I have found some differences b/w BO and XI and only the last is specific to XIR2 Difference between BO and XI:

★ BO uses classic BO Architecture and XI uses crystal classic Architecture

★ BO uses 57 tables for BO repo and 8 tables for auditor where as XI uses 8 tables for CMS and 6 tables for auditor

★ BO has different security domains where as XI doesn?t has no different security domains

★ BO, all objects are stored in repository where as in XI Objects are physically stored in Input FRS and instances in output FRS

★ In BO after installing we have configure, create BO mainkey where as in XI it is install and start working

★ In BO classic key is an xml file and it has to be placed in relevant location where as in XI a key code is there

★ In BO if you want to save a report to repository you have to publish that report where as in XI if you click save as and select Enterprise

★ In BO if you want to save a report to repository you have to publish that report where as in XI if you click save as and select Enterprise

★ IN BO, BCA and supervision are entirely separate but in XI there are merged into CMC

★ IN XI there is no separate auditor is there but there is an auditor database where we can create tables based on that

★ BO has it?s own reporting toos where as XI uses crystal reports as it?s reporting tool

★ BO is user centric ? means rights are assigned to user where as XI is object centric ? means rights are assigned on objects level not user level

★ BO ? all reports are stored in categories, in XI infoview there is folder and categories but all main storage is in folders

★ In XI R1 there was no concept of full client but that concept is introduced in XI R2