What you need to know about Data Services 4.0: 
Live Q&A with BI and data warehousing expert Don Loden

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services 4.0 features technical advances, such as 64-bit Windows server requirements, a new security model, free text analysis, and tight integration with EIM technologies such as Information Steward.

How will these changes affect your current systems and provide better access to both structured and unstructured data? 

Post your questions in a live one-hour online Q&A on Data Services with Don Loden of Decision First Technologies on Tuesday, February 7 at 12:30pm-1:30pm EST here in the IT Forum on Insider Learning Network.

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What are BW and Data Services integration options?. We are working on a project to load data and would like to post it directly to an ODS or Cube. Is that possible? To post to the cubes, what is the mechanism DS uses? Infopackages?

During a mock upgrade of Data Services 3.2 to 4.0 I noticed that the install for Information Services stated that it shouldn't be installed on the same host as Data Services.  Is this a hard requirement or merely a recommendation.

Also, on average do most workflows migrate to the new environment (after upgrading the repository) in a fairly seemless manner?

TIA,

Ben Mazhary-Clark

Feb 7, 2012 -- 12:25PM, BridgetKotelly wrote:

Welcome to today’s Forum!

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 Don, welcome! I see there’s a question or two in the forum already. I also want to add a question of my own:  Can you lay out 1 or 2 of the new features of the latest version of Data Services, and also introduce Information Steward, and how it relates to Data Services? I know there’s a lot of buzz about the new release’s free text analysis and customer sentiment analysis capabilities.

Thanks Bridget! I am really happy to be here.

I think two of the features that I am most excited about are the Unstructured text processing to give the ability to analyse unstructructured data such as press releases Twitter streams etc... and the fact that the Windows operating system not runs in a 64 bit configuration. This enables many more tuning options and options for structuring data flows from a performance standpoint.