Business Objects 4.0 on Netweaver 7.3 BI

Will business objects 4.0 run on only the abap stack on Netweaver 7.3 BI or does it also need the java stack? We will most likely be installing business objects on top of netweaver and creating Crystal, Bex and maybe Webi reports.
Thanks very much!
Jon "SAP Newbie"

Hi
BI4 comes with a free web application server (Tomcat) which will be used for the web applications, BI Launchpad, CMC and so on. You can also use any other supported web application server. You can also change the web application server later if you like.
Regards
Roland

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Can anyone tell me if Business Objects requires Netweaver Application Server? Also, Event Insight, includes Sybase CEP, Business Object and other components. Is that all on one server that is a Netweaver Application Servier? Or is it some combination of Netweaver and non-netweaver on a partitioned server or some other set-up.
Event Insight, I think is shown as 1 server.
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Hi
The Business Objects Enterprise Intelligence Platform (former Business Objects Enterprise) does not require Netweaver as application server.
You can have a look at: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/bi where yoo find lots of information and overview presentations
Kind Regards
Roland Hoeller

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Hi Randy,
Universe is an important part of the Semantic Layer, whether it is version 3.x or version 4.x of SAP BusinessObjects. In version 4.0 (officially known as BI 4.0), you will be using the new Information Design Tool to build universe. It is highly recommended for all of your presentation tools (i.e. WebI, Crystal, Xcelsius/Dashboard, etc) to go through the new Information Design Tool for data (including BW data).
The BI 4.0 Virtual Launch is scheduled on Feb 23. I suggest you to sign up at http://virtualevents.sap.com/business-analytics/login.aspx.
By the way, the SAP BusinessObjects does not have a version 3.2. The most current one is version 3.1. You might be confused with the FixPack which is now up to 3.4.
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Career:Shift from ABAP to BW-Netweaver after business object takeover

Hi all,
Am an ABAPer with one and half years of experience.I will be thankful if sombody will tell me If its appropriate to move into BW-Netweaver as i heard BUSINESS OBJECT is likely to replace BW-Netweaver in near future.
Thanks.
Edited by: sandeep pande on May 12, 2008 7:18 PM
Edited by: sandeep pande on May 12, 2008 7:32 PM

Dear sandeep pande ,
BO was brought up by SAP and It will soon be included in SAP BI in next recent versions.SO its better to join BI. as it has more scope these days/
YOu should know the advantages of BI over BO
BO is the reporting toll of data warw house
BI is itself a data ware house.
the next generation SAP BI will be using BO as reporting tool instead of BeX.
BO is the reporting toll of data warw house.
on the front end it has CrystalReports.
this suit will be used in SAP as front end for EIM.
the latest version of BO is BO 11. 3.
BI is itself a data ware house.
the next generation SAP BI will be using BO as reporting tool instead of BeX.
For More Information check the following link
/people/kuhan.milroy/blog/2008/03/11/introduction-to-business-objects-suite-of-technologies
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/02/19/businessobjects-and-sap-part-2
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/02/07/businessobjects-and-sap-part-i
http://sap.blogs.techtarget.com/category/teched/
For knowing Overview of BI and go through BI certification follow these
If you are going to Start BI 7.0 courses
you could follow the books
TBW10 Datawarehousing concepts
TBW20 Reporting
TBW42 Adavnced Data warehousing concepts (authorization,Broadcasting,etc)
TBW45 Integrated Palnning
Online courses on APD,XI
Tamong these,TBW10 and TBW20 will be sufficient for you to start and know basic concepts
Overview of BI
http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/components/bi/index.epx
For more information please
refer these links
http://www.psimedia.ws
http://www.sap.com/uk/services/education/courses/bw.epx
http://www50.sap.com/useducation/curriculum/print.asp?jc=1&rid=285
http://www50.sap.com/useducation/curriculum/print.asp?jc=1&rid=458
http://www50.sap.com/useducation/certification/examcontent.asp
http://www50.sap.com/useducation/certification/curriculum.asp?rid=506&vid=5
http://www50.sap.com/useducation/certification/curriculum.asp?rid=420
http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/swp/Berg/BB_index_main.htm
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CAREER: ABAP to BI-Netweaver After Business object takeover

Hi all,
Am an ABAPer with one and half years of experience.I will be thankful if sombody will tell me If its appropriate to move into BW-Netweaver as i heard BUSINESS OBJECT is likely to replace BW-Netweaver in near future.
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Hi Sandeep,
Lets be clear as this is a very frequent question - Business Objects is not replacing SAP NetWeaver BI. There are some future alignment and consolidation on the frontend tools going foward which is explained in the roadmap presentation found at this link: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjects. The FAQ on this SDN page should also help answer your questions.
So investing on training in the SAP NetWeaver BI and Business Objects tools will not be any barrier to your future.. but a big advantage
Cheers,
Mike.

Comraden! How to use business objects in Netweaver?

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So my process is work perfectly, and i have created business objects, but i need on some steps of process input some data in to my business objects (for example from data contexts, or may be directly from user interfaces).
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Hi Madhu,
The below links 2 will really help
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/59/ae4477488f11d189490000e829fbbd/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/59/ae4484488f11d189490000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
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Hi
May be the note : 1384526, could give you an insight.
Regards, Hyma
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right now we are developing our first eSOA Composite Application with CE and I have some questions regarding Business Objects, the import of external services and the development of application services.
As I understood there are two ways to provide business functionality for composite applications:
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b. Develop a local Business Object (in CAF) providing the business logic, create the application service which again can be used as a callable object. Furthermore the application service can be exposed as a Web Service (external service).
My questions:
1. When is it appropriate to to import external services in stead of developing local BOs?
2. Under what conditions is it advisable to (solely) develop local BOs?
3. What are the advantages / disadvantages regarding the reusability of the services (in option a and b)?
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first of all, the CAF Business Objects (BOs) itself don't contain any business logic, they're basically just local database tables (with some CRUD services on top).
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We are stumped with a problem in our QA Enterprise Portal (7.3.1 Sp7) that throws a portal runtime error when we preview a Business Objects document iview. The Business Objects Server versions are 4.0 SP5 and/or 4.1 SP3.
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This is resolve with note 1615838 - SAP Netweaver Enterprise Portal 7.3 iView creation with BI 4.0 results in exceptions.
The note includes a file portalapp.xml that need to be inserted into com.sap.businessobjects.iviews.par that is included in the BI server distribution.
Then deploy the ear file.....
Odd thing is that the note mentions 4.0 and we are on 4.1 SP3...
Environment
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www.service.sap.com/businessobjects
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reproducing the message from the support portal :
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I.E. There will be no need for Crystal Reports 2011 Enterprise, and Xcelcius to use Universes at all to access SAP ERP data as well as SAP BI/BW data?
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Thanks in Advance,
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Hi Randy,
Universe is an important part of the Semantic Layer, whether it is version 3.x or version 4.x of SAP BusinessObjects. In version 4.0 (officially known as BI 4.0), you will be using the new Information Design Tool to build universe. It is highly recommended for all of your presentation tools (i.e. WebI, Crystal, Xcelsius/Dashboard, etc) to go through the new Information Design Tool for data (including BW data).
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Hi,
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/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/03/24/businessobjects-and-sap-part-5
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Post Author: kar
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