BusinessObjects XI Release 2

What’s new in BusinessObjects XI: New For all Users.

BusinessObjects Intelligent Question
This allows non-traditional users of BI tools to easily ask structured questions of business information. Users can dynamically ask questions through a simple, question-based interface that allows them to save favourites, then move to a web-based query and analysis front end (Web Intelligence™) for further analysis or export to Excel.

BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence
This is the new name for BusinessObjects full client. It allows customers to protect their existing investment and benefit from the latest trusted and proven BusinessObjects XI platform.

BusinessObjects Enterprise
Many new features have been added, including full auditing of system interactions and full cross-platform support

Publishing
This provides the capability to personalise and deliver content to a list of subscribers.

Process Tracker
This allows organisations to visually map, track, and communicate business processes through a set of activities and their associated business content for more consistent and proactive decision making.

Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia is a key new innovation for creating reference guides for BI content.

Discussions
Discussions provide threaded notes on a specific report, document, or dashboard Users.

InfoView
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI includes an all-new BI portal called InfoView. With its single web interface, InfoView can access and interact with any type of BI content including reports, analytics, dashboards, scorecards, and strategy maps.

Central Management Console (CMC)
Included with BusinessObjects Enterprise, the CMC is a fully .Net or Java web-based environment for managing, deploying, and configuring the entire infrastructure.

Data Integrator XI
The key enhancements are in three areas: Trusted information, Maximum productivity and Extreme ETL scalability.

BusinessObjects Composer
This is the only product in the market that helps organisations efficiently design bullet proof data integration processes.

BusinessObjects Metadata Manager
This actively collects and unifies BI, ETL, and third party metadata.

BusinessObjects OLAP Intelligence
Based on Crystal Analysis OLAP Intelligence is the new query and analysis client designed specifically to access OLAP severs.

Performance Management: Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Consolidations
Built by financial professionals for financial professionals, the Business Objects planning products offer unprecedented flexibility to support virtually any type of forward-looking planning needs for the organisation.