Business Objects has created the Open Search Initiative (OSI), a partner network dedicated to providing customers with intelligence from both unstructured and structured sources. These partnerships include the leading enterprise search and text analytics vendors, as well as global and regional consulting companies to help implement BI and search solutions. Business Objects and the OSI partners are committed to joint product development, technology integration, and ensuring customer success.
"Organizations are constantly seeking to improve the quality and completeness of the information they use to make decisions, and by enabling our joint customers to search for business intelligence information from Business Objects, we are providing them with a powerful tool for accessing corporate information." Learn more
Dave Girouard
vice president and general manager
Google Enterprise
"IBM and Business Objects share a commitment to helping customers find the information they need to improve their business performance easily and quickly. The integration of Business Objects and IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition will remove barriers to accessing information and extend the value of business intelligence by enabling users to search across their enterprise content repositories and their BI ecosystem. Combining access to structured and unstructured data will enable deeper analysis and provide organizations with critical business insights." Learn more
Chet Kapoor
vice president development
IBM content management and discovery sciences
"BearingPoint is pleased to support Business Objects and the Open Search Initiative to deliver exciting new enterprise Information Access solutions for our customers. We believe that combining business intelligence, search, and analytics will provide valuable solutions for enterprise customers, and we are excited about the opportunity to work with Business Objects in this initiative." Learn more
Chris Weitz
managing director, search solutions practice
BearingPoint
"Business Objects is thrilled to have Oracle as a member of the Open Search Initiative. By combining Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g with BusinessObjects XI Release 2, organizations can derive insight from all their digital assets - BI reports and metrics, databases, repositories, documents, email, and more." Learn more
Jon Dorrington
vice president, global alliances
Business Objects
"FAST brings unique experience and capabilities to the Business Objects Open Search Initiative. Our innovations around data cleansing solutions as part of our Adaptive Information Warehouse initiative set FAST apart from other search technology providers. Enabling BI systems to analyze a wider range of data and information to provide context around metrics is a natural extension of those efforts. By leveraging the power of FAST ESP to drive relevant information into the hands of the right users and present that information in context, Business Objects customers will now have access to all the combined benefits of search technology and BI, which will allow them to boost productivity and improve the quality of decision making throughout the organization." Learn more
Bjørn Olstad
CTO
Fast Search
"Enterprises know their content holds the information people need to make better decisions— the problem is most of those people don’t have the tools to ask the right questions. With Business Objects and Endeca, customers realize tremendous latent value as this new information access technology helps them ask these questions in an unprecedented way." Learn more
Steve Papa
CEO
Endeca Technologies
"As the leader in text analytics, Inxight is delighted to be working with Business Objects, the leader in business intelligence, to unite the worlds of enterprise search, text analytics and business intelligence. This is great news for customers, who will now be able to derive actionable intelligence from all of their data - both structured and unstructured - optimizing market intelligence activities, improving customer satisfaction, and uncovering new revenue streams." Learn more
Ian Hersey
senior VP for corporate development and strategy
Inxight Software
"Attensity is pleased to join the Open Search Initiative and offer a truly unique Text Analytics solution for BusinessObjects XI. By combining capabilities that deliver 360-degree data search and analysis, Attensity and Business Objects will help customers identify their most challenging issues, produce the most accurate metrics and make the most informed business decisions using information previously hidden in text." Learn more
Craig Norris
CEO
Attensity
"Critical business information is increasingly hidden in various text sources. By combining ClearForest's Text Analytics capabilities with Business Objects' reporting, analyst will now have access to the situational context necessary to trigger informed organizational responses." Learn more
Barak Pridor
CEO
ClearForest
"We are pleased to partner with Business Objects in enabling customers to search structured and unstructured data. Customers are increasingly demanding methods to expand their analytic capabilities while leveraging their BI and Search investment. Bridging unstructured data analysis and BI allows business users to find the answers they need." Learn more
Justin Langseth
president and CTO
Clarabridge
