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Targeted to small, medium and large
companies.
Cost.
Starts at about $25k for licensing.
Install Base. 18k customers worldwide.
Data
Integration. Business Objects has pre-built mapping tables for the
leading ERP and CRM systems.
Incremental extraction. Performance is enhanced by extracting only
what has changed.
Data
Warehouse. Business Objects will pull data from multiple sources,
apply conflict resolution rules and build the data warehouse.
Real
Time Alerts. Business Objects can generate
real times alerts based on changes in the source systems.
OLAP
independence. Business supports OLAP cubes from Microsoft,
Hyperion, IBM, Oracle, and SAP.
SDK
Kit. SDK allows customers or 3rd parties to build applications based
on Business Objects code. 40% of Business Objects revenue is attributed to
3rd party developers.
Analytic Applications. Business Objects has pre-built analytical
applications that include customer analysis, supply chain and human
resources.
Performance Management. Business Objects includes goal setting, metric
management, dashboard...
On
Report Analysis. Non technical users can make changes to reports over
the web including adding new columns.
Impact
Analysis. For example, when changing a data transformation rule, you
can see all the objects and reports that could be impacted.
System
Monitoring. You can monitor the use of the system to see which parts
of the system are being used.
Crystal. Business Objects has announced its plans to
acquire Crystal Decisions, which is expected to close
in 4Q03. The combined organization will be the revenue leader of
the business intelligence market, with $736 million in revenue for the
twelve months ended March 31, 2003. Crystal also opens
new channels of opportunity for Business Objects. Crystal is the leading
reporting tool and is bundled with many systems.
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