Business Development Officer Interview Question:

Can you please explain the difference between business objects 6.5 and XI R2?

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I have found some differences b/w BO and XI and only the last is specific to XIR2 Difference between BO and XI:
★ BO uses classic BO Architecture and XI uses crystal classic Architecture
★ BO uses 57 tables for BO repo and 8 tables for auditor where as XI uses 8 tables for CMS and 6 tables for auditor
★ BO has different security domains where as XI doesn?t has no different security domains
★ BO, all objects are stored in repository where as in XI Objects are physically stored in Input FRS and instances in output FRS
★ In BO after installing we have configure, create BO mainkey where as in XI it is install and start working
★ In BO classic key is an xml file and it has to be placed in relevant location where as in XI a key code is there
★ In BO if you want to save a report to repository you have to publish that report where as in XI if you click save as and select Enterprise
★ In BO if you want to save a report to repository you have to publish that report where as in XI if you click save as and select Enterprise
★ IN BO, BCA and supervision are entirely separate but in XI there are merged into CMC
★ IN XI there is no separate auditor is there but there is an auditor database where we can create tables based on that
★ BO has it?s own reporting toos where as XI uses crystal reports as it?s reporting tool
★ BO is user centric ? means rights are assigned to user where as XI is object centric ? means rights are assigned on objects level not user level
★ BO ? all reports are stored in categories, in XI infoview there is folder and categories but all main storage is in folders
★ In XI R1 there was no concept of full client but that concept is introduced in XI R2
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