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SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio:
SAP BusinessObjects offers a broad portfolio of tools and applications designed to help you optimize business performance by connecting people, information, and businesses across business networks.

Solutions for Large Enterprises
· SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions – Leverage SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions that can empower your users to make effective, informed decisions based on solid data and analysis.
o SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – Take advantage of an intuitive path to quickly search and explore data for instant insight into your business.
· SAP BusinessObjects information management solutions – Take advantage of SAP BusinessObjects information management (IM) solutions that can help you deliver integrated, accurate, and timely data – both structured and unstructured – across your enterprise.
· SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management solutions – Capitalize on the value of your corporate data, enabling your organization to become more agile and competitive by providing organizational alignment, visibility, and greater confidence.
· SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance solutions – Promote corporate accountability by unifying corporate strategy, control initiatives, opportunity discovery, and loss mitigation across the extended enterprise.
Solutions for Small Businesses and Midsize Companies
· SAP BusinessObjects Edge solutions – Benefit from interactive, open business intelligence and performance management solutions for midsize companies.
· Crystal Reports – Leverage a complete report management solution for small companies.
· Xcelsius – Leverage dynamic and customizable data visualization software.

SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions:

SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions provide comprehensive business intelligence functionality that can empower your users to make effective, informed decisions based on solid data and analysis. All users, from the high-end analyst to the casual business user, have access to the information they need -with minimal dependence on IT resources and developers.
With these powerful solutions, users throughout your enterprise can access, format, analyze, navigate, and share information across the organization. SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions enable the following:
1. Advanced analytics: Designed for financial and business analysts, advanced analytic tools create real-world value from your information assets. Relying on sophisticated analytic engines that can access both numeric and text data, these tools interrogate complex historical data to look for trends, outliers, and patterns through a visual interface.
SAP BusinessObjects Voyager – Explore online analytical processing (OLAP) data using a tool designed specifically for financial and business analysts – one that delivers a full range of functions to analyze multi-dimensional data sets.
SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Workbench – Using predictive analysis, mine your information assets to turn insight into action.
SAP BusinessObjects Set Analysis – Define, track, and analyze segments, such as good customers, bad suppliers, and at-risk customers, and how they impact your business.

2. Dashboards and visualization:
SAP BusinessObjects can help you illuminate your business with holistic views of key metrics and information. Transform how you view your business by interacting with sophisticated visual representations of processes and performance. Perform what-if analysis with your dashboards to gain new insights – and make informed decisions.
Learn more about the following:
SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise – Leverage a point-and-click data visualization tool specifically designed to create interactive analytics and dashboards with secure, live connections to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise or SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI Series.
Xcelsius Engage – Create business dashboards and data presentations from spreadsheets and live data sources.
Xcelsius Present – Engage, inform, and persuade your audience and transform complex data into insightful and engaging presentations.
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Builder – Get instant insight into your business activities by viewing reports, gauges, charts and more in one consolidated dashboard view.
SAP BusinessObjects VizServer – Easily set up visual environments to explore relationships, trends, and timelines.
SAP BusinessObjects StarTree Software Development Kit (SDK) – Visualize and explore large hierarchies and relationships in your applications.
SAP BusinessObjects TableLens SDK – Visualize large amounts of data, spot trends, and make assumptive correlations.
SAP BusinessObjects TimeWall SDK – Visualize long time horizons, even while focusing on a specific time of interest

3. Information infrastructure : Meet all of your strategic business intelligence (BI) requirements on a single information infrastructure while ensuring delivery of the right information to the right users at the right time.
Learn more about the following:
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise – Make it easy for everyone to discover and share insight for optimal decision making. Built on a service-oriented architecture, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise supports the most extensive set of tools on a single platform and allows IT departments to extend BI to any application or process.

4. Ad hoc Query, reporting, and analysis : Let end users interact with business information and answer ad hoc questions themselves – without having to understand complex database languages and underlying structures. SAP BusinessObjects offers software that supports query generation and integrated analysis, as well as basic report authoring and information-sharing over intranets and extranets.
Learn more about the following:
SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence – View standard reports, analyze data, perform ad hoc queries to gather new data, and create your own reports.
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence – Benefit from self-service access to information and intuitive analysis in one integrated product, enabling better decision making.

5. Reporting : Today, most organizations face a similar challenge: The information you need exists – but it's stored in disparate, inaccessible sources, in a format that's not usable. Reporting serves as a foundation for a broader BI strategy, helping you provide the most requested information – reliably, securely, and in the required format.
Learn more about the following:
Crystal Reports – Connect to virtually any data source, design and format interactive reports, and share them internally and externally. Securely deliver and explore your reports via SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise, Crystal Reports Viewer, and Microsoft Office documents.

6. Search and exploration: Simplicity of exploration and speed of search define these user-friendly search and navigation tools. Locate information hidden in hundreds of internal and external sources to find the most relevant information needed to answer your critical business questions. Leverage and extend your organization's existing business intelligence, search, and content investments to increase productivity and insight with:
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – Combine the simplicity and speed of search with the trust and power of business intelligence. Plus, an accelerated version can empower you with the performance and scalability of in-memory analytics. SAP BusinessObjects Intelligent Search – Save time and find more with a single federated search, clustering, and alerts.