#SAPPHIRENOW #Analytics News: SAP BusinessObjects ...

timoelliott · ‎05-16-2013

Just before the SAPPHIRE NOW conference, SAP announced the Release to Customer (RTC) of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, Edge BI 4.1 and Crystal Server 2013.

What’s New in BI 4.1

BI 4.1 is one suite for all insight, one place for all information and on standard for enterprise BI. Here are the highlights of the new release – or you can skip to the end of the post to get a detailed technical presentation of the new features.

The features in this latest release include:

Unified and highly personalized platform with improved interoperability and usability across the BI suite
Powerful visualizations that empower end users with industry focused visualizations and spatial analytics
Big Data ready with support for Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Hadoop Hive. Improved access to Oracle’s Exadata, OLAP and Essbase. BI 4.1 also includes enhanced workflow capabilities in conjunction with SAP HANA and BW
Professional grade BI platform for any size business, any type of deployment and for any role across the organization

BI 4.1 includes features for all five areas of SAP BI innovation

One Suite for All Insight

One Place for All Information

One Standard for Enterprise BI

Three key types of information access: self-service, dashboards and apps, and reporting

New Self-Service Features

New Dashboarding Features

New Reporting Features

New Platform Features

What’s different about this release?

Summary of Key Messages for Business Objects 4.1

One strategy for enterprise BI: one suite for all insight, one place for all information, one standard for enterprise BI.

One Suite For All Insight

Unified and highly personalized

Improved interoperability and usability across the BI suite
Deliver engaging information to users when and where they need it
Create custom experiences with embedded analytic extensions

Powerful visualizations

Monitor your business with specialized charting and geospatial analytics
Empower end users with industry focused visualizations and spatial analytics
Detect outliers and discover areas to optimize your business

Faster more accurate decisions

Create and consume BI content from any mobile device
Empower teams to deliver collaborative decisions
Simplified deployment to accelerate time to value

One Place For All Information

Big data ready

Support for Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Hadoop Hive
Improved access to Oracle Exadata, Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase
Enhanced workflow capabilities in conjunction with SAP HANA and BW

Scale and power

Immediate response time regardless of data volume
Improved usability to build pervasive BI applications
Integrate with SAP monitoring, lifecycle management, search, and user management

Speed to deliver

Enhanced design experience with new creation wizard and integrated data federation
Improved Web Intelligence report design performance against BW
Automated universe deployment and lifecycle management

One Standard For Enterprise BI

Professional grade BI platform

For any size business, small to large
For any type of deployment, on-premise or on-demand
For anyone across the organization, individuals, teams, or department

Quality focused

Increased efficiency to enhance decision making capability and productivity
Non-disruptive production delivery and information governance across the organization
Simplified architecture for increased IT responsiveness

Superior breadth of ecosystem

Open and agnostic suite of products that can leverage existing BI investments
Supported by global best practices for enhanced adoption
Enable speedy deployment with shortened time to value

Key Links

Full, Detailed Technical Feature Documentation/Presentation

Here’s the official feature-level what’s new manual for BusinessObjects 4.1, and a presentation by Ty Miller, delivered at the ASUG2013 / SAPPHIRENOW Conference