As it is been quite time since SAP’s acquisition of BO a set of BI products is quite range. According BI platform roadmap some of products will be divested out by some new ones that will replace them, some are redundant, etc. but still there is a large set of tools and it is quite confusing. Below I’m providing a matrix of almost all products available. Notice that list is not inclusive since it is almost not possible to capture all SAP + BO product in comprehensive manner.
Origin |
Area |
Product
family |
Tools |
BO |
(Advanced)
Analytics |
SAP
BusinessObjects XI |
Voyager, Predictive
Workbench, Set
Analysis |
BO |
Dashboards
and visualization |
|
Xcelsius
Suite, Dashboard
Builder, VizServer |
BO |
Information
infrastructure |
SAP
BusinessObjects Enterprise |
|
BO |
Query,
reporting and analyses |
SAP
BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence, SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence |
|
BO |
Reporting |
Crystal Reports |
Crystal
Reports Developer Advantage, Crystal
Reports Server, Crystal
Reports Viewer, crystalreports.com |
SAP |
|
SAP BEx
Suite |
|
BO |
Search and
navigation |
SAP
BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP
BusinessObjects Intelligent Search |
|
BO |
Data
integration |
SAP
BusinessObjects Data Integrator, SAP
BusinessObjects Data Federator, SAP
BusinessObjects Rapid Marts packages, SAP
BusinessObjects Text Analysis |
|
BO |
Data
quality management |
|
SAP
BusinessObjects Data Quality Management software, SAP
BusinessObjects Universal Data Cleanse software, SAP
BusinessObjects Data Quality Management for SAP solutions, SAP BusinessObjects
Data Quality Management for Oracle's Siebel CRM, SAP
BusinessObjects Data Insight software, SAP
BusinessObjects Postalsoft software solutions, SAP
BusinessObjects Watchlist Security software |
BO |
Data
services |
|
SAP
BusinessObjects Data Services |
SAP |
Master
data management |
|
SAP
NetWeaver MDM |
BO |
Metadata
management |
|
SAP
BusinessObjects Metadata Management |
BO |
Planning
and Consolidation |
SAP
BusinessObjects Edge Planning and Consolidation |
SAP
BusinessObjects Cartesis Finance |
BO |
Strategy
Management |
SAP
Businessobjects Edge Strategy Management |
|
Key products/technologies:
SAP BEx Suite - provides reporting/analysis/planning tools for analyses and decision-making support of business.
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer (former name: Polestar) - tool primary for business users with a simple, quick search based access to data.
BO Crystal Reports (CR) - industry standard tool for enterprise reporting.
BO Web Intelligence (WebI) - tool for web-based ad-hoc query and reporting. Focus on creation of light-weight reports in ad-hoc web reporting.
BO Dashboard Builder - is content layout tool (page building) for creating composite dashboards.
BO Crystal Xcelsius - visual content creation tool for creation single/standalone dashboards for the desktop or portal page.
BO InfoView - end-user BI portal interface, a single web interface that accesses and interacts with BI information (reports, analytics, dashboards, scorecards, maps...).
BO Voyager - OLAP tool designed for financial/business analyses on a full range of functions to analyze multi-dimensional data.
BO Mobile XI - creating BI app. for mobile devices.
BO LiveOffice - deployment and access of BI reports & dashboards from Microsoft Office applications.
SAP NW CE (NetWeaver Composition Environment) - platform for building composite applications (app that creates new functionality by leveraging existing services of another app, so called mash-up) based on SOA principles.
SAP/BO BI widgets - are a mini-application that allows access to frequently used functions and provides visual information right from the desktop. Can be developed in e.g. SAP Visual Composer, BO on AIR, etc.
BO Predictive Workbench - predictive analytic tool. Reveals trends and patterns to understand business changes.
BO Set Analysis - define, track, and analyze segments that drive business activities.
Future tools:
BO Pioneer - future tool will combine Voyager's user interface with OLAP capabilities of today's BEx OLAP tools.
BO Explorer - brings together search and navigation capabilities from BO with the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator to dig into large data sets in a matter of seconds. Tool was announced on May 2009 during Sapphire 2009 in Orlando. The product will be available this summer.
You can find free SAP BO products directory here.