Business Objects Delivers BusinessObjects Application Foundation 2.5.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2001 Leading Analytic Application Framework Provides Enhanced Dashboard Features and Real Time Alerts For Building Enterprise Applications Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence solutions today announced the availability of BusinessObjects(TM) Application Foundation 2.5, a new version of the company's analytic application framework for quickly and easily developing powerful, integrated, enterprise analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. . Application Foundation is also the framework for the applications in the Business Objects integrated suite of enterprise analytic applications, BusinessObjects Customer Intelligence and BusinessObjects Product & Service Intelligence. Application Foundation 2.5 builds upon the earlier version to provide a more powerful framework for building dashboards and real time analytics into their analytic applications. This gives business users quick access to and easy visualization of their most critical business metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. , enabling them to make business decisions more quickly. Application Foundation 2.5 provides extended functionality that enables companies to build flexible dashboards giving users a top-level view of key metrics and the ability to drill down from any metric to the operational details. This provides a vast improvement over traditional executive information system (EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. ) style dashboards that had little flexibility or connection with a company's operational system and were restricted to executive users. Application Foundation includes powerful set based and time series analysis capabilities that enable business users to understand and predict trends, making complex analysis easy and accessible to users throughout the organization. With Application Foundation 2.5, customers can build dashboards that recognize critical changes in the underlying data and alert users to these changes. Customers can use Application Foundation to integrate real time notification into their applications, enabling the application to be aware of changes in multiple transactional systems as they happen. This enables customers to "hard wire" their application into their transactional system for instant reaction to changes, without the change having to be noted in the data warehouse first. For example, a sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → could choose to be alerted when any new order with more than $250,000 in revenue is entered into the sales order The sales order, sometimes abbreviated as SO, is an order received by a business from a customer. A sales order may be for products and/or services. Given the wide variety of businesses, this means that the orders can be fulfilled in several ways. database. Using real time analytic capabilities, all new transactions can be monitored for orders that meet this pre-set condition. When an order worth more than $250K comes in, it triggers a business rule that sends an email alert, including the customer name and dollar amount, to the sales manager's dashboard, personal digital assistant (PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). ), or phone. At the same time, the sales order report is refreshed re·fresh v. re·freshed, re·fresh·ing, re·fresh·es v.tr. 1. To revive with or as if with rest, food, or drink; give new vigor or spirit to. 2. to reflect in real time the new order. As the sales manager would logically want to know the impact of this new order on overall sales, she could use her PC or mobile device to view and analyze the report. This real time analysis can go a step further and trigger actions in marketing and shipping. For example, as the customer has placed such a large order, it has now changed from "regular" to "platinum" status. This causes the business rules engine to trigger a refresh (1) To continuously charge a device that cannot hold its content. CRTs must be refreshed, because the phosphors hold their glow for only a few milliseconds. Dynamic RAM chips require refreshing to maintain their charged bit patterns. See vertical scan frequency and redraw. of the "platinum" customer status. At the same time, another business rule sends an alert to the shipping system to flag the order for free priority shipping, and another feeds the record to the marketing campaign management system for an outbound welcome campaign. "Now more than ever, organizations are under increasing pressure to be event driven, to be aware of and react to changing business conditions as quickly as possible," said Charles Nicholls, group vice president of the Business Objects analytic applications division. "These events often come from many different sources and require responses to be executed through multiple systems. With Application Foundation, Business Objects is combining real-time analytics with an enterprise-wide view of the business, delivering real time alerts, analytics, and actions in response to changes in various operational systems across the enterprise." The Application Foundation 2.5 architecture has been enhanced to include JavaServer Pages See JSP. (programming, World-Wide Web) JavaServer Pages - (JSP) A freely available specification for extending the Java Servlet API to generate dynamic web pages on a web server. The JSP specification was written by industry leaders as part of the Java development program. (JSP (JavaServer Page) An extension to the Java servlet technology from Sun that allows HTML to be combined with Java on the same page. The Java provides the processing, and the HTML provides the layout on the Web page. ) and integrates with J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. servers, providing an open framework for building applications. With Application Foundation 2.5, application developers now can effortlessly ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. integrate Business Objects analytic functionality into existing
corporate applications and portals, making it easier to build custom
applications in days rather than months.
Application Foundation 2.5 now includes a unique web-based interface for developing sets, customized groupings of specific items such as "good customers" or "most profitable products." This major enhancement to Application Foundation streamlines the analysis workflow by enabling application builders and power users to create sets and deploy metrics and analytics against them, all from a single, unified web interface. About BusinessObjects Application Foundation BusinessObjects Application Foundation is the cornerstone of the Business Objects analytic applications strategy. Customers can use Application Foundation to develop their own custom analytic applications and to customize analytic applications modules from Business Objects. Using Application Foundation, customers can pursue a "build and buy" analytic applications strategy, buying certain applications off the shelf, building others, and having them work all together. Pre-packaged analytic applications offer the advantages of faster time to deployment, faster return on investment, and packaged best-practice analytics. Custom analytic applications offer the ability to provide sustainable competitive advantage and to solve business problems highly specific to a particular company or industry. BusinessObjects Application Foundation includes an easy-to-use application development tool for building web-based analytic applications; three powerful engines for performing set based and time series analysis and for specifying and executing advanced business rules; and a collection of more than 70 pre-built analytic templates that provide reusable analysis techniques to be used as building blocks for creating analytic applications. Platforms and Availability BusinessObjects Application Foundation 2.5 is generally available on Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and Sun Solaris. Business Objects is working with leading data integration companies, including Acta, Ascential, and TIBCO Software Tibco Software Inc. is a software company, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Tibco sells business process management and business integration software. History Vivek Ranadive founded the company as Teknekron Software Systems (TSS) in 1985. , to provide the real time integration capabilities in Application Foundation. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business intelligence lets organizations access, analyze, and share information internally with employees and externally with customers, suppliers, and partners. Business intelligence helps organizations improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings. The company's products include BusinessObjects 2000, the industry's leading integrated business intelligence toolset and platform, and BusinessObjects Analytics, an integrated suite of enterprise analytic applications. Business Objects pioneered the modern BI industry in 1990 by inventing a patented "semantic layer Semantic Layer The semantic layer is a business representation of corporate data that helps end users access data autonomously using common business terms. Developed and patented by Business Objects, it maps complex data into familiar business terms such as product, " that insulates users from the complexity of databases. In 1995, the company was first to focus on enterprise-scale BI deployments and today supports customers with more than 20,000 users. The company moved aggressively to the Internet in 1997 by pioneering the market for BI extranets, a market that it continues to lead today. In 2000, the company delivered the industry's first interactive wireless BI solution. Today, Business Objects continues to innovate, creating and delivering a unique vision for enterprise analytic applications. Business Objects has more than 14,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris Euronext Paris is France's securities market, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, which merged with the Amsterdam and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV, which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange. : code Euroclear France 12074, and included in the SBF SBF Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (Franciscan School of Biblical Investigations; Jerusalem, Israel) SBF Small Block Ford (automotive engine) SBF Single Black Female SBF Société des Bourses Francaises 120 and IT CAC See Consumer Advisory Council. 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408/953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com. Note to Editors: BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects S.A. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. A full-text copy of this announcement may be downloaded from the web; access http://www.businesswire.com/cnn and search on "Business Objects." Business Objects product inquiries should contact 800/527-0580. |
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