BusinessObjects Enterprise

The Trusted Business Intelligence Platform

BusinessObjects Enterprise is a business intelligence (BI) platform that powers the management and secure deployment of specialized end-user tools for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, and analytic applications on a proven, scalable, and open services oriented architecture. It combines end-user insight with flexible system management to allow administrators to deploy and standardize their BI implementations with confidence.

Administrative tools to configure, manage, and extend your BI deployment.

BusinessObjects Enterprise integrates seamlessly with your existing IT infrastructure and investments so you can quickly respond to data access and analysis needs. It provides:

Scalable and Adaptive Services-Oriented Architecture

A BI platform is a vital component of an overall enterprise IT infrastructure. It provides the key support system for corporate information access and decision making. Customers depend on the platform to ensure they can track, understand, and manage their business. These demands necessitate a highly available and efficient architecture for processing, managing and delivering critical information and analysis to a broad base of users.

End-User Insight

Give end users information, integrated directly within a portal, extranet, desktop productivity tool, and performance management applications. Innovative tools like the BI Encyclopedia and Process Tracker allow end users to track, manage, and collaborate during the entire decision process within the intuitive, web-based interface. Live Office offers easy access to accurate data from within Microsoft Office and the ability to share decision-making data in familiar file formats.

BusinessObjects InfoView portal delivers end-user insight via an intuitive, end-user web interface with integrated threaded discussions.

Deploy and Manage with Confidence

Deploy quickly with guided installation, flexible deployment, and comprehensive importing and upgrade support.

The Central Management Console provides full control over the entire system.

Getting your system up and running quickly and efficiently means IT has more time to respond to the ever-changing end-user requirements. A web-based management console gives administrators configuration access from any web-browser. Support any type or size of deployment with end-to-end metadata and data access for all major database platforms, applications, and formats. Developers gain a powerful set of BI services, exposed through an extensive set of Java, .NET, and Web Services software development kits (SDKs). These tools permit the integration of BI into applications and portals.