Business Objects XI Release 2 Enterprise (BO) Features.

Main tools in BO XI R2:
Reporting,Query Analysis,Performance management & Data Integration.
Mainly integrated product together a) Crystal Reports & Business Objects.

Tools for Migration from Previous Versions:

• Import Wizard:
  
• Desktop application to import user accounts,groups,reports and folders from crystal info into BO XI R2 Enterprise.
• BO version 5.1.4 ,6.0,6.1 and 6.5
  
• Crystal Enterprise 8.5,9 & 10
• Application foundation 6.1b,6.5.1
  
• Move Test Deployment of BO XI R2 to Production environment
  
• Repository migration wizard: Usage:- To Migrate from Report Design Repository to BO XI repository
• Data Source migration wizard: Usage :- To migrate reports based on crystal queries , dictionaries and info views.
• Report conversion Tool:
  
• Legacy BusinessObjects reports previously migrated to Desktop Intelligence using import wizard.
• Desktop Intelligence reports to web Intelligence reports to convert to web reports.

Design Universe: [Meta Data Tool which informs to BO about Measures , Dimensions & Hierarchies & their relationships]
Tool: BusinessObjects Designer or Universe Builder

Business Objects DeskTop Intelligence: To create new reports , ad-hoc queries ..
Business Objects web Intelligence : To create & publish new reports to web directly.

Publishing wizard : To create new documents to BO XI R2

InfoView : Create portal used for all of BI.

Central Management Console(CMC) : Web Interface to administrate such as create user roles, server admin.














Service-Oriented Architecture and BI Platform Management :-
BusinessObjects Enterprise is designed as a services-oriented architecture for flexible system configuration. Each system service—such as report caching, scheduling, or analytic
engines can be set up and controlled from within the CMC. This gives
administrators the ability to add, remove, stop, restart, and reconfigure
system services directly from the web environment. They can also configure
services while the system is still running, eliminating the need for a system restart. The webbased environment enables administrators to access and manage the system from any web
browser with system access rights.