SAP BI4.2 What’s New
Some interesting What’s New slides on SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 appeared this week. You can check the high-level info slides here, the slides with a bit more detail here, and if you are really hardcore you can find the 150 slides ultimate edition here.
You can also go through my tweets with all the highlights and my comments:
A lot of new BI4.2 “What’s new” info has been release last week. Let’s see if I can get through it while watching the Bundesliga.
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Platform: User Notification.Looks pretty useful, like SAP t-code SM02.Not clear how this works in OpenDoc mode pic.twitter.com/iE9ow0045u
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Platform: Recycle Bin. Okay this also sounds handy for users. pic.twitter.com/5y677ZNZ5k
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Platform: COMMENTARY FOR ALL CLIENTS! Finally. With authorizations and context sensitivity. Very nice. pic.twitter.com/rYuj2kqNOz
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Platform: They improved the chaotic Overrides workflow. Good thing, since this really really sucks now. pic.twitter.com/TSjtAlP88x
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Webi:Parallel Queries. No BICS/BW support? NOOOOOO!Also don’t like config files to adjust the settings f this. pic.twitter.com/K0Xu4fA421
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Webi: Commentary. This looks very good. New comment cell in report + new side panel. pic.twitter.com/osTbbTkEvp
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Webi: Shared Elements. Share Webi report parts with others. Might be useful, not sure if ppl will use this. pic.twitter.com/k908keFObT
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Webi: GEO MAPS! pic.twitter.com/h39QHv6qkR
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Webi: Direct access to HANA views. Works via OLAP or Relational Connection. JAVA + HTML version both supported pic.twitter.com/ojHWdQAAmI
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Semantic layer: BW Universes based on BEx queries, using BICS. pic.twitter.com/htrudZKaeC
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Crystal Reports 4E: Vertical text alignment, QR+BAR codes, Waterfall chart and some additional data sources… pic.twitter.com/HDoJ155eA3
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 Mobile BI: Broadcast admin messages to the app, also supports iOS push alerts. Cool. pic.twitter.com/Ngc0Hsnaei
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2 – And that’s the end of the What’s New (Bundesliga game is also over).
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2: Seems like the Webi HTML vs JAVA client discrepancy won’t be solved in this first BI4.2 release. That’s really disappointing.
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2: It actually was featured in the latest Webi roadmap (Sept 2015): pic.twitter.com/RMuFmrUwAo
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
BI4.2: So it has some nice improvements (Geo, commentary, overrides,notifications,parallel queries,HANA views), but we’re not there yet. 🙂
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) October 17, 2015
HackingSAP.com - Oct 17, 2015 | SAP BusinessObjects
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