Business Intelligence

Avoiding Common Pain Points When Migrating to Business Objects XI

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Avoiding Common Pain Points When Migrating to XI — Vol 5 A 2007 user conference presentation by Tim Nightingale, Strategic Technology Architect Are you experiencing little tribulations with your migration project, or are you trying to discover all the “gotchas” before you dive in? Overwhelmed by the differences between versions and don’t know where to … Read more

Jaspersoft At a Glance (Video webcast)

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ワークブレイン・ジャパン株式会社 ジャスパーソフト設立準備室: Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite製品は、包括的なビジネスインテリジェンスファミリーとして、世界でもっとも使用されているオープンソースJavaレポーティング・ライブラリー（JasperReport）とレポートデザイナー(i-Report)、インメモリー分析・OLAP分析そしてデータ統合のETLが統合されたスイート製品。CognosやBusiness Objects（SAP)の代わりに定価で機能いっぱい。

Crystal Reports Tutorial Using Running Totals Business Objects Training Lesson 13.1

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Learn how to use a running total in Crystal Reports by Business Objects at www.teachUcomp.com. Get the complete tutorial at www.teachUcomp.com – the most comprehensive Crystal Reports tutorial available.

Modeling Business Objects with XML Schema

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Product DescriptionXML Schema is the new language standard from the W3C and the new foundation for defining data in Web-based systems. There is a wealth of information available about Schemas but very little understanding of how to use this highly formal specification for creating documents. Grasping the power of Schemas means going back to the … Read more

Creating Documents with BusinessObjects

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ISBN13: 9780972263610 Condition: USED – VERY GOOD Notes: Product Description This substantial book explains almost every aspect of creating documents and reports with Business Objects. It contains over 1000 screenshots and many step-by-step examples! Robert Schmidt, who has written several books on the subject and has trained thousand’s of students to use Business Objects, authors … Read more

Business Intelligence

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Business IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence (BI) refers to various skills, technologies and practices that are used to support business decision making, therefore also called as decision support system.

According to the leading research firm, Gartner that open-source BI tools production deployments will grow five-fold through 2012. The research firm also added that the open-source BI tool deployment is growing solidly.

According to various analysts, an effective and integrated BI solution can improve business performance by having better decision making across the company. At present, various large houses like Microsoft, Oracle (Hyperion), IBM (Cognos), and SAP (Business Objects) offer BI solutions to achieve the success and better Return on Investments (ROI).

Why Business intelligence Solutions required?

Business Intelligence helps its users in various tasks like –

  1. To know your customers better
  2. To look and evaluate the competition in the market
  3. Help you to accommodate with your business partners better
  4. Process information regarding economic efficiency and ROI
  5. It also helps you in decision making for your internal operations.

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Overview on Business Objects XI Data Foundation

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Manage data integration and data quality, to help you build an agile and trustworthy data foundation, underpinning any type of business or IT initiative. More at: www.businessobjects.com

Success Factors of Business Intelligence Implementation

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Business Intelligence (BI) refers to skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making. Thus a BI system can be called a decision support system. Although there could be many factors that could affect the implementation process of a BI system, a research shows the following are the critical success factors for a business intelligence implementation:

1. Focus on business processes and requirements. Often companies get tied up in the technical capabilities and ignore how you want your business operations to run and what your key business requirements are. Once you have this defined, you can engage in a more effective BI system.

2. Focus on achieving a healthy ROI (Return on Investment). This requires developing a high-level business case, establishing key performance measures, setting baselines and targets for those measures, and tracking performance after go-live.

3. Strong project management and resource commitment. Ensure you have a strong project manager to support and participate in the project.

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