SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business
Intelligence Solutions
Comparison of Features by Version for
the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
Table of Contents
2
Empower Your Organization with Trusted
Discovery of Key Business Data
20 SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Software for Developers
2
Find Out More
22 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Software
3
Features-by-Version Matrix
3
Platform
26 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Software,
Edition for OLAP
7
End-User Portal
28 SAP Landscape Integration
8
Semantic Layer and Data Access
30 SAP HANA Integration
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12 Features for OEM Customers
12 Scheduling and Distribution for SAP Crystal
Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence Software
13 SAP Crystal Reports Software
15 SAP Crystal Reports for Developers
17 SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Software
24 SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Software
32 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Software,
Edition for Microsoft Office
35 SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
38 SAP Lumira
44 SAP Lumira Server – Specific Features
47 SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Software
TRANSFORM YOUR DECISION MAKING
Empower Your Organization with Trusted
Discovery of Key Business Data
The components in the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) platform
have evolved and continue to evolve rapidly. This document is a reference to help you
understand when key features were introduced in the BI platform. This information
should help you plan how to evolve your infrastructure, plan your upgrades, and
deploy the right component to the right audience. This document covers the SAP
BusinessObjects BI suite and the Edge edition of SAP BusinessObjects BI software.
SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions are designed to
empower your organization to achieve remarkable
results by enabling trusted data discovery. The
solutions help you to transform decisions by providing fact-based information, regardless of where
your data resides. Using SAP BusinessObjects BI
solutions, your organization gains increased visibility of key performance indicators (KPIs) across
lines of business, improves relationships with customers and suppliers, saves time and money, and
can respond faster when exceptions occur.
The SAP BusinessObjects BI platform is a comprehensive BI solution that includes many components. Designed to work together, the components
address major BI use cases, such as enterprise
reporting, dashboards, data discovery, online
analytical processing (OLAP) analysis, and predictive analysis. You can use these components over
the Web or on your mobile device.
In addition to addressing specific functional
needs, the BI platform is also designed to address
the needs of different audiences such as business
users, business analysts, data scientists, administrators, and developers.
FIND OUT MORE
Although this document is not an exhaustive
reference of every feature in the BI platform, we
attempted to identify features that are important
to most implementations. There may be features
not described in this document that are important to your specific deployment.
This document does not replace the product
availability matrix, which details the specific supported platforms for each release and support
pack. These are available at service.sap.com
/sap/support/pam. Please note: you need an
authorized user ID to access this information.
For more information, visit us on the Web at
www.sap.com.
SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions
help you to achieve remarkable results by enabling
trusted data discovery.
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Features-by-Version Matrix
SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Release date
SP04 – June 17, 2014
March 29, 2014
SP05 – November 14, 2014
November 16, 2010
September 30, 2008
End of mainstream
support
December 31, 2018
(for latest SP)
December 31, 2016
December 31, 2015
(for latest SP)
According to the new
support model used with
the 4.X line, each point
release (4.1, 4.2, and so
on) will be supported for
a minimum of two years,
and there will be a minimum of one year support
overlap with each subsequent point release.
December 31, 2015
User interface
language support
Arabic, Chinese
(Traditional), Chinese
(Simplified), Czech,
Danish, Dutch, English,
Finnish, French, German,
Hungarian, Italian,
Japanese, Korean,
Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese (Brazil),
Romanian, Russian,
Slovakian, Slovene,
Spanish, Swedish, Thai,
Turkish
Arabic, Chinese
(Traditional), Chinese
(Simplified), Czech,
Danish, Dutch, English,
Finnish, French, German,
Hungarian, Italian,
Japanese, Korean,
Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese (Brazil),
Romanian, Russian,
Slovakian, Slovene,
Spanish, Swedish, Thai,
Turkish
Chinese (Traditional),
Chinese (Simplified),
Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English, Finnish, French,
German, Hungarian,
Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese (Brazil),
Romanian, Russian,
Slovakian, Spanish,
Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Chinese (Traditional),
Chinese (Simplified),
Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English, Finnish, French,
German, Hungarian,
Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese (Brazil),
Russian, Slovakian,
Spanish, Swedish, Thai
Web-based management
console




Security for groups,
users, folders,
and content




Batch publishing
of content to the
repository




Page-level caching
for scalability




Single sign-on (SSO)
security integration with
Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol
(LDAP), Kerberos,
eTrust SiteMinder,
and Windows
Active Directory




PLATFORM
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Bulk actions on
multiple selected items




Repository
diagnostic tool




Auditing of user activity
and system events




Federation for cross-site
replication





Integrated into the

Integrated into the

Integrated into the
Separate installation
•• Business intelligence
archive (BIAR) engine
for promoting content




•• BIAR engine
command line tool




•• Granular security rights
for promoting objects



•• Recurring
promotion jobs



•• Version support for
lifecycle management
job and content



•• LCMBIAR engine
command line tool



•• Support for large
promotion jobs

as of SP02
•• Failover and clustering
support

as of SP03
•• System copy capabilities

as of SP03
Translation manager




Internet Protocol version
6 (IPv6) support




64-bit operating
system (OS) required



System diagnosis
and monitoring



Graphical view
of BI deployment



Monitoring dashboard



Version control



Lifecycle management
(LCM) to promote
content between
development, test, and
production systems
central management
console
central management
console
central management
console
starting with SP02
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
Support for the Federal
Information Processing
Standards (FIPS) 140
cryptography standard



SAP Solution Manager
application management
solution support



Hot backup and restore



Custom user attributes



Support for the
SAP HANA® platform
as a BI system repository
and audit database



Simplified parallel
install for clustered
environments


as of SP05
System configuration
wizard


Support for storing
SAP BusinessObjects
Desktop Intelligence™
software documents


Support for right-to-left
languages


•• Session management


•• Session management –
terminate session

as of SP03
•• User authentication
(Enterprise, LDAP,
Active Directory, SAP)

•• Browse enterprise
folders
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
BI platform for developers
Core services software
development kit (SDK) –
Java, Microsoft .NET,
and Web services









•• Schedule SAP Crystal
Reports® software for
offline viewing




•• Schedule SAP
BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence®
software document
without parameters
for offline viewing




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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
•• Set SAP Crystal Reports
software runtime
report parameters




•• OpenDocument –
viewing content




•• Direct link to folder

as of SP03
•• SSO security integration
with Active Directory or
trusted authentication
when using Web
ser­vices application
programming interface
(API)


•• JavaScript Object
Notation (JSON)
format support with
Web services API


•• Add, edit, remove
content from repository




•• Burst and publish
(sending documents to
external users, groups)




•• Manage instances –
find instances, schedule refresh, and so on




•• Create and modify
schedule calendars




•• Manage user
permissions




•• Multilingual
content support




Search SDK for searching
repository for report and
document content – Java



•• Object security



•• Events and alerting



•• Server administration




•• Federation




Content management SDK – Java,
Microsoft .NET
Platform administration
SDK – Java

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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
•• Monitoring – create
probes, alerts, watch
lists, metrics



•• Auditing



•• Cryptographic
key management





SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Search engine
•• Default search setting
“Platform Metadata”
as of SP05
•• Default search setting
“Full Content”
as of SP04
•• Right-to-left support
as of SP05
•• Content support for
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis software, edition for Microsoft Office
as of SP05
BI platform integrations
•• SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio



•• SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office



•• SAP Lumira® Server
technology

Product
availability matrix
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/pam?hash=pvnr%3D67837800100900006540%26pt%3Dg%257Cd
END-USER PORTAL
BI launch pad
BI launch pad
BI launch pad
InfoView
Discussions




Tab-based
user interface



SAP StreamWork®
application integration



SAP Jam™ social software
platform integration


Support for changing
the look and feel of the
BI launch pad



SharePoint 2013,
SharePoint 2010,
SharePoint 2007 x64
SharePoint 2013 (as of
SP03), SharePoint 2010,
SharePoint 2007 x64
SharePoint 2010,
SharePoint 2007 x64
SharePoint 2007




Microsoft SharePoint
portal integration kit
Java portal integration
kit for Oracle WebLogic
and IBM WebSphere
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
SAP Enterprise
Portal component
integration kit




Third-party document
overwrite support within
the BI launch pad


SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis software integration with Microsoft Office
workbooks


SAP Lumira software
storyboard integration
(through SAP Lumira
Server technology)

SEMANTIC LAYER AND DATA ACCESS
Data-level security




Universe designer for
creating .UNV files




Business views semantic
layer and business
view manager




Information design tool
for creating .UNX files



Data federation
administration tool



Query as a Web
service on universes




Support for BEGIN_SQL




Universe (UNV) support
for stored procedures




Multilingual universes
(UNV and UNX)




Online analytical processing (OLAP) universe
(UNV) with flattened
access to OLAP cubes




Multidimensional
universe (UNX) with
hierarchical access
to OLAP cubes



Multiple data sources in
a single universe (UNX)



Access to Hadoop Hive
in single and multisource
universes (UNX)



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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
Multidimensional access
to Oracle Essbase 11
(UNX)



Access to Oracle
E-Business Suite (UNX)



Use custom user
attributes to control
data-level security



Linked universe
technology (UNV)



Universe views (UNX)



List of values
and prompts as
reusable objects



Table views and
families in the UNX
data foundation



Guided universe creation
and information design
tool self-training viewlets



Universe security editor



Format multiple universe
objects at once



Universe creation wizard

as of SP01
Optional input columns


Information design tool
welcome page

as of SP01
Federation layer in information design tool (SAP
Data Federator software
designer replacement)

as of SP01
Access to Oracle Exadata,
Teradata 14, Open data
protocol (OData), Web
Services, XML, SQL
Server 2012, Hive on
Amazon (UNX)


Access to Big Data
sources (Hive 0.12,
Cloudera Impala)

Access to SQL
Server 2014

as of SP03
Measure attributes

as of SP01
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1


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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SSO connection to
SAP IQ* software
and Teradata


Business warehouse
(BW) access improvements and BW variable
management

as of SP01
Query stripping

as of SP01
•• Access through relational universe (tables,
views, single source
and multisource)


•• Support of native
features of SAP HANA
(variables, currency
conversion, units,
multilingual, input
parameters)

as of SP01
•• Direct SAP HANA
views access through
transient multidimensional expressions
(MDX) universe

as of SP01
•• Universe migration
to SAP HANA from
third-party database
(Oracle, SQL Server,
Teradata, SAP Adaptive
Server® Enterprise†)

as of SP01
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
SAP HANA access

Universe authoring for developers
Universe (UNX) SDK –
Java SDK
•• Edit row-level security
(for multitenancy
scenarios)



•• Publish and
retrieve a universe



•• Update universe
connections



•• Read and modify
universe content


as of SP05
•• Convert universes
(UNV to UNX)


as of SP05
•• Create resources from
scratch (connection,
data foundation,
business layer)


* SAP IQ was formerly known as SAP Sybase IQ.
† SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise was formerly known as SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise.
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
•• Create and edit a
secured connection –
both relational and
OLAP


•• Get and edit some data
foundation parameters
– name, description, list
of tables


•• Get and edit some data
foundation tables


•• Get and edit business
layer parameters –
name, description,
root folder


•• Get and edit business
item lists (relational
business layer)


•• Get and edit business
item parameters –
name, SELECT, WHERE,
status, object access
level


•• Create data foundation
(universe structure of
tables and joins)




•• Create business layer
(mapped to tables and
columns in the data
foundation)




•• Publish and retrieve
a universe




•• Update and manage
universe connections




•• Create, edit,
row-level security




•• Create, activate,
import, export universe




•• Add and delete classes,
objects, preconditions,
tables, columns, joins,
contexts, custom
hierarchies




•• Edit, delete, refresh
list of values




Universe (UNV) SDK –
component object model
(COM)
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
Universe consumption
for developers


•• SAP BusinessObjects BI
Universe Connectivity
(RESTful SDK) for consuming UNX universes


SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
FEATURES FOR OEM CUSTOMERS
Repackage the BI platform
to minimize the redistrib­
uted components



Custom branding



•• Installer



•• BI launch pad



•• OpenDocument



•• BI workspace



•• SAP Crystal Reports



Multitenant support



•• Support for delegated
administration



•• Tool to automate
tenant provisioning



•• Record tenant ID in
auditing data


•• Restrict concurrent logon sessions per tenant


•• Multisource universe
support

as of SP03
SCHEDULING AND DISTRIBUTION FOR SAP CRYSTAL REPORTS AND SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS WEB INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE
Scheduling to a predefined distribution list




Event-based scheduling




Schedule to e-mail,
file share, and paper




View-time security
for scheduled SAP
Crystal Reports using
business views




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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Publications
(report bursting)




•• Data-driven publishing




•• Personalized
publications




Both SAP Crystal Reports
2013 and SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
Both SAP Crystal Reports
2013 and SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
Both SAP Crystal Reports
2011 and SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
SAP Crystal Reports
2008
•• Direct access to online
database connectivity
(ODBC), Java database
connectivity (JDBC),
IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL
Server, Oracle, Teradata,
and other data sources




•• Verify database function
to ensure report query
matches underlying data
source


2011

•• Support for business
views semantic layer
2013
2013
2011

•• Support for universe
(UNV) semantic layer
2013
2013
2011

•• Support for Structured
Query Language (SQL)
commands


2011

•• Support for universe
(UNX) semantic layer
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• XML and Web
services driver
2013
2013
2011
•• Access OLAP data without using an OLAP grid
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Access relational data
in a hierarchical format
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Common query panel
for accessing UNX
universes
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Level-based
member selector
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Create subreports based
on any data source with
no restrictions to the
main reports data source
enterprise
enterprise
SAP CRYSTAL REPORTS SOFTWARE
Supported desktop
report design software
Data

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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
•• Tree map
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Tag cloud
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Box plot
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Bar




•• Line




•• Pie




•• Numeric axis




•• Area




•• Doughnut




•• 3D riser




•• 3D surface




•• XY scatter




•• Radar




•• Bubble




•• Stock




•• Gauge




•• Gantt




•• Funnel




•• Histogram




Support for
translation manager
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
Embed Flash objects
and SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards software
integration




•• On-report
parameter panels




•• On-report filter
and sort controls




•• Level-based member
selector
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Reordering of BW
variables
enterprise
enterprise as of SP03
Charts
Prompting
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Custom calculated
rows and columns
in cross-tabs




Support for read-only
RPT files (RPTR)
2013
2013
2011
Export to Microsoft Excel
(XLSX)



Smart guidelines to move
and resize columns
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
Platform alerting
integration
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
Web-based library
of common reports
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise

SAP CRYSTAL REPORTS FOR DEVELOPERS
Viewer SDK – JavaScript
•• Refresh



•• Report viewing



•• Prompts – for parameter values (not dynamic
cascading prompts)



•• Manual prompt entry
on SAP BW data
enterprise as of SP05
•• Page navigation



•• Client-side printing



•• Event listeners for
mouse clicks and
mouse-over events



•• Action listeners
for printing and
exporting events



•• Methods to customize
color and font



•• Export a report to
PDF, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Word, RTF,
text, XML, TTX, and
comma-separated
value (CSV) formats
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Retrieve report
metadata
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Get rows of data
and calculations
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
RESTful Web services API
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
•• OData support to push
data into the report
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Get and set report
parameters
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Retrieve data in XML
or JSON format
enterprise
enterprise
enterprise
•• Refresh
2013
2013
2011

•• Report viewing
2013
2013
2011

•• Prompts – for parameter values (not dynamic
cascading prompts)
2013
2013
2011

•• Create, edit, and
remove tables, table
joins, and data sources
in the report
2013
2013
2011

•• Create, edit, and remove
the data structures in
the report
2013
2013
2011

•• Modify the layout and
format of the areas,
sections, and report
objects in the report
2013
2013
2011

•• Modify and import
subreports
2013
2013
2011

•• Modify custom
functions
2013
2013
2011

•• Get unformatted data
directly from the report
2013
2013
2011

•• Export reports to a specific format and modify
the page size
2013
2013
2011

enterprise
enterprise
Report application
server (RAS) SDK
Viewer SDK – Java
and Microsoft .NET
Report modification and
exporting – Java and
Microsoft .NET SDK
OpenDocument
URL format
•• Support long
OpenDocument
parameter strings in
custom applications
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
SAP Crystal Reports
running on SAP HANA
Deploy SAP Crystal
Reports natively on
SAP HANA

SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS WEB INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE
Data
•• Support for universe
(UNV) semantic layer




•• Synchronized multiple
data providers




•• OLAP universes




•• Personal data providers
(Microsoft Excel,
TXT, CSV)




•• Query on query



as of SP02
•• Query stripping



as of SP03
•• Data sampling for
SAP HANA
as of SP05
•• Support for universe
(UNX) semantic layer



•• Support for hierarchical
and OLAP data sources
through UNX universes



•• Support for Hadoop
Hive through UNX
universes



•• Access to ABAP® programming language
functions, SAP queries,
and info sets through
universe (UNX)



•• Access to SAP Business
Explorer® (SAP BEx)
tools queries with
mandatory variables
with no preset value

as of SP02
•• Access to XLS from
launch pad

as of SP02
•• Map SAP HANA
variables to SAP
BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence software
query prompts

as of SP02
•• Dynamic SAP BEx
variable default value
when scheduling

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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Rank




Custom sort




Formula language




Conditional formatting
and alerters




SAP BusinessObjects
Desktop Intelligence
report conversion tool




Migrate SAP
BusinessObjects Desktop
Intelligence documents
with freehand SQL to
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence (via
report conversion tool)
as of SP05
Support for
translation manager




Export to Microsoft
Excel (XLS)




Export to Microsoft Excel
(XLSX)



Export document to PDF




Export document to TXT




Schedule export to TXT

as of SP02
Document autosave




Track data changes




Fold and unfold



as of SP02
Merge and unmerge
data provider




Merge and unmerge
hierarchical dimension


Custom grouping

as of SP02
Freeze headers,
rows, columns


Custom color palettes


Measure delegation
workflow improvement


Right-to-left support,
including Hebrew


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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
•• Optional prompts




•• Manual prompt entry
on SAP BW data
as of SP05
Input controls



as of SP02
•• Hide “All Values” option


•• Support for report
duplication


•• Level-based
member selector



•• Input control support
for hierarchies



OpenDocument



Elements linking



•• Vertical, horizontal,
and cross-table




•• Drill up, drill down
in table




•• Table with hierarchical
dimensions



•• Set default level for
hierarchy expansion

Prompting

Table
Charts
•• Bar, line, pie, area, XY
scatter, polar, radar



•• Tree map, heat map,
tag cloud, box plot,
doughnut, bubble,
waterfall charts



•• Support for multiple
line widths


•• Combined column
and line


•• Support for
reference lines


•• Support for multicolor

as of SP02
•• Drill up, drill down
on charts

•• Charts with hierarchical
dimensions









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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Customizations
•• Personalized SAP
BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence clients
(WRC, WRIA, HTML)


•• User interface (UI)
customization per
user group in central
management console
(CMC)


•• UI customization
per document folder
in CMC
as of SP05
•• Activation of extension
points; Customization
of UI elements and
UI features


SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS WEB INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE FOR DEVELOPERS
ReBean Java SDK –
Viewing and refreshing
•• Open and close report




•• Document instance
get and set properties




•• Get HTML, CSV,
and XML view




•• Page navigation




•• Set multilingual options




•• Get report data and
metadata (list of
values, prompts,
drill info, images)




•• Export to PDF,
Microsoft Excel, CSV




•• Browse content management system (CMS)
to locate documents


as of SP05
•• Get document details


as of SP05
•• Open, close, refresh,
purge, save document


as of SP05
•• Schedule document
(main recurrences,
server group, get
details, add schedule)


as of SP05
Web services API
(RESTful API)
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
•• Schedule documents
with prompts

as of SP01
•• Manage prompts
and list of values

as of SP01
•• Access and export
documents, individual
reports, and
report elements

as of SP01
•• Export to Microsoft
Excel (XLS, CSV,
PDF, XML, HTML)


as of SP05
•• Get a page of a report


as of SP05
•• Get a list of
data providers


as of SP05
•• Get details of a
data provider


as of SP05
•• Rename, sort, or
delete a data provider
from a document


as of SP05
•• Change data provider
source workflows

as of SP01
•• Get and set schedule
details, including destinations, recurrences,
prompts, and all
formats and options


•• Get and update query
specification associated
to a data provider

as of SP01
•• Browse list of SAP
BEx connections and
SAP BEx queries

as of SP01
•• Create a blank
document

as of SP01
•• Add, delete, and set
report specification
in a document

as of SP01
•• Get, create, delete,
and update track data
changes, alerters,
styles, skins, variables

as of SP01
•• Manage drill and
create drill snapshots

as of SP01
•• Manage document
state through storage
token (snapshot)

as of SP01
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
as of SP05
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
•• Get from server default
document configuration (font mappings,
CSS styles, format
numbers, …)

as of SP01
•• Support for extension
points on all SAP
BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence clients

as of SP01
•• Management of extension points in CMC

as of SP01
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS DASHBOARDS SOFTWARE
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Xcelsius® software 2008
Charts
•• Candlestick and
open-high-low-close
(OHLC) charts




•• Tree maps




•• Geographical maps
for North America




•• Geographical maps
for Europe and Asia




•• Panel container




•• Tab set




•• Trend analyzer




•• Dual axis charts




•• Bullet charts



as of SP03
•• Canvas container



as of SP03
•• Sparkline charts



as of SP03
•• Chart range slider



as of SP03
•• Chart sorting



as of SP03
•• Waterfall charts



as of SP04
•• List view




•• Panel set




•• Hierarchical tree view



•• Hierarchical scorecard



Components
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
•• SAP BusinessObjects
Live Office software
connector




•• Embedded
spreadsheet




•• Data manager




•• SAP Crystal Reports
integration




•• Common query
panel for accessing
UNX universes



•• Support for hierarchical
and OLAP data through
UNX universes



•• Support for Hadoop
Hive through UNX
universes



•• Level-based
member selector



•• Access to ABAP
functions, SAP queries,
and info sets through
universe (UNX)



•• Dedicated cache and
processing servers



Mobile compatibility
(components filtering,
object browser search,
mobile preview)


as of SP05
Mobile compatibility panel,
save dashboard as a
mobile object on platform


•• Version supported
Flex 4
Flex 4
Flex 4
Flex 2
•• Create new Adobe Flex
visual components,
such as charts
and gauges




•• Create custom Adobe
Flex connections




•• Add support for
additional Microsoft
Excel functions
using Adobe Flex




Data
as of SP03
Adobe Flex
design-time SDK
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Mobile HTML5-based
design-time SDK
•• Create new visual
components, such as
charts and gauges


•• Create custom
connections


•• Add support for
additional Microsoft
Excel functions


SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS EXPLORER® SOFTWARE
Data
•• Support for universes
(UNX)



•• Support for universes
(UNV)


as of SP06
•• Support for XLS
and XLSX files




•• Create and manage
information spaces




•• Personalize information
spaces for data-level
security




•• Support for SAP BW
Accelerator software




•• Support for Hadoop
Hive through UNX
universes



Support for
simple calculations




•• Bar charts (vertical
and horizontal)




•• Radar charts




•• Surface charts




•• Tag cloud charts




•• Pie charts




•• Stacked bar charts




•• Tree maps




•• Scatter charts




Chart types
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
•• Bubble charts




•• Line charts




•• Geographic maps



•• Table charts



Support for two levels
of nested dimensions



Users can create their
own compositions
of multiple SAP
BusinessObjects
Explorer visualizations
(exploration views)



Geographic maps with
city-level resolution



Geographical
dimension support



Date and time
dimension support



Search autocorrect and
“did you mean?” feature



•• Parameters, information space ID



•• Sorted list of facets,
facet values, and
measures to display



•• Search criteria



•• Chart type, ordering,
analysis dimensions
to display



•• Control user interface



End users can edit
visualization titles in
exploration views


Undo and redo


Administrators can
map objects from one
information space to
another data source


Supported features
through OpenDocument
(viewing through URL)
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
Exploration views
now available from
BI workspaces


Right-to-left support,
including Hebrew

as of SP03
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS ANALYSIS SOFTWARE, EDITION FOR OLAP
Data
•• Microsoft SQL Server
Analysis Services


•• Essbase


•• Oracle OLAP


•• Direct multidimensional
access to SAP solutions
for enterprise performance management
(EPM). Supports the
SAP Business Planning
and Consolidation application, versions 7.5 and
10, and SAP Profitability
and Cost Management
application, versions
7.5 and 10.



•• Teradata v13.0, v13.10,
and v14.0



SAP HANA SSO using
Security Assertion
Markup Language
(SAML) authentication

as of SP01
Focused analysis –
display a subset of
data in a subanalysis



Pivot with – move an
item of interest to a
background filter and
bring a new hierarchy
into the cross-tab



Level-based
member selection



Expand to level



Display attributes with
SAP BW data sources



Compact the display of
nested hierarchies with
SAP BW data sources




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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
Support of SAP BEx
conditions, and view
and edit SAP BEx
characteristic filters
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later

as of SP01
•• Support for setting
SAP BW and SAP HANA
prompts through
OpenDocument


Prompting


•• SAP BW variables (key
date, characteristic, hierarchy, hierarchy node,
characteristic interval,
complex characteristic,
formula, currency)


•• Enhanced prompt
dialog to handle large
number of prompts


•• Support for SAP
BW variants


•• Prompt merging


•• Manual entry of
prompt values


as of SP05
•• Support SAP HANA
hierarchies and prompts


as of SP04
Support for the reportto-report interface as
a sender


Visualize conditional
formatting defined in
the SAP BEx query
(exceptions)


Export to SAP
BusinessObjects
Design Studio

as of SP01
Export to XLSX

as of SP03
Waterfall charts

as of SP01
Custom grouping

as of SP01
Support for translation
manager

SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Supported features
through OpenDocument
(viewing through URL)

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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
SAP LANDSCAPE INTEGRATION
Check marks apply to SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards,
and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, unless otherwise noted.
SAP integration kit
Built into the
base product
Built into the
base product
Built into the
base product
BI platform
BI platform
BI platform
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects
Multidimensional access
to SAP BEx query
through BI consumer
services (BICS)



Relational access to
SAP BW 7.x and later
through universe (UNX)



Access SAP ERP
application through
universe (UNX)
(classic info sets, ABAP
functions, SAP queries)



SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports
Lifecycle management
integration with SAP
change and transport
system (ABAP transports)



Hierarchical access to
SAP solutions for EPM
through universe (UNX).
Supports SAP Business
Planning and Consolidation version 10, SAP
Profitability and Cost
Management version 10,
and SAP Financial
Consolidation application
version 10.



SAP Solution Manager
integration
Access to SAP BEx queries
using OLAP universe
Direct access to SAP
ERP tables, ABAP
functions, SAP queries,
and info sets
Insight to action
framework: support
for report-to-report
interface as sender
Web Intelligence
2013
for enterprise,
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards
Web Intelligence
2013
for enterprise,
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards

Web Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence

2011
SAP Crystal Reports
2008
for enterprise,
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects
Author a relational
universe on SAP BEx
queries using the
queries as InfoProvider
functionality of
SAP BW 7.30


Support for SAP
Identity Management
component integration


•• Support for
variable variants
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects
•• Support for
merging variables
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects
•• Support for optional
input columns in the
information design
tool when used with
SAP ERP


•• Manual entry support
as of SP05 in
Support for SAP solutions
for EPM, SAP Business
Planning and Consolidation versions 7.5 and 10,
and SAP Profitability
and Cost Management
versions 7.5 and 10
Analysis, edition
for OLAP
Analysis, edition
for OLAP
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
Analysis, edition
for OLAP
Prompting
Analysis, editions
for OLAP and for
Microsoft Office;
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio
Analysis, editions
for OLAP and for
Microsoft Office
Analysis, editions
for OLAP and for
Microsoft Office;
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio
Analysis, editions
for OLAP and for
Microsoft Office
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence,
SAP BusinessObjects
Crystal Reports
for Enterprise
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
SAP HANA INTEGRATION
Applies to the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0 SP05 versions of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports 2011, SAP
Crystal Reports for enterprise, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for
OLAP, the 1.3 version of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, and the 1.0 version of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio.
Support for SAP HANA
tables, analytic views, and
calculation views in single
and multisource universes
(UNX)
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence;
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence;
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence;
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
Support for SAP HANA
analytic views and
calculation views with
a direct access
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for OLAP; SAP
BusinessObjects Design
Studio; SAP Lumira
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for OLAP; SAP
BusinessObjects Design
Studio; SAP Lumira
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for OLAP; SAP
BusinessObjects Design
Studio; SAP Lumira
Support for SAP HANA
tables, analytic views, and
calculation views with a
freehand SQL access
SAP Crystal Reports
2011; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
SAP Crystal Reports
2011; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
SAP Crystal Reports
2011; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
Support for SAP HANA
variables and input
parameters
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for OLAP;
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio; SAP
BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise;
SAP Crystal Reports 2011;
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for OLAP;
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio; SAP
BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise;
SAP Crystal Reports 2011;
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for OLAP;
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio; SAP
BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise;
SAP Crystal Reports 2011;
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards
Support for SAP HANA
hierarchies
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for OLAP;
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for OLAP;
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for OLAP;
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio
Support for SAP HANA
SSO
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence;
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
(through universe)
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence;
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
(through universe)
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence;
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards; SAP Crystal
Reports for enterprise
(through universe)
Support for SAP HANA
multilingual settings
SAP BusinessObjects
Explorer; SAP
BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office
SAP BusinessObjects
Explorer; SAP
BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office
SAP BusinessObjects
Explorer; SAP
BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office
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SAP® BusinessObjects™
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI) BI platform 4.1, SP03
platform 4.1, support pack- or earlier
age 4 (SP04) and higher
Automatic relational
universe generation
on SAP HANA views
Information design tool
Information design tool
Automatic generation
of a universe on multiple
unjoined SAP HANA
views. The user gets a
dynamic choice of the
best view to answer the
query at runtime.
Information design tool
Information design tool
Dimensional connection
to SAP HANA analytic
views and calculation
views through UNX
SAP Crystal Reports
for enterprise
SAP Crystal Reports
for enterprise
Support for
variable variants
SAP Crystal Reports
for enterprise
SAP Crystal Reports
for enterprise
Support for
data sampling
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence as
of SP05
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP03
or later
SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise XI software 3.1
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SAP® BUSINESSOBJECTS™ ANALYSIS SOFTWARE, EDITION FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 2.0
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 1.4
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 1.3
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 1.0 and 1.2
Support for SAP HANA®
platform




Support for SAP Business
Warehouse (SAP BW)
application




Save analysis as an
analysis view to share it
with other applications
such as SAP Crystal
Reports® software or
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for OLAP




Support for SAP BW
workspaces



Switch on/off conditions
defined with SAP
Business Explorer
(SAP BEx) tools
query designer



Support for
merging variables



Save prompt values
as variants



Enter planning data automatically using planning
functions of SAP BW
integrated planning



Visualize conditional
formatting defined in
the SAP BEx query
(exceptions)



Lock and unlock
selected cross-tab
cells (for planning)



Store workbooks to
the SAP NetWeaver®
technology platform



Support of the report-toreport interface to call
targets defined in query



Support for access mode


Use hierarchy only
for member selector


Edit cross-tabs with
Table Design

Save a navigation state of
a data source as a query
view in a BW system

Smart copy/paste

Data
as of 1.2

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SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 2.0
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 1.4
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 1.3
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 1.0 and 1.2
Support for SAP
BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence
(BI) platform 4.0



as of 1.1
Single sign-on with SAP
BusinessObjects BI 4.0



as of 1.1
Support for SAP
NetWeaver as BI platform



Support for SAP
BusinessObjects BI 4.1


Single sign-on with SAP
BusinessObjects BI 4.1


Single sign-on
with SAP HANA

Save workbooks
to SAP BW



Launch directly from
a BW system in the
SAP GUI or from portal



Support for converting
simple SAP BEx analyzer
workbooks



Schedule (broadcast)
workbooks using the
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform


Call the SAP BEx query
designer from SAP
BusinessObjects
Analysis software


Save and open workbooks
in/from SAP Lumira®
software, cloud edition


Integration with SAP
BusinessObjects Design
Studio to create mobile
and Web applications


New settings framework
with configuration files
(not via registry)

Minimized performance
impact on pure Microsoft
Excel content

Integration
Supportability
End-to-end tracing via
SAP client plug-in



as of 1.1
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SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 2.0
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 1.4
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 1.3
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office 1.0 and 1.2
Analysis add-in launcher
– advanced options



as of 1.2
Comments associated
with the selection of
the cell



as of 1.2
Design panel –
information tab shows
logged-on user



as of 1.2
Support for
waterfall charts


User-defined short
texts in queries (used as
comments) – requires
SAP BW 7.4 SP08


Setting system
replacement


Support of copy and
paste of a single or a
list of members to the
filter dialog



as of 1.2
Support for
double-click filtering


Filter dialog for
mass data


Generic
Filtering
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SAP® BUSINESSOBJECTS™ DESIGN STUDIO
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio 1.4
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio 1.3
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio 1.1 or 1.2
•• Prompting screen and
variable support



•• HTML5-based charts



•• Customizable CSS



•• Input variables for
context passing



•• Enhanced cross-tab,
filter panel, and list
box components



with SAP BusinessObjects
•• Dual-axis chart



with SAP BusinessObjects
SDK to develop
extensions



with SAP BusinessObjects
Support for SAP Business
Warehouse (SAP BW)
application integrated
planning (business
planning and consolidation unified model in
SAP BW 7.4)


Native SAP HANA®
platform deployment
(save application in
SAP HANA repository,
SDK deployment possible)


Enhanced table formatting and customization


Support for SAP
BusinessObjects
Design Studio software
development kit (SDK)
on the SAP NetWeaver®
technology platform


Advanced scripting


Application design
Design Studio 1.2
Design Studio 1.2
Design Studio 1.2
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SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio 1.4
Global script functions

Enabling multilanguage
text

Checkbox group

Clear chart and chart
filter selection

Modernized dimension
filter pop-up

Filter panel component
– change axis by using
drag and drop

Fragment gallery
(single user)

Split cell container

Timer custom component
(in real-time package)

SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio 1.3
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio 1.1 or 1.2
Application features
Context menu

Report-to-report
interface

Fragment bookmarks

Real-time package

Extension development
Support for SAP Lumira®
software common visualization object modeler
(CVOM) SDK integration

Data source SDK

Improved event handling

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SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio 1.4
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio 1.3
SAP BusinessObjects
Design Studio 1.1 or 1.2
Deployment to SAP
BusinessObjects BI
4.0 platform



Deployment to SAP
BusinessObjects BI
4.1 platform



Deployment to
SAP NetWeaver



with SAP BusinessObjects
Deployment to SAP HANA


Support for SAP HANA



Support for SAP BW



Support for universes
(UNX)



Support of SAP BW
translatable texts



64-bit version of design
tool installer

Message texts and
tooltips available in
Polish and Hungarian

Setting RSADMIN
parameters

Administration options
Design Studio 1.2
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SAP LUMIRA®
User interface
language support
SAP Lumira software 1.20
and later
SAP Lumira 1.15 and later
SAP Lumira
Chinese, English, French, German,
Hungarian (1.22+), Japanese,
Polish (1.20+), Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish
Chinese, English, French, German,
Japanese, Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish
Chinese, English, French, German,
Japanese, Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish
Generic features (for desktop, cloud, server, and Edge editions)
Visualize data
Formatting
•• Custom symbols
as of 1.23
•• Units notation
as of 1.23
•• Percentage

•• Negative number
with parentheses

Totals and subtotals
for tables
as of 1.23
Conditional formatting
for tables

Reorder charts in gallery

as of 1.18
View and sort by number
of occurrences

as of 1.18
Couple visualizations
as images

as of 1.17
Positioning of chart feeder on left or right side

as of 1.17
Create new dataset from
visualization

as of 1.17
Animations in geography
and scatter plot charts

as of 1.17
Bar and column charts


Line charts


Pie charts


Geographic charts


•• ESRI geo charts

as of 1.17
•• Scatter charts


•• Map charts


•• Tables


•• Point charts

as of 1.16
Charting
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SAP Lumira software 1.20
and later
SAP Lumira 1.15 and later
•• Box plot


•• Funnel chart


•• Network chart


•• Parallel coordinates
chart


•• Radar chart


•• Tag cloud


•• Tree


•• Waterfall chart


SAP Lumira
Other
as of 1.14
as of 1.14
Stories
Easy infographic layout
as of 1.23
Fine-grain chart property
configuration
as of 1.23
Create boards, infographics, and reports from a
single user interface (UI)
as of 1.22
Refresh infographic
as of 1.20
Create boards


Create infographics

as of 1.16
Create reports

as of 1.17
Hyperlinks
Add hyperlinks to
pictograms, shapes,
text boxes, and pictures
as of 1.20
Add link to a specific page
in current story
as of 1.20
Add links to images

as of 1.19
Data access extensions


Chart extensions

as of 1.17
•• VizPacker

as of 1.17
Customization
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SAP Lumira software 1.20
and later
SAP Lumira 1.15 and later
SAP Lumira
Windows x32 and x64
Windows x32 and x64
SAP Lumira software, desktop edition – specific features
Operating system
Windows x32 and x64
Document autorecovery
as of 1.23
Multiuser support
(only with in-memory
data engine)
•• Citrix XenApp
as of 1.23
•• Citrix XenDesktop
as of 1.23
•• Microsoft Remote
Desktop Services
as of 1.23
Automatic proxy detection
(as set in preferences)
as of 1.23
Auto update
client software

as of 1.17
SAP® IQ software
data engine
default up to 1.22

Velocity in-memory
engine enabled
default as of 1.23
Auto update
client software

as of 1.17
View connections and
associated documents
Data acquisition
Single sign-on support
for Kerberos
as of 1.21
Refresh on open

as of 1.19
Edit data source

as of 1.17
Microsoft Excel


•• Cross-tables

as of 1.16
•• Custom range

as of 1.16
•• Load multiple Microsoft
Excel files as one dataset

as of 1.17
Acquire data from
data source
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and later
SAP Lumira 1.15 and later
Text


•• csv



as of 1.17
•• txt


•• log


•• prn


•• tsv


Copy from clipboard

as of 1.16
Connect to SAP HANA®
platform


Download from
SAP HANA


SAP BusinessObjects™ BI
Universe Connectivity


•• Data preview pane

as of 1.17
•• Customize measure
columns

as of 1.17
Query with SQL


•• Amazon EMR Hive 0.7,
0.8, 0.11
as of 1.21

•• Apache Hive 0.10, 0.13
as of 1.21

•• Cloudera Impala 5.1
as of 1.21

•• Apache Derby 10


•• Greenplum 4


•• HP Neoview 2.4


•• IBM DB2 v9, v10 for
z/OS, v10 for Linux/
Unix/Windows (LUW)


•• Informix Dynamic
Server 11


•• Ingres Database 9


•• Microsoft SQL Server
2008, 2012


•• IBM Netezza 4 , 5, 6


•• Oracle 10, 11, 12


–– Load multiple csv
as one dataset
SAP Lumira
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and later
SAP Lumira 1.15 and later
•• Oracle Exadata


•• Oracle MySQL 5


•• PostgreSQL 8, 9


•• Salesforce.com


•• SAP HANA 1.0


•• SAP ERP application 6.0


•• SAP R/3® software
release 4.0


•• mySAP™ ERP
application 2004


•• SAP Manufacturing
Integration and
Intelligence (SAP MII)
application 14.0 SP03+


•• SAP IQ 15


•• SAP SQL Anywhere®
solutions 11, 12


•• SAP Adaptive
Server® Enterprise
(SAP ASE) 15.5


•• Teradata 12, 13, 14, 15


Connect to SAP Business
Warehouse (SAP BW)
application

as of 1.17
SAP Lumira
Prepare data
Rename dataset
as of 1.23
Create custom
hierarchies

as of 1.17
Show associated
values in facet

as of 1.16
Time hierarchy



Geographic hierarchy



Cleanse data



•• Duplicate, rename,
and remove columns



•• Create columns with
formulas



•• Find, replace, and
change string values



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and later
SAP Lumira 1.15 and later
SAP Lumira
•• Set prefixes
and suffixes



•• Convert, trim, and
group values



•• Edit text strings



•• Hide objects



Filter data



Number formatting



Merge datasets



Append to dataset
(UNION)



Custom measures



Custom dimensions



Data profiling



Key influencer analysis

as of 1.17
Predefined visualizations
based on your dataset

as of 1.17
Autosave of charts
and stories

as of 1.16
Copy visualization
to clipboard

as of 1.16
Drag and drop measures


Visualize data
as of 1.14
Create dataset
from visualization
Save and publish
Documents
Save documents (.lums)
to SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence
(BI) platform
as of 1.22
Save documents
(.lums) to SAP Lumira,
Edge edition
as of 1.22
Save documents to SAP
Lumira, cloud edition

as of 1.18
E-mail



Print


as of 1.14
Visualizations
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SAP Lumira software 1.20
and later
SAP Lumira 1.15 and later
SAP Lumira
Publish to SAP
BusinessObjects
BI platform

as of 1.17
Publish to SAP Lumira
Server technology


as of 1.14
Publish to SAP Lumira,
cloud edition


as of 1.14
Publish to SAP
StreamWork® application


Export to file



Publish to SAP HANA



Publish to SAP
Lumira Server


Publish to SAP
BusinessObjects
Explorer® software


Republish to SAP
BusinessObjects Explorer

as of 1.17
Export to PDF
as of 1.22
Stories
Datasets
SAP LUMIRA SERVER – SPECIFIC FEATURES
Support for SAP HANA
lifecycle manager
as of 1.21
Internet Explorer 11
tablet support

as of 1.18
SAP Smart Business
cockpit integration

as of 1.18
SAP Fiori® apps content
categorization for stories
as of 1.23
Named user license model



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and later
SAP Lumira 1.15 and later
SAP Lumira
SAP HANA
supportability
as of 1.14
SAP HANA, revision 70
SAP HANA, revision 80
SAP Lumira Server 1.17
SAP HANA, revision 81
SAP Lumira Server 1.18
SAP HANA, revision 82

SAP HANA, revision 83

SAP HANA, revision 84

SAP HANA, revision 85
as of 1.21
SAP HANA, revision 90*
as of 1.22
SAP HANA, revision 91*
as of 1.22
SAP HANA, revision 92*
as of 1.22
SAP HANA, revision 93
as of 1.23
SAP Lumira Server 1.19
* for test and evaluation only, see note 2118990
Note: SAP Lumira Server only supports the same version of SAP Lumira, desktop edition
SAP Lumira Cloud platform – specific features
Group users
as of 1.22
Internet Explorer 11
tablet support

as of 1.18
Schedule document
updates from desktop
as of 1.22
as of 1.17
Share as public URL
as of 1.20
Note: SAP Lumira Cloud only supports the latest version SAP Lumira, desktop edition
SAP Lumira, Edge edition – specific features
Store .lums files
from SAP Lumira,
desktop edition
as of desktop edition 1.22
Share .lums files
with SAP Lumira,
desktop edition
as of desktop edition 1.22
Share SAP Lumira
storyboards

Named users
license model

Concurrent user
license model

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and later
SAP Lumira 1.15 and later
SAP Lumira
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform – specific features
Desktop governance
(requires SAP
BusinessObjects BI
4.1, SP05+)

as of 1.19
Manage rights for:

as of 1.19
•• Dataset – Connect
to SAP BW

as of 1.19
•• Dataset – Connect
to SAP HANA

as of 1.19
•• Dataset – Copy
from clipboard

as of 1.19
•• Dataset – Download
from SAP HANA

as of 1.19
•• Dataset – External
data sources

as of 1.19
•• Dataset –
Microsoft Excel

as of 1.19
•• Dataset – Query
with SQL

as of 1.19
•• Dataset – Text

as of 1.19
•• Dataset – Universe

as of 1.19
•• Share – By e-mail

as of 1.19
•• Share – Export as file

as of 1.19
•• Share – Print
visualization

as of 1.19
•• Share – Publish to
SAP BusinessObjects
Explorer

as of 1.19
•• Share – Publish to SAP
Lumira, cloud edition

as of 1.19
•• Share – Publish to SAP
Lumira Server

as of 1.19
•• Share – Publish to SAP
BusinessObjects BI

as of 1.19
•• Share – Publish to
SAP HANA

as of 1.19
•• Share – Publish to
SAP StreamWork

as of 1.19
Integration to BI
launch pad (requires
SAP Lumira Server)

as of 1.17
Note: For a complete overview of the supported versions by SAP BusinessObjects BI platform, check : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-61446
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SAP® BUSINESSOBJECTS™ MOBILE SOFTWARE
SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence (BI)
platform 4.1, support
package 4 (SP04)
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.1
SAP BusinessObjects
BI platform 4.0, SP05
or as noted
Support for
Android devices


as of SP02 patch 13
Support for SAP
BusinessObjects
Dashboards



Support for SAP
BusinessObjects
Design Studio



Support for SAP Business
Explorer® (SAP BEx)
tools including
exploration views


as of SP08
Support for Linux, AIX,
Solaris-based Web
application server



Retain sort and rank in
SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence®
software charts

as of SP03 patch 1
as of SP09 patch 1
Significant performance
improvement for SAP
BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence documents

as of SP03 patch 1
as of SP09 patch 1
Controlled SAP BEx
content listing
as of SP05
Controlled SAP
BusinessObjects
Dashboards listing
as of SP06
Support for more than
one entitlement system
(SAP R/3® software) for
single sign-on
as of SP06
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