What are the functional & architectural differences between business objects and Web Intelligence Reports? - Data warehousing

What are the functional & architectural differences between business objects and Web Intelligence Reports?

Functional differences

Business objects, for building or accessing reports, needs to be installed on every pc. On the other hand, Web intelligence reports needs a browser and a URL of the server from where Business objects will be accessed.
BOMain.key needs to be copied on every pc using BO client. This is not required for Web Intelligence Reports.
Business objects expect you to use the same pc where they are installed. Web Intelligence reports can be accessed from anywhere, provided internet is available.

Architectural differences

For BO client, for sending info to BO Server BOMain.key, uses the key of the local drive. Once the information is sent, it is validated and checked into the repository upon which the user can access the BO services. On the other hand, Web Intelligence the web servers BOMain.key is used to check privilege of the user and then sending information to the BO Server BOMain.key.

What are the functional & architectural differences between business objects and Web Intelligence Reports?

Business objects is software for creating user’s reports without having the knowledge of SQL coding.

Web Intelligence report is a report type that is available in business objects software, and certain software supports the generation of Crystal Report Desktop Intelligent Report also called as Business Objects Reports. These reports can be generated by using only web based technology.
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