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Here's a quick look at the most intriguing features of BI 4.0:
BI workspaces
Enhanced BI workspaces. The most interesting feature is content linking. Imagine dropping webi, Crystal and Xcelsius dashboards in a single workspace and linking them together. No more 'open document'.
Visual Difference
Visual Difference enables you to view the difference between two versions of the same file. For example you migrate from XI 3.1 to 4.0, you need to do the report validation manually. Visual Difference can be used to analyze any discrepancy between the two versions of the file.
Query Panel: Query panel for creating universe based queries Direct data binding: data from query objects can be directly bound with components. No more excel interface. Text translation through translation manager: the dashboard can be translated to different languages using translation manager Dashboard Design objects: New object type. Dashboard design object holds both XLF and swf in a single object. Lifecycle Management of Dashboard Design objects: LCM is much more seamless.
BI Launchpad
New name to Infoview. Improved alerting feature.
Interactive Analysis
Webi is renamed to Interactive Analysis.
Enhanced copy and paste: The best feature. You can copy tables, charts and queries between documents and all the dependent objects will also be copied. SAP Info Cubes using BEx queries: You can build Bex queries just like building a query in a universe.
Auditing dashboard
A pre built dashboard with audit statistics.
wdeploy GUI
Boon for administrators. No need of command line. A GUI to deploy web server and web application server.
Monitoring
A new tool, which helps to check the performance of each server and system KPI's. I just tried to list the most interesting enhancements in BI 4.0 and there are many more of them.