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