Business Objects Web Services provide a Java and .NET API accessed by rich clients in the user interaction tier, such as Live Office and Crystal Reports.
Web Services consists of software components that can be called remotely using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
BusinessObjects Enterprise Web Services includes functionality in the following areas:
Authentication and user privilege management.
Exposes advanced platform features such as scheduling, search, user and group administration, server administration, platform events, and calendars.
Displays SAP BO - Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports in HTML, PDF, Excel, and XML format.
Builds ad-hoc queries based on the Business Objects universe semantic layer.
Business Objects web services uses standards such as XML, SOAP, AXIS 2.0 and WSDL.