what's the difference between BI_CONT and BI_CONT_XT

[Former Member]

Dear All,

Could you please tell me what's the difference between BI_CONT and BI_CONT_XT ?

I am installing the BI7.37, do I need install BI_CONT_XT ?

Thanks,

Michael

[former_member144433 · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

Regarding your query, please see the below notes:

1634366  BI_CONT 736/746: Information about Add-On Support Packages

153967   BI Content Release Strategy

1578396  Installation or upgrade of BI_CONT / BI_CONT_XT  736/746

1000822  Overview: Notes for the add-ons BI_CONT and BI_CONT_XT

In a nutshell BI_CONT_XT is the content for Business Objects, i.e dashboards etc....

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/ec/9d659cd4924ec0ab3bb2

97ff865e32/frameset.htm

BI Content Extension

The documentation for the following BI Content objects can be found below: SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards.

Predefined reports and dashboards offer a detailed, graphic, or interactive display of (transaction) data from SAP Business Suite or SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse:

Reports for formatted display of data from queries

Dashboards for graphic or interactive display of data from queries

Prerequisites

The dashboards and reports are based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0, enhancement

package 2 and SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI Content Add-On 5.

Integration

For information about integration, see Integration with SAP BusinessObjects.

More Information

For more information, see SAP Help Portal http://help.sap.com in the

documentation for SAP ERP, SAP CRM, and so on, under  Processes and

Tools for Enterprise Applications (CA-EPT)  Embedded Analytics .

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So if you need the dashboards content then you need the BI_CONT_XT

Thank You.

Regards,

Deepika

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Deepika,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Best Regards,

Michael

[former_member144433 · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

Can you please close this thread in case of no further queries in this regard.

Thank You,

Regards,

Deepika

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Deepika,

I have marked the status to answeared, Isn't it closed ?

Thanks,

Michael

[Former Member]

Hi Michael,

Please have a look on below link it is having useful information.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw74/helpdata/en/6a/f247bf0ce745eab5648a309fbd784e/frameset.htm

Thanks,

Venkat