Orange County Department of Education Standardizes on BusinessObjects XI; Crystal Reports XI Improves Operational Performance for District Payroll Departments and Timekeepers.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 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, today announced that the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE OCDE Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques OCDE Organización Para La Cooperación Y El Desarrollo Económico OCDE Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Económico (Portugal) ) has chosen BusinessObjects(TM) XI as its business intelligence standard. OCDE is a public education organization with over 2,900 full and part-time employees that services 42 independent K-12 school districts, community college districts, Regional Occupational Programs, and charter schools. OCDE needed an efficient way to access and analyze all time attendance and payroll information. BusinessObjects XI, the industry's leading BI platform, provides OCDE with a secure, user-friendly, and scalable business intelligence solution. OCDE and District staff will use BusinessObjects XI to increase insight into their payroll departments Noun 1. payroll department - the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee payroll department, section - a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the , and improve operational efficiency. OCDE partners with Orange County school districts to provide over 500,000 students a world-class education. OCDE employees offer students and teachers diverse programs and services aimed at improving educational standards and performance. In order to better manage time attendance and payroll for its large staff located across Orange County, OCDE needed broad access to this data. Now with Crystal Reports(R) XI, OCDE and District staff can analyze employees' attendance records, distribute reports over the web to business unit managers, and measure them against payroll to ensure accuracy. For example, timekeepers can run reports that track employees' utilization of all types of leave. These reports are sent to managers to ensure that leave is recorded accurately in payroll. Since payroll deals with sensitive data, it was important for OCDE to ensure a range of security levels based on employees' job function and school district. With BusinessObjects XI, OCDE can safeguard data and make sure that staff only retrieve information that is relevant to them. OCDE is in the process of expanding the Business Objects deployment to support its financial and 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. applications. Using Crystal Reports XI has substantially improved OCDE developer productivity. Previously developers wrote reporting applications in COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. and creating reports took days or even weeks. Now Crystal Reports XI allows developers to write, test, and deploy reports within hours. "We wanted to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. on one business intelligence tool and Business Objects met our requirements," said Louis Mazzarini, Director of Information Technology at OCDE. "State and local education agencies are facing decreased funding and need to keep a laser-sharp focus on improving operational performance," said Jay Johnson Jay Johnson can refer to:
About Orange County Department of Education The Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) is a public education organization based on fundamental human values Human Values is the universal concept that preserves and enhances Homo Sapiens as a species, this applies to every human being on the present universe, anything against this values brings the consequence of a Self Species Extermination Event (SSEE) like hate, racism or war. of honesty, commitment, responsibility, respect, integrity, and professional ethics professional ethics, n the rules governing the conduct, transactions, and relationships within a profession and among its publics. professional ethics liability, n 1. . OCDE's priority is service to students, districts and the community who look to OCDE for support and educational leadership. OCDE partners with Orange County school districts to provide over 500,000 students with a world-class education that emphasizes standard-based skills in safe learning environments. OCDE serves as a connecting agency among Orange County school districts, community college districts, local, state and federal governmental agencies, and community organizations. The Orange County Department of Education was honored with the American Payroll Association's Prism Award for Technology in August of 2004, for utilizing best practices in technology. This award recognizes innovation and excellence in technology. Business Objects: Improving Performance in State & Local Government Business Objects is a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) software to state and local governments across 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. . BI improves the ability of government agencies to manage budgets, cases, procurement, and human resources, as well as financial and operational performance. For more information about Business Objects business intelligence solutions for the government, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/govt/. 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(TM) XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard 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. . Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and the company offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects. Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, 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 and 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 and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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