Turn SAP Web Intelligence into a true dashboarding platform
Using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and want to take it further? N4V FOR WEBI is the extension that revolutionizes your WebI experience by bringing interactivity,...
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News, insights and technical articles about SAP BusinessObjects, data visualization and N4V FOR WEBI.
New Release 2025.4
New Component: Chart Tile Add a modern tile with an embedded chart to your dashboards After the Trend Tile and the Progress Tile, the tile...
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New Release 2025.3
Chart recommender Always the right widget recommendation with this 1st AI module integrated in Webi The Chart Recommender arrives in the N4V Panel. This intelligent...
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How AI Is Transforming SAP Web Intelligence: Inside N4V Intelligence
Introduction For years, SAP Web Intelligence has been a cornerstone of operational reporting within enterprises. Powerful, reliable, and widely adopted, it has nonetheless remained largely...
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New Release 2025.2
Waterfall Delta A new widget comes in the Bars familly The delta waterfall shows step-by-step changes in a metric (such as revenue, budget, or net...
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SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025: all the new features you need to know about… and the limitations
Publication date: March 2025 📌 New Side Panel In Design mode, a new side panel has been added to simplify document creation by providing quick...
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Three Reasons SAP BusinessObjects Still Matters in 2025
SAP Community – Published 2 April 2025 Data Mode and the other new features in BI 2025 aren’t merely features. They are a sign of...
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New Release 2025.1
Online Map OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap becomes even more customizable, with the option of choosing different background map providers or using a local server (USGS, …) Offline...
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The BusinessObjects Brain Drain 3/3
Part 3 of 3 In the first two articles of this series, I identified a situation called The BusinessObjects Brain Drain that is affecting all...
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Restoring the Brand
What SAP can learn from Volkswagen In the mid 2000’s, Volkswagen came to a startling conclusion. It was successful with young, female buyers- especially the...
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Part 2 of 3 In my last article, I identified a situation called The BusinessObjects Brain Drain. Practically speaking, the brain drain means that the...
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All That You Can’t Leave Behind
SAP Community – Published 23 January 2025 For many SAP BusinessObjects customers, March 12, 2025 is going to be a beautiful day. While some legacy...
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Is BusinessObjects Still Relevant in 2025?
SAP Community, January 2025 Is BusinessObjects Still Relevant? In a world full of alternatives, is the SAP BusinessObjects platform still relevant to the enterprise? The...
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New Release 2024.4
Discover Need4Viz Academy MultiDrill Chart You asked us, we did it! You love the Drillbar and the Multi charts but you also needed to display...
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Part 1 of 3 Part 1 doesn’t really share anything new, but just affirms what many suspected. Your best BusinessObjects resources have left the building....
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New Release 2024.3
Export enhancement You already like the HTML & PNG export feature; you will love the CSV export capability offered in this new release! Enhancement in...
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SAP BI2025: Good News for SAP BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025 According to SAP’s Product Availability Matrix, or PAM, SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 (first introduced in November 2015) has been out of...
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New Release 2024.2
WebMapline component A new component is introduced in this release: the WebMapline. Mapline is one of your favorite existing component (with the ability to integrate...
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New Release 2024.1
Global new features As usual, discover a lot of new features in your favorite N4V widgets ! More accessibility, better analyze of your data and...
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