Business Objects
About Business Objects
We're the world's leading BI software company. Our software helps organizations gain better insight into their business,
improving decision-making and enterprise performance.
The Global Leader in BI Software
Business Objects is a global business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 43,000 customers - including over
80 percent of the Fortune 500 - and a network of more than 3,000 partners and resellers.
Transforming Business Intelligence
Our mission is to transform the way the world works. We are not just a business intelligence company. We are in the business
of helping companies become more intelligent.
Our Customers Succeed
Companies in every industry use our products and services to track, understand, and manage information. Our customers -
from small businesses to top international corporations - benefit from the industry's largest services and support team,
a powerful research and development organization, and the efforts of more than 5,000 employees worldwide.
Our Leadership is Recognized
Our leadership is recognized by experts around the globe. Gartner places Business Objects in the Leaders Quadrant for enterprise
BI suites, and IDC ranks Business Objects as the clear BI tools market share leader. And every year, we take home top industry
awards for our products.
History and Core Values
It all began Aug. 3, 1990 in Paris. Business Objects was founded on the vision of two young software entrepreneurs. Today,
we lead the BI industry and are one of the largest software companies in the world. And it's our employees that make Business
Objects successful. The elements of earth, fire, and water represent the six core values that foster our culture and encourage
our people to do great things.
BusinessObjects XI
BusinessObjects XI is the first and only business intelligence (BI) platform to deliver a complete set of market-leading,
end-to-end BI capabilities: best-in-class enterprise performance management (EPM), dashboards and visualization, reporting,
query and analysis, and enterprise information management (EIM). BusinessObjects XI introduces significant innovations that
deliver BI in new ways to a broad set of users.
Enterprise Performance Management
EPM applications and services help users align
with strategy by streamlining the planning
process, setting targets, and tracking key
business metrics via management dashboards,
scorecards, analytics, and alerting.
- Planning applications
- Profitability applications
- Analytic applications
- Scorecards
Dashboards and Visualization
Dashboard and visualization products help organizations track and analyze key business metrics via dashboards, and interact
with sophisticated visual representations of information. Dashboards enable proactive management via “what-if” analysis,
customer segmentation, forecasting, and analyzing business processes
- Dashboard Builder
- Analytic Engines
- Xcelsius Enterprise
- Crystal Xcelsius
Enterprise Reporting
Reporting allows organizations to access, format, and deliver data as meaningful information to large populations of information
consumers both inside and outside the organization.
- Crystal Reports (see also below)
- Crystal Reports Server
Query and Analysis
Query and analysis tools allow end users to interact with business information and answer ad hoc questions themselves without
advanced knowledge of the underlying data sources and structures. These tools support query generation and basic report
authoring, as well as integrated analysis.
- Web Intelligence
- Voyager
- Desktop Intelligence
Business Intelligence Platform
The BI platform provides a set of common services to simplify deployment and management of BI tools, reports, and analytics.
- BusinessObjects Enterprise
- Integration Kits
- Query as a Web Service
- BusinessObjects Mobile
Enterprise Information Management
EIM builds a trusted foundation for your business decisions by integrating data from many sources and improving its quality.
- Data Integration
- Data Quality
- Metadata Management
Crystal Reports
Access any data and transform it into highly formatted reports - then deliver the reports via the Web
- Crystal Reports Server
- crystalreports.com
- Crystal Reports Developer
- Crystal Reports Professional
- Crystal Reports Standard
On-Demand Business Intelligence
Deploy a BI solution over the Web - without having to buy servers or install software. Extend your insight to customers and business partners immediately, without an IT project.