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SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.
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Supported Platforms (PAM)
Initial Publication: June 12, 2021
Last Update: Sept 19th, 2022
Applicability: BI 4.3 RTM - SP02
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Table of Contents
Supported Platforms
1. Operating System
2. Language
3. Browser This document is also applicable to Edge BI 4.3 and Crystal
Server 2020.
4. Java Application Server
5. Portal Server For Edge BI 4.3 and Crystal Server 2020:
6. IIS (IOMS only) • Only Windows and Linux operating systems are
7. CMS + Audit Repository supported.
8. Directory Server (LDAP) For Crystal Server 2020:
9. Other Technology
• The following components are not supported with
10. Virtualization Technology Crystal Server 2020: Web Intelligence, Analysis, edition
11. Cloud Infrastructure for OLAP, SAP BW integration.
12. Cloud Storage Platform This document is not applicable for SAP BusinessObjects
Mobile Clients Supported Platforms (PAM).
13. Authorization Server (OAuth 2.0)
14. OLAP Server support by Product For BI 4.3 Maintenance Strategy document: click here
15. SAP BW Support by Product (incl. SAP BW/4HANA)
16. SAP HANA Support by Product (incl. SAP HANA Cloud)
17. SAP S/4HANA Support by Product
How to read the tables in this document
18. Relational Semantic Layer Data Sources
19. Crystal Report 2020 Data Access “✓” means supported with BI 4.3 ✓
20. Data Services and Information Steward “-” means not supported -
Appendix
▪ Minimum Hardware + Operating System Patch Requirements + Supported Locales + Glossary

Operating System Support
64-bit BusinessObjects BI Server Products
Minimum Latest
Provider Name Name Notes
Supported version certified version *
Windows Windows Server 2012 R2 2022

Suse x86_64 SLES 12 15 SP03
Refer to Page 76 of this document for more information about
Linux Red Hat x86_64 EL 7.2 8.6
minimum OS patch requirement.
Oracle Linux (RHCK)(UEK) 7.2 8.5
Amazon Linux 2 2
- Known performance issues. Refer to SAP Note 2934379.
Solaris Solaris SPARC 11.4 11.4 - Solaris 11.3, EOL October 2020. Refer Oracle Solaris 11.3
Support.
AIX AIX Power 7.1 TL1 7.3 TL0
64-bit BusinessObjects BI Desktop Client Products

Minimum Latest
Supported version certified version *
Windows Server 2012 R2 2022
Windows
Windows Client 8.1 11
SAP BusinessObjects BI server components only support 64-bit operating systems. Only 64-bit OS are supported: details . This is not a complete list of platform/connectivity services.
Dashboard and Explorer are removed from BI 4.3, for complete details, refer to SAP Note 2801797.
*By backward compatibility, the Operating System coming releases are compatible by reference but will be planned for certification as soon as they will be released.

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.
Kazakh (***)(*4)
T Chinese (*1)
Hebrew (***)
Portuguese
Norwegian
Arabic (***)
S Chinese
Japanese
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovenian
Slovakian
Ukrainian
Swedish
Spanish
Russian
German
English
Finnish
Korean
(***)(*4)
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 are not supported in Universe design tool.

Browser Support
Minimum Latest
Supported version certified version
Apple Safari Safari 11 Safari 13
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
Google Chrome - 100.x
Chrome, please be aware that issues may be introduced when significant changes to
between releases.
Chromium Edge - 95.x

Microsoft
Edge HTML - -
For more information about Firefox Extended Support Releases (ESR):

Mozilla Firefox ESR 60.x 102.1
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
Only 64 bit browsers are supported.

Web Intelligence in BI 4.3 is touch ready for Reading mode only.

Java Application Server Support
• The platforms on this slide are supported as application servers. For more information, please refer to the Web Application Deployment Guide.
• Windows Server, Linux, AIX and Solaris are supported.
• Except SAP NetWeaver Java Application Server, all listed application servers are compatible with Oracle JDK8 and IBM Java 8 (minimum JRE version is 1.8.0_301).
• Any HTTP server supported by the application server vendor can be used with the supported application server.
Minimum Latest Supported

Supported version certified version since
Certified with SAP JVM 8 also.

free open-source third-party web application server. SAP recommends you
contact a qualified third-party vendor or consultant for performance tuning,
Apache Tomcat 8.x 9.x 4.3 SP00
security related issues and load balancer configurations (see SAP KBA
2280098).
Please check KBA 2112338 for bundled tomcat and JVM version
Support for the WebSphere On Demand Router is described in SAP Note

8.5 Liberty 20 4.3 SP00
1869511.
IBM WebSphere Application Server
Due to securities related changes, mandatory WAS minimum version is
9.0.5.6 Liberty 21 4.3 SP02
9.0.5.6. Previous version are not compatible with 4.3 SP02
12.2 12.2 4.3 SP00 Central Management Console (CMC) application and AOLAP are not
Oracle WebLogic Server supported on Oracle WebLogic 12C and 14 application server (see SAP
14.1 14.1 4.3 SP02 Notes 2900108 and 3060695).
7.1 7.2 4.3 SP00 To use JBOSS with Mobile Server, refer SAP Note 2207211.
Red Hat JBoss EAP
7.3 7.4 4.3 SP02
- 7.50 SP19 4.3 SP00 SAP JVM 8

SAP NetWeaver Java Application Server
7.50 SP22 7.50 SP24 4.3 SP02 SAP JVM 8.1.080

Portal Server Support
Windows Server, Linux, AIX and Solaris are supported.
Minimum Latest Supported

Supported version certified version since
Support for the WebSphere On Demand Router is described in SAP Note

8.5 9 4.3 SP00
1869511.
IBM WebSphere Portal
Due to securities related changes, mandatory WAS minimum version is
9.0.5.6 9.0.5.6 4.3 SP02
9.0.5.6. Previous version are not compatible with 4.3 SP02
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 2016 4.3 SP00 Windows Server only
7.4 SP01 7.50 SP19 4.3 SP00 SAP JVM 8

SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal
7.50 SP22 7.50 SP24 4.3 SP02 SAP JVM 8.1.080

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 - ✓ ✓

CMS + Audit Repository Support [1/2]
Operating systems supported : Windows Server, Linux, AIX and Solaris
Provider Name Name Version Database Connector Exceptions

Only 64-bits versions are supported
10.5 DB2 Client 10.5
DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows 11.1 DB2 Client 11.1 Not supported with Solaris 11.

IBM
DB2 Workgroup Edition 11.1 DB2 Client 11.1
MaxDB MaxDB 7.9
2014 SQL Server Native Client 11 or ODBC Driver 13
2016 Microsoft ODBC Driver 13

Microsoft SQL Server Not supported with Linux and Unix platforms.
Microsoft 2017 Microsoft ODBC Driver 13
2019 Microsoft ODBC Driver 17
Azure SQL Server Microsoft ODBC Driver 13 Not supported with Linux and Unix platforms.
5.7 MySQL C-API Not supported from 8.0.28 version

Not supported with Solaris 11.
Refer to SAP Note 2733936.
MySQL MySQL AB
MYSQL 8 version is not supported with RHEL 8
8.0 MySQL C-API
and SLES 15 Operating Systems.
Refer to SAP Note 3058411

CMS + Audit Repository Support [2/2]
Only 64-bit database connector middleware is supported.

Provider Name Name Version Database Connector Notes
12c Oracle Net Client 12c
12c R2 Oracle Net Client 12c

Oracle Real Application Cluster is supported.
Oracle Oracle
Oracle Exadata is supported.
HANA 1.0 SP12 No longer supported by SAP

SAP
HANA 2.0 SPS 03 upto 06
Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.7 Sybase Open Client 15.7
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 16 Sybase Open Client 16
Sybase SQL Anywhere 17 Sybase SQL Anywhere ODBC Driver 17

Directory Server (LDAP) Support
Minimum Latest
Computer
CA Directory - 14.0
Associates
IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.4 6.4
Microsoft Active Directory 2019 2019
NetIQ eDirectory 9.0 SP02 9.1
Internet Directory 12.2 12.2

Oracle
ODSEE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)
Redhat LDAP Server 10.4 10.4

Other Technology Support
Except for eTrust Siteminder, only Windows operating system are supported.
Minimum Latest
Adobe Adobe Reader 19 21
Computer Associates
eTrust Siteminder 12.52 12.8 All Platforms supported.
Access Management
Microsoft Active Directory
2012 R2 2019
(including LDS support)
.NET Framework 4.6 4.8
Microsoft - SPs of Microsoft Office that are higher than the minimum listed SPs
are supported by reference.
- MS Office 64 bit is supported on Live Office.
Microsoft Office 2013 Office 365
- No support for integrating with Office 365 cloud offerings as such.
Office 365 support is only for the version of Microsoft Office being
supported.
SAP SAP GUI 7.60 7.70
Reverse Proxy
Apache HTTP Server 2.2 and 2.4
WebSEAL 6 and 7
Not supported for Mobile Server

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
Citrix XenApp 7.15 [Windows Server 2016] ✓ -
Docker Docker - ✓
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] - ✓

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)
Alibaba Cloud (JuShiTa variant) SAP Note 2314398
Alibaba Cloud SAP Note 2688086
Amazon Web Services (AWS) SAP Note 1656099
Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine) SAP Note 2538880
IBM SoftLayer Cloud SAP Note 2279688
Microsoft Azure Cloud SAP Note 2145537
Oracle Cloud SAP KBA 2650732
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) Support via HEC Solution Portfolio List (*1)
(*1) Edge BI products not supported on HEC

Cloud Storage Platform Support
SAP Business Intelligence 4.3 solutions can be configured with cloud storage platforms for publication and sharing of corporate documents.
Refer to the table below for supported cloud storage offerings:
Additional Notes
Cloud Storage Platform Offering
(for supported combinations, client/server components)
Google Drive (*1) Support via SAP BI Platform (*2)
(*1) Google Drive is only supported by SAP BI Platform and Web Intelligence
(*2) To access Google Drive, need to first configure an Authorization Server (OAuth 2.0) in SAP BI Platform

Authorization Server (OAuth 2.0) Support (*1)
SAP Business Intelligence 4.3 solutions can be configured or deployed on infrastructure supporting OAuth authentications.
The following infrastructure offerings are certified for configuration via Authorization Servers:
Authorization (OAuth SSO) Authentication (OpenID Connect) (*2)

Authorization Server (OAuth 2.0) Implementation
Google Google Federated Identity ✓ ✓
Microsoft Azure Active Directory V2 ✓ ✓
SAP Identity Authentication Service ✓ ✓
Snowflake Snowflake OAuth ✓ -
. (*1) The above mentioned versions are explicitly tested Authorization Servers, out of available OAuth 2.0 protocol supported Authorization Servers.
. (*2) OpenID Connect Authentication is only supported through the Enterprise Authentication.

OLAP Server Support by product
This section is applicable to BI tools such as SAP BusinessObjects Analysis edition for OLAP, Web Intelligence(*3), Crystal Reports for Enterprise(*3) and Semantic
Layer; except Crystal Reports 2020 (covered in Crystal Reports 2020 Data Access slide)
Provider Name Version Connectivity Notes
2008 / 2012 XMLA No longer supported by Microsoft.

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
2014 / 2016 / 2017 XMLA
Oracle Essbase v11 JAPI
Oracle OLAP (*1) V11.1.0.7 + XMLA
SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation v10.1 XMLA
v7.5 SP5 XMLA No longer supported by SAP.

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for Microsoft platform
v10.1 XMLA
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for NetWeaver (*1) v10.1 BICS
SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management v10 XMLA
SAP BW See SAP BW slide BICS
SAP HANA See SAP HANA slide BICS / XMLA (*2)
v16 XMLA
Teradata OLAP (*1)
v17 XMLA
(*1) Not supported on Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports for Enterprise and Semantic Layer (*3) Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports for Enterprise could consume Universes on supported
(*2) SAP HANA via XMLA connectivity is only supported by Web Intelligence and Semantic Layer OLAP sources, and could also consume directly OLAP connections on SAP BW / SAP HANA
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.
Product Connectivity BW 7.50 and later (*2)
Crystal Reports for Enterprise BICS ✓

Web Intelligence (Direct to BW and via a dimensional UNX) ✓
Live Office ✓
OLAP UNV
Web Intelligence ✓
Crystal Reports Enterprise ✓
Multi source universe
Live Office ✓
(Relational)
Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office (*4) ✓
BICS (Direct to BW)
Analysis, edition for OLAP ✓
Crystal Reports for Enterprise Direct to Data (D2D) -
Crystal Reports 2020 Direct BW Connection ✓
BEx Web Applications (*3) (Integrated with BI 4) ✓
Useful links : SAP Note 1648480 about SAP NetWeaver 7 Maintenance.
(*1) The most recent version tested and certified is BW 7.5 SPS22. (*3) Please consult SAP notes 1476156 and 1541365.
(*2) By backward compatibility, BW 7.5 coming releases are compatible by reference with SAP BI, but will be (*4) Use Analysis, edition for MSFT Office 2.8 SP3 version or higher with BI 4.3. Refer to the Analysis,
planned for certification as soon as they will be released. edition for MSFT Office PAM for details.

SAP BW/4HANA Minimum version per product - Overview (*1)
BW/4HANA 1.0 and later BW/4HANA 2.0 and later
Connectivity Last certified SP20 (*2) Last certified SP09 (*2)

Product
Crystal Reports for Enterprise BICS ✓ ✓
Web Intelligence (Direct to Bex and via a dimensional UNX) ✓ ✓
Crystal Reports 2020 Direct to BW query ✓ ✓
Live Office unv or relational unx and via Web Intelligence ✓ ✓
Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office BICS (Direct to BW) ✓ ✓
Analysis, edition for OLAP BICS (Direct to BEx) ✓ ✓
Note: Multisource relational universes are not supported on SAP BW/4HANA.
(*1) Latest BW/4HANA version is supported with all BI 4.3 versions.

(*2) By backward compatibility, BW/4HANA coming releases are compatible by reference with SAP BI, but will be planned for certification as soon as they will be released.

SAP HANA Support per product - Overview (*1)
Please refer to SAP Note 2631562, for details on the level of support for HANA features, and typical HANA view functionality for all BI client tools (*3).
Product Connectivity HANA 2.0 and later (*2)

Web Intelligence Direct access and Relational UNX universe ✓
Crystal Reports for Enterprise ✓

Relational UNX universe
Live Office (*5) ✓
Crystal Reports 2020 Direct Connection ✓
Crystal Reports for Enterprise Direct to Data ✓

INA / HTTP
(Direct Access and Dimensional UNX)
Analysis Edition for OLAP INA / HTTP ✓
Analysis Edition for Microsoft Office (*4)(*6) (*7) INA / HTTP ✓
(*1) The most recent version tested and certified in HANA 2.0 SPS05. (*4) Please refer to the Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office PAM for details.
(*2) By backward compatibility, HANA 2.0 coming releases are compatible by reference with SAP BI, but (*5) Range prompts not supported for relational UNX created on HANA.
will be planned for certification as soon as they will be released. (*6) Use Analysis, edition for MSFT Office 2.8 SP3 version or higher with BI 4.3.
(*3) SAP HANA 1.0 is no longer supported by SAP. (*7) With Hana 2. HANA 2 the SAP HANA plugin EPM-MDS is required.

SAP HANA Cloud Support per product - Overview
SAP HANA Cloud 1.0

Connectivity
Product
Crystal Reports 2020 Direct Connection ✓
Crystal Reports for Enterprise JDBC / ODBC (*1) ✓
Web Intelligence (Relational UNX Universes) ✓
JDBC / ODBC (*1)
(UNV universes)
Note: HANA Calculation views via JDBC/OBDC are not supported in relational universes on SAP HANA Cloud.
Only HANA tables available on SAP HANA Cloud are supported in relational universes via JDBC/ODBC connections.
(*1) To connect to SAP HANA Cloud via JDBC/ODBC, make sure to use SAP HANA Client version 2.4.167 (or 2.4.67 for the JDBC driver) or later. See SAP HANA Cloud slide.

SAP S/4HANA Minimum version per product - Overview (*1)
S/4HANA S/4HANA S/4HANA S/4HANA S/4HANA

1709 1805 1809 1909 2020
Last certified Last certified Last certified
Product Connectivity SPS2 (*2) SPS4 (*2) SP02 (*2)
Crystal Reports for Enterprise BICS ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Web Intelligence (Direct to BEx and via a dimensional UNX) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Analysis, edition for OLAP BICS (Direct to BEx) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ -
Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office BICS (Direct to BW) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Live Office unv or relational unx and via Web Intelligence ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Useful link: SAP Note 2900388 about maintenance for the SAP S/4HANA product line until 2040.
(*1) Latest S/4HANA version is supported with all BI 4.3 versions

(*2) By backward compatibility, S/4HANA coming releases are compatible by reference with SAP BI, but will be planned for certification as soon as they will be released

Relational Semantic Layer Data Sources
• Amazon Athena (NEW), Aurora (NEW), EMR (UPGRADE), Redshift
This section is applicable to Semantic Layer clients such
• Cloudera CDH, CDP (NEW)
as Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports Enterprise and
• Denodo Denodo (UPGRADE) Lumira
• Generic Java Beans, JDBC, ODBC, OLEDB, OData, Web Services, Text and XML files
By default, all Semantic Layer data sources are supported
• Google BigQuery in UNX universes. Refer to Semantic Layer Data Source
• Greenplum Greenplum support by product for more details.
• Hewlett Packard Vertica (UPGRADE) Windows and Unix platforms are supported for all
• Hortonworks HDP Semantic Layer data sources. For ODBC connections on
Unix, UnixODBC or DataDirect OBDC can be required.
• IBM DB2 for i, DB2 for LUW, DB2 for zOS, DB2 Warehouse, Informix, Netezza
• MapR MEP (UPGRADE) Refer to Deprecated Semantic Layer Data Sources for
• Microsoft Azure, MS Access and Excel, MS Parallel Data Warehouse, MS SQL Server, Text Files data sources deprecated or removed in this BI release.
• MongoDB MongoDB Refer to the Semantic Layer Data Source Support Policy
• Oracle MySQL, Oracle Database and Exadata, Oracle e-Business Suite for support conditions on vendor databases by SAP.
• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL (UPGRADE)
• PrestoDB PrestoDB (NEW)
• Progress OpenEdge
• Salesforce.com OpenAccess for Salesforce, Salesforce.com,
• SAP BI Platform CMS DB, Data Warehouse Cloud, ERP, HANA, HANA Cloud, HANA Vora, MaxDB, Vora
(NEW) New DB in current BI 4.3 version
• SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Entreprise, IQ, SQL Anywhere
(UPGRADE) Upgraded DB in current BI 4.3 version
• Snowflake Snowflake
• Teradata Teradata (UPGRADE) See Glossary for additional information

Semantic Layer Data Source Support by product [1/2]
Universe Type Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Data Source Family (*1) Notes
UNV SSU MSU Direct to Data (D2D) (*2, *3)
Amazon Only AWS Redshift is supported in UNX MSU.

- ✓ - ✓
Only AWS Redshift and Hive in EMR are supported in CR4E D2D
Cloudera - ✓ - ✓ Only Hive on Cloudera is supported in CR4E D2D
Denodo - ✓ - -
Generic Only Generic OData 2.0 is supported in UNX MSU.
✓ ✓ - ✓
Java Beans and Web Services are not supported in CR4E D2D
Google - ✓ - -
Greenplum ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Hewlett Packard ✓ ✓ ✓ -
Hortonworks - ✓ - ✓ Only Hive in HDP is supported in CR4E D2D
IBM DB2 for z/OS, Informix and Netezza Performance Server are not
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
supported in UNX MSU and CR4E D2D
MapR - ✓ - ✓ Only Hive is supported in CR4E D2D.
Microsoft MS Parallel Data Warehouse and Azure databases are not
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
supported in both UNX MSU and CR4E D2D
MongoDB - ✓ - ✓
Oracle MySQL, Oracle Database and Exadata are supported in CR4E
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
D2D
PostgreSQL ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
(*1) In this table, a data source family is defined as supported if the majority of its databases is supported by the product. otherwise see additional notes if available.
(*2) Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CR4E) Direct to Data (D2D) covers both reports created via ‘Connection by Vendor’ in CR4E Designer, and reports based on BI platform relational connections. If a DB vendor
or version is not available in CR4E Designer ‘Connection by Vendor’ list, use BI platform relational connection instead.
(*3) Refer to the Universe (SSU & MSU) columns if your CR4E report is built on a Universe (UNX).
Semantic Layer Data Source Support by product [2/2]
Universe Type Crystal Reports Enterprise

Data Source Family (*1) Notes
UNV SSU MSU Direct to Data (D2D) (*2, *3)
PrestoDB - ✓ - -
Progress ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Salesforce.com - ✓ ✓ ✓ OpenAccess are not supported in CR4E D2D
SAP Only SAP HANA and MaxDB are supported in UNX MSU.
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Vora and HANA Vora are not supported in CR4E D2D
SAP Sybase ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Snowflake - ✓ - ✓
Teradata ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
(*1) In this table, a data source family is defined as supported if the majority of its databases is supported by the product. otherwise see additional notes if available.
(*2) Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CR4E) Direct to Data (D2D) covers both reports created via ‘Connection by Vendor’ in CR4E Designer, and reports based on BI platform relational connections. If a DB vendor
or version is not available in CR4E Designer ‘Connection by Vendor’ list, use BI platform relational connection instead.
(*3) Refer to the Universe (SSU & MSU) columns if your CR4E report is built on a Universe (UNX).
Amazon Athena
Provider Name / Middleware

Middleware version Supported since Notes
Version Type
Athena JDBC Athena JDBC42 Driver 2.0 4.3 SP02 Athena Engine Version Reference

Amazon Aurora

Version Type
MySQL in Amazon MySQL 8.0 JDBC Driver (mysql- Aurora MySQL Serverless 5.7 engine updates
JDBC 4.3 SP02
Aurora connector-java-8.0.12) Certification with TLS 1.2+.
PostgreSQL in Amazon PostgreSQL 12.00 JDBC Driver

JDBC 4.3 SP02 Aurora PostgreSQL engine update
Aurora (postgresql-42.2.11.jar)

Amazon EMR

Version Type
SAP OEM Hive JDBC42 / ODBC
Hive in Amazon EMR 5 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00 Amazon EMR 5.x release versions
Driver 2.06

Hive in Amazon EMR 6 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP02 Amazon EMR 6.x release versions
Driver 2.06

Amazon Redshift

Version Type
SAP OEM Redshift JDBC4 Driver
JDBC 4.3 SP00
1.02
Amazon Redshift Redshift Release Notes
SAP OEM Redshift ODBC Driver
ODBC 4.3 SP00
1.04

Cloudera

Version Type
Hive in CDH 6 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00
Driver 2.06
CDH 6 Release Notes
SAP OEM Impala JDBC42 /
Impala in CDH 6 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00
ODBC Driver 2.06

Hive in CDP 7 JDBC 4.3 SP02
Driver 2.06
CDP Release Notes
Impala in CDP 7 JDBC 4.3 SP02
ODBC Driver 2.06

Denodo

Version Type
Denodo 7 JDBC JDBC Driver for Denodo Platform 7.0 4.3 SP00 Denodo Platform 7.0 Documentation
JDBC /ODBC Driver for Denodo

Platform 8.0 (denodo-vdp-jdbcdriver-
Denodo 8 JDBC / OBDC 4.3 SP02 Denodo Platform 8.0 Documentation
8.0-update-20210715 / denodo-vdp-
odbcdriver-8.0-update-20210715)

Generic (*1)

Version Type
Generic Java Beans JavaBean N/A 4.3 SP00 No SQL. Only exposed as stored procedures.
Generic JDBC JDBC N/A 4.3 SP00 Java JDBC API Reference
BusinessObjects ODATA 2
Generic OData 2.0 ODATA 4.3 SP00 OData Version 2.0 Reference
connector
Generic ODBC 3 ODBC N/A 4.3 SP00 ODBC API Reference
Generic OLEDB OLE DB N/A 4.3 SP00 OLE DB API Reference
BusinessObjects Text File

Text Files BO OC 4.3 SP00
connector
Web Services (WSDL BusinessObjects Web Service

BO OC 4.3 SP00
1.1) connector
BusinessObjects XML File

XML Files BO OC 4.3 SP00
connector
(*1) Generic: Standard connectivity or middleware tested by SAP on a reference source: MS SQL for ODBC and OLE DB or MySQL for JDBC. For customer drivers based on Generic, see the Data
Source Support Policy statement

Google

Version Type
Google BigQuery 1.82 (google-
BigQuery BO OC 4.3 SP00 Google BigQuery Release Notes
cloud-bigquery-1.82.jar)

Greenplum

Version Type
Greenplum 5 JDBC / ODBC DataDirect 7.1 – GreenPlum 7.10 4.3 SP00 Greenplum 5 Release Notes
DataDirect 7.1 JDBC Driver for

JDBC 4.3 SP00
Greenplum - 5.1.4
Greenplum 6 Greenplum 6 Release Notes
DataDirect 7.1 Greenplum Wire
ODBC 4.3 SP00
Protocol - 07.16

Hewlett Packard

Version Type
HP Vertica 8 JDBC / ODBC
HP Vertica 8 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00 HP Vertica 8 Release Notes
Driver
HP Vertica 9.2 JDBC / ODBC

Driver
HP Vertica 10.0 JDBC / ODBC

Driver

Hortonworks

Version Type
Hive in HDP 3 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00
Driver 2.06
Hortonworks HDP 3 Release Notes
SAP OEM Spark JDBC42 /
Spark in HDP 3 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00
ODBC Driver 2.06

IBM - DB2 for i

Version Type
DB2 CAE DB2 Connect v10.5 4.3 SP00

DB2 for i v7
ODBC DB2 iSeries Access ODBC 13.00 4.3 SP00 Only on Windows.

IBM - DB2 for LUW

Version Type
DB2 Client DB2 Client 10.05 FP5 4.3 SP00

Release Notes for DB2 Version 10 for Linux,
DB2 for LUW 10
UNIX, and Windows
JDBC JDBC Driver Version 4.19 4.3 SP00
DB2 Client DB2 Client 11.05 4.3 SP01

Release Notes for Db2 Version 11 for Linux,
DB2 for LUW 11
Unix and Windows

IBM - DB2 for zOS

Version Type
DB2 Client DB2 Client 11.01 4.3 SP00

DB2 for z/OS 12 IBM release note

IBM - DB2 Warehouse

Version Type
DB2 Client DB2LUWClient 11.5 4.3 SP00

DB2 Warehouse 3 IBM DB2 Warehouse 3 Release Notes
JDBC db2driver-for-JDBC-sqlj-v11.5 4.3 SP00

IBM - Informix Dynamic Server

Version Type
Informix Dynamic IBM Informix JDBC driver / Client

JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00 IBM Informix 12 Release Notes
Server 12 SDK 3.7

IBM - Netezza

Version Type
JDBC Netezza JDBC Driver 11.0 4.3 SP01

Netezza Performance
IBM Netezza 11 Release Notes
Server
Netezza ODBC Driver 7.2
ODBC 4.3 SP01

MapR

Version Type
Hive in MEP 6 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00 MEP 6 Hive Release Notes
Driver 2.06

Impala in MEP 6 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00 MEP 6 Impala Release Notes
ODBC Driver 2.06
SAP OEM Hive ODBC Driver

Spark in MEP 6 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00 MEP 6 Spark Release Notes
2.06

Hive in MEP 7 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP02 MEP 7 Hive Release Notes
Driver 2.06

Impala in MEP 7 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP02 MEP 7 Impala Release Notes
ODBC Driver 2.06
SAP OEM Spark JDBC42 /

Spark in MEP 7 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP02 MEP 7 Spark Release Notes
ODBC Driver 2.06

Microsoft - Azure

Version Type
Microsoft JDBC Driver 8.4 for
JDBC SQL Server (mssql-JDBC- 4.3 SP01
8.4.1.jre8.jar)
Azure SQL Database What is Azure SQL Database
ODBC SQL Server Native Client 17.05 4.3 SP01
Microsoft JDBC Driver 6.0 for

Azure Synapse
JDBC SQL Server 4.3 SP00 Azure Synapse Analytics releases
Analytics
(sqlJDBC_6.0.8112.200)

Microsoft - Access and Excel

Version Type
MS Access / Excel
ODBC Office Access ODBC 15.00 4.3 SP00
2013
MS Access / Excel
2016
MS Access / Excel
2019

Microsoft - MS Parallel Data Warehouse

Version Type
MS Parallel Data
JDBC SQL Server 2016 driver for JDBC 4.3 SP00
Warehouse

Microsoft - SQL Server

Version Type
SQL Server driver for JDBC
JDBC 4.3 SP00
(sqlJDBC4.jar)
SQL Server 2014 / SQL Server Native Client 11.0 / Data

ODBC 4.3 SP00 SQL Server 2014 Release Notes
2016 direct 7.0.1 for unix only
OLE DB Driver 18.3 for SQL Server

OLEDB 4.3 SP00
(only supported for SQL Server 2014)
MS JDBC Driver 6.4 for SQL Server

JDBC 4.3 SP00
(mssql-jdbc-6.4.0.jre8.jar)
SQL Server Native Client 17.05 / Data

SQL Server 2017 ODBC 4.3 SP00 SQL Server 2016 Release Notes
direct 7.0.1 for unix only
OLEDB OLE DB Driver 18.3 for SQL Server 4.3 SP00
JDBC Driver 8.4 for SQL Server (mssql-

JDBC 4.3 SP01
JDBC-8.4.1.jre8.jar)
SQL Server Native Client 17.05 / Data

SQL Server 2019 ODBC 4.3 SP01 SQL Server 2019 Release Notes
Direct 8.00 for unix only
OLEDB OLE DB Driver 18.4 for SQL Server 4.3 SP01

Microsoft - Text Files

Version Type
MS Text Files ODBC MS Text ODBC Driver 4.3 SP00 Only on Windows.

MongoDB

Version Type
JDBC SAP OEM MongoDB JDBC Driver 1.03 4.3 SP01

MongoDB 4 MongoDB 4.0 Release Notes
ODBC SAP OEM MongoDB ODBC Driver 2.03 4.3 SP01

Oracle - MySQL

Version Type
MySQL 5 JDBC / ODBC MySQL JDBC / ODBC 5.3.4 4.3 SP00 MySQL 5.x Release Notes
mysql-connector-java-8.0.12 / MySQL
MySQL 8 JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00 MySQL 8.0 Release Notes
ODBC 8.0.12

Oracle - Oracle Database and Exadata

Version Type
Oracle / Oracle JDBC / ODBC(*) Oracle Database 12c Release Notes

Oracle JDBC/ODBC/OCI Version 12c R2 4.3 SP00
Exadata 12c / OCI Exadata System Software Releases Notes
Oracle / Oracle JDBC / ODBC(*) Oracle Database 18c Release Notes

Oracle JDBC/ODBC/OCI Version 18.3 4.3 SP00
Exadata 18c / OCI Exadata System Software Releases Notes
JDBC Oracle JDBC Version 19.3 4.3 SP00
Oracle / Oracle Oracle Database 19c Release Notes

ODBC(*) Oracle ODBC version 19.11 4.3 SP02
Exadata 19c Exadata System Software Releases Notes
OCI Oracle OCI 19.0 4.3 SP00
(*) ODBC connections are not supported for Oracle Exadata.

Oracle E-Business Suite
Provider Name / Version Middleware Type Middleware version Notes
See supported Oracle Database slide for compatibility

Oracle EBS OCI Support by compatibility
with Oracle EBS

PostgreSQL

Version Type
PostgreSQL 10 JDBC / ODBC PostgreSQL JDBC/ODBC 10 4.3 SP00 PostgreSQL 10 Release Notes
4.3 SP00
JDBC PostgreSQL JDBC postgresql-42.2.5
PostgreSQL 11 PostgreSQL 11 Release Notes
PostgreSQL 11.00 ODBC (psqlODBC 4.3 SP00
ODBC
11.0.0)
PostgreSQL 12.00 JDBC Driver 4.3 SP01

JDBC
(postgresql-42.2.11.jar)
PostgreSQL 12.01 ODBC Driver 4.3 SP01
ODBC
(psqlODBC_12_01_0000)
JDBC PostgreSQL JDBC postgresql-42.2.19 4.3 SP02

4.3 SP02
ODBC PostgreSQL 13.00 ODBC

PrestoDB

Version Type
Presto JDBC Driver (presto-jdbc-350.jar
PrestoDB JDBC from io.prestosql foundation / presto- 4.3 SP02 PrestoDB Release Notes
jdbc 0.263.jar)

Progress OpenEdge

Version Type
JDBC OpenEdge JDBC Driver 5.1 4.3 SP01

OpenEdge 12 OpenEdge 12.0 Release Notes
ODBC OpenEdge ODBC Driver 7.1 4.3 SP01

Salesforce.com

Version Type
OpenAcces for Data direct Open Access/DataDirect 7.1
ODBC 4.3 SP00
Salesforce Salesforce
JDBC SAP OEM SF JDBC4 Driver 2.00 4.3 SP00

Salesforce.com
ODBC SAP OEM SF ODBC Driver 2.02 4.3 SP01

SAP - BI Platform CMS System Database

Version Type
BI Platform CMS
BO OC BI Platform CMS DB connector 4.3 SP00
System Database

SAP - Data Warehouse Cloud

Version Type
To run with Data Warehouse Cloud,

SAP Data Warehouse make sure to use version 2.4.167
JDBC / ODBC HANA JDBC / ODBC Driver 2.0 SP5 4.3 SP01
Cloud (2.4.67 for the JDBC driver) or later of
the SAP HANA client interfaces.

SAP - ERP

Version Type
MySAP ERP 2004 JCO SAP JCO 3.0.17 4.3 SP00
SAP ERP 6 JCO SAP JCO 3.0.17 4.3 SP00
4.3 SP00 Should support: R/3 Enterprise, R/3 4.0, R/3

SAP ERP R/3 JCO SAP JCO 3.0.17
4.6, MySAP ERP 2004.

SAP - HANA

Version Type
SAP HANA Database 2.0 Release Notes
SAP HANA JDBC/ODBC HANA JDBC / ODBC Driver 2.0 SP5 4.3 SP00 On Solaris and AIX Unix platforms, use
HANA ODBC Driver 2.0 SP03
(02.03.0123) because of a product issue.

SAP - HANA Cloud

Version Type
To run with HANA Cloud, make sure to

use SAP HANA Client version 2.4.167
SAP HANA Cloud JDBC / ODBC HANA JDBC / ODBC Driver 2.0 SP5 4.3 SP01
(or 2.4.67 for the JDBC driver) or later
of the SAP HANA client interfaces.

SAP - HANA Vora

Version Type
SAP OEM HANA Vora JDBC / ODBC
SAP HANA Vora JDBC / ODBC 4.3 SP00
Driver

SAP - MaxDB

Version Type
SAP MaxDB JDBC / ODBC MaxDB JDBC / ODBC 7.9.08.23 4.3 SP00

SAP - Vora

Version Type
Vora 1 JDBC SAP OEM HANA Vora JDBC Driver 4.3 SP00
Vora 2 JDBC SAP OEM HANA Vora JDBC Driver 4.3 SP00

SAP Sybase - Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)

Version Type
JDBC Sybase JDBC 7.07 4.3 SP00

Adaptive Server SAP ASE 15 Release Notes
Enterprise 15 No stored procedures support in universes.
Sybase Open
Sybase Open Client 15.7 4.3 SP00
Client
JDBC Sybase JDBC Jconn4.jar 4.3 SP00

Adaptive Server SAP ASE 16 Release Notes
Enterprise 16 No stored procedures support in universes.
Sybase Open
Sybase Open Client 16 4.3 SP00
Client

SAP Sybase - IQ

Version Type
JDBC Sybase JDBC jconn4.jar 4.3 SP00

IQ 16 SAP IQ 16 Release Notes
ODBC Sybase ODBC for Sybase IQ 16 4.3 SP00

SAP Sybase - SQL Anywhere

Version Type

SQL Anywhere 16
ODBC SQL Anywhere ODBC Driver 16 4.3 SP00

SQL Anywhere 17
ODBC SQL Anywhere ODBC Driver 17 4.3 SP00

Snowflake

Version Type
JDBC Snowflake JDBC version 3.13 4.3 SP00

Snowflake Snowflake Release Notes
ODBC Snowflake ODBC version 2.22 4.3 SP00

Teradata Corporation

Version Type
Teradata 15 JDBC / ODBC Teradata JDBC / ODBC Driver 15.10 4.3 SP00 Teradata 15 Release Notes
Teradata 16 JDBC / ODBC Teradata JDBC / ODBC Driver 16.20 4.3 SP00 Teradata 16 Release Notes
JDBC Teradata JDBC Driver 17.10 4.3 SP02

Teradata 17 Release Notes
Teradata 17 Support for Teradata Vantage / Teradata Database
17.10 (including 17.05) Versions.
ODBC Teradata ODBC Driver 17.10 4.3 SP02

Deprecated Semantic Layer data sources [1/2] (1*)
Vendor Database Name / Version Middleware Type Deprecated since Replaced by Notes
GreenPlum GreenPlum 4 JDBC/ODBC 4.3 SP02 GreenPlum 5 End of maintenance by vendor
Informix Dynamic Server 11 JDBC/ODBC 4.3 SP02 Informix Dynamic Server 12 End of maintenance by vendor
IBM
Puredata (Netezza) Server 7 JDBC/ODBC 4.3 SP02 Netezza Performance Server 11
Ingres Ingres 9 / 10 JDBC/ODBC 4.3 SP02 no replacement
Excel / Access 2010 ODBC 4.3 SP02 Excel / Access 2012 End of maintenance by vendor
Microsoft
SQL Server 2012 JDBC/ODBC/OLEDB/DataDirect 4.3 SP02 SQL Server 2014 End of maintenance by vendor
Oracle Oracle / Oracle Exadata 11 JDBC/ODBC/OCI 4.3 SP02 Oracle / Oracle Exadata 12 End of maintenance by vendor
Progress OpenEdge 10 / 11 JDBC/ODBC 4.3 SP02 OpenEdge 12
(*1) Deprecated: Used to be supported in the past but not anymore; excepted if mentioned as renamed, or replaced by another version

Deprecated Semantic Layer data sources [2/2] (1*)
Vendor Database Name / Version Middleware Type Deprecated since Replaced by Notes
SAS SAS 9 JDBC 4.3 SP02 no replacement
SAP HANA 1.0 JDBC/ODBC/OLAP 4.3 SP02 HANA 2.0 End of maintenance by vendor
IBM DB2 for z/OS 11 DB2 Client/JDBC 4.3 SP03 DB2 for z/OS 12 End of maintenance by vendor
(*1) Deprecated: Used to be supported in the past but not anymore; excepted if mentioned as renamed, or replaced by another version

Semantic Layer Data Source Support Policy
Support by certification
By default, Semantic Layer data sources are tested and certified internally by SAP for given database and middleware versions set as
reference versions.
In issue cases, SAP provides support that is conditioned on the ability to reproduce the incident on the certification reference versions.
Support by reference or by compatibility

Some data sources, tagged as compatible, are not tested by SAP, but are supported by reference with a compatibility statement between
middleware and database server publicly provided by the vendor.
In issue cases, SAP provides support if and only if the incident is also reproducible on database and middleware versions certified by SAP.
otherwise, support will be provided by the vendor.
Limited Support for Generic Standard connectivity

Developers can implement custom Semantic Layer data sources based on Generic standard connectivity such as JDBC, ODBC, OLEDB or
JavaBeans.
In issue cases, SAP provides support that is conditioned on the ability to reproduce the incident on the reference source: MS SQL for ODBC
and OLE DB or MySQL for JDBC.
On the other hand, SAP does not provide support for the universe creation or the SQL generation on the top of these custom connections
based on Generic standard connectivity.

Crystal Reports 2020 Data Access
Suggested way to view find needed information: select Operating system + filter on Sources for your choice of data access.
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

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 to respective PAM.
Lumira:
Please refer to Lumira PAM.
Note: a mandatory upgrade to Lumira 2.4 is needed for Lumira support on BI 4.3.
Refer to SAP Note 2903302 for additional information.
Analysis For Office:

Please refer to Analysis for Office PAM.
Note: Analysis for Office 2.8 SP3 and greater is compatible with BI 4.3.

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:

It is strongly recommended that systems are used with the latest Updates and all the required components are present.
Minimum HW Requirements - Linux

For single user , 16 GB RAM minimum (at least 8GB of free memory is required to launch Promotion Management Wizard)

•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.


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.
Required components for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x and based Red Hat Linux OS (eg Amazon Linux, Oracle linux etc )
Required components for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x and based Red Hat Linux OS (eg Amazon Linux, Oracle linux etc )
libnsl-2.28-42.el8.i686
libxcrypt-4.1.1-4.el8.i686
glibc-2.5-18 (RedHat advisory RHBA-2007:0619-3)
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.

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

Minimum HW Requirements - AIX
Minimum Hardware Requirements

16 GB RAM minimum

•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 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

Technology Level 3

Technology Level 0
All OS versions: Higher patches beyond the specified minimum patch level may be used, but
they may not be officially tested by SAP.

Supported Locales - AIX
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

Minimum HW and Patch Requirements - Solaris

16 GB RAM minimum

•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


Supported Locales - Solaris

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

Glossary [1/2]
Term Definition
AWS Amazon Web Services.

BI Business Intelligence.
BICS Business Intelligence Consumer Services. BICS connectivity is a way for BI tools to connect to Business Explorer (BEx) queries on the SAP NetWeaver BW server.
CA Directory LDAP Server Implementation for Computer Associates.
CR4E Crystal Reports for Enterprise.
D2D Direct to Data: it corresponds to a data source type in CR4E (mainly Connection by Vendor).
EhP Enhancement Package: an optional package that allows customers to take advantage of ongoing business innovation while keeping the core systems stable.
EOL End Of Life. Another term is End Of Maintenance.
FP Feature Package: Package that delivers nondisruptive innovation for generally available product versions, also bundling software corrections and legal changes.
FPS Feature Package Stack. FPS is similar to an SPS, but it includes non-disruptive and non-mandatory features.
GA General Availability date: point in time when a product a becomes generally available to all customers.
IDT Information Design Tool: application to define and manage UNX universes.
Knowledge Base Article. SAP Notes and SAP Knowledge Base Articles are support documents to help users to find answers to questions arising from their daily
KBA
work with SAP software products.
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Lightweight Directory Services for Active Directory. It is a LDAP directory service that provides support for directory-enabled applications, without the dependencies
LDS
and domain-related restrictions of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
MSU Multi Source Universe: UNX modeling data federated from Multiple Source.
ODSEE Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer.

Glossary [2/2]
Term Definition
OLAP UNV Universe based on an OLAP source defined with Universe Design Tool.
OS Operating System.
SAP software that has a version number, is delivered at a particular point in time and has defined maintenance phases. The terms “release” and “product version”
Release
are often used as synonyms.
RHCK Red Hat Compatible Kernel for Oracle Linux.
RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
RTC Release To Customer: date that marks the initial availability of software product for productive use during the controlled delivery phase.
SCN SAP Community Network.
SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
SP Support Package is a bundle of software corrections available as a support package for a Java support package.
Support Package Stack is a set of support packages and patches for the respective software product version that shall be used in the given combination. Support
SPS package stacks should be seen as an entity in themselves; customers must heed the minimum requirements and dependencies between individual components and
apply the support packages and patches specified in the support package stack together.
SSU Single Source Universe: UNX modeling data from a Single Source.
TLS Transport Layer Security. It encrypts data sent over the Internet to ensure a better protection.
UEK Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux.
UDT Universe Design Tool: application to define and manage UNV universes.
UI User Interface.
UNV Relational Universe defined with Universe Design Tool (UDT). It can be converted to UNX file in Information Design Tool.
UNX Relational Universe defined with Information Design Tool (IDT).

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BI launch pad (*2) (*3)

BI workspaces (viewing only) (*3)

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

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Chromium Edge - 95.x

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Minimum Latest Supported

Certified with SAP JVM 8 also.

Support for the WebSphere On Demand Router is described in SAP Note

- 7.50 SP19 4.3 SP00 SAP JVM 8

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Support for the WebSphere On Demand Router is described in SAP Note

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 2016 4.3 SP00 Windows Server only

7.4 SP01 7.50 SP19 4.3 SP00 SAP JVM 8

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Operating systems supported : Windows Server, Linux, AIX and Solaris

Provider Name Name Version Database Connector Exceptions

10.5 DB2 Client 10.5

11.5 DB2 Client 11.5

DB2 Workgroup Edition 11.1 DB2 Client 11.1

11.5 DB2 Client 11.5

MaxDB MaxDB 7.9

2014 SQL Server Native Client 11 or ODBC Driver 13

2016 Microsoft ODBC Driver 13

2019 Microsoft ODBC Driver 17

5.7 MySQL C-API Not supported from 8.0.28 version

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Only 64-bit database connector middleware is supported.

Provider Name Name Version Database Connector Notes

12c Oracle Net Client 12c

12c R2 Oracle Net Client 12c

19c Oracle Net Client 19c

HANA 1.0 SP12 No longer supported by SAP

Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.7 Sybase Open Client 15.7

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 16 Sybase Open Client 16

Sybase SQL Anywhere 17 Sybase SQL Anywhere ODBC Driver 17

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Windows Server, Linux, AIX and Solaris are supported.

IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.4 6.4

Microsoft Active Directory 2019 2019

NetIQ eDirectory 9.0 SP02 9.1

Internet Directory 12.2 12.2

Redhat LDAP Server 10.4 10.4

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Adobe Adobe Reader 19 21

.NET Framework 4.6 4.8

SAP SAP GUI 7.60 7.70

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Remote Desktop Services ✓ -

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Alibaba Cloud (JuShiTa variant) SAP Note 2314398

Alibaba Cloud SAP Note 2688086

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SAP Note 1656099

Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine) SAP Note 2538880

IBM SoftLayer Cloud SAP Note 2279688

Microsoft Azure Cloud SAP Note 2145537

Oracle Cloud SAP KBA 2650732

(*1) Edge BI products not supported on HEC

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Google Drive (*1) Support via SAP BI Platform (*2)

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Authorization (OAuth SSO) Authentication (OpenID Connect) (*2)

BI launch pad (2) (3)

Google Drive (1) Support via SAP BI Platform (2)

Connectivity Last certified SP20 (2) Last certified SP09 (2)

Analysis Edition for Microsoft Office (4)(6) (*7) INA / HTTP ✓