SAP recently announced the renaming of most of several key BI solutions and products primarily in order to bring clarity to their BI stack and ever-growing product suite. “These changes were made to make it easier for everyone to identify the SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions and better understand their capabilities. The changes will also help differentiate the enterprise-level solutions from those sold through SAP resellers, distributors and the SAP Store.”
| Former Name | New Name |
| SAP® BusinessObjects™ Enterprise | SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence platform |
| SAP® BusinessObjects™Xcelsius Enterprise> Xcelsius Enterprise Interactive Viewing | SAP® BusinessObjects™Dashboards> SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Interactive Viewing |
| SAP® BusinessObjects™Advanced Analysis, Web EditionSAP® BusinessObjects™Advanced Analysis, Office Edition | SAP® BusinessObjects™Analysis, edition for OLAPSAP® BusinessObjects™Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office |
| SAP® BusinessObjects™Web Intelligence | SAP® BusinessObjects™Web Intelligence (Installer name and documentation refers to “Interactive Analysis”) |
| Crystal Reports | SAP® Crystal Reports |
When is 4.0 going to be GA?
On checking the “SAP Network Community” Portal, it seems like, the date was pushed out to Aug, 2011. It seems like the date will continue to change until the SAP developers have thoroughly tested the product.
I guess everyone should continue to monitor the official rampup site for updates.
https://service.sap.com/rampup (Click on “SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0”). Hope this helps!
Thanks for the information, Neetu. Although some of these name changes are subtle, it is still important to be aware of them.