The other day, I came across the presentation on NW 2004s . It full of new features End routines, report designer, the BI add-in for visual composer, changing cubes, re-partitioning -- the list goes on and on! It does more things - like a re-modeling workbench, writing query results back to an Infoprovider...etc . Something similar to what we had achieved at a customer - (see the weblog on Proposed Teched2005 session on Closed loop application -- https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogsblog=/pub/wlg/1675 , please vote for it, if it interests you )