BusinessObjects XI 3.0 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 3.0 delivers offline capabilities, personal data provider to work with excel, CSV files, data change tracking in reports and more.

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BI Platform for Your Environment

With BusinessObjects XI 3.0, 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:

• Ease of deployment
• Improved system management capabilities to simplify your BI deployment administration while retaining the granularity and flexibility required by complex or global deployments
• Integration-ready with different applications and systems to extend the reach of BI to all users
• Personalization and scalable publishing to share the right information with the right people and enhanced semantic-layer functionality to drive ease of use and deployment.

Key features include BI federation, publishing of Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, and multi-lingual semantic layer and more.

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Better Support for SAP Environments

BusinessObjects XI 3.0 delivers the strongest business intelligence solution for SAP customers, with new capabilities aimed at adding value to SAP BW while lowering the total cost of ownership and providing an SAP-familiar user experience, especially for end-user self-service in ad-hoc query, reporting, and analysis.

Key areas of enhancements include:

• Support for lifecycle management and customization of SAP BW universes
• Extended support for SAP BW metadata and prompting
• Improved SAP portal integration
• Mass distribution of personalized publishing of Crystal Reports
• Continued improvements to scalability and performance in a BW environment

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Easier Dashboard Creation with BusinessObjects Dashboard Builder and Xcelsius Enterprise 2008

Dashboard creation in BusinessObjects XI 3.0 has been streamlined with an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) user interface for improved interactivity and simplified workflow and editing layout. This new capability comes with the BusinessObjects Dashboard Builder product.

BusinessObjects XI 3.0 improves the design and user experience for Xcelsius users by embedding Excel into the Xcelsius Enterprise designer. Also included is a software development kit (SDK) to design and create new visual components or analytics for Xcelsius.

Integration with Adobe LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS) enables real-time dashboards. LCDS offers a push mechanism from real-time data systems. With LCDS integration, you can update Xcelsius models based on changes in events, such as reaching a sales goal for a new product launch.

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BI Widgets for Monitoring KPIs

BI Widgets, is a widget framework that delivers at-a-glance intelligence to everyone — from the CEO to the newest hire, right on their desktops.

BI Widgets makes key information simple to access and easy to monitor without having to change your existing BI infrastructure. BI Widgets extends insight from existing BI content to new audiences and increases user self-sufficiency, while leveraging Business Objects BI platform capabilities, such as the existing repository and security model.

Your end-users can search multiple BusinessObjects Enterprise repositories and then drag and drop Xcelsius files and Web Intelligence report parts as widgets onto their Microsoft Windows XP or Vista desktop environments. Additionally, users can receive RSS feeds and alerts to their desktop.

More Microsoft Support with Live Office

Live Office in BusinessObjects XI 3.0 extends the reach of Live Office within the Microsoft Office environment with search capabilities, Outlook integration, and Office 2007 ribbon support. You will be able to easily move Live Office objects between your Office documents via cut and paste. Customers will also benefit from universe-level security, query panel enhancements, and user-specified viewing locale.

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Even More Mobile

This second version of Mobile provides more flexibility and portability. With offline access, users can view their reports at anytime, anywhere they are.

Mobile also includes improved alerting capabilities so users get notified when a new report has been scheduled or modified. They can also define what types of alerts they want to receive right through their mobile device. These enhanced capabilities are designed to make BI on mobile devices even easier to use.

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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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