BusinessObjects Enterprise Features

Auditing
Auditing allows administrators to monitor, analyze, and optimize BusinessObjects Enterprise platform using a set of reports and a sample audit universe.

BI Content Search
Business Intelligence (BI) Content Search enables information search from within BusinessObjects InfoView portal. The indexed content includes existing reports, metrics, and universe-based metadata.

BI Widgets
BI Widgets delivers at-a-glance business intelligence to a desktop in the form of "widgets." Using a simple drag and drop interface, it allows users to organize, customize, and access BI content that matters to them right from their desktop.

Central Management Console
The Central Management Console (CMC) provides an intuitive and comprehensive interface to manage, control, and configure an entire BI deployment. With integrated support for security entitlement databases and granular, object-level security access control, the CMC gives administrators the tools they need to deploy virtually any BI project.

Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia delivers improved user insight by providing informative BI reference guides for your organization's information. Accessible from within your BI portal, Encyclopedia helps end users locate and interpret your corporate information for more confident and accurate decision making. (Only available with BusinessObjects Enterprise Premium)

InfoView
InfoView is BusinessObjects Enterprise BI portal for end users. It is used to collect and consolidate a company's BI information and present it in a secure, personalized view to users inside and outside an organization. Users can personalize how they view, manage, and distribute BI content. It is a standalone BI portal, and can easily integrate with popular enterprise information portals.

Java Portal Integration Kit
The Java Portal Integration Kit integrates content directly with Java-based portals and provides business users with a personalized, single, secure view of corporate information.

Publishing
Publishing makes possible the distribution of personalized BI content to a mass audience in an automated and efficient manner.

Process Tracker
Process Tracker helps organizations link BI content to their business processes for more consistent, proactive decision making. Organizations can visually map, track, and communicate a business process through a set of activities and their associated reports and analytics. (Only available with BusinessObjects Enterprise Premium)

Query as a Web Service
Query as a Web Service is a wizard-based application to quickly create queries and publish them as web services. It allows BI information to be securely delivered to any application that can consume web services.

SharePoint Portal Integration Kit
The SharePoint Portal Integration Kit integrates content directly with Microsoft SharePoint portals and provides business users with a personalized, single, secure view of corporate information.

Software Development Kits
Native Java EE and Microsoft .NET software development kits provide tight integration with Java and Microsoft-based platforms. Business Objects also offers a comprehensive set of web services that expose BI capabilities as platform-agnostic interfaces.

Universe Designer
Universe Designer is a graphical design tool used to create the rich "semantic layer" (metadata) that makes Business Objects products intuitive for non-technical users.