Let’s start with a few questions-
- Are you a long time SAP BusinessObjects Customer?
- When did you last upgrade your SAP BusinessObjects Landscape?
- What tools do you use in your BI stack today?
- Would you like to utilize toolsets like Design Studio and Lumira, if you are not doing so already?
- What are your current pain points in your BusinessObjects landscape?
- Are you looking to migrate to the latest version – i.e. SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2 – now?
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2 delivers enhanced features and capabilities that address several challenges in the platform.
Let’s take a look at some of the key new features available in SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2:
| Category | Feature | Business Case |
Session Management | We have an enhanced session management capability where you can keep track of sessions and terminate sessions when they become stale. | |
| BI Administrator’s Cockpit | All-in-one tool for monitoring schedules, user activity & content consumption. You can build your own queries to capture the metrics using query builder or custom SDK without administrator’s help. | |
| Enhancements | BI on BI | One of the most sought after features by BI administrators is available now in CMC. Check out the sample reports available in BI on BI folder to learn more |
| Server Group Exclusivity | This feature helps Administrators to allocate system resources effectively | |
| BI Commentary | This feature empowers business users to collaborate and exchange comments on a particular report | |
| Recycle Bin | Good old legacy BO feature that helps recovery of accidentally deleted content | |
| Phase-wise update installation – GUI & CLI mode | Reduced system downtime and optimized installation duration | |
| Bundled Tomcat 8.0 application server | Provides the opportunity to utilize the single, common resources implementation that replaces multiple resource extension features provided in earlier versions | |
| Installation | Deploying Web Application Contents – now or later | This helps us plan deployment – either sequentially as on when required or everything at once |
| SAP HANA Database using ODBC as CMS and Audit Database | We can configure the ODBC for SAP HANA during the BI Platform installation itself rather than post installation & reconfiguration as in older versions | |
| Promotion Management Enhancements | Promotion Management Enhancements (Multi Job Server Support, Overrides storage in CMS DB) – If you have a very large BI deployment with promotions happening multiple times in a day, this feature would deliver enhanced management & performance. | |
| Promotion Management & Upgrade management Tool | Clustered Version Management Server Support | This delivers stability along with the enhanced failover capability |
| Selective retrieval of objects from an LCMBIAR file | This provides flexibility on selecting BI content from the complete set of BIAR file. This enables fewer number of BIAR files to be created for the backup purposes | |
| UMT enhancement | AD group auto mapping | You don’t need to reconfigure AD configuration post content migration from your BO 3.x environments |
If you would like to go beyond the above platform-related enhancements and assess one or more of the following, feel free to reach out to us at solutions@visualbi.com. or
- Specific capabilities related to Data Connectivity, Self Service & Mobile BI enablement
- Tool related improvements for Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, SAP Lumira, SAP Design Studio, Analysis For Office, etc
- Migration readiness & ROI
- … and more
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