prior to upgrade
Simplified process to migrate 3rd party authentication type (AD, LDAP, SAP) users, eliminating the need
to remap user groups on target system

Multitenancy
Recording tenant ID in auditing data
Ability to restrict concurrent logon session per tenant
Multitenant provisioning tool enhancement to support unx universe

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SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

Core BI platform (2/2)
Supportability
Ability to trigger Java server thread-dump from Solution Manager
Improved visibility to server status in case of error
Error message improvements
Software version is represented consistently and easily observable

RESTful Web services

Single sign-on with Active Directory authentication or Trusted
authentication

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SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

Self-service access to SAP BusinessObjects BI (BI launch pad)
Make better decisions as a team by sharing opinions and information about BI content
Collaboration enhancements
Ability to collaborate on document instance
Ability to collaborate while viewing BI document in the viewer
New security right to manage who can collaborate on the BI content
Collaboration service powered by SAP Streamwork or SAP Jam

Document upload workflow enhancement

Ability to replace existing document when uploading 3rd party documents

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SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

BI Workspaces
Streamlined information consumption by centralizing and personalizing regularly
accessed information and analytics needed for daily work activities
BI Workspaces
Adding support for background image and/or color
Adding support for Explorer documents

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SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

Semantic Layer
Enhanced support for SAP data sources
Improved BW access performance for client design time
Authored relational Universe on limited set of BEx queries
Direct access to HANA views (transient MDX universe, Crystal Reports for Enterprise only)
Consume HANA features (variables, input parameters, hierarchies, units of measures)
Automatic generation of universe on one or multiple HANA views with dynamic choice of the best view at
runtime
Improved access to ERP (optional parameters and enhanced automatic universe generation)

New agnostic sources

Teradata 14, Oracle Exadata, Hadoop on Amazon EMR, oData, XML, Web Services

Important Information Design Tool (IDT) improvements

Data federation in IDT: support for federated tables
Improved user experience

Semantic layer SDKs

Extended version of the SL authoring SDK (includes universe creation)

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BI clients delivered with BI 4.1

SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for Enterprise
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP

SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Data Sources
Enhanced performance and reliability is provided in BI 4.1 when accessing BEx queries
through Crystal Reports
Enhanced SAP BW integration
Persist variable values in query panel and consume in HTML viewer
Level selection for BW Hierarchy Variable
Level selection based on relative depth for BW Hierarchy Variable
Variable selection before query panel display
Toggle between technical name vs. member caption for BW variables

Enhanced SAP ECC support

Support SAP ECCs optional parameters with no default value when access through an authored
universe

Enhanced SAP HANA support

Authored relational universe
Direct OLAP access to Analytic and Calculated views including hierarchies and variables
Direct access through JDBC and ODBC
Support for JDBC SSL

Authored universe support for XML

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SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Mobile, Viewers and OEM

Other enhancements
Chunking list of values in HTML viewer
Default view action in BI launch pad

OEM/Developer
Allow application developers to use
OpenDoc API with very long URL
Support for OpenDoc POST
request

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Developer Support
Provide RESTful Web services API and UI customization
options
RESTful Web services additional APIs
Consumption workflows of Web Intelligence
document
Data sources and data providers workflows
Document authoring workflows
Scheduling workflows

UI customization
Personalized Web Intelligence clients
Customization per user group in CMC
Customization of UI elements and actions

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Core enhancement
Enhanced user experience in reporting capabilities
Freeze Header
Keep table rows or columns visible while scrolling
User defined number of first rows or columns to freeze

Custom color palettes and color assignment

Creation and edition of custom palettes to manage
chart coloring
Color assignment improvements

Measure delegation
Auto-refresh option at server & document level
Reduce #unavailable by delegating measure
calculation when given against a simple formula

Merged Objects
Can add/remove object to a merged object
Allow merged objects with hierarchy

Usability enhancements
Report header/footer properties re-organization
Fold/unfold on table in reading mode in HTML
List of value (LOV) selector in formula editor
Single query execution in query panel
.

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Data source support enhancements
Enhanced workflow for HANA, BW and others data sources
Enhanced SAP BW integration

Level selection for BW Hierarchy Node Variable

Level selection based on relative depth for BW Hierarchy

Variable
Variable selection before query panel display

Enhancements for HANA support

Query stripping

Enhancements for other sources through

universes
Support ERP optional parameters with no default value
OLAP connection overload
Query stripping

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Explorer 4.1 allows user to create Information Space on top of both universes UNV
+ UNX.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Optimizations
Explorer improved workflows:
Free Facets
You now have the ability to define if you would like to enable Optimization for an Information
space
In that case, opening an exploration becomes instantaneous

Real Time Datasources (HANA)

Better understand when
data has been refreshed
User can force the
refresh to retrieve the
last minutes updates

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Tool for Manage Space Administrator: change data source
Explorer now offers a tool to help Manage Space administrator:
Change Datasource:
Change the original datasource to a production or another more up-to-date
datasource
Keep your Information Space definition
Keep all eViews relying on your Information Space

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Download online dashboards for offline sharing on desktop
Offline support for flash dashboards
In Designer, turn on offline support by
checking "Allow This Dashboard to be
Used Offline"
During runtime, right click on
Dashboards, and click "Download
dashboard with current data to local"

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Dynamic Positioning of Components

Support binding x, y position of

components in Text, Containers,
Web/Universe Connectivity, Art and
Backgrounds categories

Support binding width, height of

components in Art and Backgrounds
category

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Accessibility

Support assistive technology

Run dashboard (flash) and navigation among controls with keyboard
Keyboard navigation can be made among below components

Buttons (Query Refresh /Connection Refresh/Push/Toggle/URL/Print/Reset)

Combo box
Scorecard
Text input

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Ux harmonization
Charts name change for suite consolidation
Combination Chart -> Column Line Chart
Bubble Chart -> Bubble Plot
XY Chart -> Scatter Plot

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SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP

Enhanced SAP BW integration
Enhanced Prompt Dialog to allow easy processing of
large numbers of prompts
Added support for consuming and creating SAP BW
variants
Prompt Merging
Manual entry of Prompt Values
Report-Report Interface

Conditional Formatting in Analysis

Visualize Conditional Formatting defined in the BEx

Query
Enhanced Conditional Formatting options
Enhanced OpenDocument with support for passing in
SAP BW prompt values
Sharing
Export to Design Studio for mobile device rendering
Empower business analysts to share their data via
mini applications
Export to Design Studio

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SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP

Expanding the Market
Oracle Essbase 11
Oracle OLAP (4.1 SP1)

Enhanced HANA integration

Support for Hierarchies
Support for Prompts

Simplify and Expand Analysis

Waterfall Charts in Analysis

Custom Grouping for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis

Services and Oracle Essbase
Filter by Measure for Microsoft SQL Server Analysis
Services and Oracle Essbase
Expand to Level
Waterfall Charts

Custom Hierarchies with Custom Grouping

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Integration of BI Suite with SAP NetWeaver BW & SAP ERP

Authored Universes on BEx queries
Authored relational Universe on limited set of BEx queries for SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Web Intelligence, Dashboards, and Explorer
SAP BW 7.3 is required

Design time performance

Performance improvement in the design time user experience for reporting on top of SAP NetWeaver BW in SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
and Web Intelligence

Prompting
Merge prompts from multiple SAP NetWeaver BW queries into one prompt list so prompt values are entered once in Analysis OLAP

Variable Variants
Save and use public and private stored prompt values collection in Analysis OLAP and Design Studio

Scheduling and publications

Broadcast and publish of Analysis Office workbooks via the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

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BI clients supported by BI 4.1

SAP Lumira Desktop
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for MSFT Office
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
SAP Business Objects Mobile BI
SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence

SAP Lumira Desktop

Empowering the business analyst

Scope

Key benefits

Enhance data manipulation capabilities

With better merge functionality, replay manipulation
steps & improved formula editor
Extend Acquisition to more data sources & support
different data formats during acquisition
Empower end users to customize charts , add conditional
formatting and create simple user defined views without
scripting or coding
Annotate & share your results at a click of a button
on- premise or on the cloud.

Extend the reach of SAP VI users in an enterprise

Enhance the features and invest more in SAP HANA

Bolster customers investments in SAP BusinessObjects

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SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for MSFT Office

OLAP analysis in Microsoft Excel
Integration with Design Studio
Auto generate iPad and web apps through Design Studio

iPad App

Enhanced BI Platform Support

Single Sign-On and LCM

Save Analysis content as BI InfoObject (instead of

Excel/PowerPoint format)
Innovation

Using Design Studio

runtime

Waterfall Charts
Continuous Improvements
Broadcasting via BI Platform (delivery planned for BI 4.1
GA) Launch Query Designer
Read mode, Versioned/time-dep hierarchies, de-/activate
hierarchies, Data Refresh, Member selector for mass
data (note 1824726)

Analysis,
edition for Microsoft Office

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Enhanced Charting Capabilities
Animated HTML5 Charts
Animated HTML5 chart types
New chart types : Column Combination, Bar Combination and Waterfall
Charts
Advanced properties view to edit chart areas, data series and data labels
Each theme has the corresponding color palettes

Column Combination Chart

Waterfall chart
.

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Align Design Studio Components in Layout
Comfortable align and distribute components in layout

Convienient for designers to organize components without writing exact margin

All type of components can be aligned and distributed
Components within the same container or under the same root can be aligned and distributed
Components can be automatically maximized
Aligment and distribution can be done via context menu in Layout or per buttons in Design Studio
menu
Aligned Left

Objects are alinged left based on the

object which has the most small left
margin
.

Distribute Horizontally

Object in the middle will be moved to the center .

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Enhancements for Component Filter Panel
More convenient to use filter panel for selecting data

Member display could be defined with key, text or both

On Submit event enables triggering interactions
Dimension name could be hide or shown
Ranges are able to be defined in addition to the multiple selection of
members
Defined ranges and selected members could be deleted, included or
excluded

Design Time in the property sheet

Runtime

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Custom Stylesheets
Custom Stylesheet (CSS)
Using custom CSS to adopt customer corporate identity
Changing the look and feel possible for every standard
components
Defining CSS document with CSS 3 standard
Assiging CSS documents to design studio application
Assign CSS class to the Design Studio components

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Global Parameters
Global parameters for Design Studio application
Defining global parameter on applicaiton level
Global parameters can be passed through URL (RRI scenarios)
Use cases (e.g):
Passing though parameters for data selection
Passing through an exception limit for exception calculation

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.1

Additional APIs for Data Calculation
Additional APIs for data calculation
Define Local variables
Support mathematical calculation in script editor
Command getData can retrieve the data from backend systems and represent it in 4 different ways (value,
text, scaling factors and unit of measure)
Conversion between different data formats possible

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Interoperability scenario with Analysis, edition for OLAP
Generate Design Studio applications from A. OLAP workspaces
Export AOLAP analysis workspace as design studio application for mobile devices or desktops
Design Studio applications are stored on BI Platform
Filter member values are taken over from A. OLAP analysis workspace to Design Studio
applications
Further editing generated Design Studio applications within eclip-based design enviroment

A. OLAP Analysis Workspace

.

Generated iPad application with 2 pages

with pre-set filter values
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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Deployment Options
SAP BI Platform
Design Studio applications stored on BI Platform
Backend connections through CMC, can connect to multiple SAP
BW and SAP HANA systems
Transportation via Promotion management
Pre-requisite for SAP BI Mobile

SAP NetWeaver
Available as of Design Studio release 1.6
Design Studio applications stored on SAP BW
Transported though different systems via TLOGO objects (ABAP
transport mechanism)
Can only connect to one BW system
SAP Portal mobile solution is planned

Local mode
Available as of Design Studio release 1.6, only for demo or quick
prototyping purpose

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Deployment Options: BI Platform and SAP NetWeaver
Deployment Options
BI Platform
Single Sign-On
Central Connection Management
Repository
Launchpad)
/
Repository
(BI (BI
Launchpad)
/ LCM
LCM
BI Mobile
BI Mobile

BI Consumer Services

BI Platform

Design Studio
Single Sign-On
Connections
Connections via
via SAPLOGON.INI
SAPLOGON.INI
Repository
Repository // LCM
LCM

SAP NetWeaver
BW

SAP NetWeaver

Sources
.

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SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5.0

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Mobile and SAP BusinessObjects Mobile

integrated into single application
Listing of Information spaces and exploration view set with in home screen
Listing of Personal Space and bookmarks
Ability to launch exploration view set or information space

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SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5.0

Design Studio specific enhancements
Design Studio
Support for iPhone
Hide tool bar
Enable launching OpenDoc URLs from
within Design Studio Apps
Lock orientation for apps
Consume Analysis, edition for OLAP content
to enable mobile device rendering

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SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5.0

Dashboards specific enhancements:

more charts

More Charts for Mobile Dashboards

Waterfall Chart
Bubble Slot

Waterfall Chart

Bubble Plot

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SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5.0

Dashboards specific enhancements:

extended charting capabilities

Added HTML Chart Data Label support for mobile

Line Chart
Column Chart
Bar Chart
Stacked Column Chart
Stacked Bar Chart
Column Line Chart
Waterfall Chart
Bubble Plot

Dynamic positioning
Label
Arts
Single values

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Key Links
Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions
BI4 Upgrade Resources
How to Select the Right BI Tool for Your Environment
Sizing and Deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI4
eLearning product tutorials
Road Maps on SAP Service Marketplace
SAPs Release Strategy for Major Releases of SAP BusinessObjects
BI
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Thank You