SAP Business Objects v4.

0 Architecture
SAP has introduced new term and technology with its latest release of Business Objects v4.0 . There are changes in the "Business Objects 4.0 Architecture" as well. Business Objects 4.0 Architecture is 6 Layer Architecture.

1. 64-bit server Architecture. 2. 64-bit database middle-ware support. 3. Server components are 64-bit applications that requiring 64-bit Server OS therefore 4. Java Application server utilizing 64-bit JDKs (Java Development Kit). 5. Desktop products and client tools support Windows 32-bit and 64-bit OS platforms. 6. Allows handling large reports: no more 2 GB memory limitation. 7. web application server and BI4 webapps in front 8. BI4 servers in the back 9. and BI4 repository database at the bottom. 10.Still using CORBA for inter-server communication. 11.Integrated platform monitoring 12.Advanced auditing capabilities 13.Supportability and root-cause analysis 14.New Server Service: DSL used fo accessing SAP Bex queries (via BICS) 15.New Server Service for CVOM/graphical engine for Webi 16. Complete Server Configuration backup now possible via CCM. Here are the changes on the client tools: 17.Web Intelligence does not support the SDK in the 4.0 version. 18.Desktop Intelligence does not exist anymore 19.All the Crystal Reports will be updated to the CR 2011 version The swf files coming from Xcelsius 2008 will continue to work, but a conversation is necessary in order to have access to dashboard designs new functionalities. 21.Explorer does not support the information space on universes of UNV format anymore. New addition Services: The integration kits (SAP,PeopleSoft,etc) are included in the installation except for Sharepoint which will come later

20.

Mobile is included in the installation Data Federator is partially integrated

Note: In SAP BOBI 4.0, 32 Bit/64 Bit data base connections. 32 bit universe & Crystal reports. 64 bit CMS/Audit/UNX(IDT universe format). New Binaries New Audit schema

Now coming to the 6 Layer Architecture.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Client Tier Web Tier (Previously Application Layer in BO XI) Management Tier (Previously Intelligence Layer in BO XI) Storage Tier (New Layer introduced in BO 4.0) Processing Tier Data Tier

CMS is still the main central server. Several new processes has been introduced in the each of this layer. Lets have look at the new Business Objects 4.0 Architecture- click link below to go to SAP site Servers & Services

The term server is used to describe an operating system level process hosting one or more services. For example, the Central Management Server (CMS) and Adaptive Processing Server are servers. A server runs under a specific operating system account and has its own PID. A service is a server subsystem that performs a specific function. The service runs within the memory space of its server under the process id of the parent container (server). For example, the SAP BusinessObjects Interactive Analysis Scheduling and Publishing Service is a subsystem that runs within the Adaptive Job Server. Full description of server types, services affectation per server, services types, services definition is available in the BI4 Administration Guide.

Product Changes - BI Platform Component

Comparison with BO XIR3.1
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.x

Product/Tool Name
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0

Comments/Remarks
Refers to the name of the complete release including BI & EIM solutions. Refers to the name of the Business Intelligence component of the release. Refers to the Businessobjects Enterprise product bundle BOE, Enterprise or BI platform is widely used by the technical community in reference to the technical platform of the solution by opposition to the BI clients.

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.x

InfoView

Now BI Launch Pad

New interface Report pinning

Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence

Fully upgraded
Installer name, documentation as well as some material presented in SAPPHIRE or other conferences may refers to Interactive Analysis

Desktop Intelligence
Universe Designer UNV format

End of Life
No Change to Universe Designer (UNV format) Information Designer (UNX format) None, universes and designer as in XI 3.
(Existing XI 3.x universes still work in the 4.0 platform. The legacy Universe Designer is shipped with 4.0 under the new name Universe Design Tool) It is a New tool in 4.0 to develop the new semantic layer (universes with .unx extension)

Information Design Tool.(IDT)

Dashboard Builder

Now BI Workspace

Relational UNV can be converted to UNX OLAP UNV have to be re-created in UNX (future version will support conversion. Corporate, Personal and My InfoView Dashboards become BI Workspaces but some analytics must be recreated

Xcelsius 2008

Dashboards

Flash files will continue to work Conversion to new format is optional Conversion adds new features (globalization, UNX queries
QaaWS will continue to work Upgrade Manager will detect dependencies to universes (UNV) Dashboards on QaaWS will continue to work Existing documents will continue to work Need to update client machine

Query as a Web Service (QaaWS)

No Change

Live Office

No Change

Explorer
Upgrade Management Tool

No Universe Support Import Wizard Report conversion tool. No change Integrated in BI 4.0 client tools Integrated in BI 4.0 Crystal Reports End of Life(N/A)

Information Spaces based on Excel are upgraded, the ones based on UNV and bookmarks are not !
This is a brand new tool replacing the Import Wizard (not a renaming) and dedicated to upgrading from a previous version to 4.x

Report Conversion tool Translation Manager LCM (XI 3.1 only) SAP Crystal Reports 2011
SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Same feature as in XI 3.1 with the support of the Online to Online mode. Convert DeskI documents to
WebI documents.

Parity of features with XI 3.1 is maintained All translations previously done will be retained. 1 None

All reports are by default upgraded to CR 2011 Possible manual upgrade to CR Enterprise New version of Crystal Reports that relies on the new semantic layer for data access or connections directly to BW using BICS Some of workspaces will be upgrade to Advanced Analysis, the others require manual changes.
Complete re-install required No compatibility with historical data

Voyager

Analysis, edition for OLAP. Analysis, edition for OLA

New Binaries New Audit schema End of Life End of Life

Binaries Audit Encyclopedia / Discussions Performance Manager

Search

Enhanced Search capability

Includes a search index

WDeploy

Integrated in BI 4.0

WDeploy GUI available

Integration Kits for SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, Oracle Integration Kit for SharePoint Data Federator Mobile

Integrated in BI 4.0

No separate installation require

Integrated in BI 4.0 SP2 Partially integrated in BI 4.0 Integrated in BI 4.0

Same feature as in XI 3.1 with the support of the Online to Online mode Existing DF 3.x deployments remain compatible with BI 4.0 Local content moved with upgrade manager 3.1 and BI 4.0 may coexist (2 client versions on the device) Parameters to be re-set or copied