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Introduction SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 (SAP BO 4.0) is the long awaited, with SAP Business Intelligence / SAP Business Warehouse integrated, version of BusinessObjects. With the acquisition of BusinessObjects by SAP in 2007, customers were having a lot of questions about the future of the then market-leading Business Intelligence solution. Depending on the side you are (were) on, these questions will have a different viewing angle on this newly released version.

Introduction Clarity FSR (Financial Statement Reporting) was acquired by IBM in 2010 as part of Clarity Systems. Clarity FSR is an innovative new type of reporting solution that assists in the creation of statements and (annual) investor relations reports. It is completely complementary with the existing IBM Cognos portfolio and will be called IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting going forward.

Introduction In order to create a sustainable solution it is important to establish a repetitive method. If you want to make sure that for each picture you take, you will also be able to make a quality print, then you need to make sure that you define each single step from the raw image up to the print; which image to start from, which functionalities to apply on the raw image and in which order, which functionalities to apply in Adobe Photoshop and in which order, how to go about when sharpening the image, what about resizing the image, etc.

Introduction Between previous versions of Business Objects and the SAP Business Objects XI platform, the vision on security and the complexity of the security has changed a lot. The security has switched from a user-centric model to an object-centric one and from 2 levels of security to many more levels. When migrating to SAP BO XI, one needs to take these drastic changes into account.