SAP Business Objects XI
SAP Business Objects (SAP BI BusinessObjects) provides a complete set of Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tools and applications which support reporting, data querying and data analysis, interactive data visualization, data management, planning, budgeting and forecasting.
SAP Business Objects solutions
SAP Business Objects Enterprise platform
SAP Business Objects Enterprise platform provides a shared infrastructure for managing the users' Business Intelligence content.
The Business Objects BI platform includes a web portal for accessing the Business Intelligence data (such as reports, analysis and cubes) and an administrative console to support such features as security, audit, data access methods, etc.
Query & Analysis
The Business Objects query and analysis tools provide an interactive information delivery and ad-hoc data analysis. Business users are able to build their own queries, design and generate reports and do an interactive data analysis without knowing the structure of a source data.
Reporting
Reporting is a process of making the data available for exploring, formatting the data and delivering it to a recipient. This group of tools include report design, data exploration, static and dynamic analysis and accessing the information through a centralized web portal.
Visualization
The interactive analysis products let users create dynamic and interactive Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations containing interactive data, dynamic charts and user friendly reports.
Enterprise Performance Management
The EPM tools and applications provided by SAP Business Objects let the business users create and analyze dashboards, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPI) and advanced models. The analysis engine provides an efficient and user-friendly OLAP reporting as well as helps prepare the prediction models, migration analysis and manage the corporate quality process.
Data Integration / Enterprise Information Management
The BusinessObjects EIM products provide physical and virtual data integration, a powerful ETL engine providing data quality and data warehouse metadata management mechanisms, which helps deliver accurate, current and reliable data.
Budgeting and Planning
Business Objects offers performance management solutions for strategic planning, forecasting, budgeting, sales and compensation planning and consolidations. The full suite of financial planning tools offer a unique integration of spreadsheets and industry-leading databases, complete with full-scale Web deployment. Business Objects provides strategic planning and what-if capabilities where managers can predict change and manage the future with confidence.