What's new in SAP BusinessObjects Platform 4.0 SP6 (5+)

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Supported Plarform

• Mobile Server for AIX
• Windows 8
• Internet Explorer 10
• Microsoft Office 2013
• ...
  

For full details of the supported versions of SAP and related third-party software, see the SAP Product Availability Matrix BI 4.0 SP05+:

https://websmp208.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SCENARIO=01100035870000000202&_SHORTKEY=011000358700007...

BI Application Ehancements for 4.0 SP6

Data access

New data sources - The BI platform allows you to create connections to new data sources

• SAP Netweaver 7.31
• IBM DB2 Client 10.1
• ...
  

Deprecated connectivities - Existing connections to the following data sources continue to work but you cannot create new connections to them:

• DB2 for z/OS v8, DB2 UDB v8 and DB2 v9.1
• GreenPlum 3
• MS Access 2003, MS Excel 2003, MS SQL Server 2005
• Progress OpenEdge 10
• Sybase IQ 12.7 and Sybase SQL Anywhere 10

SAP Web Intelligence RESTful web service SDK

Document Management - The following document-related functions have been updated:

• Properties
• Styles
• Functions
• Operators
• Variables
• Alerters
• Change tracking
• Attachments
• Links

Document lifecycle management - New methods and options concerning the document state and creating/managing snapshots have been added.

Report management - The following report-related functions have been updated:

• Export
• List
• Drill
• Structure

Managing data providers - The following report-related functions have been updated:

• Data provider details
• Mappings
• Moving data providers
• Flow information
• Query specifications

Document scheduling - The following methods have been updated:

• Add a schedule
• Delete a schedule
• Cancel a schedule
• Get the list of schedules
• Get the details of a schedule

Refreshing documents - The following methods have been updated:

• Get the refresh parameters
• Refresh a document
• Cancel the refresh of a document

Managing universes - You can now getthe query capabilities of a universe.