SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Solutions Comparison of Features by Version for the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

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Intelligence Solutions

Comparison of Features by Version for

the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

Table of Contents

2

Empower Your Organization with Trusted

Discovery of Key Business Data

2

Find Out More

3

Features-by-Version Matrix

3

Platform

7

End-User Portal

8

Semantic Layer and Data Access

12 Features for OEM Customers

12 Scheduling and Distribution for SAP Crystal

Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Web

Intelligence Software

13 SAP Crystal Reports Software

15 SAP Crystal Reports for Developers

17 SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Software

20 SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Software for Developers

22 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Software

24 SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Software

26 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Software,

Edition for OLAP

28 SAP Landscape Integration

30 SAP HANA Integration

32 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Software,

Edition for Microsoft Office

35 SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

38 SAP Lumira

44 SAP Lumira Server – Specific Features

47 SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Software

SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions are designed to

empower your organization to achieve remarkable

results by enabling trusted data discovery. The

solutions help you to transform decisions by

pro-viding fact-based information, regardless of where

your data resides. Using SAP BusinessObjects BI

solutions, your organization gains increased

visi-bility of key performance indicators (KPIs) across

lines of business, improves relationships with

cus-tomers and suppliers, saves time and money, and

can respond faster when exceptions occur.

The SAP BusinessObjects BI platform is a

com-prehensive BI solution that includes many

compo-nents. Designed to work together, the components

address major BI use cases, such as enterprise

reporting, dashboards, data discovery, online

analytical processing (OLAP) analysis, and

predic-tive analysis. You can use these components over

the Web or on your mobile device.

In addition to addressing specific functional

needs, the BI platform is also designed to address

the needs of different audiences such as business

users, business analysts, data scientists,

adminis-trators, and developers.

FIND OUT MORE

Although this document is not an exhaustive

reference of every feature in the BI platform, we

attempted to identify features that are important

to most implementations. There may be features

not described in this document that are

impor-tant to your specific deployment.

This document does not replace the product

availability matrix, which details the specific

sup-ported platforms for each release and support

pack. These are available at

service.sap.com

/sap/support/pam

. Please note: you need an

authorized user ID to access this information.

For more information, visit us on the Web at

www.sap.com

.

Empower Your Organization with Trusted

Discovery of Key Business Data

SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions

help you to

achieve remarkable results

by enabling

trusted data discovery.

The components in the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) platform

have evolved and continue to evolve rapidly. This document is a reference to help you

understand when key features were introduced in the BI platform. This information

should help you plan

how to evolve your infrastructure,

plan your upgrades, and

deploy the right component to the right audience. This document covers the SAP

BusinessObjects BI suite and the Edge edition of SAP BusinessObjects BI software.

SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) platform 4.1, support pack -age 4 (SP04) and higher

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.1, SP03 or earlier SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0, SP03 or later SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI software 3.1

Release date SP04 – June 17, 2014

SP05 – November 14, 2014 March 29, 2014 November 16, 2010 September 30, 2008

End of mainstream

support December 31, 2018 (for latest SP) December 31, 2016 December 31, 2015 (for latest SP) According to the new support model used with the 4.X line, each point release (4.1, 4.2, and so on) will be supported for a minimum of two years, and there will be a mini-mum of one year support overlap with each subse-quent point release.

December 31, 2015

User interface

language support Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai

PLATFORM

Web-based management

console

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Security for groups, users, folders, and content

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Batch publishing of content to the repository

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Page-level caching for scalability

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Single sign-on (SSO)

security integration with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Kerberos, eTrust SiteMinder, and Windows Active Directory

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Bulk actions on

multiple selected items

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Repository

diagnostic tool

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Auditing of user activity

and system events

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Federation for cross-site

replication

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Lifecycle management (LCM) to promote content between development, test, and production systems

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Integrated into the central management console

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Integrated into the central management console

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Integrated into the central management console

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Separate installation starting with SP02

•Business intelligence archive (BIAR) engine

for promoting content

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•BIAR engine

command line tool

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•Granular security rights

for promoting objects

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•Recurring

promotion jobs

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•Version support for lifecycle management

job and content

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•LCMBIAR engine

command line tool

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•Support for large

promotion jobs

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as of SP02

•Failover and clustering

support

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as of SP03

•System copy capabilities

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as of SP03

Translation manager

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Internet Protocol version

6 (IPv6) support

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64-bit operating

system (OS) required

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System diagnosis and monitoring

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Graphical view of BI deployment

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Monitoring dashboard

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Version control

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Support for the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140 cryptography standard

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SAP Solution Manager application management

solution support

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Hot backup and restore

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Custom user attributes

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Support for the

SAP HANA® platform as a BI system repository and audit database

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Simplified parallel install for clustered

environments

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as of SP05 System configuration

wizard

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Support for storing SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence™ software documents

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Support for right-to-left

languages

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BI platform for developers

Core services software development kit (SDK) – Java, Microsoft .NET, and Web services

•Session management

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•Session management –

terminate session

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as of SP03

•User authentication (Enterprise, LDAP,

Active Directory, SAP)

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•Browse enterprise

folders

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•Schedule SAP Crystal Reports® software for

offline viewing

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•Schedule SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence® software document without parameters for offline viewing

•Set SAP Crystal Reports software runtime

report parameters

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•OpenDocument –

viewing content

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•Direct link to folder

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_{as of SP03}

•SSO security integration with Active Directory or trusted authentication when using Web ser vices application programming interface (API)

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•JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format support with Web services API

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Content manage-ment SDK – Java, Microsoft .NET

•Add, edit, remove

content from repository

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•Burst and publish (sending documents to

external users, groups)

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•Manage instances – find instances,

sched-ule refresh, and so on

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•Create and modify

schedule calendars

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•Manage user

permissions

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•Multilingual

content support

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Search SDK for searching repository for report and

document content – Java

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Platform administration

SDK – Java

•Object security

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•Events and alerting

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•Server administration

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•Monitoring – create probes, alerts, watch

lists, metrics

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•Auditing

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•Cryptographic

key management

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Search engine

•Default search setting

“Platform Metadata”

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as of SP05

•Default search setting

“Full Content”

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as of SP04

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•Right-to-left support

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_{as of SP05}

•Content support for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis software, edi-tion for Microsoft Office

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as of SP05

BI platform integrations

•SAP BusinessObjects

Design Studio

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•SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for

Microsoft Office

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•SAP Lumira® Server technology

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Product

availability matrix https://service.sap.com/sap/support/pam?hash=pvnr%3D67837800100900006540%26pt%3Dg%257Cd

END-USER PORTAL BI launch pad BI launch pad BI launch pad InfoView

Discussions

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Tab-based

user interface

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SAP StreamWork®

application integration

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SAP Jam™ social software

platform integration

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Support for changing

the look and feel of the

BI launch pad

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Microsoft SharePoint

portal integration kit SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 x64 SharePoint 2013 (as of SP03), SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 x64 SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 x64 SharePoint 2007 Java portal integration

kit for Oracle WebLogic

SAP Enterprise Portal component

integration kit

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Third-party document overwrite support within

the BI launch pad

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SAP BusinessObjects

Analysis software integra-tion with Microsoft Office workbooks

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SAP Lumira software storyboard integration (through SAP Lumira Server technology)

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SEMANTIC LAYER AND DATA ACCESS

Data-level security

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Universe designer for

creating .UNV files

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Business views semantic layer and business

view manager

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Information design tool

for creating .UNX files

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Data federation

administration tool

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Query as a Web

service on universes

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Support for BEGIN_SQL

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Universe (UNV) support

for stored procedures

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Multilingual universes

(UNV and UNX)

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Online analytical process-ing (OLAP) universe (UNV) with flattened access to OLAP cubes

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Multidimensional universe (UNX) with hierarchical access to OLAP cubes

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Multiple data sources in

a single universe (UNX)

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Access to Hadoop Hive

in single and multisource

Multidimensional access to Oracle Essbase 11

(UNX)

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Access to Oracle

E-Business Suite (UNX)

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Use custom user

attributes to control

data-level security

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Linked universe

technology (UNV)

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Universe views (UNX)

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List of values

and prompts as

reusable objects

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Table views and families in the UNX

data foundation

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Guided universe creation and information design

tool self-training viewlets

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Universe security editor

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Format multiple universe

objects at once

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Universe creation wizard

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_{as of SP01} Optional input columns

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Information design tool

welcome page

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as of SP01 Federation layer in

infor-mation design tool (SAP Data Federator software designer replacement)

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as of SP01

Access to Oracle Exadata, Teradata 14, Open data protocol (OData), Web Services, XML, SQL Server 2012, Hive on Amazon (UNX)

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Access to Big Data sources (Hive 0.12,

Cloudera Impala)

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Access to SQL

Server 2014

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as of SP03 Measure attributes

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_{as of SP01}

SSO connection to SAP IQ* software

and Teradata

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Business warehouse

(BW) access improve-ments and BW variable management

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as of SP01

Query stripping

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as of SP01

SAP HANA access

•Access through rela-tional universe (tables, views, single source and multisource)

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•Support of native features of SAP HANA (variables, currency conversion, units, multilingual, input parameters)

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as of SP01

•Direct SAP HANA views access through transient multidimen-sional expressions (MDX) universe

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as of SP01

•Universe migration to SAP HANA from third-party database (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, SAP Adaptive Server® Enterprise†₎

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as of SP01

Universe authoring for developers

Universe (UNX) SDK – Java SDK

•Edit row-level security (for multitenancy scenarios)

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•Publish and retrieve a universe

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•Update universe connections

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•Read and modify

universe content

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as of SP05

•Convert universes

(UNV to UNX)

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as of SP05

•Create resources from scratch (connection, data foundation, business layer)

•Create and edit a secured connection – both relational and OLAP

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•Get and edit some data foundation parameters – name, description, list of tables

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•Get and edit some data

foundation tables

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•Get and edit business layer parameters – name, description, root folder

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•Get and edit business item lists (relational

business layer)

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•Get and edit business item parameters – name, SELECT, WHERE, status, object access level

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Universe (UNV) SDK – component object model (COM)

•Create data foundation (universe structure of

tables and joins)

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•Create business layer (mapped to tables and columns in the data foundation)

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•Publish and retrieve

a universe

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•Update and manage

universe connections

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•Create, edit,

row-level security

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•Create, activate,

import, export universe

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•Add and delete classes, objects, preconditions, tables, columns, joins, contexts, custom hierarchies

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•Edit, delete, refresh

Universe consumption

for developers

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•SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe Connectivity (RESTful SDK) for con-suming UNX universes

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FEATURES FOR OEM CUSTOMERS

Repackage the BI platform to minimize the

redistrib-uted components

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Custom branding

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•Installer

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•BI launch pad

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•OpenDocument

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•BI workspace

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•SAP Crystal Reports

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Multitenant support

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•Support for delegated

administration

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•Tool to automate

tenant provisioning

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•Record tenant ID in

auditing data

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•Restrict concurrent

log-on sessilog-ons per tenant

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•Multisource universe

support

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as of SP03

SCHEDULING AND DISTRIBUTION FOR SAP CRYSTAL REPORTS AND SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS WEB INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE

Scheduling to a

pre-defined distribution list

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Event-based scheduling

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Schedule to e-mail,

file share, and paper

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View-time security for scheduled SAP Crystal Reports using business views

Publications

(report bursting)

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•Data-driven publishing

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•Personalized

publications

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SAP CRYSTAL REPORTS SOFTWARE

Supported desktop report design software

Both SAP Crystal Reports 2013 and SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise

Both SAP Crystal Reports 2013 and SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise

Both SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise

SAP Crystal Reports

2008

Data

•Direct access to online database connectivity (ODBC), Java database connectivity (JDBC), IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, and other data sources

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•Verify database function to ensure report query matches underlying data source

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2011

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•Support for business

views semantic layer

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2013

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2013

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2011

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•Support for universe

(UNV) semantic layer

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2013

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2013

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2011

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•Support for Structured Query Language (SQL)

commands

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2011

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•Support for universe

(UNX) semantic layer

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise

•XML and Web

services driver

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2013

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2013

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2011

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•Access OLAP data

with-out using an OLAP grid

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise

•Access relational data

in a hierarchical format

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise

•Common query panel for accessing UNX

universes

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise

•Level-based

member selector

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise

•Create subreportsbased on any data source with no restrictions to the main reports data source

Charts

•Tree map

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_enterprise

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_enterprise

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_enterprise

•Tag cloud

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_enterprise

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_enterprise

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_enterprise

•Box plot

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise

•Bar

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•Line

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•Pie

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•Numeric axis

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•Area

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•Doughnut

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•3D riser

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•3D surface

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•XY scatter

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•Radar

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•Bubble

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•Stock

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•Gauge

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•Gantt

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•Funnel

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•Histogram

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Support for

translation manager

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise Embed Flash objects

and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards software integration

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Prompting •On-report parameter panels

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•On-report filter

and sort controls

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•Level-based member

selector

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise

•Reordering of BW

Custom calculated rows and columns

in cross-tabs

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Support for read-only

RPT files (RPTR)

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2013

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2013

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2011 Export to Microsoft Excel

(XLSX)

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Smart guidelines to move

and resize columns

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise Platform alerting

integration

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enterprise

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enterprise

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enterprise Web-based library

of common reports

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enterprise



enterprise

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enterprise

SAP CRYSTAL REPORTS FOR DEVELOPERS

Viewer SDK – JavaScript

•Refresh

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•Report viewing

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•Prompts – for parame-ter values (not dynamic

cascading prompts)

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•Manual prompt entry

on SAP BW data



enterprise as of SP05

•Page navigation

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•Client-side printing

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•Event listeners for mouse clicks and

mouse-over events

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•Action listeners for printing and

exporting events

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•Methods to customize

color and font

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RESTful Web services API

•Export a report to PDF, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, RTF, text, XML, TTX, and comma-separated value (CSV) formats



enterprise



enterprise



enterprise

•Retrieve report

metadata



enterprise



enterprise



enterprise

•Get rows of data

•OData support to push

data into the report



enterprise



enterprise



enterprise

•Get and set report

parameters



enterprise



enterprise



enterprise

•Retrieve data in XML

or JSON format



enterprise



enterprise



enterprise

Report application server (RAS) SDK

Viewer SDK – Java and Microsoft .NET

•Refresh

_

₂₀₁₃

_

₂₀₁₃

_

₂₀₁₁

_

•Report viewing

_

₂₀₁₃

_

₂₀₁₃

_

₂₀₁₁

_

•Prompts – for parame-ter values (not dynamic

cascading prompts)



2013



2013



2011



Report modification and

exporting – Java and Microsoft .NET SDK

•Create, edit, and remove tables, table joins, and data sources in the report



2013



2013



2011



•Create, edit, and remove the data structures in

the report



2013



2013



2011



•Modify the layout and format of the areas, sections, and report objects in the report



2013



2013



2011



•Modify and import

subreports



2013



2013



2011



•Modify custom

functions



2013



2013



2011



•Get unformatted data

directly from the report



2013



2013



2011



•Export reports to a spe-cific format and modify

the page size



2013



2013



2011



OpenDocument URL format •Support long OpenDocument parameter strings in custom applications



enterprise



enterprise

SAP Crystal Reports running on SAP HANA Deploy SAP Crystal Reports natively on

SAP HANA



SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS WEB INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE

Data

•Support for universe

(UNV) semantic layer









•Synchronized multiple

data providers









•OLAP universes

_

_

_

_

•Personal data providers (Microsoft Excel,

TXT, CSV)









•Query on query

_

_

_

_

_{as of SP02}

•Query stripping

_

_

_

_

_{as of SP03}

•Data sampling for

SAP HANA



as of SP05 •Support for universe

(UNX) semantic layer







•Support for hierarchical and OLAP data sources

through UNX universes







•Support for Hadoop Hive through UNX

universes







•Access to ABAP® pro-gramming language functions, SAP queries, and info sets through universe (UNX)







•Access to SAP Business Explorer® (SAP BEx) tools queries with mandatory variables with no preset value





as of SP02

•Access to XLS from

launch pad





as of SP02

•Map SAP HANA variables to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software query prompts





as of SP02

•Dynamic SAP BEx variable default value when scheduling



Rank

_

_

_

_

Custom sort

_

_

_

_

Formula language

_

_

_

_

Conditional formatting and alerters









SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence

report conversion tool









Migrate SAP

BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence documents with freehand SQL to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence (via report conversion tool)



as of SP05

Support for

translation manager









Export to Microsoft

Excel (XLS)









Export to Microsoft Excel

(XLSX)







Export document to PDF

_

_

_

_

Export document to TXT

_

_

_

_

Schedule export to TXT

_

_

as of SP02

Document autosave

_

_

_

_

Track data changes

_

_

_

_

Fold and unfold

_

_

_

_

as of SP02 Merge and unmerge

data provider









Merge and unmerge

hierarchical dimension





Custom grouping

_

_

as of SP02 Freeze headers,

rows, columns





Custom color palettes

_

_

Measure delegation

workflow improvement





Right-to-left support,

Prompting

•Optional prompts

_

_

_

_

•Manual prompt entry

on SAP BW data



as of SP05

Input controls

_

_

_

_

as of SP02

•Hide “All Values” option

_

_

•Support for report

duplication





•Level-based

member selector







•Input control support

for hierarchies







OpenDocument

_

_

_

_

Elements linking

_

_

_

Table •Vertical, horizontal, and cross-table









•Drill up, drill down

in table









•Table with hierarchical

dimensions







•Set default level for

hierarchy expansion



Charts

•Bar, line, pie, area, XY

scatter, polar, radar









•Tree map, heat map, tag cloud, box plot, doughnut, bubble, waterfall charts







•Support for multiple

line widths





•Combined column

and line









•Support for

reference lines





•Support for multicolor

_

_

as of SP02

•Drill up, drill down

on charts









•Charts with hierarchical

Customizations •Personalized SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence clients (WRC, WRIA, HTML)





•User interface (UI) customization per user group in central management console (CMC)





•UI customization per document folder

in CMC



as of SP05 •Activation of extension points; Customization of UI elements and UI features





SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS WEB INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE FOR DEVELOPERS

ReBean Java SDK –

Viewing and refreshing

•Open and close report

_

_

_

_

•Document instance

get and set properties









•Get HTML, CSV,

and XML view









•Page navigation

_

_

_

_

•Set multilingual options

_

_

_

_

•Get report data and metadata (list of values, prompts, drill info, images)









•Export to PDF,

Microsoft Excel, CSV









Web services API

(RESTful API)

•Browse content man-agement system (CMS)

to locate documents







as of SP05

•Get document details

_

_

_

_{as of SP05}

•Open, close, refresh,

purge, save document







as of SP05

•Schedule document (main recurrences, server group, get details, add schedule)

•Schedule documents

with prompts





as of SP01

•Manage prompts

and list of values





as of SP01

•Access and export documents, individual reports, and report elements





as of SP01 •Export to Microsoft Excel (XLS, CSV, PDF, XML, HTML)







as of SP05

•Get a page of a report

_

_

_

_{as of SP05}

•Get a list of

data providers







as of SP05

•Get details of a

data provider







as of SP05

•Rename, sort, or delete a data provider

from a document







as of SP05

•Change data provider

source workflows





as of SP01

•Get and set schedule details, including desti-nations, recurrences, prompts, and all formats and options







as of SP05

•Get and update query specification associated

to a data provider





as of SP01

•Browse list of SAP BEx connections and

SAP BEx queries





as of SP01

•Create a blank

document





as of SP01

•Add, delete, and set report specification

in a document





as of SP01

•Get, create, delete, and update track data changes, alerters, styles, skins, variables





as of SP01

•Manage drill and

create drill snapshots





as of SP01

•Manage document state through storage

•Get from server default document configura-tion (font mappings, CSS styles, format numbers, …)





as of SP01

•Support for extension points on all SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence clients





as of SP01

•Management of

exten-sion points in CMC





as of SP01

SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS DASHBOARDS SOFTWARE Xcelsius® software 2008

Charts •Candlestick and open-high-low-close (OHLC) charts









•Tree maps

_

_

_

_

•Geographical maps

for North America









•Geographical maps

for Europe and Asia









•Panel container

_

_

_

_

•Tab set

_

_

_

_

•Trend analyzer

_

_

_

_

•Dual axis charts

_

_

_

_

•Bullet charts

_

_

_

_

as of SP03

•Canvas container

_

_

_

_

as of SP03

•Sparkline charts

_

_

_

_

as of SP03

•Chart range slider

_

_

_

_

as of SP03

•Chart sorting

_

_

_

_

_{as of SP03}

•Waterfall charts

_

_

_

_

as of SP04 Components

•List view

_

_

_

_

•Panel set

_

_

_

_

•Hierarchical tree view

_

_

_

Data

•SAP BusinessObjects Live Office software

connector









•Embedded

spreadsheet









•Data manager

_

_

_

_

•SAP Crystal Reports

integration









•Common query panel for accessing

UNX universes







•Support for hierarchical and OLAP data through

UNX universes







•Support for Hadoop Hive through UNX

universes







•Level-based

member selector







•Access to ABAP functions, SAP queries, and info sets through universe (UNX)







•Dedicated cache and

processing servers









as of SP03 Mobile compatibility

(components filtering, object browser search, mobile preview)







as of SP05

Mobile compatibility panel, save dashboard as a

mobile object on platform





Adobe Flex

design-time SDK

•Version supported Flex 4 Flex 4 Flex 4 Flex 2

•Create new Adobe Flex visual components, such as charts and gauges









•Create custom Adobe

Flex connections









•Add support for additional Microsoft Excel functions using Adobe Flex

Mobile HTML5-based design-time SDK

•Create new visual components, such as

charts and gauges





•Create custom

connections





•Add support for additional Microsoft

Excel functions





SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS EXPLORER® SOFTWARE

Data

•Support for universes

(UNX)







•Support for universes

(UNV)







as of SP06

•Support for XLS

and XLSX files









•Create and manage

information spaces









•Personalize information spaces for data-level

security









•Support for SAP BW

Accelerator software









•Support for Hadoop Hive through UNX

universes







Support for

simple calculations









Chart types

•Bar charts (vertical

and horizontal)









•Radar charts

_

_

_

_

•Surface charts

_

_

_

_

•Tag cloud charts

_

_

_

_

•Pie charts

_

_

_

_

•Stacked bar charts

_

_

_

_

•Tree maps

_

_

_

_

•Bubble charts

_

_

_

_

•Line charts

_

_

_

_

•Geographic maps

_

_

_

•Table charts

_

_

_

Support for two levels

of nested dimensions







Users can create their

own compositions of multiple SAP BusinessObjects Explorer visualizations (exploration views)







Geographic maps with

city-level resolution







Geographical

dimension support







Date and time

dimension support







Search autocorrect and

“did you mean?” feature







Supported features

through OpenDocument (viewing through URL)

•Parameters,

informa-tion space ID







•Sorted list of facets, facet values, and

measures to display







•Search criteria

_

_

_

•Chart type, ordering, analysis dimensions

to display







•Control user interface

_

_

_

End users can edit

visualization titles in

exploration views





Undo and redo

_

_

Administrators can

map objects from one information space to another data source

Exploration views now available from

BI workspaces





Right-to-left support,

including Hebrew





as of SP03

SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS ANALYSIS SOFTWARE, EDITION FOR OLAP

Data •Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services







•Essbase

_

_

•Oracle OLAP

_

_

•Direct multidimensional access to SAP solutions for enterprise perfor-mance management (EPM). Supports the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation appli-cation, versions 7.5 and 10, and SAP Profitability and Cost Management application, versions 7.5 and 10.







•Teradata v13.0, v13.10,

and v14.0







SAP HANA SSO using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication





as of SP01 Focused analysis – display a subset of data in a subanalysis







Pivot with – move an

item of interest to a background filter and bring a new hierarchy into the cross-tab







Level-based

member selection







Expand to level

_

_

_

Display attributes with

SAP BW data sources







Compact the display of

nested hierarchies with

Support of SAP BEx conditions, and view and edit SAP BEx characteristic filters





as of SP01

Supported features through OpenDocument (viewing through URL)

•Support for setting SAP BW and SAP HANA prompts through OpenDocument





Prompting

_

_

•SAP BW variables (key date, characteristic, hier-archy, hierarchy node, characteristic interval, complex characteristic, formula, currency)







•Enhanced prompt dialog to handle large

number of prompts





•Support for SAP

BW variants





•Prompt merging

_

_

•Manual entry of

prompt values







as of SP05

•Support SAP HANA

hierarchies and prompts







as of SP04 Support for the

report-to-report interface as

a sender





Visualize conditional formatting defined in the SAP BEx query (exceptions)





Export to SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio





as of SP01 Export to XLSX

_

_

_{as of SP03} Waterfall charts

_

_

_{as of SP01} Custom grouping

_

_

_{as of SP01} Support for translation

SAP LANDSCAPE INTEGRATION

Check marks apply to SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, unless otherwise noted.

SAP integration kit Built into the

base product Built into the base product Built into the base product



SAP Solution Manager

integration



BI platform



BI platform



BI platform Access to SAP BEx queries

using OLAP universe



SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence



SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence



SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence



SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Multidimensional access

to SAP BEx query through BI consumer services (BICS)







Relational access to SAP BW 7.x and later

through universe (UNX)









Access SAP ERP

application through universe (UNX) (classic info sets, ABAP functions, SAP queries)







Direct access to SAP ERP tables, ABAP functions, SAP queries, and info sets



SAP Crystal Reports

2013



SAP Crystal Reports 2013



SAP Crystal Reports 2011



SAP Crystal Reports 2008

Insight to action framework: support for report-to-report interface as sender



SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards



SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards



SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Lifecycle management integration with SAP change and transport system (ABAP transports)







Hierarchical access to SAP solutions for EPM through universe (UNX). Supports SAP Business Planning and Consolida-tion version 10, SAP Profitability and Cost Management version 10, and SAP Financial Consolidation application version 10.

Support for SAP solutions for EPM, SAP Business Planning and Consolida-tion versions 7.5 and 10, and SAP Profitability and Cost Management versions 7.5 and 10



SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP



SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP



SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP Author a relational universe on SAP BEx queries using the queries as InfoProvider functionality of SAP BW 7.30





Support for SAP Identity Management

component integration





Prompting

•Support for

variable variants



SAP BusinessObjects _{Analysis, editions} for OLAP and for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio



SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, editions for OLAP and for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio



SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

•Support for

merging variables



SAP BusinessObjects _{Analysis, editions} for OLAP and for Microsoft Office



SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, editions for OLAP and for Microsoft Office



SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

•Support for optional input columns in the information design tool when used with

SAP ERP





•Manual entry support

_

_{as of SP05 in} SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for Enterprise

SAP HANA INTEGRATION

Applies to the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0 SP05 versions of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports 2011, SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP, the 1.3 version of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, and the 1.0 version of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio.

Support for SAP HANA tables, analytic views, and calculation views in single and multisource universes (UNX)

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise Support for SAP HANA

analytic views and calculation views with a direct access

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP Lumira

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP Lumira

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP Lumira Support for SAP HANA

tables, analytic views, and calculation views with a freehand SQL access

SAP Crystal Reports 2011; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise

SAP Crystal Reports 2011; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise

SAP Crystal Reports 2011; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise Support for SAP HANA

variables and input parameters

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise; SAP Crystal Reports 2011; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise; SAP Crystal Reports 2011; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise; SAP Crystal Reports 2011; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Support for SAP HANA

hierarchies SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP; SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Support for SAP HANA

SSO SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise (through universe)

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise (through universe)

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards; SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise (through universe) Support for SAP HANA

multilingual settings SAP BusinessObjects Explorer; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

Automatic relational universe generation on SAP HANA views

Information design tool Information design tool

Automatic generation of a universe on multiple unjoined SAP HANA views. The user gets a dynamic choice of the best view to answer the query at runtime.

Information design tool Information design tool

Dimensional connection to SAP HANA analytic views and calculation views through UNX

SAP Crystal Reports

for enterprise SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise

Support for

variable variants SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise SAP Crystal Reports for enterprise Support for

data sampling SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence as of SP05

Microsoft Office 2.0 Microsoft Office 1.4 Microsoft Office 1.3 Microsoft Office 1.0 and 1.2 Data

Support for SAP HANA®

platform









Support for SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)

application









Save analysis as an analysis view to share it with other applications such as SAP Crystal Reports® software or SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP

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Support for SAP BW

workspaces

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Switch on/off conditions defined with SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) tools query designer

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Support for

merging variables

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as of 1.2 Save prompt values

as variants

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Enter planning data auto-matically using planning functions of SAP BW integrated planning

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Visualize conditional formatting defined in the SAP BEx query (exceptions)

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Lock and unlock selected cross-tab

cells (for planning)

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Store workbooks to

the SAP NetWeaver®

technology platform

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Support of the

report-to-report interface to call

targets defined in query

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Support for access mode

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Use hierarchy only

for member selector

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Edit cross-tabs with

Table Design

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Save a navigation state of a data source as a query

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Integration

Support for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform 4.0

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as of 1.1

Single sign-on with SAP

BusinessObjects BI 4.0

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as of 1.1 Support for SAP

NetWeaver as BI platform

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Support for SAP

BusinessObjects BI 4.1

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Single sign-on with SAP

BusinessObjects BI 4.1

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Single sign-on

with SAP HANA

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Save workbooks

to SAP BW

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Launch directly from a BW system in the

SAP GUI or from portal

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Support for converting

simple SAP BEx analyzer

workbooks

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Schedule (broadcast) workbooks using the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

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Call the SAP BEx query designer from SAP BusinessObjects Analysis software

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Save and open workbooks in/from SAP Lumira®

software, cloud edition

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Integration with SAP

BusinessObjects Design Studio to create mobile and Web applications

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New settings framework with configuration files (not via registry)

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Minimized performance impact on pure Microsoft Excel content

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Supportability

End-to-end tracing via

Generic

Analysis add-in launcher

– advanced options

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as of 1.2 Comments associated

with the selection of

the cell

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as of 1.2

Design panel – information tab shows

logged-on user

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as of 1.2 Support for

waterfall charts

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User-defined short

texts in queries (used as comments) – requires SAP BW 7.4 SP08

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Setting system replacement

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Filtering

Support of copy and paste of a single or a list of members to the filter dialog

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as of 1.2

Support for

double-click filtering

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Filter dialog for

Application design

•Prompting screen and

variable support

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•HTML5-based charts

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•Customizable CSS

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•Input variables for

context passing

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•Enhanced cross-tab, filter panel, and list

box components

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with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2

•Dual-axis chart

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with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2 SDK to develop

extensions

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with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2 Support for SAP Business

Warehouse (SAP BW) application integrated planning (business planning and consolida-tion unified model in SAP BW 7.4)

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Native SAP HANA® platform deployment (save application in SAP HANA repository, SDK deployment possible)

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Enhanced table

format-ting and customization

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Support for SAP

BusinessObjects Design Studio software development kit (SDK) on the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform

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Enabling multilanguage

text

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Checkbox group

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Clear chart and chart

filter selection

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Modernized dimension filter pop-up

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Filter panel component – change axis by using drag and drop

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Fragment gallery

(single user)

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Split cell container

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Timer custom component (in real-time package)

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Application features Context menu

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Report-to-report interface

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Fragment bookmarks

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Real-time package

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Extension development

Support for SAP Lumira® software common visual-ization object modeler (CVOM) SDK integration

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Data source SDK

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Improved event handling

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Deployment to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 platform

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Deployment to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 platform

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Deployment to

SAP NetWeaver

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with SAP BusinessObjects _{Design Studio 1.2} Deployment to SAP HANA

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Support for SAP HANA

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Support for SAP BW

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Support for universes

(UNX)

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Support of SAP BW

translatable texts

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64-bit version of design tool installer

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Message texts and

tooltips available in

Polish and Hungarian

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Setting RSADMIN

User interface

language support Chinese, English, French, German, Hungarian (1.22+), Japanese, Polish (1.20+), Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Generic features (for desktop, cloud, server, and Edge editions) Visualize data Formatting •Custom symbols

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_{as of 1.23} •Units notation

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_{as of 1.23} •Percentage

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•Negative number with parentheses

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Totals and subtotals

for tables

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as of 1.23 Conditional formatting

for tables

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Reorder charts in gallery

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_{as of 1.18} View and sort by number

of occurrences

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as of 1.18 Couple visualizations

as images

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as of 1.17 Positioning of chart

feed-er on left or right side

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as of 1.17 Create new dataset from

visualization

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as of 1.17 Animations in geography

and scatter plot charts

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as of 1.17

Charting

Bar and column charts

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Line charts

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Pie charts

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Geographic charts

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•ESRI geo charts

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_{as of 1.17}

•Scatter charts

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•Map charts

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•Tables

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•Box plot

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•Funnel chart

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•Network chart

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_{as of 1.14} •Parallel coordinates chart

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•Radar chart

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•Tag cloud

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•Tree

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_{as of 1.14} •Waterfall chart

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Stories

Easy infographic layout

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as of 1.23 Fine-grain chart property

configuration

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as of 1.23 Create boards,

infograph-ics, and reports from a

single user interface (UI)

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as of 1.22 Refresh infographic

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_{as of 1.20} Create boards

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Create infographics

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as of 1.16 Create reports

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as of 1.17 Hyperlinks Add hyperlinks to pictograms, shapes,

text boxes, and pictures

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as of 1.20 Add link to a specific page

in current story

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as of 1.20

Add links to images

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_{as of 1.19}

Customization

Data access extensions

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Chart extensions

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as of 1.17