Friday, 16 May 2008

Business Objects Unveils Next-Gen Biz Intelligence

Business Objects, an SAP company and provider of business performance optimization solutions, Thursday announced the availability of BusinessObjects XI 3.0 in Singapore.

A single, enterprise-scale platform, BusinessObjects XI 3.0 aims to breaks the barriers of traditional business intelligence (BI), helping to ensure that all people connected with an organization can have access to the information they need to make them more, partners and suppliers more effective and customers happier and more loyal. BusinessObjects XI 3.0 allows organizations to harness this performance advantage.

“Traditional business data is no longer enough; customers need the whole picture to realize the promise of more powerful decision making,” said V. R. Srivatsan, Vice President, South Asia, Business Objects.

“Today we announce a business intelligence platform that is up to the task. Every person in an organization can now have trusted and immediate access to business information, just as easily as they do to the Internet. BusinessObjects XI 3.0 offers full-spectrum BI capabilities for everyone in the organization with the information they need, when they need it. The next generation of intelligence has arrived.”

Business intelligence has traditionally focused on the most easily obtainable data: process-centric ‘structured’ information – numbers and text stored in internal databases – analyzed by a select group of data analysts and shared among slices of isolated user communities. With BusinessObjects XI 3.0, all information will be accessible to people throughout the organization and their extended business network.

According to a recent survey of 154 global C-level executives conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and commissioned by Business Objects, less than one in 10 corporate executives believe they have the right information needed to make critical business decisions.

According to BusinessObjects, the new solution is the first and only BI platform with integrated text analysis, allowing the thoughts and opinions of customers and other people found in unstructured sources such as the Web, notes fields and emails to be easily incorporated into business intelligence and decision making.

BusinessObjects XI 3.0 is available in Singapore today. BusinessObjects XI 3.0 Mobile and BusinessObjects XI 3.0 Polestar are currently planned to be generally available later in 2008.