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SAP BI 4.2
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InfoVille Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Created On –
April 2016

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SAP BI 4.2 other New Enhancements –
1. Web application server –
- SAP BI 4.2, Tomcat 8.0 is the default web application server
.
- If you are using the update installation program to update a 4.0 or 4.1 installation that uses
the bundled Tomcat 6.0 or 7.0 web application server respectively to version 4.2, your
system is automatically updated to Tomcat 8.0
2. Installation –
- Performance improved when you execute the SAP BI 4.2 setup.exe, the duration for the “Select
setup language” screen is optimized when compared to older versions. It was taking long time
to select your prepared language till the last BI 4.1 releases.
- The installation or uninstallation finish screen of BI 4.2 is enhanced to display the detailed level
of information and this feature is exclusively for windows platform.

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- ErrorsAndWarnings.log file contains installation or uninstallation or modifying or repairing log
summary
- You can now add a new language by modifying your BI platform installation while upgrading the
SAP BI 4.2.
3. Upgrade Management Tool –
- Minor Enhancements to Upgrade Management Tool (UMT).
4. Information Design Tool –
- Information design tool provides two key enhancements –
 Linked universes – a way of linking a universe to one or more core universes and re-use
components from those universes’ data foundations and business layers.
 SAP Business Explorer (BEX) authored universes – a way of building and saving
universes on BEX queries, using the BICS connector.
5. SAP Crystal Reports –
- New SAP Crystal Reports RESTful Web Services API help to retrieve report’s or subreport’s
metadata/structure from a crystal report.
- You can retrieve the Database connection, tables, aliases, joins, fields used in the document and
all its associated properties (all fields from Cross tab as well), Parameters of the report, Formula
fields of the report, Parameter fields of the report, Filters and all expressions, calculations
involved in the report using new REST Crystal Reports API.
- SAP Crystal reports Designer Supports for vertical alignment of text within a cell and new range
based functions (GetLowerBound(x); GetUpperBound(x)) and a miscellaneous function
(GetValueDescriptions(x)) are introduced.

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- SAP Crystal reports for enterprise Supports for vertical alignment of text within a cell, Bar Code
and QR Code, Waterfall charts, disable the report variable in report.
6. Dashboards –
- In BI 4.2, you can also install Dashboards and Presentation Design on a system with 64 bit
Microsoft Excel formerly Dashboards and Presentation Design could only be installed on a
system with 32 bit Microsoft Excel.
- In BI 4.2 Dashboards and Presentation Design, the Filter component can now be displayed both
vertically and horizontally and minor enhancements in Dashboard selector/chart.
7. SAP Business Objects Mobile server –
- SAP Business Objects Mobile server pushes notifications to iOS devices of the SAP Business
Objects Mobile application users.