Business Objects Helps SAP Customers Optimize Performance Using Business Intelligence.COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Business Objects is the De-facto Standard for Accessing, Distributing, and Analyzing Information in SAP R/3, SAP BW, and Other Organizational Data Systems To optimize business performance and accelerate the return on SAP investments, companies around the world are selecting industry-leading business intelligence solutions from Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ) (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. ISIN Isin (ĭs`ĭn), capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 B.C.). The phase from c.2025–c.1763 B.C. code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. These companies use Business Objects solutions for enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. , query and analysis, performance management, and data integration in conjunction with SAP R/3 and SAP Business Information Warehouse SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) is the name of the Business Intelligence, analytical, reporting and Data Warehousing (DW) solution which is one of the major enterprise software applications produced by SAP AG. (SAP BW). SAP BW is a core product within SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI), and a component of the SAP NetWeaver(TM) platform. "With the largest number of business intelligence customers running SAP solutions and the only reporting tool embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. within SAP BW, Business Objects has established itself as the de-facto BI standard for SAP customers," said Bernard Liautaud Bernard Liautaud is chairman and chief strategy officer of Business Objects. Liautaud cofounded Business Objects in 1990 and was chief executive officer until September 2005. , chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Business Objects. "SAP customers want to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. on a single platform for their unique business intelligence needs, including accessing, distributing, and analyzing information in SAP R/3 and SAP BW. BusinessObjects(TM) XI, our industry-leading BI platform, delivers an easy to use, low-cost business intelligence solution that enables companies to provide all users with information from their SAP solutions and other corporate data sources through an integrated approach to information access, performance management, analysis, and reporting." Business Objects delivers the most complete BI suite for reporting and analytics across SAP R/3, SAP BW, and SAP NetWeaver. More than 1,400 SAP customers worldwide use Business Objects solutions with SAP to track, understand, and manage their business performance, including: Airbus Airbus, an EADS EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. EADS Expeditionary Air Defense System (USMC) EADS Extended Air Defense Systems EADS Environmental Assessment Data System EADS Echelons Above Division Study joint company with BAE Systems BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. , is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive product line on the market. Headquartered in Toulouse, France, Airbus has selected Crystal Reports(R) for use with its SAP deployment. "The Financial Reporting department of Airbus aims to use Crystal Reports from Business Objects on top of our SAP-BW corporate financial warehouse," said Olivier Cahuzac, head of business control corporate solutions at Airbus. "This solution will help us to quickly and easily produce monthly in-house formatted reports. In addition, managers will be able to access key company data faster and with more accuracy than before." British Standards British Standards are the national standards of the UK. The standards body which produces them is BSI British Standards, a division of BSI Group. It is incorporated under a Royal Charter and is formally designated as the National Standards Body (NSB) for the UK. Institution (BSI BSI - British Standards Institute ) BSI was founded in 1901 as a not-for-profit body dedicated to making UK businesses more efficient and competitive. Today, BSI is a world-leading national standards body which operates in 112 countries and has over 40,000 global customers. BSI implemented SAP to replace approximately fifteen legacy systems, but the organization still required a flexible reporting and analysis platform to allow users to easily access and analyze business information. BSI selected Crystal Reports and BusinessObjects Enterprise from Business Objects to create a standardized, web-based BI solution that enables its employees and customers to use information more effectively. "Having improved access to information has increased our productivity and our ability to generate revenue," said Stephen Cargill, group applications manager at the British Standards Institution. "Using the Business Objects solution, we can now produce reports in a couple of minutes that used to take programmers a couple of days to do. The flexibility of the SAP solutions from Business Objects has also enhanced BSI's analysis capabilities, as end users are now empowered to do their own complex selections and queries rather than having a developer write programs to perform the same functions. We have improved time-saving and costs by at least a factor of ten, and the amount of time we have saved alone has probably paid for the product several times over." Clariant International Clariant is a global leader in specialty chemicals A Specialty chemical is a chemical produced for a specialized use. They are produced in lower volume than bulk chemicals, of which petrochemicals, made from oil feedstocks, are the most common. However, both are produced in a chemical plant. , headquartered in Switzerland. Clariant, which uses SAP R/3 as its ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. solution and SAP BW for data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , required a way to get data to employees in a timely and consistent manner. In addition, Clariant wanted to combine their data from SAP with other data stored throughout the organization. Clariant has deployed BusinessObjects Enterprise to offer a company-wide reporting solution. By using Business Objects with SAP, users can query financial reports at the push of a button, saving time and cutting costs. "We needed a solution that would streamline access to our data and provide consistency from one report to the next, and BusinessObjects Enterprise provides that for us," said Thomas Daverio, MIS manager at Clariant International. "We have been very pleased using Business Objects with SAP. Administration is less time-consuming and we have significantly improved the performance of our reporting. Finally, data consistency Data consistency summarizes the validity, accuracy, usability and integrity of related data between applications and across the IT enterprise. This ensures that each user observes a consistent view of the data, including visible changes made by the user's own transactions and and security are ensured across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. ." Cutter & Buck Cutter & Buck (Nasdaq: CBUK), a leading designer of upscale sportswear and outerwear, has standardized on Business Objects as its business intelligence platform. When the company recently decided to implement SAP BW and R/3, it wanted an integrated solution for centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. reporting that would enable users to easily create reports and allow for customization based on specific needs. To do this, Cutter & Buck is implementing the BusinessObjects XI Integration Kit for SAP. This solution provides tight integration with SAP, including a set of data drivers, integrated security, report templates, and custom user interfaces that provide SAP customers with presentation-quality reports from SAP BW and SAP R/3 to users across the enterprise. "With the BusinessObjects XI Integration Kit for SAP, we get an out-of-the box solution for our reporting and analysis needs for the data stored in our SAP environment," said Kenneth Stringer string·er n. 1. One that strings: a stringer of beads. 2. Architecture a. A long heavy horizontal timber used as a support or connector. b. A stringboard. , CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. of Cutter & Buck. "Our initial deployment will use the solution to report on and analyze sales distribution data, and we expect to leverage this module on future SAP BW data sets. Using BusinessObjects XI provides us with better access to the data and helps us to optimize business performance." DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. Bank AG DVB Bank is an international advisory and finance organization specializing in providing funds to the transportation market including shipping, rail and aviation. As a financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. provider acting internationally, DVB Bank has to manage a diverse data structure as well as complex analytical problems. DVB Bank turned to Business Objects to build and configure a data warehouse that provided connectivity to SAP applications using BusinessObjects Data Integrator Business Objects's Data Integrator is a data integration and ETL tool that was previously known as Acta. The Data Integrator product consists primarily of a Data Integrator Job Server and the Data Integrator Designer. . DVB Bank then implemented a centralized analysis and reporting platform on top of the data warehouse using Business Objects BI software. With Business Objects, DVB Bank has optimized data management and corporate reporting, while streamlining and automating a variety of manual processes. "Using Business Objects BI software, we were able to establish a powerful and flexible system for extracting, consolidating, and evaluating business data and key figures," said Frank Hafner Francis R. Hafner (born August 14, 1867 in Hannibal, Missouri - died March 2, 1957 in Hannibal, Missouri) was a Major League Baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, Hafner started two games for the Kansas City Cowboys of the American Association in May of 1888. , data warehouse project manager at DVB Bank. "Business Objects enabled DVB Bank to implement corporate-wide reporting platform that allows for interactive analysis with drill-down functionality. The easy-to-use system enables employees to independently generate extensive reports and analyses, thus helping to free up the IT department and make business processes considerably more efficient." Ferrovie dello Stato The Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian: State Railways) or FS is the operator of the Italian railway network. A public concern, it is a railway company of Italian state and its capital is held by the Italian state. Ferrovie dello Stato, Italy's national rail transport operator, is made up of 30 companies and is the country's largest state-owned enterprise. Each of the companies in the group has a different information system based on their specific needs, which creates a problem when there is a need to analyze data across the entire enterprise. Ferrovie needed a solution that would consolidate information from a variety of sources, including SAP, and allow for real-time reporting and analysis. Ferrovie implemented BusinessObjects Enterprise and BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to gain a real-time view of data and gain a centralized information management solution that provides each of the group's companies with the freedom to analyze the data. "The Business Objects solutions have made a vast and complex amount of information transparent and accessible in real-time," said Riccardo Santoro, application architect at Ferrovie dello Stato Holding Company. "We are now able to coordinate our companies efficiently, while allowing each an appropriate level of freedom to make the technological choices that aid their strategic decision-making. The rapid improvement in the group's processes has accelerated return on investment and enabled Ferrovie to quickly derive benefits from the solution." Gefco Gefco, a global transport and logistics management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet company, decided in 2000 to overhaul its existing IT environment to improve the company's management tools. At the time, data was supplied by various systems including SAP and HR Access running under Oracle, text files, and specialized business packages. Gefco decided to implement a global data warehouse and standardized all its technologies around Business Objects, Oracle 9i, and Hummingbird/Genio. Today, hundreds of users receive real-time access to standard information, while more specialized users can issue their own data queries. In addition, for Gefco's network business, Business Objects provides dashboards for each agency on the quality and performance of the business. The Business Objects solution has optimized corporate performance through improved efficiency and responsiveness. "Our aim was to supply the entire organization with very detailed metrics and a range of perspectives to enable better management and customer service," said Oliver Joly, BI platform manager at Gefco. "We standardized our architecture based on Business Objects to give us a single application with different levels of analysis for various managerial profiles. With our infrastructure, two critical goals were met: confidential data is now absolutely secure, and we are able to move information fast to a very large user population." Italtel Italtel is a global leader in the integration of multi-service networks including voice, data, and video. The ability to effectively manage the company's expertise and skill sets is of strategic importance, and in the past few years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. department has undergone a re-organization to redefine processes and resource management support systems using SAP R/3 and Oracle data marts A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. . Business Objects serves as the front end of the solution, allowing each department manager to quickly access and verify information on their employees, such as compensation, vacation time, and career paths. In addition, Business Objects enables Italtel to gain a much broader view of the organization with management and reporting dashboards. "We chose Business Objects because we needed a solution that would effectively integrate information from all other our corporate systems, not just SAP," said Silvano Pozzi, CIO at Italtel. "Today we can rely on a multi-channel system enabling real-time assess to the information required across the entire company, which has improved the level of information provided to the HR department. With Business Objects, our users are now able to create their own reporting dashboards, thus gaining a better view of critical information and reducing the reliance on our IT department." NVIDIA NVIDIA, a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, uses BusinessObjects Enterprise to access and share corporate information managed within its SAP Business Information Warehouse. NVIDIA uses Business Objects for web-based reporting on SAP and non-SAP corporate data sources. Business Objects allows NVIDIA to streamline report creation and provides a single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. for access to the company's multiple data sources. "With BusinessObjects Enterprise, our employees can make better decisions across a range of critical data, including sales, financial, operating, and manufacturing information," commented Rajendra Gade, senior manager of IS application development at NVIDIA. "The tight integration between Business Objects and SAP enables rapid deployment of the solution and provides us with an enterprise-wide business intelligence platform to meet our reporting needs. Using Business Objects, we can get critical business information into the hands of our employees to help them make informed decisions that enable us to optimize our performance." PolyOne PolyOne, a leading global polymer compounding and North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. distribution company, has deployed SAP BW and R/3 to capture its critical business data. PolyOne realized it needed a way to engage the infrequent system user and turned to Business Objects to streamline access to information with a focus on ease of distribution throughout the company. Using BusinessObjects Enterprise and Crystal Reports, PolyOne is able to provide their infrequent SAP users with a consistent view of key performance data at regular intervals. "We wanted a business intelligence platform that complemented our existing SAP BW reporting capabilities," said Bill Peeler, project manager at PolyOne. "The tight integration between BusinessObjects Enterprise and Crystal Reports with SAP BW was a key differentiator for us in our selection of the solution. We are now able to empower our users to create their own reports and enable them to schedule distributions of those reports via the web and email. By making critical information more accessible, our sales and management teams are better positioned to manage the needs of our very diverse customer base." For more information regarding Business Objects solutions for SAP customers, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/SAP/. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete platform for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting. Business Objects has built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and also offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects. Business Objects has dual headquarters in 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., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com. Business Objects, the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, WebIntelligence, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis, RapidMarts, and BusinessQuery are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A. or its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. SAP, SAPPHIRE, SAP BW, SAP R/3, SAP NetWeaver and all other SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. in Germany and several other countries around the world. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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