SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP06 (SAP BI 4.2 SP6) Released!

[Patrick_Perrier]

Source: Webi4Me

Announcement:

SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 SP06 Released on July 17th, 2018

 

Originally scheduled for Week 34 (mid August), SAP surprised us and released SAP BI 4.2 SP06 over a month early!  Version 14.2.6.2839.

Before:



After:

Source: Maintenance Schedule

Either everybody is still on holiday or holding off for Patch 1... or both... but so far I can't say I've seen or experienced any major issues.

Personally, I couldn't wait to have a look at the latest version of the Interactive Viewer initially "released" in SAP BI 4.2 SP04

 

What was released?

The usual suspects were released for a fresh Installation or Support Package:

• SBOP BI Platform 4.2 SP06 Server


• SBOP BI Platform 4.2 SP06 Client Tools


• SBOP BI Platform 4.2 SP06 Live Office


• SBOP BI Platform 4.2 SP06 Integration for SharePoint


• SBOP BI Platform 4.2 SP06 NET SDK Runtime

 

• SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius) 4.2 SP06


• SAP BusinessObjects Explorer 4.2 SP06


• SAP Crystal Server 2016 SP06


• SBOP BI Platform 4.2 SP06 Crystal Reports for Enterprise


• SAP Crystal Reports 2016 SP06

This is the latest release since SAP BI 4.2 SP05 back in December 2017.

 

Download Location

These packages are available from Software Downloads:

• Installation:

Download: link

• Support Package:

Download: link

 

What's New?

There is a lot of very good stuff released with Support Package 6 and the usual great articles from christian.ah-soon have been released already:

• SAP BI 4x: What’s New in Web Intelligence and Semantic Layer


• SAP BI 4.2 SP6: What’s New In Web Intelligence and Semantic Layer

 

• The Future of SAP BusinessObjects Webi - BI4 2 SP06 and Beyond by gregory.botticchio and 360Suite

 

• What's New in SAP BI 4.2 SP06


• SAP BusinessObjects What’s New Collection

 

More from SAP:

• SAP BI 4.2 SP06 : What’s New in BIPlatform by ashok.rajashekar


• What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.2 SP6 (YouTube)


• What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Interactive Viewer 4.2 SP6 (YouTube)


• Fixed Issues


• SAP Help Portal

 

LinkedIn Community:

• Webi4Me

 

Documentation

The usual documents have been made available:

• SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2 SP06 Installation Guide:
  
  
  
  • Windows
  
  
  • Unix
  
  
  
  

• Support Package Update Guide

• SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite 4.2 SP06 Release Restrictions

• More Documents: BI Platform (SAP Help Portal)


• More Documents: SAP Analytics (SAP Help Portal)

 

Product Availability Matrix (Supported Platform)

• Release to Customer (RTC):13.11.2015


• General Availability:08.03.2016


• End of Mainstream Maintenance:31.12.2022


• End of Priority One Support Phase:31.12.2024

URLs:

• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 Supported Platforms (PAM)


• Product Availability Matrix | SAP Support Portal

 

Nothing major as far as I can see other than support for Microsoft SQL Server 2017, HANA 2.0 SPS 03 ans SharePoint 2016.

 

Important:

Expiry of SAP BI 4.1 (Mainstream Maintenance) on 31/12/2018 (PAM)

Also the expiry of SAP BI 4.2 SP04 in November 2018: BI 4.2 Support Pack End of Life Dates

 

Maintenance Schedule - What's Next?

• SAP BI 4.2 SP06:

Week 35 (August): SAP BI 4.2 SP06 - Patch 1

Week 40 (October): SAP BI 4.2 SP06 - Patch 2

Week 45 (November): SAP BI 4.2 SP06 - Patch 3

Week 50 (December): SAP BI 4.2 SP06 - Patch 4

 

• SAP BI 4.2 SP07:

Week 9, 2019 (February 2019): SAP BI 4.2 SP07

Source: Maintenance Schedule

• SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3:

Q4 2019: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3: Announced!

 

Conclusion

What do you think?  Are you going to jump on this new release straight away?

Personally...  I'm very happy to see the progress made with the Interactive Viewer and those little touches in Web Intelligence.

Keep in Touch!

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Take care... A+

[DayaJha]

Thanks for sharing!!!!

Nice article.

Regards,

Daya Jha

[CdnConnection]

Patrick,

Great job on the article, especially with everything being in ONE place.

 

Ajay

 

[CdnConnection]

Patrick,

Another link you may want to add, not sure if it still maintained / updated

https://blogs.sap.com/2014/11/24/sap-businessobjects-whats-new-collection/

 

Thanks Kindly,

 

Ajay

 

[Paul1202]

I could not find the PDF with the "Fixed issues". I have logged a ticket for it this morning, and SAP-Support came back to me saying that the PDF is not ready yet.

About the question whether to go for this release or not ? I think it's better to wait for BI 4.2  SP6.1

[Patrick_Perrier]

Hi, thanks for that.  Good link and I'll add it now!  Although SP06 is missing 😉

 

Take care.

[Patrick_Perrier]

Thank you.  I'm not the only one then!  Couldn't find it either...  Please do share when you get it so I can add all this info in one place.

[Paul1202]

Hi, through the ticket I logged, they made the PDF available (on 06-08-2018). at

https://help.sap.com/http.svc/rc/e2926df3fa004abca3f9784abbca60a9/4.2.6/en-US/Fixed_Issues_4.2_SP6_e...

 

But the PDF is missing some bug-fixes so they are going to update it.

[Patrick_Perrier]

Updated.  Thank you.

[former_member186327]

Nice job, Patrick. Especially highlighting the maintenance schedule.

[monte_wall]

Searching for detail and comments on using the new BI One Installer and this path forward.   We've installed 4.2 SP06 Patch 100 as a new install and currently looking at the same patch to update multiple BI 4.2 SP4 landscapes using the One Installer.

Very little detail from the SAP community on this tool, usage, best practice, etc.   SAP states One Installer will be the single direction for the future.