My Favorite BI4 Features #1
1) Alerting to BI Launch Pad. Moving alerts from the report level to the User Interface
2) Charting tooltips in Webi
3) Join multiple data sources in new UNX design tool at a Data Services Layer
4) The “Data Preview” pane in new UNX design tool that allows you to see your data as you test and object query
5) Text Analysis moved into Data Services
6) Schedule report packages of Crystal and Webi Reports
7) For SAP Crystal Reports, you can embed the content of onereport in an email.
8) For Web Intelligence documents, you can embed thecontent of one report tab in an email.
9) Export reports to the Excel 2007 workbook
10) How new versions of enteprise software creates real jobs
2) Binding Xcelsius (now known as Dashboard Designer) components directly to a query
3) Being able to directly access SAP BW via WEBI, no need for OLAP universes anymore
4) OLAP like hierarchies in Webi, finally
5) Vertical folding in Webi
6) Webi can now do fit to page
7) New Information Design Tool (IDT) with built-in DataFederator, being able to mash multiple separate data sources into one universe, etc. etc.