My Questions. My insight. One BI Standard.

BusinessObjects XI is the first and only business intelligence (BI) platform that delivers a complete set of market-leading BI capabilities: best-in-class performance management, reporting, query and analysis, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI introduces significant innovations that deliver BI in new ways to a much broader set of users as well as completing the integration between the Crystal and BusinessObjects product lines.

BusinessObjects XI Release 2 builds on the proven and trusted BusinessObjects XI platform. It provides substantial functional improvements and innovations across the BusinessObjects XI platform and includes full platform support for Desktop Intelligence (formerly BusinessObjects full client) to allow a smooth transition path to all Version 5 and 6 customers who have invested in that technology.

Business Objects Intelligent Question Intelligent Question is a major innovation with BusinessObjects XI Release 2. It allows non traditional users of BI tools to easily asked structured questions of business information: Who were my top ten customers this year? What products did they buy? << Click for Larger View

New for Users of BusinessObjects 5.x/6.x

BusinessObjects Enterprise
BusinessObjects Enterprise is our single BI platform based extensively on the proven Crystal Enterprise v10. It is based on modern web standards with an industry- based communication network that ties all the components and services together. It has been recognized as a highly scalable, reliable, and powerful platform in tens of thousands of customer deployments since its inception.

Scheduling
Scheduling in BusinessObjects XI is flexible, scalable and fault tolerant. There are m any options available for scheduling based on a specified time, a recurring schedule or even a predefined business calendar. Output types include Excel, PDF Word and Crystal Reports.

The Semantic Layer
BusinessObjects XI Release 2 brings a number of improvements to the Business Objects universes including the ability to build universes based on data stored in OLAP servers such as SAP BW, Essbase and Microsoft Analysis Services; support for Unicode which allows different languages in the same Universe; ability to create cascading prompts and improved security management.

Business Objects Live Office
Live Office helps business users easily embed accurate, updatable data in Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. These resulting documents can then be securely shared with others using the BusinessObjects Enterprise platform and hosted in corporate portals for collaborative performance management.

Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports is the world standard for enterprise reporting,; it is a reporting solution that helps rapidly create flexible, feature-rich, high-fidelity reports and tightly integrate them into web and windows applications.

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