BusinessObjects Analysis Office 2.0 – Ramp-up, Observations Part 2

For reference see SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Edition for Office 2.0 is now in Ramp-up

First, when you install it, if you don’t meet the prerequisites you will get this:

The nice thing is you can click on the hyperlinks and it will take you to the installation for both the .NET and Visual Studio.

Here’s the Analysis Ribbon in 1.4:

In 2.0 it has expanded to handle the Support settings

Next you can see the new Format group in the Ribbon bar.  There is a new Crosstab dropdown; previously in 1.4 these features were on the Components display panel:

More to come.  We will learn more at BI 2015 next year, and I am looking forward to it.