Watch Denis Payre explain the origin of Business Objects. According to Denis, who now sits on the Suite board of directors , it made perfect sense in France to shorten the company name to BO. The unfortunate acronym was a boon for clever marketers. Although still commonly known as BO in France, most of the world quickly adopted the new acronym. The moral of the story is to choose your words—and your acronyms—wisely, and always refer to Business Objects as BOBJ.
For custom installations, 3rd party authentication and single sign on, an initial setup may be required. SAP reached a huge commercial success with this; users really appreciate its flexibility, the possibilities of intelligent interactive dashboards, not to mention the speed at which it can be implemented!
This is not a simple application, but rather a pay-per-use service, able to transform data within a user-friendly environment. The lingo will continue evolving. Thus, it is preferable to think in terms of major functions and retain the following three points, which we hope will remain unchanged for a few more years:. About us Careers Our team Blog Join us.
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Technical and functional support tailored to your needs. Posted December 3 BIW 1. SAP BW is the equivalent to the black box in which data will be stored after being loaded from different systems, databases, etc. Thus, it is preferable to think in terms of major functions and retain the following three points, which we hope will remain unchanged for a few more years: Reporting? Both solutions presented above refer to the largest enterprises.
That doesn't mean Business Objects creates solutions only for customers from that segment. There are also a lot of offerings for large- and medium-sized companies and the two most-known of them - Business Objects Edge and Crystal products family.
Business Objects Edge includes Business Intelligence solutions for customers from medium- and tiny-sized companies segment. Basing on proven standards - Crystal Enterprise and Crystal Xcelsius, they efficiently support managing. Finally, the last two products of Business Objects are a bit different. They're usually being described together, as they're almost similar.
The main difference between them applies to their destination - Crystal Reports Server are designed to function as a standalone reporting server, while Crystal Reports demands integrating into.
Net application. All in all, both solutions are dedicated for usage in small- and medium-sized companies. According to applications' specific, both solutions are wanted by companies keen only on reporting aspect. From the whole range of Business Intelligence applications, Crystal Server and Crystal Reports refer exclusively to reporting, offering its multidimensional functionality.
While both solutions' specific doesn't allow self-dependent functioning, they're usually - as a proven environment for reporting and analysis - developed with other vendors' offerings. Twenty years of BO's market presence cannot be boiled down to a matter of case.
Successive technological advance, growing data dependence, and information importance were the favorable factors that led BO to a due place in "great four of business intelligence vendors". Finally, the whole acquisition process engendered significant revolution in Business Intelligence market, as it has to lead to the full integration of SAP and BO BI offerings, and both sides' partnerships joint. Despite the fact of company acquisition and increasing compatibility of solutions, both vendors' offerings remain separate.
Which one is better? Which one to choose? The answer isn't obvious and depends on a customer. While comparing two similar solutions, it's important to call attention to three aspects: solutions' architecture, data access, and profits. As long as extracting, transforming, and loading data ETL make up the essence of business intelligence, grows the importance of data management system.
SAP BI is a singular data warehouse, itself supporting all the ETL processes, as well as data management, and providing reporting tools. The architectural model assimilated by Business Objects BI is slightly different, as it provides the broad range of tools separate for every process. Even though there are a lot of diverse tools, all of them cooperate well thank to open standards CORBA, Web services, etc.
Both models are different, but it cannot be undoubtedly stated which one is better. Second aspect, data access method , also differs. With SAP Business Intelligence, data from diverse sources is being extracted, loaded into a data warehouse. Next, data stored in OLAP cubes is being reported. This model of data accessing is commonly described as "business interface", enabling all types of the access without involving into a complex physical data structure.
Once again, the solution used by Business Objects BI is slightly diverse. Instead of this, high efficiency is being reached through concrete reports. Even though both models are different, each of them might be replaced by the other one.
Thirdly, features.
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