As our consultants were a part of the Business Objects product engineering team at the R&D labs, they possess a thorough understanding of all the features provided by most of the products by Business Objects. Apart from product engineering, they were also instrumental in providing critical support to the field; be it customer wins, technical support or beta programs. Just to name a few – LIC, Reliance Infocomm, Reliance Retail, British Airways, Wyeth, Wipro, Satyam, Lyon Nathan. We would like to translate this knowhow as a value addition for your various needs on Business Objects products. Our focus will be to accelerate the accessibility of the information you need, analyze it, and share standardized reports across your enterprise and beyond. We can also provide you with the necessary staffing needs on your individual projects, leadership in implementing a sound solution or a long-term partnership. Our expertise in the following areas would definitely be a value add providing you with the best ROI in Business Intelligence services/solutions: |
Meta Data Services
At the core of almost every Business Objects implementation is the semantic layer. This metadata layer simplifies communication between the business-user and the complex language of the database. A semantic layer has several important benefits: - Insulates end users from the complexities of the database
- Enforces security
- Provides a consistent and clear view of data
- Increased end-user accuracy and productivity
- Empowering end users to access data without the reliance on IT.
In the realm of Meta Data Services, we offer you the following services/solutions using Business Objects Universe Designer: - Planning the Semantic layer based on your database and your reporting needs
- Implementation and Configuration
- Designing the Universe
- Utilize advanced row level security techniques
- Shield end users from complex and proprietary database structures.
- Intuitively map database fields to Universe objects and classes in easily understood Business Terms.
- Quickly and efficiently aggregate data used for analysis across multiple fact tables.
- Best practices
- Mentoring
The universe/s designed by us will provide you an easy to use and understand interface for non technical Web Intelligence users to run queries against a database to create reports and perform data analysis. Reporting
In the realm of Reporting, our consultants through their vast set of experience at the product R&D labs and in the field, could offer you with the best services/solutions in query, reporting and analysis using the following products: - Basic Reporting
- Crystal Reports – XI 3.0, XI 2.0, Crystal Reports 2008
- Adhoc Query, Reporting and Analysis - XI 3.0, XI 2.0, e6.5, 5.x
- Web Intelligence
- Desk Top Intelligence
- OLAP Intelligence
Using the aforesaid products our consultants could provide you with all your reporting needs across your enterprise through the web or through a desktop thick client environment and best suited for all your users of different skill levels. Users can be empowered with calculations, on-report analysis, filters, blocks, publishing and scheduling capabilities. We could also provide you with reporting capabilities on OLAP databases. - Planning and scoping your reporting needs
- Designing the Universe
- Designing your reports
- Deploying the reports
- Publishing
- Scheduling
- Mentoring
- Best Practices
Decision Services
In the realm of Decision Services, we offer you the following services/solutions using Business Objects Performance Manager. - Our consultants can provide your enterprise with dashboards (rich with your favorite KPI's), balanced scorecards, performance monitoring and alerting capabilities. We specialize in using these capabilities to provide you with a customized business intelligence solution designed to improve your organizational effectiveness. You will gain broad visibility into the current status of your business, enabling you to track how your organization is performing against your strategic goals and how day-to-day execution is aligned with corporate strategy.
- Mentoring
- Best Practices
Dashboards and Visualization
In the realm of Visualization and dashboards, our expertise in the following products will definitely be a value add for you: - XCELSIUS
- Dashboard Builder
Using these best of breed products our experts can offer you the following: - Discover the best ways to distribute and deploy Xcelsius Dashboards, while providing multiple options for connecting directly to your live corporate databases
- With Crystal Xcelsius, we can create interactive visual models that let executives plan ahead, identify critical data relationships, prototype complex "what if" scenarios, and peer into your company's possible future performance.
- Create unified dashboards using Dashboard builder which provides you with a consolidated view of your BI content.
- Mentoring
- Best Practices
Business Objects & SAP
Packages from SAP and Business Objects leverage the expertise of two leaders in the enterprise software industry to produce offerings unmatched in making employees more self-sufficient in a constantly changing work environment. At the same time, these packages empower your IT organization with a strong and agile infrastructure, so that it can become a strategic partner of the business by focusing on the intelligent use of information. Our consultants can combine Business Objects BI Capabilities with Operational Information enabling users to Access, Analyze, and Share key business information using the Business Objects SAP integration kit. Our key offerings in this space are as follows: -
- SAP Integration Kit installation
- Configuring SAP authentication for BOE
- Building OLAP based Universe
- Building Reports & Visualization on top of R3 System and BW using Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Voyager & Xcelcius.
- BOE Integration with SAP Enterprise Portal
Developer Suite/Business Objects SDK
The possibilities are virtually limitless! With Developer Suite you can fully customize both the client and server parts of your business intelligence solution. You could also create your own application using the application logic and functionalities provided by Business Objects enterprise through their software development kit. Almost all the functionalities are supported in the Java flavour while a subset of them is supported in .Net. We offer the following solutions in the realm of Developer Suite/Business Objects SDK: - Integrate the power of Business Objects Functionality into your custom developed web application or desktop application using the Business Objects SDK without using the various clients provided by Business Objects – Infoview, Deski, Webi, CMC, Designer etc.
- Customize the Central Management Server or create your own application using the Business Objects Enterprise SDK which provides the CMC capabilities :
- Manage Users and user groups within your BOBJ environment
- Add Reports
- View Reports
- Schedule Reports
- Manage Folders, Calendars, Categories, Object Packages
- Manage Servers and Server groups
- Manage publishing and profiles etc
- Customize Desk Top intelligence and Universe Designer using DeskTop Intelligence and Designer SDK’s respectively. The supported flavours are Visual Basic and VBA.
- Provide the power to create, view, edit and perform analysis on web intelligence documents to your custom web applications by using the Business Objects enterprise and Report Engine SDK’s.
- Solution Integration – Integrate your solutions with the application logic provided by Business Objects using the Business Objects SDK
- Mentoring
- Best Practices
Business Objects Web Services
In today’s Business Intelligence marketplace, information sharing is more important than ever. Successful companies recognize that their value goes beyond financial considerations, to include qualities that are less easy to measure but dangerous to be short on, such as high customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, supply chain efficiency, and so on. The way to develop those qualities is to make information readily available to those who need it. BI web services represent the next stage in information sharing. Web services enable applications to connect and interact over the web. Built on top of existing, widely used Internet protocols such as HTTP and XML, they enable you to share information over any network: Internet, intranet, or extranet. Web services enable Business Intelligence systems to move information beyond the boundaries of an individual enterprise. Using web services, BI systems can be networked together to enable applications to share information more easily.Networked BI systems—web services—improve efficiency and enable businesses to make more sense of their data. This, in turn, helps them make more intelligent business decisions. From Extranets to Web Services Extending your existing BI extranets to enable them as web services provides further benefits: - You need less customization to fit the look and feel of your extranet customers site
- Your extranet customers can integrate your extranet into their intranet
- Your extranet customers can combine BI from your extranet with their own BI
- You control how the BI extranet is integrated into your own environment
- You can combine BI from multiple extranets
- You can integrate BI from your partners’ extranets with your own BI
Our consultants can offer the following services/solutions in the realm of Business Objects Web Services: - Deploying and configuring Web Services Provider and Consumer
- Provide your required set of Business Objects application functionalities and objects to your desired partners/consumers/extranets by developing customized web portals/ applications using the Business Objects Web Services SDK.
- Integrate your partners Business Objects application into your own BI deployment by using the Business Objects web Services SDK.
- Combine multiple Business Objects Extranets into your Business Objects Application
- Solution Integration – Integrate your solutions with the application logic provided by Business Objects using the Business Objects SDK
- Mentoring
- Best Practices
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