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Gartner Positions Business Objects in Leaders Quadrant of Data Quality Tools Report

Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, recently positioned Business Objects in the leaders’ quadrant of their “Data Quality Tools Magic Quadrant” report. According to Gartner, “Leaders in the market demonstrate strength across a complete range of data quality functionality, including profiling, parsing, standardization, matching, validation and enrichment. They exhibit a clear understanding and vision of where the market is headed, including recognition of non-customer data quality issues and the delivery of enterprise-level data quality implementations. Leaders have an established market presence, significant size and a multinational presence (directly or as a result of a parent company).” The Magic Quadrant depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner.

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Business Objects Delivers Data Mining and Predictive Analytics

BusinessObjects XI 3.0, the industry’s first unified business intelligence (BI) platform is now available with BusinessObjects™ Predictive Workbench, a powerful data mining and predictive analytics that enables the users to identify patterns in historical business data and the variables that drive relevant business trends. Decision makers can use this insight to extrapolate future scenarios and work proactively in anticipation of market changes. BusinessObjects™ Predictive Workbench can help organizations better understand what drives their business and can accurately assess trends across all lines of business, using that insight to both optimize future business performance and avert potential danger, harnessing existing performance data to identify trends and patterns, and play out “what-if” scenarios. These forward-looking capabilities can help companies address the problems and challenges faced during an economic recession.

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Case Study ...

ahm "Building a Healthy Strategy" with Business Intelligence

Wollongong based ahm is Australia’s 8th largest private health insurer and is recognised as an innovator in the industry. This health provider has been a Business Objects customer for over 10 years, but for the initial eight years, BI had been used purely as an analytical tool for analysts in the company but in 2005 the company changed direction and set about defining a business intelligence strategy. Find out what they did and what benefit they got out of reassessing their business intelligence strategy.

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Product & Technical Update...

Get More 'Edge' For Less

BusinessObjects Edge Series includes simple, affordable solutions that can address any BI requirement, from flexible ad hoc reporting and dashboards, to powerful data integration, to insightful performance management. Plus, backed by a proven platform and open architecture, BusinessObjects Edge Series lets an organisation leverage the business applications, data sources, and platforms they already use to run their business.

The recently released BO Edge XI 3.0 Standard edition now includes Dashboard Builder while the BO Edge XI 3.0 Professional edition includes Dashboard Builder and comes with Data Service XI 3.0 (EIM) so you can get more Edge for less.  

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How To Find Which Central Management Server (CMS) Database You Are Using For BusinessObjects Enterprise?

1. Click Start > Programs > Business Objects > Central Configuration Manager (CCM).

2. Right click and stop the CMS server.

3. Right click the CMS server then click Properties > Configuration tab.

4. Note the CMS Data Source name in the Configuration window.

5. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC).

6. Select the CMS DSN name from the Configuration tab and click the Configure button.

7. Here you can find the database server name and through the server name you can find the database name.

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How To Use The Source Data Component in Crystal Xcelsius 4.0?

In Crystal Xcelsius 4.0, the Source Data Component is a feature that has no visual interface. It allows users to move data into other cells simply by changing the value of the component's Selected Index.

As the value of the Source Data component's Selected Index changes, the row or column of data corresponding to that index is inserted into the Insert In range.

Like all selectors, the Source Data Component is often used to populate components with data or in conjunction with Dynamic Visibility to show and hide components. This is only available in the Designer version.

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Query and Analysis
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