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White Paper
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BI for Decision Makers: Learn about Actionable BI’s Competitive Advantages
Leading companies worldwide rely on solutions from BusinessObjects and SAP to provide end-to-end solutions for better business intelligence (BI). The business user is in the focal point, with an intuitive and system-agnostic solution set that delivers on even the most demanding needs. Embedded into the context of business activities and work environments, information is immediately relevant and actionable.
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Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Mid-sized Organizations
Managers have the responsibility to make the best decision possible, based upon the data available to them at the time. If their ability to analyze this data and transform it into useful information is improved, the overall quality of their decisions will be improved as well. Download this white paper to learn how to make the best decision for your company.
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Confronting the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
Read about the keys to optimizing business performance.
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Crystal Xcelsius for Developers – Technology Overview and Introduction
This paper explores Crystal Xcelsius’ design environment and workflow process, so that developers and programmers will better understand how to use Crystal Xcelsius in their data analysis and reporting projects.
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Designing Executive Dashboards - How to Create an Effective Operational Dashboard
Corporate dashboards are the “must have” business intelligence technology for today’s business executives. However, creating a dashboard is challenging due to the fact you are compressing large amounts of information into a small area. This article discusses an effective dashboard is made, and some of the associated design best practices.
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Case Study
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Pepsico: Food Giant uses BI to Identify Cost-savings Opportunities
Read this success story to find out how PepsiCo leveraged Business Objects solutions to analyze its spending patterns and identify cost-saving opportunities.
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Anna’s Linens Executes Strategy and Enables Growth with “Edge”
Anna’s Linens is facing a challenging stage in its evolution into a national retailer within the United States. Business Objects offers an affordable and sophisticated set of capabilities for mid-sized organizations. Its products are backed by a dedicated team of people that are committed to Anna’s Linens success.
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LiveWire Mobile Brings Music to your Ears with Insight from Business Objects
LiveWire Mobile needed a way of managing the royalty stream for end-user downloads, measuring performance and the end-user experience, and analyzing trends quickly. Download this case study to learn how Business Objects helped solve their problems.
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RapidAdvance
Learn how this specialty finance company was able to share over 400 business reports to their partner channel with no IT staff or infrastructure.
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Rockhill Insurance: BI Helps an Insurance Company Anticipate Market Changes
Rockhill selected BusinessObjects Enterprise XI as its BI platform, which includes the InfoView portal and BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software. Rockhill uses Business Objects Web Intelligence as its primary reporting engine, tapping into the software’s interactive query and analysis capabilities.
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Podcast
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Accessing Data Over the Web with crystalreports.com
Learn about how crystalreports.com lets companies of any size share their reports, dashboards, and business documents over the web - instantly, simply, and securely – as well as access data both over the web and through company firewalls.
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Salesforce.com and Business Objects: How OnDemand CRM and BI Work Together
In this interview with Salesforce.com, learn how advanced reports and dashboards have increased the value of the leading CRM platform.
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The Benefits of BI without Additional IT Investment
This interview between Steve Lucas, Vice President of On Demand Software and Services for Business Objects, and Ron Powell of the BEYE Network, explains how Software-as-a-Service lets companies receive BI benefits without additional IT investments.
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Webcast
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Edge Webcast Business
In these tight economic times, you need to be able to move quickly, to optimize your costs, retain your best customers and identify new market opportunities.
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Edge Webcast IT
In this session, you'll see a live demonstration of BusinessObjects Edge and learn how this user friendly, mid-market BI suite can help your company turn your data into revenue, profits, and customer satisfaction.
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Extend Your BI Enterprise Beyond the Firewall
In this webcast you will learn how to share critical information with customers, clients, or partners outside your firewall.
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Improve Quote and Proposal Management for Your Salesforce.com Organization
View this webcast and learn how to:
• Create quotes directly from Salesforce.com opportunities;
• Customize the quote and track the approval process online; and
• Measure success with integrated reports and dashboards - all within Salesforce.com.
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Increase Your Company IQ with Web-Based Reporting
View this webcast and learn how to:
• Store your critical business information in one location;
• Share confidential information with the right people, instantly over the web; and
• Empower business users with the ability to access the data they need, anytime and anywhere.
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Product Literature
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crystalreports.com for Salesforce.com
crystalreports.com lets you share reports over the web - inside Salesforce.com.
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Nsite Quote and Proposal Management
Salesforce.com users have experienced a significant and long-standing business problem in their sales organization: the manual review and approval of contracts, proposals, "maverick" pricing discounts, and other quote related activities typically managed through email, spreadsheets, and paper forms. Nsite Quote and Proposal Management solution for Salesforce.com increases revenue by eliminating delays and errors in the sales order cycle.
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Trial Download
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Review
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Business Objects Launches BI Platform for Linux
Business Objects` XI package for Business Intelligence the fulfillment of the product roadmap the company laid out after it acquired Crystal Decisions Inc. late in 2003 now supports both Red Hat and Novell flavors of Linux, the company announced at LinuxWorld on Tuesday. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Brief
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Take Compliance Out of the Spreadsheet Age
CRM is the preferred way to manage business processes - yet spreadsheets are still used when managing non-standard tasks. This causes risks, including manual errors and data that cannot be tracked. This paper discusses how to avoid these dangerous risks.
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Tool
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Dashboard: See the Power in Interactive Visualization Tools
Interactive data visualization allows users to transform complex business data into actionable visual information fast communication and adoption. See how easy it is to shed light on any possible business decision through “what-if” analysis.
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Product Demo
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BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0
View this Flash video to learn about the capabilities of BusinessObjects’ Enterprise XI 3.0 platform.
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Demo On Demand: Understanding crystalreports.com
crystalreports.com is a web-based report sharing service that lets you share critical information with the right people, over the web.
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