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The Business Objects solution offers a selection of tools - allowing the right tool to be used on the right job.
Business Objects Enterprise
Business Objects Enterprise XI is the most flexible and scalable business intelligence (BI) platform that makes it easy for everyone to discover and share insight for optimal decision-making. Built on a service-oriented architecture, it offers the most extensive set of tools on a single platform and allows IT departments the ability to extend BI to any application or process. The BI platform that empowers everyone-inside and outside your organisation-to gain the uncontestable insight essential to act with confidence. Facilitate integration with existing IT infrastructure by accessing virtually any data source and aggregating all BI under a single umbrella—the semantic layer.
Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. It enables end users to consume reports with stunning visualisations, conduct on-report business modelling, and execute decisions instantly from the report itself—reducing dependency on IT and developers.
Ad Hoc Query Tools
With Web Intelligence, both self-service access to data and intuitive information analysis are available in one product, helping your users turn business insights into effective decisions. With a few mouse clicks, users create a query from scratch, format the retrieved information, and easily analyze it to understand underlying trends and root causes.
Dashboards
Dashboard Builder provides visibility across an organisation to drive better decision making. The drag and drop framework allows business intelligence content to be displayed through a unified dashboard view. Dashboards deliver the power to understand key business drivers by providing the means to drill from high level information to detailed review of root cause analysis.
Xcelsius
Is the first and only dynamic and customizable data visualisation software that enables users of different skill levels to create insightful and engaging dashboards from any data source with point-and-click ease. Xcelsius 2008 offers a comprehensive set of new features and integrations with Crystal Reports 2008, Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.0, and other market-leading products—making it easier than ever to put the power of relevant intelligent information into the hands of business users.
OLAP Interactive Analysis
With Business Objects Voyager, your business analysts can explore OLAP data using a tool designed specifically for them—one that delivers a full range of functions for the analysis of multi-dimensional data sets. Users are able to quickly answer business questions and then share their analysis and workspace with others, spreading knowledge beyond the confines of a single department or analysis group.
Extract Transform and Load (ETL)
Data Integrator allows organisations to easily explore, extract, transform, and deliver data anywhere, at any frequency. Ensure the integrity of your data, maximize developer productivity, and accelerate data integration performance for all operational and analytic initiatives.
Data Quality
Data Quality allows organisations to easily centralize the discovery, correction, and prevention of data quality issues across the enterprise through a single interface. Ensure the integrity of your data, maximize developer productivity, and ensure complete data for all operational and analytic initiatives. With trusted, timely and accurate information, your information users will have a solid foundation for decision making.
Metadata Management
Business Objects Metadata Management overcomes the difficulties of managing metadata from various data sources, technologies, and systems. Business Objects Metadata Management involves consolidating and integrating metadata into an open, relational repository. Our solution brings it all together to reduce workload, lower project costs, and provide users with trusted data and analysis
Rapid Marts
Rapid Marts provide packaged data integration and extract, transform, and load tools for enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and Siebel. Rapid Marts combine domain knowledge and data integration best practices in pre-built data models, transformation logic, and data extraction. Rapid Marts are an add-on to Business Objects Data Integrator. Rapid Marts are packaged, powerful, and flexible data integration solutions that help you:
- Accelerate the deployment of analytic and business intelligence solutions
- Deliver best-practice data warehousing solutions
Edge Packaged Business Intelligence for Medium (and Small) Business
Business Objects Edge Standard, Professional and Premium Editions offer a fast and flexible way for midsize companies to get started with business intelligence. It includes all the essentials an organisation needs to give decision-makers greater insight into its business—from ad hoc reporting, query, analysis and dashboards, to "live" data access in Microsoft Office, and to secure report viewing and scheduling through to ETL and Data Quality functionality to ensure trusted, strategic decision-making at all levels of your company. Easy to deploy, flexible, and affordable, Edge series makes it simple for midsize companies to get immediate insight into their business data for fast, well-informed decisions. Now there is a BI solution for you—fast growing companies. Features:
- Reporting, query, and analysis
- Live data access in Microsoft Office applications
- Personal dashboard viewing
- Security, scheduling, and management (including your existing Crystal Reports)
| Feature | Business Objects Edge Standard | Business Objects Edge Professional | Business Objects Edge Premium |
| Core business intelligence (BI) Functionality | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Data Integration | ☑ | ☑ | |
| Ad hoc Reporting | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Analysis | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Dashboards | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Office Integration | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Security | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Scheduling | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Auditing | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Goal Management | ☑ | ||
| Metric Management | ☑ | ||
| Score Cards | ☑ |
Further information on Business Objects and the product set is available at www.businessobjects.com