Sap Bo 4.0 Client Tools Installation' title='Sap Bo 4.0 Client Tools Installation' />BI 4. New Features and Changes Business Intelligence Business. ObjectsBI 4. 0 New Features and Changes. There are many articles posted and available about BI 4. SDN. In this Wiki,  I would like to share some brief knowledge about the various new features available in BI 4. Sap Bo 4. 0 Client Tools Installation Of LaminateSAP Business Objects Enterprise 3. SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence platform 4. SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI4. Business Intelligence platform that supports the entire range of Performance Management, Reporting, Querying, and Analysis Applications. It has proven architecture and platform support for Semantic Layers, Data Integration, and Security. SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI4. Online Training on Data Warehousing, BA, pega, Hadoop, Testing Tools, SAP Modules, Microsoft, Java, Hyperion, Tableau, Oracle online training, Informatica. The SAP Community is the quickest way for users to solve problems, learn more about SAP solutions, and invent new ways to get things done. Software Development Kit SDKThe software development kit included in the new version has many new features, such as support for security, support for alerting, support for role based authentication. Architecture 6. 4 bit Architecture. Native support for 6. Operating System for BI 4. Allows handling large reports no more 2 GB memory limitation. Java Application server utilizing 6. JDKs Java Development Kit. Desktop products and client tools support Windows 3. OS platforms. Nomenclature Changes. There are few nomenclature changes made in the new version of BI 4. SNo. BO 3. 1. BI 4. Business Objects Enterprise. Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform. Infoview. BI Launch Pad. Business Objects Xcelsius Platform. SAP Business Objects Dashboard Design. Universe Designer. Information Design Tools and Universe Design Tool. Crystal Reports 2. Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Crystal Reports 2. Business Objects Voyager. Business Objects Analysis, Edition for OLAP7. Dashboard Builder. BI Workspaces. 8. Web Intelligence. SAP Business Objects Interactive Analysis. Translation Manager. Translation Management Tool. Whats New in BI 4. In the latest BI 4. Common query interface across all reporting tools built in the Information Design Tool. Many new features here including multiple data connection. Data Federation included. New abstraction layer for multi dimensional data sources. Native multi source support. Performance enhancements with engine update. Crystal Reports Enterprise online report development based on universes built converted in Information Design Tool. Installs many ERP and Portal integrations by default recommended to only install what you need. Alert information through SAP Solution Manager support which can connect to products like Tivoli. CMC monitoring of servers and thresholds related to their performance. New Search Engine. LCM Life Cycle Management installed by default. BI 4. 0 Platform. SOURCE SAP BUSINESS OBJECTSImprovements. Some of the improvements made in BI 4. Universe can now be sourced from multiple datasources. Universe can access from MOLAP cubes from Microsoft Analysis Services, Essbase, Mandroin etc. MDX without having to flatten them out. Prior version, Universe can access only SQL source. More common look and feel to understand BI products, including Crystal, Web. I, Explorer and BEx. Universe can now be directly accessed by the Dashboards 4. There is a tighter integration with BW via direct exposure of BW metadata BW query and Infoprovider to all BO tools. Four times better performance in BIBW in terms of APIs which means BW can access BO in a much faster way. Enhanced virtualization support. Additional monitoring. A re written auditing back end. The previous versions major limitation is, many components needed a separate installation. But in the new version of BI 4. SAP BI 4. 0. The components are mention below. Enterprise Resource Planning. Lifecycle Management. SAP Solution Manager support. Data Federation. Mobile server support. SAP Business Objects Dashboard Design formerly Xcelsius server support. Language support. SAP BW publishing servers. WDeploy Graphical User Interface GUI. Web application consolidation. BI Launch Pad. BI Launch pad provides an interface to the SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence platform repository that enables us to navigate to view and manage our business intelligence documents. It is a web based application from which we can access Crystal reports, Web Intelligence documents, and other objects, and organize them to suit our preferences. Some of the features in the BI launch pad are mentioned below. Usability and Look Feel improvements. Quick and easy access recently viewed reports, instances, alerts and BI tools. Tab based interface for easier navigation. Customization and personalization capabilities. Role based personalization. Simplified deployment with one WAR file. Improved user interface and additional options for interface customization. BI LANUNCH PAD. png. The new semantic layer introduced in the new BI 4. This semantic layer is called as Information Design Tool IDT which is the replacement of Universe Designer of BO 3. The new semantic layer includes elements from the old Data Federator product which presumably no longer exists and allows a single universe to combine data from multiple sources. However the old Universe Designer is also made available in the installation pack. The information design tool is the SAP Business. Objects design environment for creating and publishing new SAP Business Objects universes and connections. IDT is used for new multi source universes. The information design tool lets you take advantage of these major new universe design features Dimensional universes that support OLAP dimensions and hierarchies. Multi Source universes that federate multiple relational data sources. A design environment that facilitates designer teamwork and universe resource sharing. A security editor for universe data and metadata. Extended connection management. Web Intelligence 4. Using Web Intelligence we can perform interactive analysis with SAP Business. Objects Web Intelligence by creating reports based on data we want to analyze. Some of the changes made to the previous version and new features in the current version are mentioned below. End to End Self Service BI tool covering a range of users. Interoperability to various products in Business objects suit. Combine Data from different sources. Significant Productivity Usability Improvements. Best in class integration with SAP BW re use report element across documents Charts, Tables, Queries, Variables. Re purpose Web Intelligence tables as editable office content. Copy as a picture option. You can create a chart and associate dimensions and measures in Edit mode. Alienware Laptop Fan Control Program. New chart types such as Scatter Bubble, Polar Bubble, Dual Axes Charts, Tree Maps for Hierarchical Data, Heat Maps, Box Plots, Series Pie Charts, Tag Clouds are available in the new version. Semantic Layer in Web Intelligence. Deta FederatorSQL Access to DSOs. Access Bex Queries via BICS Business Intelligence Consumer Services layer. Common query experience across all data sources. Navigate and report multidimensional data. Improved scalability. WEBI. png. SAP Business Objects Dashboard Design. SAP Business Objects Dashboard Design previously called Xcelsius, contains new features and enhancements that are focused on improving productivity and direct enterprise data connectivity. These features and enhancements include new and updated support for SAP Business Objects Universe queries and integration with SAP Business Objects Enterprise. Some of the new features are as follows. Scalability improvements allow dashboards to reach the masses. Dashboards will now scale in a linear fashion. SAP BI Platform Support Tool Business Intelligence Business. ObjectsHi Moritz,Thanks for reporting some of these. See my responses below for each one Alert Summary System Alerts static. Line. Args XX Use. Parallel. Old. GCFor this one, the system alert is thrown regardless if the server is running or not. The command line args can be retrieved from the infostore regardless if the server is running, unlike the server metrics. If you recently added the argument to the command line, make sure youve stopped and restarted the corresponding server since the change. Until the server starts at least once, the cmd line change isnt committed to the db. The easiest way to tell is NOT by looking at what shows up in the editable server cmdline textbox in the CMC. This shows up immediately regardless of what is committed for the server. Instead, look at the server services inspection report, click on the correct SIA tab, expand the corresponding server accordion, and validate the command line here. If you see the alert and its appears here, then there might be a problem. However, I tested just now and wasnt able to reproduce what you described. Alert Summary System Alerts static. Master. Index. Location. For this one, the alert is thrown if you have multiple Platform Search service APSs. Any APS without a Platform Search subservice will not be factored into the equation. Similar to the above, the running status isnt factored in. The reasoning behind this is. APS configured correctly, the other APSs which are stopped should also be configured correctly because they have the chance of being started in the future, and thus causing problems. If you have multiple APSs and it detected a local path, then the alert should be thrown. If APS 2 ever starts, itll commit any changes locally rather than to the master index location which was previously used. Ill revisit the description to see if it needs to be altered. Alert Summary Authentication Alerts authentication. Default. System  lt and Alert Summary Authentication Alerts  authentication. Update. Users     lt and Alert Summary Authentication Alerts  authentication. Synchronize. Users. I created a JIRA ticket for these. BITBITOOL 7. 49 These are all user alerts which are defined in the Preferences section of the tool. Ill talk to the person that created these and verify if they are alerting incorrectly or if maybe some arent needed. However, any of the user alerts can be removed from the Preferences Alert section within the tool if you dont feel its valid in your situation. Alert Summary System Alerts webapplicationservers. I created a JIRA ticket to review this one. BITBITOOL 7. 48   Well work with the internal SAP team that supports the various application servers to get their thoughts and this. But its quite possible, as you mentioned, we just need to add a SSL check when evaluating this alert. Semantic Layer Orphaned Reports. Ive seen the null value displayed as well and just assumed it was for reports stored in the auto save folder that were never officially saved by a user. But Ill look into this further. BITBITOOL 7. 50 In the future, please create a forum post via the BIP Support Tool home page. There are two links, one called report an issue and another called report an enhancement. Both are searchableviewable by others visiting the scn page plus well track the status for issues there. The comments on this page will be harder and harder to follow as it grows. Ill enter the ones above for you.