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#Business intelligence platform administrator guide upgrade#
The Product Availability Matrix (PAM) is the single point of information, which includes end of maintenance dates, upgrade paths, landscapes, related product versions and technical release information, database platforms, Java platforms, operating systems, and so on. The SBOP BI 4.x client tools remain 32-bit applications. Please note the new SBOP BI 4.x server components are 64-bit software components while SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 and earlier versions were 32-bit software components. You will find the installation package of the latter scenario in the 'Support Packages and Patches' section.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.2 can be installed as a new installation or as an in-place upgrade of an existing SBOP BI 4.1 installation. The documentation for all released versions of BI Platform can be found in the SAP Help Portal. You can find BI 4.2 new capabilities in the What's New in BI 4.2 guide. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform provides flexible systems management for an enterprise BI standard that allows administrators to confidently deploy and standardize their BI implementations on a proven, scalable, and adaptive service-oriented architecture.
Please refer SAP Note 2475660 before downloading BI 4.2 SP04 software packages SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.2 General Information