History of SAP Business Objects
Business Objects is one of the leading companies in the BI and reporting field. The company was created in 1990 and finally taken over by SAP in 2007. There were many products offered by Business Objects, but the most famous one is Business Objects XI. The first official SAP release was SAP Business Objects XI3. The last available version of SAP Business Objects is BO 4.x, and the framework was completely changed in this version to comply with the Microsoft Ribbon technology. The integration between Business Objects and other SAP products was dramatically enhanced in this version, as shown in the following table:
|
Release name |
Number of the service pack |
Release date |
|---|---|---|
|
BusinessObjects 3.x |
NA |
1995 |
|
BusinessObjects 5 |
11 |
1999 |
|
BusinessObjects Enterprise 6.x |
9 |
2003 |
|
BusinessObjects Enterprise XIR2 |
5 |
2005 |
|
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI3 |
5 |
2008 |
|
SAP BusinessObjects BI4 |
NA |
2011 |