Saturday, May 4, 2013

Versions of SAP BusinessObjects

SAP BI BusinessObjects 4.0 
Product version: 
XI 4.0 and Build: 565 --> SAP BI BusObjects 4.0 SP02 Patch 12 
version 14.04 and Build 738 --> SAP BI BusObjects 4.0 SP4 no patch 
version 14.04 and Build 855 --> SAP BI BusObjects 4.0 SP4 Patch 5 

BO XI 3.1 SP6 
12.6.0.1596 --> XI 3.1 SP6 

BO XI 3.1 SP5 
12.5.0.1190 --> XI 3.1 SP5 
12.5.3.1475 --> XI 3.1 SP5 FP3 
12.5.4.1599 --> XI 3.1 SP5 FP4 
12.5.4.1600 --> XI 3.1 SP5 FP5 special fix (for a customer the c3_calc.dll) 

BO XI 3.1 SP4 
12.4.0.966 --> XI 3.1 SP4 
12.4.1.1188 --> XI 3.1 SP4 + FP 4.1 

BO XI 3.1 SP3 
12.3.0.601 --> XI 3.1 SP3 
12.3.1.684 --> XI 3.1 + SP3 + FP3.1 
12.3.2.753 --> XI 3.1 + SP3 + FP3.2 
12.3.3.812 --> XI 3.1 + SP3 + FP3.3 
12.3.4.895 --> XI 3.1 + SP3 + FP3.4 
12.3.5.925 --> XI 3.1 + SP3 + FP3.5 
12.3.6.1006 --> XI 3.1 + SP3 + FP3.6 

BO XI 3.1 SP2 
12.2.0.290 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 
12.2.1.412 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.1 
12.2.2.441 or 12.2.2.453 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.2 
12.2.3.467 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.3 
12.2.4.507 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.4 
12.2.5.537 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.5 
12.2.6.567 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.6 
12.2.7.598 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.7 
12.2.8.638 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.8 
12.2.9.698 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.9 
12.2.10.810 --> XI 3.1 + SP2 + FP2.10 

BO XI 3.1 
12.1.0.882 --> XI 3.1 
12.1.1.957 --> FP1.1 
12.1.2.996 --> FP1.2 
12.1.3.1028 --> FP1.3 
12.1.4.1068 --> FP1.4 
12.1.5.1096 --> FP1.5 
12.1.6.1116 --> FP1.6 
12.1.7.1144 --> FP1.7 
12.1.8.1176 --> FP1.8 
12.1.9.1290 --> FP1.9 
12.1.10.1390 --> FP1.10 
12.1.11.1454 --> FP1.11 

BO XI 3.0 
12.0.0.683.BOE_Titan_RTM --> XI 3.0 
12.0.0.796.BOE_Titan_FP_RTM_REL --> FP 1 
12.0.0.840.BOE_Titan_FP_RTM_REL --> FP 2 
12.0.3.900 BOE_Titan_FP_RTM_REL --> FP 3 


BO XI r2 
11.5.0.313 --> RTM 
11.5.3.417 --> SP1 
11.5.7.608 --> MHF1 
11.5.7.682 --> CHF13 
11.5.7.723 --> CHF14 
11.5.7.770 --> CHF15 
11.5.7.811 --> CHF16 
11.5.7.852 --> CHF17 
11.5.7.1048 --> CHF20 
11.5.8.826 --> SP2 
11.5.8.826 --> FP2.1 
11.5.8.939 --> FP2.2 
11.5.8.963 --> FP2.3 
11.5.8.998 --> FP2.4 
11.5.8.1030 --> FP2.5 
11.5.8.1061 --> FP2.6 
11.5.8.1111 --> FP2.7 
11.5.8.1187 --> FP2.8 
11.5.8.1237 --> FP2.9 
11.5.9.1076 --> SP3 
11.5.9.1101 --> FP3.1 
11.5.9.1138 --> FP3.2 
11.5.9.1176 --> FP3.3 
11.5.9.1202 --> FP3.4 
11.5.9.1227 --> FP3.5 
11.5.9.1265 --> FP3.6 
11.5.9.1330 --> FP3.7 
11.5.9.1378 --> FP3.8 
11.5.9.1449 --> FP3.9 
11.5.10.1263 --> SP4 
11.5.10.1298 --> FP4.1 
11.5.10.1322 --> FP4.2 
11.5.10.1358 --> FP4.3 
11.5.10.1404 --> FP4.4 
11.5.10.1426 --> FP4.5 
11.5.10.1460 --> FP4.6 
11.5.10.1491 --> FP4.7 
11.5.10.1554 --> FP4.8 
11.5.10.1619 --> FP4.9 
11.5.10.1681 --> FP4.10 
11.5.10.1765 --> FP4.11 
11.5.10.1854 --> FP4.12 
11.5.11.1470 --> SP5 
11.5.11.1545 --> FP 5.1 
11.5.11.1578 --> FP 5.2 
11.5.11.1610 --> FP 5.3 
11.5.11.1639 --> FP 5.4 
11.5.11.1673 --> FP 5.5 
11.5.11.1732 --> FP 5.6 
11.5.11.1797 --> FP 5.7 
11.5.11.1856 --> FP 5.8 
11.5.12.1838 --> SP6 

RTM = Release To Market (first release, without any patches). 
MHF = Monthly Hot Fix. 
CHF = Critical Hot Fix. 
SP = Service Pack. 
FP = Fix Pack. 

Products in SAP BusinessObjects


Products

  • Common services for deployment and management of BI tools
  • Reporting
    • Query and analysis tools for self-service reporting, including DeskI (Full Client, which is being retired) and Web Intelligence (for ad-hoc reporting).
    • Enterprise Reporting (SAP Crystal Reports) access, format, and deliver information to large populations of users.
  • Data Visualization (Dashboard Design/Xcelsius) supports creation of flash dashboards and dynamic charts and graphics with data from BO XI, databases, or Excel spreadsheets.
  • Universe Designer: An administrator tool used to construct Universes or abstracted end-user views of the database; allows pre-defining table joins, object descriptions, and measure object behavior during aggregation. This tool is succeeded by "Information Design Tool" (IDT) in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
  • Enterprise Information Management (EIM) integrates and improves data to create a trusted foundation for business decisions. Creates a basis for querying and analysis through ETL or EII.
  • Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) helps users align with strategy by tracking and analyzing key business metrics and goals via management dashboardsscorecards, analytics, and alerting.
  • InfoView web portal, which is succeeded by BI Launch pad in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
  • BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (formerly OutlookSoft) a corporate performance management tool which runs within Microsoft Excel
    • On-demand BI software (Business Intelligence OnDemand), hosted on the web.

History of SAP Business Objects (BO, BOBJ)

SAP Business Objects (BO, BOBJ) is a French enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI). Since 2007, it has been a part of SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers worldwide in its final earnings release prior to being acquired by SAP. Its flagship product is BusinessObjects XI, with components that provide performance managementplanning, reporting, query and analysis and enterprise information management. Business Objects also offers consulting and education services to help customers deploy its business intelligence projects. Other Business Objects toolsets enable universes (the BOBJ name for a semantic layer between the physical data store and the front-end reporting tool) and ready-written reports to be stored centrally and made selectively available to communities of password-protected usernames.