SAP BusinessObjects BI - Future direction...

Future of SAP BusinessObjects customers on the product directions

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is a centralised suite for data reporting, visualisation, and sharing. As the on-premise BI layer for SAP’s Business Technology Platform, it transforms data into useful insights, available anytime, anywhere.

Many SAP BusinessObjects BI suite customers have now upgraded to version 4.3. This version brings a modern user experience for the BI Launchpad and for Web Intelligence, using HTML5, with no Java required. As many customers rely on SAP BusinessObjects BI suite for critical use cases and will need to do so beyond 2025. Therefore, SAP is planning to release a new version in 2024, code-named SAP BusinessObjects BI 2024, that will extend the maintenance timeline for on-premises use cases.

SAP is having focus ongoing investments on the most widely adopted SAP BusinessObjects BI 2024 solutions:

• SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
• SAP BusinessObjects Information Design Tool and single-source .unx universes
• SAP Crystal Reports (on Windows only*)
• SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
• SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

That means SAP has decided to remove the following components from SAP BusinessObjects BI 2024:

• SAP Lumira
• SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
• SAP BusinessObjects Universe Design Tool and .unv universes
• Multi-source universes and associated connectivity
• SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP
• SAP BusinessObjects Live Office

Support and maintenance validity

Maintenance of version 4.2 of SAP BusinessObjects BI suite ending in 2022.

Maintenance of version 4.3 of SAP BusinessObjects BI suite ending in 2025.

Maintenance of SAP BusinessObjects BI 2024 suite ending in 2027.

Conclusion

SAP Analytics Cloud is the strategic analytics offering from SAP and is changing the way our customers run their businesses and provides mission-critical analytics integrated into the operations of the core business processes of a company, enabling its workforce to make faster, confident decisions, and move instantly from insight to action.

Refer to SAP Statement of Direction.

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