Today SAP BusinessObjects released Service Pack 2 for BOE XI 3.1. The download is available out on SAP’s Service Marketplace and can be found under the Business Objects Download page through the following path: SAP BusinessObjects packages and products > SBOP Enterprise > BOBJ Enterprise XI 3.1.
What’s New?
There are a bunch of new features that have been incorporated into the SP2 of XI 3.1 and they span these existing Enterprise products.
- Translation Manager
- Live Office
- Web Intelligence
- Query as a Web Service
- Universe Designer
- Data Access
- Migration and Upgrade
- LifeCycle Manager
Here is a teaser of the new features for SP2 in my own Top 5 in no specific order! For a full list, check out the what’s new documentation that is available on the SAP Help Portal.
- Query as a Web Service
- Ability to log in using the following authentication modes: AD, AD SSO, LDAP and SAP
- Universe Designer
- New @Prompt Editor with a User Interface guided workflow. NO MORE COUNTING COMMAS!!!!!!!
- Web Intelligence
- BI Services that allows publishing Web Intelligence content over the web using WSDL and SOAP
- Query on Query: Gives the ability to define a query condition based on an object resulting from another query in your WebI document.
- Input Controls: Add an advanced user interface to your WebI document that includes list boxes, radio buttons and sliders for what-if analysis!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Service Packs