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End of supportmedium impact
SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025 drops Lumira Discovery, Crystal Reports for Enterprise, .unv universes
SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025 no longer delivers several components, including Lumira Discovery, Crystal Reports for Enterprise and .unv universes; alternatives are recommended.
Who’s affected
Teams running SAP BusinessObjects BI that plan to move to BI 2025 and still use Lumira Discovery, Crystal Reports for Enterprise, the Universe Design Tool, .unv or multi-source universes, Analysis edition for OLAP, Live Office or Mobile.
Not affected: Teams that stay on an earlier BusinessObjects release, or that never used the removed components (for example, only Web Intelligence on .unx universes).
What it costs
No price change in the record; the cost is migration effort. Reports, universes and connectivity built on the removed components must be rebuilt or replaced before you upgrade to BI 2025.
When to act
BI 2025 has been available since March 2025, so the change is already in effect and rebuilding universes and reports usually takes several months; start before you commit to the upgrade.
Blast radius: Reports and dashboards built on Lumira Discovery or Crystal for Enterprise, anything querying .unv or multi-source universes, Excel workbooks using Live Office, Mobile users, and OLAP analysis in Analysis edition.
What should you do? decision tree
- you have not yet upgraded to BI 2025Inventory every Lumira Discovery document, Crystal for Enterprise report, .unv universe and Live Office or Mobile use, and hold the upgrade until a replacement is planned for each.
- your content depends on .unv universes or multi-source universesCheck what SAP recommends as the replacement for these, then scope the conversion or rebuild per universe and test the reports that sit on top.
- your reporting relies on Lumira Discovery or Crystal Reports for EnterprisePick replacement tools from SAP's recommendations or an outside BI product, and pilot the highest-traffic reports first.
- the rebuild cannot finish before your planned upgrade dateStay on your current release, check its support window with the support-runway planner, and schedule the upgrade after the migration.
Options
- WaitStay on your current BusinessObjects release until replacements are built; confirm its support end date first.
- OptimizeRetire unused reports and universes first so you only migrate what people actually open.
- Re-architectReplace .unv universes and multi-source universes with SAP's recommended alternatives, and rebuild the reports on top of them.
- MigrateMove Lumira and Crystal for Enterprise workloads to another BI platform if SAP's alternatives don't fit your stack.
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