Answer Critical Questions, Share Business Insight, Leverage Your Microsoft Investment

Solution Overview
BusinessObjects XI Release 2 is the latest version of BusinessObjects XI, an advanced business intelligence platform. The new release brings unprecedented simplicity to end users, delivers trusted information, and makes it easier for customers to standardize on a single business intelligence (BI) platform. It also includes BusinessObjects Intelligent QuestionTM, the industry’s first solution that enables anyone to intuitively ask business questions and receive correct answers, without the need to build a query or know the underlying systems or data.

 Customer Success

“The integration of BusinessObjects with our existing Microsoft platform led to customers referring our products because now we’re easier to do business with than the other guy. That’s a very important part of what we do. On the supply chain side, we’ve been able to reduce our costs by millions of dollars.”
Mike Brannon, Senior Manager, Internet Technology, National Gypsum

Business Advantages

• Utilize and extend your current Microsoft investment. BusinessObjects integrates with Office, SharePoint Portal Server, Analysis Services, and .NET, solutions that your company has already invested in. You can now take that investment and extend it to include Business Intelligence.

• Manage your business. Business Objects provides you with the tools to manage your business more effectively and efficiently, allowing end users a single entry point to all of their live, secure, and connected information in Office or in their business intelligence reports, within the SharePoint Portal Server environment.

• Achieve BI standardization. Business Objects offers you a single platform to address your BI needs. This reduces duplication in your back-end infrastructure, and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) by consolidating the number of BI tools and technologies. Including OLAP reports from Analysis Services and Crystal Reports from SQL Server, Business Objects and Microsoft provide a full-suite solution.

• Rely on a trusted platform. From years of proven integration, Business Objects and Microsoft offer performance, scalability, security, and reliability to end users responsible for making quick and accurate decisions for their business.

BusinessObjects XI Release 2 provides a services-oriented architecture for information management.