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One Version of the Truth: Driving Enterprise Performance


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mThink Knowledge - Posted on 30 June 2003

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Authored by: 
Alan Probert;
Business Objects
Business Objects is theworld''s leading businessintelligence software company.Our technology solutionsenable health careorganizations to track,understand, and manageenterprise performance,leveraging the informationthat is stored in an array ofcorporate databases, enterpriseresource planning,and customer relationshipmanagement systems.

In the health care industry, managing disparate data sources and providing analysis revealing the root causes of business issues is mission critical. To be effective, you need a business intelligence (BI) system that gives you one version of the truth.

With the right information, you can track, understand, and manage your business better. You can bring together all your information and data – and improve BI costs through standardization.

Track Enterprise Performance – Unlock the data in all your operational and enterprise applications, delivering it to a variety of user interfaces, including reports, dashboards, and portals.

Understand Information – Understand your organizational information with comprehensive reporting, and powerful query and analysis solutions.

Manage Your Business – Productivity will increase with our performance management products, analytic applications, and intelligent information delivery.

BI Standardization – Manage the complexity and cost of BI technology through standardization. Significantly improve enduser efficiency and lower total cost of ownership by consolidating BI tools and technologies, and reducing duplication in your backend infrastructure.

Use these products in different ways for different BI projects, enjoying the benefits of a complete toolset on a common infrastructure.

The Industry’s Broadest Product Lines

Our product line provides the industry's leading suite of business intelligence products.

Reporting is the process of accessing data, formatting it, and delivering it as information inside and outside the organization.

Query and Analysis tools allow users to interact with business information and answer ad hoc questions with minimal knowledge of the underlying data sources and structures.

Performance Management products help users track and analyze key business metrics via management dashboards, scorecards, and alerting.

Information infrastructure provides a set of common services to deploy and man-age BI tools, reports, and analytic applications simply.

Analytic applications provide prepackaged metrics, reports, and analytics covering customers, products and services, supply chain, human resource, and finance functions.

Data integration products extract data from disparate sources, and transform and load it into data marts and warehouses.

Market Leadership

Founded in 1990 and headquartered both in San Jose, Calif. and Paris, Business Objects is recognized as the market leader in business intelligence. Business Objects has the industry’s largest and fastest-growing license revenue, with more than 24,000 customers in more than 80 countries. The company also has the strongest partner network with more than 1,500 partners worldwide, including more than 350 OEM partners. We have also developed the most extensive industrywide and innovative R&D organization, with more than 1,000 employees in engineering across several development centers.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading BI software company. BI enables organizations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance. The company's solutions leverage information stored in an array of corporate databases, enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship management systems.

Popular uses of BI include enterprise reporting, management dashboards and scorecards, customer intelligence applications, financial reporting, and customer and partner extranets. These solutions enable companies to gain visibility into their business, acquire and retain profitable customers, reduce costs, optimize the supply chain, increase productivity, and improve financial performance.

In December 2003, Business Objects completed the acquisition of Crystal Decisions, the leader in enterprise reporting. The combined product line includes software for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, analytic applications, and data integration. Business Objects also offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their BI projects.

 

About the Author
Title: 
Capgemini Alliances Manager
Business Objects
Alan Probert is responsible for working with Capgemini to define the Business Intelligence solutions targeted for health care clients. With over 15 years of solution development in both Europe and North America, he specializes in supply chain, health care, and outsourcing.

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