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BusinessObjects XI 3.1

BusinessObjects XI 3.1 The Intelligence Platform

All Information. All People. One Platform.

The BusinessObjects XI 3.1 platform breaks the barriers of traditional business intelligence (BI) to ensure that every person connected within an organization has trusted, immediate access to the business information they need to do their jobs—just as easily as they have access to e-mail or the Internet. It is the first and only BI platform to provide a full spectrum of BI capabilities—ranging from reporting, query and analysis, and dashboards and visualization, to intuitive discovery and advanced predictive analytics capabilities.

All Information. Bring together all the information required for confident decision-making.
All People. Get alignment across people, teams and your business ecosystem.
One Platform. Leverage a single, integrated platform for meeting BI and information management needs.

Built on top of our BI platform—BusinessObjects Enterprise—BusinessObjects XI 3.1 is the first platform of its kind to combine data integration and data quality in the same single offering. With everyone having access to the right information at the right time with an easy user interface, companies are able to optimize their performance in ways that once seemed impossible.

More specifically, the BusinessObjects XI 3.1 release delivers:

  • The best BI platform for heterogeneous environments, so organizations can provide a trusted, complete view of all information assets
  • A refined ease of use for analysts and business users, allowing greater self-sufficiency and faster, better-informed decisions
  • Real-world BI deployment flexibility, allowing IT to deliver and maintain BI applications to more users across your organization

Key Features

Interactive Reporting

Crystal Reports 2008 delivers advanced functionality to help reduce report proliferation and maintenance, increase report design power, and save time with high-productivity design features.

This new product release is packed with new features such interactive data sorting, parameter filtering, report reformatting without database refresh, embedding Xcelsius model, flash and flex technology, streamlined report designer.

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Web Intelligence Anywhere, Anytime

BusinessObjects Web Intelligence makes it even easier for users to answer any business question, no matter where they are. Use Web Intelligence to answer your questions when connected to your data sources, or when you are on the road and completely disconnected.

BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI 3.1 delivers offline capabilities, personal data provider to work with excel, CSV files, data change tracking in reports and more.

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Business Intelligence (BI) Platform for Your Environment

With BusinessObjects XI 3.1, customers will find many improvements to BusinessObjects Enterprise, our BI platform, including easier information sharing and support for all users inside and outside their organization.

For this release, BusinessObjects Enterprise offers several areas of improvements:

  • Improved Microsoft integration for all organizations relying on Microsoft technologies for their IT infrastructure
  • Integration-ready with different Oracle applications and systems—including Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel—to extend the reach of BI to all users
  • A new life-cycle management application to manage the promotions of BI content between environments. This application, appearing as one of the central management console tabs, simplifies BI content management throughout its typical life cycle (development, testing, and production).

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Data Services Eliminates Doubt

Data Services eliminates doubt by transforming questionable data into trusted information; thereby establishing a foundation of data integrity for your decisions. With it's single, enterprise environment, Data Services revolutionizes the way data integration and data quality functions are combined by optimizing the way data is accessed and managed.

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Customer Spotlight

Georgia Department of Transportation

BusinessObjects XI Release 2 helps GDOT track the performance of its many transportation projects, so it can manage initiatives like road and bridge development, and ensure deadlines are met.

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Amadeus

With its BusinessObjects Data Integrator solution, Amadeus managers have access to financial and controller information they never had before. They can perform efficient business analysis with relevant, reliable data to support better decisions, freeing the IT department from time-consuming data manipulation and obviating the need for expensive programmers to write code to access data.

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Deutsche Bahn

The Deutsche Bahn Group, one of the leading international transportation and logistics companies, is also one of Germany's largest employers, with over 220,000 people on staff. More than 64,000 employees alone work for its Transportation and Logistics division from over 1,110 locations worldwide.

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Sabre

Sabre has standardized on Business Objects for its over-2,000 employees ranging from analysts to executives.

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Aquent

Founded in 1986 by friends residing in a Harvard dorm, Aquent is today the world's largest marketing staffing firm. The company helps Fortune 500 marketing organizations find the people they need, on a contract and direct hire basis, and helps marketing professionals find the rewarding engagements they want.

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