This blog post presents you what's really different in SAP BI 4.1.
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
What’s important about this release
- First point release of SAP’s leading BI suite
- Focus on quality and innovation
- Core stability and capability improvements
- New innovations
- Enhancement requests
- All existing XI R2 and XI3 customers can migrate to this newest platform of SAP’s BI Suite
- New capabilities around self-service, dashboarding and mobile BI
All Users
Faster team driven decisions with shared analysis of BI content for corporate and departmental insight
- Document collaboration through integration with Jam
- Document sharing with A. Office broadcasting
- New and enhanced SDKs to integrate with existing IT ecosystems and embrace the internet of things
- Expanded mobile delivery and consumption capabilities for suite-wide mobile content adoption
- Improved interoperability and usability across BI clients for a consistent experience
All Data
Unified and highly personalized data access, manipulation and sharing accelerates time from data to business value
- We love Big Data! Support for Amazon EMR, Hadoop Hive, Teradata 14 and of course HANA
- Migrate traditional database based BI to HANA based BI with auto-generated Universes
- Oracle customers rejoice! Better BI for Oracle with support of Oracle Exadata, Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase
- Pick your flavour of OLAP: MSAS, HANA, BW, Oracle Essbase, Oracle OLAP, Teradata OLAP, BPC
One platform
Better integration with BI ecosystem, combined with administration improvements for reduced TCO
- Enhanced migration tools and deployment simplification facilitates frictionless upgrade from prior releases
- Tenant-based session management for multi-tenanted platforms to be deployed for customers operating multiple entities on a single instance
- Single Mobile BI platform for all content
- Support of Right-to-Left (RTL) languages prevalent in Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
At the end, you can find below a summary of new features of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 :
New blog posts coming soon for more details about new features of BI 4.1 !
Stay tuned.