BusinessObjects Enterprise is the first and only business intelligence (BI) platform to deliver a complete set of market-leading, end-to-end BI capabilities: best-in-class enterprise performance management (EPM), dashboards and visualization, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management (EIM). BusinessObjects XI introduces significant innovations that deliver BI in new ways to a broad set of users.
Business Intelligence (BI)
The process, technologies, and tools needed to turn data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into plans that drive profitable business action. Business intelligence encompasses data warehousing, business analytic tools, and content/knowledge management.
- The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI)
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BusinessObjects XI is the first and only business intelligence (BI) platform to deliver a complete set of market-leading, end-to-end BI capabilities: best-in-class enterprise performance management (EPM), dashboards and visualization, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management (EIM). BusinessObjects XI introduces significant innovations that deliver BI in new ways to a broad set of users.
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Enterprise Performance Management
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EPM applications and services help users align with strategy by streamlining the planning process, setting targets, and tracking key business metrics via management dashboards, scorecards, analytics, and alerting. |
Dashboards and Visualization
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Dashboard and visualization products help organizations track and analyze key business metrics via dashboards, and interact with sophisticated visual representations of information. Dashboards enable proactive management via “what-if” analysis, customer segmentation, forecasting, and analyzing business processes. |
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Enterprise Reporting
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Reporting allows organizations to access, format, and deliver data as meaningful information to large populations of information consumers both inside and outside the organization. |
Query and Analysis
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Query and analysis tools allow end users to interact with business information and answer ad hoc questions themselves without advanced knowledge of the underlying data sources and structures. These tools support query generation and basic report authoring, as well as integrated analysis. |
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Business Intelligence Platform
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The BI platform provides a set of common services to simplify deployment and management of BI tools, reports, and analytics. |
Enterprise Information Management
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EIM builds a trusted foundation for your business decisions by integrating data from many sources and improving its quality. |
Crystal Reports
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Access any data and transform it into highly formatted reports - then deliver the reports via the Web.
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On-Demand Business Intelligence
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Deploy a BI solution over the Web - without having to buy servers or install software. Extend your insight to customers and business partners immediately, without an IT project. |
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Defining Business Intelligence
The process, technologies, and tools needed to turn data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into plans that drive profitable business action. Business intelligence encompasses data warehousing, business analytic tools, and content/knowledge management.
- The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI)
BI combines products, technology, and methods to organize key information that management needs to improve profit and performance. More broadly, we think of BI as business information and business analyses within the context of key business processes that lead to decisions and actions and that result in improved business performance.
- Steve Williams, Nancy Williams, The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
BI describes a set of concepts and methods to improve business decision making by using fact-based support systems. BI is sometimes used interchangeably with briefing books, report and query tools and executive information systems. Business Intelligence systems are data-driven DSS.
- D. J. Power, A Brief History of Decision Support Systems
Business intelligence is the use of an organization's disparate data to provide meaningful information and analysis to employees, customers, suppliers, and partners for more effective decision making.
The core capabilities of business intelligence group information together, measure it, give end users access to it, and share information changes. These capabilities can be further broken down into three main components: enterprise performance management (EPM), information discovery and delivery (IDD), and enterprise information management (EIM).
- Business Objects
Business intelligence (BI) delivers on a simple promise: improved business performance by delivering better decision making throughout your entire organization. When you know that your insight into corporate data is sound, informed, and complete, you can trust every decision you make. With that level of confidence securely in hand, you can improve business performance, create competitive advantage, and achieve corporate objectives.
. . . BI is delivered through three layers or workloads: data warehousing, reporting and analysis, and performance management.
- Microsoft
