4.0 product names

Product versions: SAP BusinessObjects 4.0

 Inportant: do not change the title or link for this article as it is being referenced in a number of SMP pages and printed material

Introduction

This article aims to clear possible confusion around the 4.0 release product names. Specifically, you may come across presentations, user guides or names in products that don't seem to match with marketing or sales material.

At this time (Dec 2010) not all guides or products were changed to reflect the new naming strategy. The below information should help you navigate while we're progessively rolling out the new naming convention.

Table of product names

4.0 Current Name Project Name Prior Release Name Comment
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Aurora SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.x Refers to the name of the complete release including BI & EIM solutions.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 Aurora   Refers to the name of the Business Intelligence component of the release.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0 n/a SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.x Refers to the Businessobjects Enterprise product bundle
BOE, Enterprise or BI platform is widely used by the technical community in reference to the technical platform of the solution  by opposition to the BI clients.
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence n/a SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Installer name, documentation as well as some material presented in SAPPHIRE or other conferences may refers to “Interactive Analysis
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards n/a SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise  
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design
n/a
SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Designer
The Dashboards authoring tool
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Interactive Viewing n/a Xcelsius Enterprise Interactive Viewing  
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP Pioneer n/a Although this replaces Voyager, this is not a re-branded Voyager, but a new product.
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office Pioneer n/a The edition for Microsoft Office is not a successor to Voyager. The functionality of the edition for MS Office is only available as an enhancement to the existing BI Package.
SAP BusinessObjects BI launch pad n/a Infoview  
SAP BusinessObjects BI workspaces n/a Dashboard Builder  
SAP Crystal Reports 2011 n/a Crystal Reports  
SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
n/a n/a New version of Crystal Reports that relies on the new semantic layer for data access or connections directly to BW using BICS
Information Design Tool n/a n/a New tool in 4.0 to develop the new semantic layer (universes with .unx extension)
Universe Design Tool n/a Universe Designer Existing XI 3.x universes still work in the 4.0 platform. The legacy Universe Designer is shipped with 4.0 under the new name Universe Design Tool
Upgrade Management Tool n/a n/a This is a brand new tool replacing the Import Wizard (not a renaming) and dedicated to upgrading from a previous version to 4.x
Lifecycle Management Console
n/a Lifecycle Management Console Moves resources from one repository to another, manages dependencies of resources and rolls back promoted resources on destination system
Translation Management Tool
n/a
Translation Management Tool Universe, WebI and Dashboard language translation tool
Report Conversion Tool
n/a
Report Conversion Tool
Convert DeskI documents to WebI documents

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