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What’s New:
BusinessObjects XI – Releases 1 and 2
My Questions. My Insight. One BI Standard.
BusinessObjects™ XI is the first and only business intelligence (BI) platform thatdelivers a complete set of market-leading BI capabilities: best-in-class performancemanagement, reporting, query and analysis, and data integration. BusinessObjects XIintroduces significant innovations that deliver BI in new ways to a much broader setof users as well as completing the integration of the Crystal and BusinessObjectsproduct lines.
BusinessObjectsXI Release 2
BusinessObjects XIRelease 2 builds onthe world’s leadingbusinessintelligenceplatform,BusinessObjects XI,to deliver new waysto access theinformation youneed to do your job,allowing you to beable to say “I cananswer
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BusinessObjects XI Release 2 builds on the proven and trusted BusinessObjects XIplatform. It provides substantial functional improvements and innovations across theBusinessObjects XI platform and includes full platform-level support for DesktopIntelligence™ (formerly BusinessObjects full client) to allow a smooth transition pathto BusinessObjects XI for all existing customers who have invested in thattechnology.BusinessObjects XI Release 2 takes innovation even further to allow non-traditionalBI users to easily access critical business information via Intelligent Question™.What’s new in BusinessObjects XI depends on where you’re coming from—BusinessObjects 5.x/6.x, Crystal v10 or both. For that reason, this document contains threesections:
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New for all users
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New for users of BusinessObjects 5.x/6.x
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New for users of Crystal v10
New for All Users
BusinessObjects Intelligent Question
Intelligent Question is a majorinnovation within BusinessObjectsXI Release 2. It allows non-traditional users of BI tools to easilyask structured questions of businessinformation: Who were my top tencustomers this year? What productsdid they buy?Users can dynamically askquestions through a simple,question-based interface that allowsthem to save favorites, then moveto a web-based query and analysisfront end (Web Intelligence™) for further analysis or export to Excel.
Empower more business users with the most intuitive BI interface ever.
BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence
BusinessObjects XI Release 2 includesDesktop Intelligence—the new namefor BusinessObjects full client. Byusing Desktop Intelligence, customerscan protect their existing investmentand benefit from the latest trustedand proven BusinessObjects XIplatform.
Desktop Intelligence documents benefit from full portalsupport such as Encyclopedia and Discussions.
Desktop Intelligence is available in allof the current BusinessObjects full-client deployment options including:
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Full “offline” mode (noconnection to a networkserver)
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Client/server mode
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Three-tier mode
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Workgroup modeNote that when deployed in three-tier mode, the ability for end users toautomatically download and install Desktop Intelligence is not supported inBusinessObjects XI Release 2.Desktop Intelligence has been enhanced to allow query and display of Unicode data.This provides organizations with the ability to further reduce the cost of ownershipof delivery BI to multi-lingual audiences.
BusinessObjects Enterprise
With BusinessObjects XI, the service-oriented platform allows Crystal Reports®, WebIntelligence, Desktop Intelligence, OLAP Intelligence™, Dashboard Manager, andPerformance Manager to plug directly into the framework. Customers who haveinvested in these products can leverage their current product investments, whilegaining access to the broadest set of BI tools on the market.New features include:
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Support for Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, OLAPIntelligence, Dashboard Manager, and Performance Manager; plus Auditing,Publishing, Live Office, and Crystal Reports Explorer
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Single repository, security, system management, publishing, portal, andportal integration environment
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Integrated scheduling based on user input, events, and calendars
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Full cross-platform support for all leading platforms, web servers,application servers to fit virtually any customer scenario
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Auditing of all system interactions
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Support for Encyclopedia, Process Tracker, and Discussions—all new partsof the platform
Publishing
BusinessObjects XI Enterprise Release 2 provides the capability to personalize anddeliver content to a list of subscribers. A publication maintains a list of subscribers, inthe form of principals, as well as profile targets, and each recipient’s profile values.When you schedule a publication, each recipient receives a personalized copy of theassociated report, based on the publication’s profile targets and the recipients’ profile
values. Users can subscribe to or unsubscribe to a publication, provided that theyhave the necessary credentials.
Process Tracker
Process Tracker is part of BusinessObjects Enterprise, designed to align businessintelligence with an organization’s business processes. It allows an organization tovisually map, track, and communicate standardized business processes through a setof activities and their associated business content for more consistent and proactivedecision making. Process Tracker helps users visually outline the steps required toconsistently follow a business process, such as Sarbanes-Oxley review or a vendorperformance analysis. With each step in a business process, users can link associatedBI content for easy access to the key information they need to make informeddecisions. Accountability can be assigned to responsible owners for each milestone ina business process. Plus project stakeholders can add comments to each stage fortimely collaboration.
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia is a key new innovationin BusinessObjects XI for creatingreference guides for BI content. Itprovides end users with a faster wayto locate and interpret their corporateinformation for confident, accuratedecision making. With Encyclopedia,end users can deliver handy BIreference guides right from their BIportal for instant access to theunderlying context. Visual mapsshow relationships between BIdocuments making it easy to locaterelevant information. Plus a searchpanel enables end users to locatespecific BI content using everyday business terms. An overview panel explains thepurpose of a document, what business questions it helps answer, and how it is bestused. In addition, a glossary of synonyms and definitions explains the key termsused for consistent interpretation.
Encyclopedia brings business context to information. Here,a list of business questions is provided to help the user understand how to use the document.
Discussions
Discussions provide threaded noteson a specific report, document, ordashboard Users can create andmaintain comments on documentsand to share that valuable insightacross the organization, providing agreater understanding of the contextof existing documents.
InfoView
BusinessObjects Enterprise XIincludes an all-new BI portal calledInfoView. With its single webinterface, InfoView can access and interact with any type of BI content includingreports, analytics, dashboards, scorecards, and strategy maps. InfoView provides aconsistent user interface for both Java and .Net platforms. InfoView replaces both theprevious BusinessObjects InfoView and the Crystal Enterprise™ ePortfolio product.
Threaded discussions provide greater business insight.
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