Small, medium and large companies.
Business Objects has pre-built mapping tables for the leading ERP and CRM systems.
Performance is enhanced by extracting only what has changed.
Business Objects will pull data from multiple sources, apply conflict resolution rules and build the data warehouse.
Business Objects can generate real times alerts based on changes in the source systems.
Business supports OLAP cubes from Microsoft, Hyperion, IBM, Oracle, and SAP.
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.
Business Objects has pre-built analytical applications that include customer analysis, supply chain and human resources.
Business Objects includes goal setting, metric management, dashboard.
Non technical users can make changes to reports over the web including adding new columns.
For example, when changing a data transformation rule, you can see all the objects and reports that could be impacted.
You can monitor the use of the system to see which parts of the system are being used.
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.