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Difference between Business Objects products

Diggeshhjoshi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:08:35 GMT

We have add-on applicaion on R/3 System and use it to gerate some reports, queries, analysis with in that application. We are exploring how Business Objects could be useful to enhance this application's output. We don't have BW system. This is just on R/3 system only.

From my limited knowledge about BusinessObjects, I was thinking to decide using one of the following product.

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Premium (User) or

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Prof. for Query, Reporting, Analysis (User)

I would appreciate if you share your thoughts about difference between these two products. Is this right product or any other BusinessObject product we should consider.

Thanks,

Digesh Joshi

Re: Difference between Business Objects products

BasicTek — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:15:21 GMT

Enterprise is Enterprise there are not different products just different license keys which may disallow certain add on products. Premium is the fullest featured key. You may also consider [Business Objects Edge|http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/edgeseries/index.epx]

Regards,

Tim

Re: Difference between Business Objects products

Former Member — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:37:19 GMT

SAP is offering variety of licensing polices with taking consideration of SAP with NW BI, SAP without NW BI and non SAP but BO customer in mind : Single licensing if someone choose full fledge service offering otherwise there is different segment wise licensing also there. Eg. someone wants to go only for premium service on reporting also feasible but he will not get other services.

SAP BO portfolio covers four prduct category

BI Solution ( BI solution enables Advance analytics, dashboard & visualization, query reporting & analysis and reporting)

GRC Solution (GRC solution detail service offering includes Access control, Global trade services,

Process control, risk management and Sustainability performance management.)

EPM Solution (EPM solution detail service offering includes financial consolidation, Financial

information management, intercompany, planning & consolidation, profitability and

cost management, spend performance management, strategy management and

supply chain performance mgt.)

IM Solution ( IM solution detail service offering includes Data integrator, data quality, data services,

Text analysis, data insight , data quality link/ connector and Data federator.)

Hope this will help you.

Rgs,

Ambuj Kathuria

Head ILM Solution, Wipro

Re: Difference between Business Objects products

Former Member — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:19:59 GMT

Hi,

if you look at service.sap.com/swdc you'll find the different BO Installation packages.

One of them is "Enterprise Query, Reporting, and Analysis package"

It contains:

o BOBJ ENTERPRISE XI 3.0

o BOBJ INTGR. FOR SAP XI 3.0

o BOBJ XCELSIUS ENTERPRISE 2008

o CRYSTAL REPORTS 2008 V0

"user" means it's licensed per user (and not conncurrent acess licensing).

Kind Regards, Alican

Edited by: Alican Polat on Feb 4, 2010 9:20 AM