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

Festo AG

Festo has to manage information on more than 28,000 catalog products and service offerings for its 300,000 customers. Using BI, managers can assess this data quickly to make well-founded decisions.

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Rockhill Insurance

Established from an underwriting management group in late 2005, Kansas City, Missouri-based Rockhill Insurance Company offers commercial enterprises five basic lines of insurance- primary general liability, primary property, hurricane and wind, umbrella and excess liability, and excess property.

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Presbyterian Healthcare Services

When Presbyterian Healthcare Services got the message from New Mexico's Health Services Department (HSD) that it would need to trim $40 million from its annual Medicaid budget, it was cause for concern. But the real challenge arrived a moment later: The cuts had to be identified immediately, within a period of two to three days. "While one team brainstormed ideas, the analysts were able to use BusinessObjects™ to quickly pull supporting evidence for each idea that was put forward," says Donio, director of enterprise decision support.

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Sennheiser

Sennheiser uses BusinessObjects Enterprise and Crystal Reports for a fast, flexible, and reliable reporting solution.

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DELA

DELA needed to ensure that processes run as efficiently as possible. It switched to a workstation environment, resulting in an open and attractive office environment that is pleasant for the employees to work in. DELA needed the flexibility of running its applications on each workstation, including BusinessObjects™ from Business Objects, an SAP company. DELA has used BusinessObjects since 1995 to produce reports.

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