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BUSINESSOBJECTS EDGE PROFESSIONAL

Confident decision-making through trusted BI for mid-sized organisations

BusinessObjects Edge Professional provides mid-size companies with greater trust in the data they are using to base their decisions on. It combines the power of data integration with essential end user capabilities like ad hoc reporting, query, analysis and dashboards. This allows for the ability to correlate and integrate disparate enterprise data while ensuring end-user confidence. This ensure decision-makers can trust and rely on the data.

Product Benefits

Includes all of the core features included in BusinessObjects Edge Standard, plus powerful data integration.

Enables customers to make trusted, confident decisions. It combines the power of data integration with essential business intelligence like ad hoc reporting, query, analysis, and dashboards for better information insight and reliability. The Professional edition is designed to give customers greater confidence and trust in the data they use to base their decisions. Plus, it's also backed by a proven, open business intelligence platform.

Features

Ad Hoc Reporting, Query and Analysis for Business Professionals

With BusinessObjects Edge Professional, your decision makers benefit from flexible ad hoc reporting, query, and analysis via the web-without relying on IT. Through an intuitive web interface, any business professional can access company data (presented in business-friendly terms), analyse it using simple point and click, and format it to meet personalised requirements. Users have complete flexibility in how they access, format and interact with their data. "Gut-feel" decisions are replaced by accurate, data-driven decisions.
"Live" Data Access within Microsoft Office for Business Analysts

Incorporating data into presentations, spreadsheets and documents is often a time-consuming task-especially when you need updates. With BusinessObjects Edge Professional, users can conveniently access and use "live" company data directly in familiar tools like Microsoft Office and SharePoint. Because the data is "live", it can be instantly updated while retaining all formatting and calculations in the Office document. Plus, the information is secured to ensure colleagues can only view and access the data they have the rights to access.

Interactive Dashboard Viewing for Executives and Managers

For executives and managers, BusinessObjects Edge Professional lets you deliver personalised business dashboards and visualizations built using Crystal Xcelsius, an award-winning dashboard design tool. With simple point-and-click, users can interact with visual sliders and gauges to easily identify new opportunities and challenges. Plus, "what if" analysis lets managers proactively understand the impact of their decisions before they are made.

Flexible Deployment that Leverages Your Current Investments

BusinessObjects Edge Professional is designed for flexible deployment on a single Linux or Windows server. Its open architecture lets you leverage the data sources, business applications and platforms you have already invested in. If your development platform of choice is Java, for example, the solution includes an SDK that allows you to customize your system to meet your specific needs. Or, if your corporate portal is built using SharePoint, you can easily integrate BI from Business Objects and let business users view interactive BI content within a single environment. Regardless of which applications you use today for customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), financial planning, and other operations, BusinessObjects Edge Series gives you the flexibility to leverage and extend these investments.
Secure, Easy-to-Understand Data for Rapid Decisions
Information is useless unless you can access and understand it. With BusinessObjects Edge Series, business users don't have to spend time trying to understand the complexities of their data environment. They can benefit from the robust data abstraction which presents data in standardised business terms that are easy to understand and trust. End users are empowered with self-service reporting and analysis based on relevant, easy-to-understand information.
Rapid Deployment Options for Faster Time-to-Value
BusinessObjects Edge Professional is designed for rapid deployment so you can quickly start realising the benefits of business intelligence. Its affordable "all in one" package gives you everything you need to get started with your BI needs-from software licenses to technical support to software updates and maintenance services. Choose from a variety of QuickStart Packs for access to a tailored collection of templates and data connections that help you quickly apply BI to your existing line of business applications or industry needs. Built by Business Objects and our experienced BI partners, our QuickStart Packs will help you get up and running with relevant BI in no time!
Deliver Data Anywhere - Anytime
BusinessObjects Edge Professional gives you access to data integration capabilities, allowing mid-size companies to easily explore, extract, transform and deliver data anywhere, at any frequency. With the data integration capability of Professional, you can easily move data volumes in real time or at any interval, allowing you to manage and organise disparate data systems to gain a single view of your organisation.

Impact Analysis
An integral part of your BusinessObjects Edge Professional deployment is the unique ability to interchange metadata between the data integration and the BI platform. Metadata integration provides end-to-end impact analysis, allowing you to see the effect of changes in the source systems to the BI reports. As a result, you easily manage change in your BI environment.
Data Lineage

Data lineage is another benefit of BusinessObjects Edge Professional, allowing BI users to view the context of data in their BI reports. Your users can see when data was updated, how it was computed, and where it came from - all the way back to the original transactional source. This visibility is critical to helping your users gain better trust in their information.

 

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