SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.

3
Supported Platforms (PAM)
Initial Publication: June 12, 2020
Last Update: July 20, 2021
Applicability: BI 4.3 RTM – BI4.3 SP01
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Table of Contents
Supported Platforms
1. Server Components by Operating System
2. Desktop Clients by Operating System This document is also applicable to Edge BI 4.3 and Crystal
3. Mobile Clients supported with this release Server 2020.
4. Language Support by Product For Edge BI 4.3 and Crystal Server 2020:
5. Browser Support by Operating System
• Only Windows and Linux operating systems are
6. Application Server Support by Operating System (1 of 2) supported.
7. Application Server Support by Operating System (2 of 2)
For Crystal Server 2020:
8. IIS Support by Operating System (IOMS only)
9. Portal Server Support by Operating System
• The following components are not supported with
Crystal Server 2020: Web Intelligence, Analysis, edition
10. CMS + Audit Repository Support by Operating System for OLAP, SAP BW integration.
11. Directory Server (LDAP) Support by Operating System
12. Other Technology Support by Operating System (1 of 2)
13. Other Technology Support by Operating System (2 of 2) For BI 4.3 Maintenance Strategy document: click here
14. Virtualization Technology Support
15. Cloud Infrastructure Support
16. SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP Data Access
How to read the tables in this document
17. SAP BW Support by Product
A checkmark means supported with
18. SAP HANA Support by Product ✓
BI 4.3
19. Data Access Support by Operating Systems
“-” means not supported -
20. Data Services and Information Steward

Appendix
▪ Minimum Hardware + Operating System Patch Requirements + Supported Locales
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 Server Components by Operating System (*1)

Windows (*2) Linux AIX Solaris

Suse Suse Red Hat Red Hat Red Hat Red Hat Red Hat Red Hat Oracle Oracle Oracle
Server Server Server Linux 7.7 Linux 7.8 Linux 8.2 AIX 7.1 AIX 7.2 AIX 7.2 Solaris Solaris
2012 R2 2016 2019 SLES 12 SLES 15 EL 7.7 EL 7.8 EL 7.9 EL 8 EL 8.1 EL 8.2
(RHCK) (RHCK) (RHCK) Power Power Power SPARC SPARC
11.3 11.4
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
(UEK) (UEK) (UEK)

TL4
64-bit BusinessObjects BI Server Products (*3) (*3) (*4) (*4) (*4) (*4) (*4) (*4) (*4) (*4) (*4) (*4) (*4) TL5 (*5) TL3 (*5)
(*5)
(*6)(*7) (*6)

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ ✓ SP1 ✓ ✓
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition
for OLAP ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ ✓ SP1 ✓ ✓

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ ✓ SP1 ✓ ✓
SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ ✓ SP1 ✓ ✓
SAP Crystal Reports 2020 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ ✓ SP1 ✓ ✓
Mobile Server ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ SP1 SP1 ✓ ✓ SP1 ✓ ✓

SAP BusinessObjects BI server components only support 64-bit operating systems. This is not a complete list of platform/connectivity services
(*1) Dashboard and Explorer is removed from BI4.3 for complete details refer to SAP Note: 2801797
(*2) Data Center Edition, Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Web Edition. (As Applicable)
(*3) Update to the latest Windows patches before installing the BI4.3 server
(*4) RHEL 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 Oracle Linux 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 are supported from BI4.3. SLES 12 / 15 above the minimum supported versions listed on this slide are supported by reference. Refer to Page 29 of this document for more information about
minimum OS patch requirement
(*5) AIX 7.1, AIX 7.2 supported from TL1
(*6) Web Intelligence has performance issues when deployed on Solaris. For more details refer SAP note : 2934379
(*7) Solaris 11.3, EOL October 2020, refer https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Sun%20Microsystems/2382427_1.html
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Desktop Clients and Operating System (*1)
Only 64-bit OS support: details

Windows Server Windows Desktop Mac

Server Server Server Windows Windows Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS Mac OS

2012 R2 2016 2019 8.1 10 10.11 10.15 Sierra High Sierra

64-bit BusinessObjects BI Desktop

(*2) (*2) (*3)
Clients
SAP BusinessObjects BI
Client Tools ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -

SAP BusinessObjects Live

Office (*4) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -

SAP BusinessObjects Web

Intelligence Rich Client ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -

SAP Crystal Reports for

Enterprise ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -

SAP Crystal Reports 2020 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -

SAP Crystal Reports Viewer

2020 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -

(*1) Dashboard and Explorer is removed from BI4.3 for complete details refer to SAP Note: 2801797.
(*2) Update to latest windows patches before installation of the BI 4.3 Desktop clients.
(*3) Up to patch 1903, Patch 2004 from SP1
(*4) SAP BusinessObjects Live Office supports both 32 bit and 64 bit OS
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform .NET SDK Runtime 32 bit and SAP User Management Client are supported on 32 bit platforms
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Mobile Clients supported with this release

Please refer to the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Clients Supported Platforms (PAM).

Please note that BI Platform content is only supported on-device through Mobile BI where applicable. For
example, BI platform content is not supported directly in Safari on iPad or Chrome on Android, only
through the Mobile BI apps on these platforms.

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Language Support by Products

UI: The user interface for all BI 4.3 products is localized into the languages listed below.
Data: Data stored in Unicode format can be accessed and displayed in all products and is not restricted to the languages below.

Ukrainian (***)(*4)

Kazakh (***)(*4)
T Chinese (*1)

Hebrew (***)
Portuguese

Norwegian

Arabic (***)
S Chinese
Japanese

Hungarian

Romanian

Slovenian
Slovakian
Swedish
Spanish

Russian
German
English

Finnish
Korean
French

Danish

Turkish
Polish
Italian

Dutch

Czech
BusinessObjects Enterprise

Thai
Products
BusinessObjects BI Server
Products ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

BusinessObjects BI Desktop
Products ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

(***) Arabic, Hebrew, Ukrainian and Kazakh Support

BI launch pad (*2) (*3)

BI workspaces (viewing only) (*3)

Crystal Reports Web Viewer (*3)
Web Intelligence
-Web Intelligence Rich Internet Application (Fiori Viewer) (*3)
-Web Intelligence Rich Client
Analysis, edition for OLAP (*3)

(*1) Traditional Chinese is not supported by Platform Search

(*2) BI platform plug-in components that can be accessed through the BI launch pad are not all supported in Arabic. Supported BI platform plug-in components are listed separately in this table.
(*3) For those browser-based components that support Arabic, support is limited to Internet Explorer and Firefox.
(*4) Ukrainian and Kazakh is not supported in Universe design tool.

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Browser Support by Operating System

Windows Server Windows Desktop Mac OS

Server
Server Server Windows Windows Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS Mac OS
2019
Web Browser 2012 R2 2016 8.1 10 10.11 10.15 Sierra High Sierra

Microsoft IE 11 desktop version (*3) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -

Microsoft Chromium Edge ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -

Mozilla Firefox ESR 60.X(*1) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -
Mozilla Firefox ESR 68.X(*1) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -
Mozilla Firefox ESR 78.X(*1) SP1 SP1 SP1 SP1 SP1 - - - -
Google Chrome(*2) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ - - - -

Safari 11 - - - - - ✓ - - -

Safari 12 - - - - - - - ✓ -
Safari 13 - - - - - ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Only 64 bit browsers are supported.

Web Intelligence in BI4.3 is touch ready for Reading mode only.
(*1) For more information about Firefox Extended Support Releases (ESR): http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
(*2) The current version of Google Chrome is supported based on testing with earlier versions of Chrome. Although SAP will work to maintain compatibility with Google Chrome, please be aware that issues may be introduced when
significant changes to between releases.
(*3) Limitations with respect to IE 11 please refer to Sap Note: 3016383

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Java Application Server Support by Operating System [1/2]
The platforms on this slide are supported as application servers. For more information, please
refer to the Web Application Deployment Guide.

See next slide for footnotes 1-2 and explanations on how to

read the table.
Windows Server Linux AIX Solaris

Application Server (*2) Version Java Version

SAP NetWeaver Java Application
7.50 SP19 SAP JVM 8 (*2) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Server
Apache Tomcat (*5) 8.0 Java 8, SAP JVM 8 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Apache Tomcat (*5) 9.0 Java 8, SAP JVM 8 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Oracle WebLogic Server (*6) 12.2.x Java 8 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

8.5.5.11 Java 8 (*1) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

9.0 Java 8 (*1) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

IBM WebSphere Application Server
(*3)
Liberty 19 Java 8 (*1) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Liberty 20 Java 8 (*1) SP1 SP1 SP1 SP1

7.1 Java 8 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
JBoss EAP(*4)
7.2 Java 8 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Note: Any HTTP server supported by the application server vendor can be used with the supported application server

(*1 - *2) See next page.

(*3) Support for the WebSphere On Demand Router is described in SAP Note 1869511.
(*4) To use JBOSS with Mobile Server refer SAP Note 2207211. BOE 4.x SOAP Web Services (dswsbobje) deployment on JBoss Application Server refer SCN.
(*5) Apache Tomcat, a free open-source third-party web application server, is not an SAP product. SAP recommends you contact a qualified third-party vendor or consultant for performance tuning, security related issues and load balancer
configurations (see KBA 2280098).
(*6) Central Management Console (CMC) application and AOLAP is not supported on Oracle WebLogic 12C application server (see KBA 2900108, 3060695)

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Java Application Server Support by Operating System [2/2]

The table below describes how to read the SDK version dependency for each Operating System.
For example: When an application server is noted as supported with Java 8, and the operating system notes that it is a Oracle JDK, it
means that this is Oracle JDK 8 release. Similar for IBM Java.

Oracle/Sun JDK IBM Java

Java 8 Oracle JDK 8 IBM Java 8

Only Java Application Server utilizing 64-bit JDK’s are supported

(*1) IBM WebSphere is supported with IBM Java SDK when applicable
(*2) SAP NetWeaver is supported with SAP JVM on all supported operating systems

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IIS Support by Operating System (IOMS only)

IIS is supported for Integration option for Microsoft SharePoint (IOMS) only.

Windows Server Windows Server Windows Server

2012 R2 2016 2019
Application Server Version

8.5 ✓ - -
IIS
10 - ✓ ✓

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Portal Server Support by Operating System

Windows Server Linux AIX Solaris

Portal Server Version

7.40 SP19+ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SAP Netweaver Enterprise Portal
7.50 SP19+ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
8.5 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
IBM Websphere Portal
9.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2013 ✓ - - -
Microsoft SharePoint (*1)
2016 ✓ - - -

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CMS + Audit Repository Support by Operating System (1/2)
Only 64-bit database connector middleware is supported

(*1) (*1) (*1) (*1)

Windows Server Linux AIX Solaris

Provider Name Version Database Connector (*3)

10.5 DB2 Client 10.5 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows 11.1 DB2 Client 11.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

11.5 DB2 Client 11.5 SP1 SP1 SP1 SP1

10.5 DB2 Client 10.5 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

IBM DB2 Workgroup Edition 11.1 DB2 Client 11.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

11.5 DB2 Client 11.5 SP1 SP1 SP1 SP1

2012 SP4 Microsoft ODBC driver for SQL Server (WDAC 6) ✓ - - -

2014 SQL Server Native Client 11 or ODBC Driver 13 ✓ - - -
2016 Microsoft ODBC Driver 13 ✓ - - -
Microsoft SQL Server
2017 Microsoft ODBC Driver 13 ✓ - - -

2019 Microsoft ODBC Driver 17x ✓ - - -

Azure SQL Server Microsoft ODBC Driver 13 ✓

5.7.19 MySQL C-API ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

MySQL AB
8.0 MySQL C-API ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

MaxDB (7.9.08.40) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

. (*1) Operating system on which the BI platform is installed

IBM DB2 is not supported with Solaris 11.
MySQL AB is not supported with Solaris 11. Refer SAP Note: 2733936

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CMS + Audit Repository Support by Operating System (2/2)
Only 64-bit database connector middleware is supported

(*2) (*2) (*2) (*2)

Windows Server Linux AIX Solaris
Provider Name Version Database Connector (*3)
12c (*4) Oracle Net Client 12c ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

12c R2 Oracle Net Client 12c ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Oracle (*3)
18c Oracle Net Client 18c ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

19c (*4) Oracle Net Client 19c ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

SAP HANA SPS12+ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

SPS 03+ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 04+ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

SPS 05+ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

15.7 Sybase Open Client 15.7 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
16 Sybase Open Client 16 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
(*1) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Sybase SQL Anywhere 17 Sybase SQL Anywhere ODBC Driver 17

(*1) Bundled on all supported platforms.

(*2) Operating system on which the BI platform is installed.
(*3) Oracle Real Application Cluster is supported.
(*4) Oracle Exadata is supported

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Directory Server (LDAP) Support by Operating System

Windows Linux AIX Solaris

Directory Server (LDAP)

CA Directory 14.0.14803 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Microsoft Active Directory 2012 R2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Microsoft Active Directory 2016 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Microsoft Active Directory 2019 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

NetIQ eDirectory 9.0 SP02 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

NetIQ eDirectory 9.1.3 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Oracle Internet Directory 11gR2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Oracle Internet Directory 12.2.x ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

ODSEE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Redhat LDAP Server 10.4.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

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Other Technology Support by Operating System [1/2]

Windows Linux AIX Solaris

Technology Technology Version
Microsoft Active Directory 2012 R2
✓ - - -
(including LDS support)

Microsoft Microsoft Active Directory 2016

✓ - - -
Active Directory (including LDS support)

Microsoft Active Directory 2019

✓
(including LDS support)

.NET Framework 4.6.2 ✓ - - -

.NET Framework 4.7.1 ✓ - - -

Microsoft .NET Framework
.NET Framework 4.7.2 ✓ - - -
.NET Framework 4.8 ✓ - - -
eTrust Siteminder 12.52 SP1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Computer Associates Access Management
eTrust Siteminder 12.8 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

SAP GUI SAP GUI 7.60 ✓ - - -

Reverse Proxy
Apache HTTP Server 2.2 and 2.4
WebSEAL 6 and 7

Not supported for Mobile Server

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Other Technology Support by Operating System [2/2]

Windows Mac OS
Technology Technology Version
Adobe Reader Version 19 ✓ ✓
Microsoft Office 2013 ✓ -

Microsoft Office 2016 ✓ -

Microsoft Office (*1)(*3)
Microsoft Office 2019 ✓ -
Office 365 (*2) ✓ -

(*1) SPs of Microsoft Office that are higher than the minimum listed SPs are supported by reference
(*2) No support for integrating with Office 365 cloud offerings as such. Office 365 support is only for the version of Microsoft Office being supported
(*3) MS Office 64 bit is supported on Live Office.

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Virtualization Technology Support

Server Virtualization
Refer to the SAP Note 1492000 for the general statement on virtualization technology support, and related notes
for virtualization support on operating systems supported in this release

Desktop Virtualization
Refer to the table below:
Windows Linux
Desktop Virtualization
XenApp 7.6 [Windows Server 2012 R2] ✓ -
Citrix
XenApp 7.11, 7.12, 7.15 [Windows Server 2016] ✓ -

Remote Desktop Services ✓ -

Microsoft
Hyper V SAP Note 1492000 -
FreeRDP [Suse SLES v12] - ✓

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Rdesktop [SUSE SLES v12] - ✓

Connectivity
Cendio Thinlinc [Windows Server 2016] ✓ -
Cendio Thinlinc [Suse SLES v12] - ✓

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Cloud Infrastructure Support

SAP Business Intelligence 4.3 solutions can be deployed on cloud infrastructure for productive and non-productive
purposes.
The following cloud infrastructure offerings are certified for deployment:
Additional Notes
Cloud Infrastructure Offering
(for supported combinations, client/server components)
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) Support via HEC Solution Portfolio List (*1)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SAP Note 1656099

Microsoft Azure Cloud SAP Note 2145537

IBM SoftLayer Cloud SAP Note 2279688

Alibaba Cloud (JuShiTa variant) SAP Note 2314398

Alibaba Cloud SAP Note: 2688086

Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine) SAP Note 2538880

Oracle Cloud SAP Note: 2650732

(*1) Edge BI products not supported on HEC

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OLAP Server Support by Operating System

Windows AIX Linux Solaris

Provider Name Version Connectivity
See SAP BW BICS
SAP BW
slide ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

2012 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2014 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
2016 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2017 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation v10 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for Microsoft 7.5 SP5 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
platform v10 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
v10 BICS
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for NetWeaver ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management v10 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

v16 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Teradata
v17 XMLA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Oracle Essbase v11 JAPI ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
v11.1.0.7 + XMLA
Oracle OLAP ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

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SAP BW Minimum version per product – overview (*1)

Please refer to SAP Note 1869560, for details on the level of support for BEx query elements, and typical BEx query functionality for all BI client tools.
BW 7.50 upto
Product Connectivity SPS 19+

Web Intelligence BICS ✓

(Direct to BW and via a
Crystal Reports for Enterprise dimensional UNX) ✓

Web Intelligence ✓
UNV OLAP
Live Office ✓

Web Intelligence ✓

Crystal Reports Enterprise Multi source universe

✓
(Relational)
Live Office ✓

Analysis, edition for OLAP ✓

Analysis, edition for Microsoft BICS (Direct to BW)

✓
Office (*3)
Crystal Reports for Enterprise Direct to Data (D2D) -
Crystal Reports 2020 Direct BW Connection ✓

BEx Web Applications (*2) (Integrated with BI 4) ✓

(*1) Latest BW version is supported with all BI 4.3 versions (*3) Use Analysis, edition for MSFT Office 2.8 SP3 version or higher with BI 4.3. Refer to the
(*2) Please consult SAP notes 1541365 and 1476156 Analysis, edition for MSFT Office PAM for details

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SAP HANA Support per product - Overview

HANA HANA HANA 2.0 HANA 2.0 HANA 2.0

Product Connectivity SPS11 SPS12 SPS03 SPS04 SPS05
UNX relational universe,
Web Intelligence direct access, online ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
access

Crystal Reports for Enterprise UNX ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

(Relational Universe)
Live Office (*2) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Crystal Reports 2020 Direct Connection ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Crystal Reports for Enterprise Direct to Data ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Web Intelligence INA / HTTP ✓ ✓ ✓

Analysis Edition for OLAP INA / HTTP ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Analysis Edition for Microsoft INA / HTTP

✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Office(*1)(*3) (*5)

(*1) Please refer to the Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office PAM for details.
(*2) Range prompts not supported for relational UNX created on HANA
(*3) Use Analysis, edition for MSFT Office 2.8 SP3 version or higher with BI 4.3.
(*4) The BI 4.3 release supports the latest HANA SPS, since HANA is backward compatible.
(*5) With Hana 2. HANA 2 the SAP HANA plugin EPM-MDS is required

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SAP S/4HANA Minimum version per product - overview

S/4 HANA S/4 HANA S/4 HANA S/4 HANA S/4 HANA S/4 HANA S/4 HANA S/4 HANA
Product 1511 OP1 1511 1610 1709 1805 1809 1909 2020
Connectivity
FPS2 SPS3 SPS2 SPS3

Web Intelligence BICS ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Crystal Reports for (Direct to Bex and via a
dimensional UNX) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Enterprise
Live Office unv or relational unx and
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
via Web Intelligence
Analysis, edition for
BICS (Direct to BEx) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ -
OLAP
Analysis, edition
BICS (Direct to BW) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
for Microsoft Office

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BW/4HANA Minimum version per product - overview (*1)

SAP BW/4 SAP BW/4 SAP BW/4 SAP BW/4 SAP BW/4
Product HANA 1.0 HANA 1.0 HANA 1.0 HANA 2.0 HANA 2.0
Connectivity
SP09 SP14 SP18 SP01 – SP05 SP07

Web Intelligence BICS ✓ ✓ SP1+ ✓ SP1+

(Direct to Bex and via a
Crystal Reports for Enterprise dimensional UNX) ✓ ✓ SP1+ ✓ SP1+

Crystal Reports 2020 Direct to BW query ✓ ✓ SP1+ ✓ SP1+

Live Office unv or relational unx

✓ ✓ SP1+ ✓ SP1+
and via Web Intelligence
Analysis, edition for OLAP BICS (Direct to BEx) ✓ ✓ SP1+ ✓ SP1+

Analysis, edition BICS (Direct to BW)

✓ ✓ SP1+ ✓ SP1+
for Microsoft Office

Note: multisource relational universes are not supported on BW/4HANA

(*1) Latest BW/4 4HANA version is supported with all BI 4.3 versions

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SAP HANA Cloud Support per product - Overview

SAP HANA Cloud 1.0

Connectivity
Product
Web Intelligence UNX ✓
Crystal Reports for Enterprise (Relational Universe) ✓
Web Intelligence UNV universes ✓
Crystal Reports 2020 Direct Connection ✓

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Data Access

Suggested way to view find needed information: select Operating system + filter on Sources for your choice of data access.

Semantic Layer & Connection Server – Data Sources

•Please consult the file Semantic Layer Datasources
•Notes:
•UNICODE is supported for all data sources, unless otherwise indicate in the Note of the attached file

Crystal Reports for Enterprise – Direct to Data (D2D) Sources

•Please consult the file CR Enterprise D2D Data Access
•Notes:
•Crystal report for enterprise is a 64-bit application and need 64-bit database driver on client.
•Crystal reports for enterprise requires the 64-bit ODBC driver on server. To administer 64-bit ODBC DSNs on 64-bit versions of windows, run the 64-
bit ODBC Administrator, located here: %windir%\System32\odbcad32.exe

Crystal Reports 2020 – Data Sources

•Please consult the file CR 2020 Data Access
•Notes:
•Crystal Reports is offered as a 64-bit native binary. It requires 64-bit data source middleware connectivity on all operating systems.
•Crystal Reports uses the 64-bit ODBC registry on all versions of Windows. To administer 64-bit ODBC DSNs on 64-bit versions of Windows, run the
64-bit ODBC Administrator, located here: %windir%\System32\odbcad32.exe

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Data Services, Information Steward, Lumira and Analysis for Office

Please refer to SAP note 1740516 for information regarding the compatibility of Data Services and
Information Steward.

For Add on Support on BI Platform, Please refer respective PAM.

Lumira:
Please refer Lumira PAM.
Note: A mandatory upgrade to Lumira 2.4 is needed for Lumira support on BI 4.3.
Refer SAP Note 2903302 for additional information.

Analysis For Office:

Please refer Analysis for Office PAM.
Note: Analysis for Office 2.8 SP3 and greater is compatible with BI4.3

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Appendix
Minimum HW and OS Patch Requirements - Windows
Minimum Screen Resolution
Screen resolution of [1024] x [768] is recommended
Minimum Server Hardware Requirements

For Evaluation Purposes:

CPU performance of at least 8000 SAPS
16 GB RAM minimum (at least 8GB of free memory is required to launch Promotion Management Wizard)

For Deployment & Sizing:

Please refer to the BI4 Sizing Guide, or check out the SAP BI Platform sizing & Deployment wiki or your SAP representative.
•For more information on SAPS, see the SAP Sizing portal: http://service.sap.com/sizing and also the SAP benchmarked vendor hardware list:
https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark.html
•If deploying to virtualized hardware, it is strongly recommended that the memory and CPU(s) be reserved for each virtual machine that is running the BI services.

Minimum Client Hardware Requirements

Dual Core CPU
2 GB RAM

Required Disk Space Requirements

SAP BusinessObjects BI (client installer):
BI4.3 Patch Update : 8 GB
BI4.3 Full Installation: 10.5 GB

SAP BusinessObjects BI (server installer):

BI4.3 Patch Update : 13.5 GB
BI4.3 Full Installation : 37 GB

Minimum OS Patch Requirements: Its strongly recommended that systems are updated with the latest Microsoft Updates and all the required components are
present.
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Minimum HW Requirements - Linux

Minimum Server Hardware Requirements

For Evaluation Purposes:
CPU performance of at least 8000 SAPS
For single user , 16 GB RAM minimum (at least 8GB of free memory is required to launch Promotion Management Wizard)

For Deployment & Sizing:

Please refer to the BI4 Sizing Guide, or check out the SAP BI Platform sizing & Deployment wiki or your SAP representative.
•For more information on SAPS, see the SAP Sizing portal: http://service.sap.com/sizing and also the SAP benchmarked vendor
hardware list: https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark.html
•If deploying to virtualized hardware, it is strongly recommended that the memory and CPU(s) be reserved for each virtual machine
that is running the BI services.

Note: Compiled binaries of SAP BusinessObjects BI software is supported on versions of the Linux operating system running on
CPUs made by AMD or Intel.

Required Disk Space Requirements

SAP BusinessObjects BI (server installer):

BI4.3 Patch Update : 13.5 GB
BI4.3 Full Installation : 37 GB

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Minimum OS Patch Requirements - Linux

Minimum Patch Level for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

Glibc, glibc-32bit
No additional components required outside the SLES 12 RTM install.
For a list of minimum patch requirements, refer to the following link

Minimum Patch Level for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

Glibc, glibc-32bit
No additional components required outside the SLES 15 RTM install.
For a list of minimum patch requirements, refer to the following link

Required components for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

For a list of minimum patch requirements, refer to the following link

Required components for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

libnsl-2.28-42.el8.i686
libxcrypt-4.1.1-4.el8.i686
glibc-2.5-18 (RedHat advisory RHBA-2007:0619-3)
For a list of minimum patch requirements, refer to the following link

Required components for Promotion Management Wizard

Gtk2+ (example: yum install gtk2 libXtst xorg-x11-fonts-Type1)
Default internet browser installed (for embedded help only)

All OS versions: Higher patches beyond the specified minimum patch level may be used.

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Supported Locales - Linux
Language UNIX Locale
Arabic ar_SA.utf8
Czech cs_CZ.utf8
Danish da_DK.utf8
Dutch nl_NL.utf8
English en_US.utf8
Finnish fi_FI.utf8
French fr_FR.utf8
German de_DE.utf8
Hebrew he_IL.utf-8
Hungarian hu_HU.utf8
Italian it_IT.utf8
Japanese ja_JP.utf8
Kazakh kk_KZ.utf8
Korean ko_KR.utf8
Norwegian no_NO.utf8
Polish pl_PL.utf8
Portuguese pt_BR.utf8
Romanian ro_RO.utf8
Russian ru_RU.utf8
Slovakian sk_SK.utf8
Slovenian Sl_SI.utf8
Spanish es_ES.utf8
Swedish sv_SE.utf8
Simplified Chinese zh_CN.utf8
zh_TW.utf8
Traditional Chinese
zh_HK.utf8
Thai th_TH.utf8
Turkish tr_TR.utf8
Ukranian uk_UA.utf8

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Minimum HW Requirements - AIX

Minimum Hardware Requirements

For Evaluation Purposes:
CPU performance of at least 8000 SAPS
16 GB RAM minimum

For Deployment & Sizing:

Please refer to the BI4 Sizing Guide, or check out the SAP BI Platform sizing & Deployment wiki or your SAP representative.
•For more information on SAPS, see the SAP Sizing portal: http://service.sap.com/sizing and also the SAP benchmarked vendor hardware list:
https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark.html
•If deploying to virtualized hardware, it is strongly recommended that the memory and CPU(s) be reserved for each virtual machine that is running the BI
services.

Required Disk Space Requirements

SAP BusinessObjects BI (server installer):

BI4.3 Patch Update : 13.5 GB
BI4.3 Full Installation : 37 GB

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Minimum OS Patch Requirements - AIX

Minimum Patch Level for AIX 7.1

Required AIX 7.1 operating system install plus:
Technology Level 5
IBM C++ Runtime Environment Components for AIX => xlC.aix61.rte:13.1.3.1

Minimum Patch Level for AIX 7.2

Required AIX 7.2 operating system install plus:
Technology Level 3
IBM C++ Runtime Environment Components for AIX => xlC.aix61.rte:13.1.3.1

All OS versions: Higher patches beyond the specified minimum patch level may be used, but
they may not be officially tested by SAP.

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Supported Locales - AIX
Language UNIX Locale
Arabic AR_SA.UTF-8
Czech CS_CZ.UTF-8
Danish DA_DK.UTF-8
Dutch NL_NL.UTF-8
English EN_US.UTF-8
Finnish FI_FI.UTF-8
French FR_FR.UTF-8
German DE_DE.UTF-8
Hebrew he_IL.utf-8
Hungarian HU_HU.UTF-8
Italian IT_IT.UTF-8
Japanese JA_JP.UTF-8
Korean KO_KR.UTF-8
Kazakh KK_KZ.UTF-8
Norwegian NO_NO.UTF-8
Polish PL_PL.UTF-8
Portuguese PT_BR.UTF-8
Romanian RO_RO.UTF-8
Russian RU_RU.UTF-8
Slovakian SK_SK.UTF-8
Slovenian SL_SI.UTF-8
Spanish ES_ES.UTF-8
Swedish SV_SE.UTF-8
Simplified Chinese ZH_CN.UTF-8
ZH_TW.UTF-8
Traditional Chinese
ZH_HK.UTF-8
Thai TH_TH.UTF-8
Turkish TR_TR.UTF-8
Ukrainian UK_UA.UTF-8

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Minimum HW and Patch Requirements - Solaris

Minimum Server Hardware Requirements

For Evaluation Purposes:
CPU performance of at least 8000 SAPS
16 GB RAM minimum

For Deployment & Sizing:

Please refer to the BI4 Sizing Guide, or check out the SAP BI Platform sizing & Deployment wiki or your SAP representative.
•For more information on SAPS, see the SAP Sizing portal: http://service.sap.com/sizing and also the SAP benchmarked vendor hardware list:
https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark.html
•If deploying to virtualized hardware, it is strongly recommended that the memory and CPU(s) be reserved for each virtual machine that is running the BI services.

Minimum Patch Level for Solaris 11

Required Solaris 11 operating system install (Solaris 11.3 or 11.4)
Please refer to the BI Platform install guide for the list of required packages for Solaris 11

Required Disk Space Requirements

SAP BusinessObjects BI (server installer):
BI4.3 Patch Update : 13.5 GB
BI4.3 Full Installation : 37 GB

For a list of minimum patch requirements, refer to the following link

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Supported Locales - Solaris

Language UNIX Locale

Arabic ar_SA.UTF-8
Czech cs_CZ.UTF-8
Danish da_DK.UTF-8
Dutch nl_NL.UTF-8
English en_US.UTF-8
Finnish fi_FI.UTF-8
French fr_FR.UTF-8
German de_DE.UTF-8
Hebrew he_IL.utf-8
Hungarian hu_HU.UTF-8
Italian it_IT.UTF-8
Japanese ja_JP.UTF-8
Korean ko_KR.UTF-8@dict
Kazakh kk_KZ.UTF-8
Norwegian nb_NO.UTF-8
Polish pl_PL.UTF-8
Portuguese pt_BR.UTF-8
Romanian ro_RO.UTF-8
Russian ru_RU.UTF-8
Slovakian sk_SK.UTF-8
Slovenian sl_SI.UTF-8
Spanish es_ES.UTF-8
Swedish sv_SE.UTF-8
Simplified Chinese zh_CN.UTF-8@pinyin
zh_CN.UTF-8@radical
Traditional Chinese
zh_CN.UTF-8@stroke
Thai zh_TW.UTF-8@pinyin
Turkish tr_TR.UTF-8
Ukranian uk_UA.UTF-8

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