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What’s NEW in SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
4.2 SP06 Release
Sathish RajagopalVice President - Product
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 Release
BI platform 4.2 SP06
Security Enhancements
Simplified Installation
Process
GDPR Improvements
Audit DB Changes
Licensing Enhancements
Fiori Launch Pad
Improvements
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 Release
Security Enhancements: • Enhancements around SAML 2.0 support:
• Email support in SAML Integration to BI Platform
• SAML 2.0 support for Central Management console.
• SAML 2.0 authentication Support for BI Platform thin Clients (BILP, FBILP, OpenDocument and CMC) with WebSphere Application Server
• SAML 2.0 integration in BI Platform with SHA-2 support
• Simplify the SAML authentication configurations in BI Platform
• TLS 1.2 Support for LDAP
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 Release
Simplified Installation:• This 4.2 SP6 installer package is designed to enable multiple BI
installation scenarios – Full (fresh) installation of SP/patch, any patch to patch, any patch to SP and any SP to patch
• Should decrease the installation time and effort• ONE installer can be used for a Support Pack Installation as well as a
Patch Installation• Support Pack Installation: Same build can be used for both fresh
installation and update to the target SP• Patch Installation: Same build can be used for fresh installation, SP
to patch and patch to patch scenarios
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 Release
Simplified Installation:• A new option to perform a pre-requisite check of the system,
available only through the command-line option. This new command line option can be used to perform the pre-requisite check in advance to the actual installation/update.
• Decoupling BIP Rest SDK stack out of WACS for WebSphere. In BI 4.2 SP05, the restful web services can be deployed in the default Tomcat application server. In BI 4.2 SP06, the restful web services can additionally be deployed on the supported WebSphere application server.
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 Release
GDPR:• You can now disable the GDPR Popup Message
In BI 4.2 SP05 GDPR Data protection Pop up message is mandated for all users as part of GDPR regulations for Data protection when logging to BI Launchpad, CMC, Fiori BI Launchpad and Open Document.
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 Release
Fiori Launch Pad Improvements:• You can now remove an item from your list of Favorites by choosing
the * icon on the item previously marked as favorite
• You can now delete custom images you added to a category
• Destination rights in Fiori BILP
• Search results enhancements - Progressive results presentation, Display path to result objects, Show instances
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 Release
Licensing Enhancements:A new property has been added to get the number of cores per CPU.
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 Release
Audit DB Changes - In SQL Anywhere: • Event_Detail_Value column in the Audit BD was previously set as
NVarchar, data beyond 32K Character gets truncated• In BI4.2 SP6 the Event_Detail_Value column was changed to long
NVarchar which can accommodate 2gb. This is for GDPR compliance.
In Sybase ASE and Oracle CMS DB:• Some concerns on performance degradation and CMS DB deadlocks
reported on Sybase ASE and Oracle reported• In BI4.2 SP6, added primary keys in Oracle and Sybase ASE which
internally supports unique index to the corresponding tables (CMS_INFOOBJECT7, CMS_SESSIONS7,CMS_LOCKS7 and CMS_RELATIONS7)
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 Release
Other Enhancements:• Support of BI Platform Personal folders and Inbox in NW Fiori
Launchpad Enterprise portal
• Microsoft SharePoint 2016 Support in BI Platform;
• SharePoint 2013 is in end of life mode and IOMS is now supports
SharePoint 2016
• From BI 4.2 SP06 release, IOMS is certified and supports
Microsoft SharePoint 2016
• Introduction of Date placeholder
When scheduling a report, there are multiple placeholders allows
the scheduler to append a piece of metadata to the name of the
report being exported. In BI 4.2 SP06 release, A new placeholder for
Date, %SI_DATE% has been introduced. When this placeholder is
used, it translates to Date in the runtime
Top new features in BIP 4.2 SP06 ReleaseOther Enhancements:OData Services:• BI platform supports OData services for the integration between the
Fiori Launchpad and SAP Enterprise Portal• BI Platform now supports OData Services in NetWeaver application
server
What’s beyond BI 4.2 SP06?• Incremental update on BI 4.2 and BI 4.2 code line• BI 4.3 planned for late 2019 (RTC) and early 2020 (GA) *
* Timeline can/might change without any notice by SAP
Useful ResourcesTwo useful blog posts for further reference;
What is it about BI 4.2 SP06 release – blog by 360Suite
https://blogs.sap.com/2018/07/30/sap-businessobjects-business-intelligence-suite-4.2-sp06-sp6-released/
What’s New in BI 4.2 SP06 – blog by SAP
https://blogs.sap.com/2018/06/21/sap-bi-4.2-sp06-whats-new-in-biplatform/
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