On the SAP BO innovation centre website I stumbled upon a new tool that will be included in the next major release of BO.
It’s called Historic Audit Analysis and allows users to create periodic historic reports on data that lacks an explicit time dimension.
Does anyone else know of any new features that will be included in XI Release 4?
Also I heard rumours that Data Federator will be included now as well.
Regards
Rim Geurts
RGeurts 
(BOB member since 2006-12-29)
Hi,
Regarding Data Federator:
Dave Rathbun mentioned the same in his personal blog here:
So hopefully we will be able to use more data sources in 1 universe in the next BO release 
Marek Chladny 
(BOB member since 2003-11-27)
Thanks Marek,
It looks like they are going to revamp the symantic layer.
Good news!
RGeurts (BOB member since 2006-12-29)
Useful for people that don’t want to do it properly and build a data warehouse…;).
One wonders what the performance will be like.
The inclusion of federator within Designer, however, sounds the most interesting… 
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Mak 1 
(BOB member since 2005-01-06)
Any ideas when XI R4 will be released ?.
Veronica (BOB member since 2002-11-22)
I don’t belive there is an official release date but I would guess somewhere around Q3 / Q4 2010
RGeurts (BOB member since 2006-12-29)