Products in SAP BusinessObjects

Products

• Common services for deployment and management of BI tools
• Reporting
  • Query and analysis tools for self-service reporting, including DeskI (Full Client, which is being retired) and Web Intelligence (for ad-hoc reporting).
  • Enterprise Reporting (SAP Crystal Reports) access, format, and deliver information to large populations of users.
• Data Visualization (Dashboard Design/Xcelsius) supports creation of flash dashboards and dynamic charts and graphics with data from BO XI, databases, or Excel spreadsheets.
• Universe Designer: An administrator tool used to construct Universes or abstracted end-user views of the database; allows pre-defining table joins, object descriptions, and measure object behavior during aggregation. This tool is succeeded by "Information Design Tool" (IDT) in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
• Enterprise Information Management (EIM) integrates and improves data to create a trusted foundation for business decisions. Creates a basis for querying and analysis through ETL or EII.
• Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) helps users align with strategy by tracking and analyzing key business metrics and goals via management dashboards, scorecards, analytics, and alerting.
• InfoView web portal, which is succeeded by BI Launch pad in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
• BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (formerly OutlookSoft) a corporate performance management tool which runs within Microsoft Excel
  • On-demand BI software (Business Intelligence OnDemand), hosted on the web.