Business Objects Product Services

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:

Data Services

In the realm of Data Services our forte lies in our experience with the following Business Objects Products:

Data Integrator – XI R2.0 & XI R3.0
Data Federator – XI R2.0 & XI R3.0

Our consultants can offer you:

Creation and maintenance of your data transformation processes.
Planning and prototyping your solution
Implementation & Configuration
Mentoring

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
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

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.