SAP + BO joined portfolio

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.