1.XIR3 can use Excel document as a data provider which was not possible in XIR2.

2.We can open XIR2 universes using XIR3 Designer but XIR3 universe cannot be
opened using earlier versions of designer.

XIR3:

On the Administration front, all the servers can be maintained at the CMC, there is
a new component call "Server Intelligence Agent".
So all the work of CCM is shifted to CMC.
From CCM.. stop, run or restart the Tom Cat and Server Intelligence Agent.

? We can create universe from stored procedure in BOXI3 but not in BOXIR2
? Web intelligent report ? when we save as excel report that report contains more
than 65K rows it?s automatically populated to next sheet.

Posted by: Bluemoon

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New in XI R3.0 (Titan):

- Better security (Custom Access Levels, "Trumping" of rights, etc.)
- Being able to prevent access rights from propagating to sub-objects (thereby
avoiding the need to break inheritance)
- New GUI for the CMC
- Repository Federation (=replication of the repository to other BOE cluster)
- Repository Diagnostic Tool (to remedy inconsistencies between CMS database
entries and files in the FRS)
- SIAs (new grouping/managing of servers, see also "bootstrap" files)
- Cloning Server Services
- Building Server Services templates (for cloning)
- The CMC is now the leading system, not the CCM
- Enhanced failover capabilities (session failover, etc.)

- Improved Import Wizard (better understandable options)

- Rich Client version of WebIntelligence (offline Webi), called WRC
- Tracking feature in WebIntelligence

- New Publishing features (close to BCAP of version 6.x)

- Multi-language support for universes

- Designer: Smart measures (or so called database delegated measures in the
universe)
- Designer: Focing predefined conditions on the whole universe or on a universe
class
- Optional prompts
- Database delegated search for LOVs (data type CHARACTER)
- Enhanced OLAP universes (see also SAP BW, etc.)
- Better performance against SAP BW OLAP based universes
- Being able to do an update to the structure of OLAP based universes with conflict
resolution
- Being able to build universes using stored procedures
etc.

New in XI R3.1:
- LifeCycle Management (LCM) tool for promoting content from Dev --> Test -->
Prod

New in XI R3.2:
- Input controls in WebIntelligence
- Increased support for SAP OLAP universes (see also SAP BusinessObjects
Integration Solution (Integration Kit) such as MDX formula editor in universe
designer, improved OLAP universe update wizard, etc.
- New Universe parameter SMART_AGGREGATE to force the usage of the most
detailed fact tables (see also: smart measure/database delegated measure)

Posted by: Mahudes

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Hi,
There is a correction in the above posts. XI R2 allows you to create reports on Excel
and Stored Procedure

Posted by: dharani raj

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i THINK boxi r2 doesn't have sap integrations

and boxi r3 consisting of sap integrations.