Business Objects and Search

Business Intelligence and Search

Finding the right information takes time and can inhibit your company's ability to make better decisions - especially when your employees only have access to limited data sources.

Business Objects is the only vendor to integrate trusted structured and unstructured data and content search throughout an end-to-end BI platform. Our search capabilities give users simple, fast, complete, and accurate insight across all internal and external data sources - structured such as databases and corporate applications, and unstructured, such as emails, documents, and web site content.

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Learn how Business Objects search capabilities and search partner integration can help your organization gain insight from all your structured and unstructured data.

Business Objects Search Capabilities:

BI Content Search

	BI content search improves user productivity via secure, relevant, searching of all BI content. Text search results can be refined by navigating context-relevant categories.
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Securely find existing BI content from within the BusinessObjects InfoView BI portal. Key word search allows you to quickly find the right Crystal reports, Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence documents, and Dashboard Manager metrics. New navigation capabilities categorize results, which helps your employees further refine their search and find the right information.

Many of these search functions can also be integrated into your existing enterprise search engines such as Google Search Appliance, Bearing Point Extension Platform, and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search. Learn more about our partner search integration.

Search on Data

	Search on data makes answering questions easy with fast pre-indexed searches that auto-generate reports.
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This simple way to answer questions brings the power of BI to any employee who knows how to use Google or other intuitive key word searches. For existing users, search on data is a fast way to start creating reports. Key word searches directly query data sources for immediate answers. No existing BI reports are required for this to work and results are dynamically returned in an auto-generated report.

Data Discovery

	Data discovery combines key-word search and guided exploration so that users can find information as easy as they search and browse Internet marketplaces.
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BusinessObjects Polestar brings together the simplicity and speed of search with the trust and analytical power of business intelligence to provide immediate answers to business questions. Business users employ familiar key-word searches to find information hidden in data sources then navigate and explore directly on data, no existing reports and metrics are necessary. Polestar is an integrated part of BusinessObjects XI, leveraging the BI platform's Universe metadata layer, security, trust, administration services - thereby reducing IT backlog and making it deployable in days.

Text Analysis with BI

With text analytics and BI, organizations can extract meaning from unstructured data, integrate it with structured data, and provide analysis and visualization for all users.

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BusinessObjects Text Analysis derives meaning from text, then integrates it with traditional structured data integration and BI deployments. Powerful text-processing extracts, categorizes, and summarizes text information in more than 30 languages so that organizations can have a more complete view of organizational performance and discover hidden relationships and events lying untapped in available customer, product, financial, and compliance related text sources.

Federated Search with BI

	Insight from hundreds of high-value information sources—all through a single interface.
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BusinessObjects Intelligent Search allows users to search external and internal resources such as the Web, subscription services, company content, search engines, and BI systems with one secure search box – allowing them to spend more time making decisions and less time looking for disparate files or snippets of information. Once this information has been acquired, Intelligent Search's extraction capabilities clusters and enables users to filter the results by the most relevant people, places, events, and concepts, making it easier to find relevant documents buried in search results, and turn that data into meaningful business information.

Search Partnerships

The Open Search Initiative (OSI) was created by Business Objects and includes partnerships with enterprise search, text analytics, and consulting companies that enable customers to access both structured and unstructured data. These partners include: Accenture, Attensity, BearingPoint, Clarabridge, ClearForest, Endeca, FAST, Google, IBM, Inxight, and Oracle.