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Business Objects Announces Next Version of Industry's Most Complete and Unified Business Intelligence Platform
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
New Version Provides Customers With a Comprehensive, Trusted View Across All Corporate Data
SAN JOSE, Calif. and PARIS, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Business
Objects, an SAP company (NYSE: SAP) and the world's leading provider of
solutions that optimize business performance, today announced
BusinessObjects(TM) XI 3.1, the industry's first unified business intelligence
(BI) platform delivering all information to all people on one platform.
BusinessObjects XI 3.1 gives customers even more flexibility and power to
access all information -- regardless of format, shape, size or location --
enabling everyone to make more confident decisions based on trusted, reliable
information. Consistently executing against its commitment to openness with a
BI platform that supports heterogeneous computing environments,
BusinessObjects XI 3.1 now offers integration with data sources from a variety
of vendors, including HP, Microsoft, Netezza and Oracle. BusinessObjects XI
3.1 also offers simplified access to transactional data, as well as increased
speed and scalability with new native support for 64-bit architecture.
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Many organizations today have heterogeneous IT environments, which include
various applications, databases or operating system and hardware platforms --
all generating data that companies need to access and turn into intelligence
that fuels their business. BusinessObjects XI 3.1 addresses this need by
providing integration with a wide variety of data sources, including Oracle
enterprise applications and databases -- such as the latest Oracle database
versions. With direct connectivity to information locked within their Oracle
systems, organizations can consolidate and transform Oracle data into reports
that can be shared for collaborative decision-making. Business Objects will
enable users to make the most of information stored in PeopleSoft Enterprise,
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Siebel applications.
"Our research into factors that lead to pervasive use of business
intelligence suggests that providing self-service access to all available,
relevant information, which can originate in different internal or external
systems, is key to BI diffusion," said Dan Vesset, program vice president,
IDC. "Organizations should include in their BI software evaluation processes
solutions that provide end user access through multiple query, reporting and
analysis tools, and at the same time support functionality for structured data
and unstructured content integration from multiple sources."
"Our customers assemble a range of solutions and platforms designed to
meet their unique business operational needs," said Allan Pym, vice president,
business development, APOS Systems Inc. "This new version of the Business
Objects platform enables customers to integrate and utilize those various IT
assets. We participated in beta tests for BusinessObjects XI 3.1 and believe
it provides our joint customers with great opportunities to better leverage
enterprise data and their diverse solutions, which will yield better business
decisions."
The Business Objects BI platform provides connectivity to all widely-used
IT systems. Customers can seamlessly leverage information contained in data
warehouses solutions from HP Neoview, Netezza and Teradata. The solution also
integrates with Microsoft platform components like Microsoft Windows Server
2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, as well as Microsoft Sharepoint Services
and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
"With the launch of BusinessObjects XI 3.0 earlier this year, we delivered
the industry's first intelligence platform," said Marge Breya, executive vice
president and general manager, Business Intelligence Platform, Business
Objects. "The enhancements in this new version show continued execution
against our roadmap and demonstrate that we are open to any application,
infrastructure or data source. Our customers can eliminate 'knowledge shadows'
in their organizations by giving more people broader access to the information
they need to get their jobs done. Furthermore, we are empowering our Oracle
customers with the industry's leading BI platform, enabling them to harness
data from their Oracle applications and sources and use it to optimize
business performance."
Simplified Access to Transaction Data for All People
BusinessObjects(TM) Voyager, software that enables easy exploration of
OLAP data, was launched last year as part of the Business Objects BI platform.
With BusinessObjects XI 3.1, Business Objects introduces new visualization
options that bring business users and analysts closer to the insight they need
to make more informed business decisions on rich and complex data. Voyager
aggregates transactional data from OLAP backends and presents it within
graphical interfaces, allowing users to more easily explore the data from
different perspectives. Using new box or scatter plots, business users can
analyze, slice, dice and visualize sales data by region, product, account
executive and time period. This multidimensional insight paints a more
holistic picture of their business, allowing users -- whether they are
financial analysts or district sales managers -- to make better decisions and
create smarter business strategies.
Improved Speed and Scalability
Anticipating customers' increasing use of 64-bit architecture for business
applications, the Business Objects BI platform now offers native support for
64-bit architecture, enabling customers to handle larger data sets and speed
up the delivery of accurate information to all users.
About Business Objects
Business Objects, an SAP company, transforms the way the world works by
connecting people, information and businesses. With open, heterogeneous
applications in the areas of governance, risk and compliance; enterprise
performance management; and business intelligence, Business Objects enables
organizations of all sizes worldwide to close the gap between business
strategy and execution. Together with a strong and diverse partner network,
Business Objects allows customers to optimize business performance across all
major industries including banking, retail, consumer-packaged goods and public
sector. Business Objects is committed to helping customers turn raw data into
actionable decisions, regardless of their underlying database, operating
system, applications or IT system.
For more information about Business Objects, visit:
http://www.businessobjects.com.
For more information about SAP, visit: http://www.sap.com.
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For customers interested in learning more about Business Objects
products:
Global Customer Center: +49 180 534-34-24
United States Only: 1 (800) 872-1SAP (1-800-872-1727)
For more information, press only:
Dorit Shackleton, Business Objects, +1 (604) 974-2444,
dorit.shackleton@sap.com, PDT
SAP Press Office, +49 (6227) 7-46315, CET; +1 (610) 661-3200, EDT;
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Jeff Shadid, Burson-Marsteller, +1 (214) 224-8419, jeff.shadid@bm.com,
CDT
SOURCE SAP AG
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