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What's New
- If you are unfamiliar with BI platform 4, seeGetting started with SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions.
- Added WebI Calculation changes document.
- Added the SAP BI Pattern Book
Why upgrade to BI 4?
 Enable answers on the goGet existing reports and dashboards. Enable self-service on mobile devices for managers and executives who need to answer diverse, changing questions on the go. |  Deliver self-service BI to the entire teamWork with a complete self-service offering for analysts and end-users with improved Explorer and new Visual Intelligence. |  Get the most out of your BI solutionDo more with the tools you already have with ongoing improvements of WebI, CR, Dashboards and Explorer. |
New in BI 4
For a high-level overview of key features in BI 4 Feature Pack 3, seeSAP BusinessObjects BI Platform Whats New in Feature Pack 3. For a comprehensive list of new features for all BI 4 releases, see the What's New Guide on the Help Portal.
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Plan your upgrade
Planning and support are essential to upgrading your BI platform deployment. It is important to do preliminary research. You can get help from SAP services at any time.
For a comprehensive list of helpful service links, considerations, and processes, see Planning your BI4 Upgrade.
How to upgrade
Note: Documents written for BI 4.0 FP3 apply to BI 4.0 SP4.
This section includes information about migrating business intelligence content during the upgrade process. For more information about BI 4, including installation and configuration, seeGetting started with SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions.
 General Best Practices |
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This recorded KHNC webinar offers a complete overview of the upgrade path and technical implementation. For more information, see the associated presentation. This step-by-step wiki article provides guidance for a complete upgrade. You can use it to perform upgrades in a sandbox environment to familiarize yourself with tools and processes. |
 Administer, Install, Deploy |
The wiki documents known Issues with performing full and patch installations of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform BI 4.0 SP 4 Full and available solutions and workarounds. This document provides an overview of security settings changes for Web Intelligence and Web Intelligence Rich Client 4.x Everything you need to know about Audit and Monitoring in your BI 4 upgrade project For recommendations, see the "General Guidelines" section. The provided templates will allow you to create a new audit schema. Note: Audit records cannot be carried over unchanged because the auditing database in BI 4 has been modified. This articles explains the purpose and location of release notes. A list of resources regarding how to setup the platform depending different deployment scenarios. |
 Semantic Layer |
This document explains the persistence of Linked Universes to persist in UNX universes for programmatic manipulation of Universe entities and definition of custom attributes in linked satellite Universes. This note provides solutions for slow Webi performance with OLAP-based universes. In case of performance issues, check the proper sizing and configuration of your servers. |
 Desktop Intelligence |
This article provides guidelines for conversion to Web Intelligence and includes information about the availability of features and possible workarounds. Note: Desktop Intelligence will reach its end-of-life with XI 3.1 by end of 2015. This Q&A summarizes the SAP plan to help customers pursue their Deski conversion projects on the BI 4 platform. |
 BI Clients |
This article compares the different versions of Crystal Reports. This article demonstrates the differences between Voyager and Analysis Edition for OLAP, explains how to use the upgrade management tool in BI 4 to convert SAP BusinessObjects Voyager workspaces from XI3.1 to BI 4, and includes information on known limitations of the workspace conversion process. This document includes information on upgrading Dashboards (Xcelsius) add-ons to Adobe Flex SDK 4.0 for use with Dashboards 4.0 SP 4 or later. This document covers the steps required for migrating Dashboard or SWF using QAAWS or Add Query (new feature on Dashboard Design 4.0) and includes information on best practices. Deski is end-of-life. This article explains how you should be planning the retirement of your Deski reports This article helps you anticipate possible change in behavior of your WebI reports due to changes or corrections made to the calculation engine across releases. This article introduces the RESTful web services as the preferred way to build applications with BI 4. |
SIZING AND PERFORMANCESizing and Deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 |