It's That Time of the Year Again at SAP - Name Change Anyone?

Over the next few weeks you’ll be hearing a whole raft of new product names coming out of SAP for their upcoming BusinessObjects 4.0 release.

This is nothing new of course, we’re all becoming use to it by now right? (ever since Crystal Decisions became Edge Series etc).

The reason behind this we’re told is that SAP like to use descriptive words to define their products (well, most of the time anyway). So without spinning it to sound like a good idea, or conversely, knocking it for bringing yet more confusion to the market place, I would simply like to outline many of the new product names, and what they were referred too before. If you have any specific questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. 

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0

This is the name of the complete BusinessObjects release, including BI & EIM

(aka SAP BusinessObjects XI 4.0, SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.x, etc…)

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0

This is the name of the Business Intelligence components of the release

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform

This is the name for the BusinessObjects product bundle for Enterprises

(aka SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.x, etc…)

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

This is the ad hoc reporting component of the Business Intelligence suite.

(aka SAP BusinessObjects Webi)

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

This is the version of Xcelsius designed to be part of a larger SAP BusinessObjects deployment. Other ‘flavors’ of this tool are branded under the SAP Crystal solutions banner.

(aka SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design, SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius, Xcelsius Enterprise)

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP/edition for Microsoft Office

This is a new product that replaces the Voyager product.

(aka SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis Web/SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis Excel)

SAP BusinessObjects BI Launch Pad

This is the new name for the out-of-the-box portal that’s used by end-users to access content, create reports, etc…

(aka SAP BusinessObjects InfoView, Infoview)

SAP BusinessObjects BI workspaces

This product is replacing the functionality of Dashboard Builder.

(SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Builder)

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

This is the highly visual and interactive data exploration tool, previously called BusinessObjects Polestar 

That’s about it for now, but be sure to follow us on Twitter etc for updates as they’re released. 

Source:  Lee Grogan, Sales Manager, DSCallards