COMP-4: Business Objects XI Release 2 and what it means for CorVu customers Stefan Glover, Business Relationship Manager, OEM, Business Objects Mark Warner, Technical Sales Consultant, OEM, Business Objects Jim Lundy, Principal Product Manager, Progress

Business Objects Delivers My Questions. My Insight. One BI Platform So here’s how we accomplish these key areas to unleash the power of information at Business Objects – we provide the best products to facilitate performance management across the enterprise, including planning, reporting and query and analysis. These tools and applications are all built on a common BI platform and can be updated with data from multiple sources by our world-class data integration tools. BusinessObjects XI will help you in the IT department lower your total cost of ownership and streamline your BI operations through our open standards and integration capabilities. BusinessObjects XI: My Questions. My Insight. One BI Platform. SSP COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Agenda Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Xtreme Insight Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Planning & Budgeting Data Integration Demonstration COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

The CorVu 5 Solution CorStrategy™ CorRisk™ CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Aligned Initiatives & Day-to-Day Activities Objective Management Resource Risk Incentive Business Intelligence CorStrategy™ CorBusiness™ CorRisk™ CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Strategy CorVu 5 is… Four integrated applications―CorStrategy, CorPlanning, CorRisk, and CorIncentive―form the CorVu strategic management system. And CorBusiness, the powerful CorVu business intelligence application, provides enterprise-wide performance metrics. Aligned Initiatives & Day-to-Day Activities COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Reporting Richly formatted, interactive information for every user Access and present any data Flexible database connectivity Wizards and templates speed report production Info when and where people need it Real-time and scheduled reports Embeddable in MS Office Integrate with any Application SDKs to view, print, export, and modify reports within applications A proven market standard Over 500 ISVs Embedded within industry apps So to meet the first key need to unleash the power of information, creating reports, we approach this at Business Objects through our enterprise reporting capabilities based on the industry-leading Crystal Reports. Crystal Reports can access just about any data. Not just from databases, but from log files, Outlook, or just about anywhere data resides. It’s designed to give people the information they need, when and where they need it. Even if they need it in Microsoft Office, Crystal reports can embedded directly inside Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, while keeping a live, secure link back to the original data. Crystal Reports is also the market standard of course, whether measured in direct sales or through ISVs. SSP COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Reporting: Open Access to IT Infrastructure Embeddable reporting Any web application Control look and feel All developer standards Java,.NET or COM Data exchange via XML Use existing platforms Data, application server, OS, and security Live Office Instant refreshing and refiltering All formatting and calculations are retained Live Office helps business users easily embed accurate, updatable data in documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The resulting Office documents can then be securely shared with others using BusinessObjects Enterprise and hosted in corporate portals for collaborative decision-making. With support for Word, PowerPoint and Excel, users can now manage their Office documents the same way they manage their other BI content while taking advantage of the security and management of BusinessObjects Enterprise Get self-service access to corporate data from Office Live Office lets you easily access your corporate data from within Microsoft Office without depending on IT. Save time by connecting to one centralized system for all your data. Then, use an intuitive Wizard and business-friendly views for easy data selection. Plus, once the data is embedded, you can format using the familiar features in Office. End time-wasting debates over data accuracy Live Office can help you end time-consuming debates over data accuracy. Use credible, IT-verified information that's based on existing corporate reports. Instant refreshing and refiltering puts the most accurate, up-to-date data at your fingertips for more confident decisions. Plus, all formatting and calculations are retained. Securely share context-rich documents with others Using Live Office, you can publish "live" Office documents to BusinessObjects Enterprise for sharing with your co-workers through a business intelligence portal. Context-rich linking to the underlying reports helps give people more insight into the data you've used. Plus, the data is protected by retaining existing security from the underlying report. This means that even in if your document ends up in the hands of the wrong people, they won't be able to view the data you've embedded. COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Agenda Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Xtreme Insight Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Planning & Budgeting Data Integration Demonstration COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

The CorVu 5 Solution CorStrategy™ CorRisk™ CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Objective Management Risk Management CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Resource Management Incentive Management CorBusiness™ Analysis CorVu 5 is… Four integrated applications―CorStrategy, CorPlanning, CorRisk, and CorIncentive―form the CorVu strategic management system. And CorBusiness, the powerful CorVu business intelligence application, provides enterprise-wide performance metrics. Reporting Aligned Initiatives & Day-to-Day Activities COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Query and Analysis Let business users access and analyze information Flexible, interactive viewing and on-report analysis Tailor to meet all analysis requirements in the organization Integrated and trusted analysis for all users Powerful ad hoc analysis Robust semantic layer To meet the second requirement to unleash information, you need one tool which allows user-led interactions with the data. Rather than start with a pre-determined answer to a question, you get to ask a question, receive an answer, and ask more questions based on the results. Users want this power in one tool (again, anti-Cognos, as they need 2 tools to do this) – more agenda setting. Easy to use – want to focus on the fact that end users do not need IT to run queries and get answers to their business questions Strong analytical power – the key differentiator vs. Cognos – the same tool for query AND analysis; the ability to drill anywhere from WITHIN this same tool, with connectivity to both OLAP and relational sources Also want to focus on reporting here – different from report creation and authoring for a broad audience; here we’re talking about specialized end-user reports that utilize the query capabilities within this part of the tool set – again, different from how Cognos is approaching it SSP Web Intelligence is a web-based ad hoc query and analysis product that delivers insight through self-service information access and interactivity. Web Intelligence delivers: Powerful ad hoc query capabilities to enable users to access the specific information they need Integrated and trusted analysis for all users A proven and marketing BI platform. COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Easily analyze, format, add calculations, change query, modify chart types, and export in thin client COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Agenda Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Xtreme Insight Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Planning & Budgeting Data Integration Demonstration COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

The CorVu 5 Solution CorStrategy™ CorRisk™ CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Aligned Initiatives & Day-to-Day Activities Objective Management Resource Risk Incentive Business Intelligence CorStrategy™ CorBusiness™ CorRisk™ CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Strategy CorVu 5 is… Four integrated applications―CorStrategy, CorPlanning, CorRisk, and CorIncentive―form the CorVu strategic management system. And CorBusiness, the powerful CorVu business intelligence application, provides enterprise-wide performance metrics. Aligned Initiatives & Day-to-Day Activities COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Introducing… Crystal Xcelsius Powerful, yet simple, dynamic visualizations Turn Data into Information Based on Excel data and formulas Live XML and Web Service data Interactive What-If Analysis Drill-Down, Charts, Gauges, Dials Export to Office, PDF, and HTML Flash format – Easy to Embed COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Want to Stand Out? Crystal Xcelsius is what will help you turn plain old data into something sleek, sexy and interactive! You can take the data from reports, excel and xml and display it through something like this! COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

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Performance Management Tools Convert high-level objectives into metrics users can track Align actions with strategy Goals and metrics Dashboards and scorecards Monitor what matters Alerts to manage exceptions Advanced analytics Act with confidence Threaded discussions Recommended actions The third thing you need to do to unleash the power of information is to have the ability to use a single tool to begin to take a look forward vs. backward as to where your business is heading – we do that at Business Objects through our performance management offerings Performance management from Business Objects allows you to flexibly deploy management dashboards to all your key users with a catalog of analytics and a set of analytic engines that allow for behind-the-scenes analysis of your customer and product segments through our sets engine, connecting your high level strategies with goals and metrics through Performance Manager, predicting future trends through our predictive engine, and helping you to manage all your quality control initiatives through our “SPC” or Statistical Process Control engine. Performance Manager helps you track your key performance indicators (KPIs) to help you identify important business trends and take action. Our customizable business rules and alerts ensure that you can finely tune your business processes and thresholds to the important business metrics within your organization. The key goal of Performance Manager is to align the organization – and go from being passive to more aggressive (or from being reactive to proactive) in terms of how you use the data. Dashboard Manager provides visibility across an organization to drive better decision making. It offers metrics, alerting, and dashboard management capabilities to help organizations monitor and understand their business activities. Dashboard Manager comes with a metrics engine to help organizations define and track metrics over time. It helps users understand key business drivers by providing the means to drill from high level information to detailed analysis for root cause analysis and it is fully integrated with analytics engine to provide advance insight when needed. Of course Dashboard Manager eases the creation of dashboard creation and maintenance through its drag-and-drop building capabilities. Once built, these dashboards can be sent to individuals or groups of users. COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Agenda Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Xtreme Insight Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Planning & Budgeting Data Integration Demonstration COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

The Business Intelligence Platform Adaptive, service-oriented architecture Trusted, scalable, reliable platform Designed for fault-tolerance Fast response times Intelligent caching and processing Scheduled and on-demand report processing Handles large data volumes Extreme insight for end users Single portal for all information BI in business context Collaboration discussion threads Deploy, manage with confidence Guided rapid deployment Complete web-based management console Web services, Java, and .NET SDK’s But while the end user needs are different, and you want these different needs to be reflected in different tools, the opposite is true for the BI platform. Here you want a platform that: Can handle broad-scale deployments without failing – scalable to thousands of users reliably. Provides the users with one point of access to all tools and information (InfoView), gives context on the information (Encyclopedia) and facilitates collaboration (discussion threads) Is designed with IT’s needs in mind, giving guided installation, importing, and configuration of the system, as well as a single console (CMC) for all administration needs COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

What IT Managers Need in a BI Platform Central management and administration For fast “time to market” and reduced TCO Efficient user and group management Any security model Common repository Load balancing Lifecycle management Move from development, to test, to production System auditing IT managers have specific demands on their business intelligence tools, and any platform that is to be used successfully must have the following characteristics: --Must have the ability to be managed centrally to get the information out there ASAP --Must be able to support the number of users accessing the system efficiently with any security model through a common repository, with strong load balancing and system auditing capabilities COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Agenda Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Xtreme Insight Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Planning & Budgeting Data Integration Demonstration COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

The CorVu 5 Solution CorStrategy™ CorRisk™ CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Aligned Initiatives & Day-to-Day Activities Objective Management Resource Risk Incentive Business Intelligence CorStrategy™ CorBusiness™ CorRisk™ CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Strategy CorVu 5 is… Four integrated applications―CorStrategy, CorPlanning, CorRisk, and CorIncentive―form the CorVu strategic management system. And CorBusiness, the powerful CorVu business intelligence application, provides enterprise-wide performance metrics. Aligned Initiatives & Day-to-Day Activities COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Planning & Budgeting Highly flexible, easy-to-use products Rich product functionality Embraced by users Leverages Excel power The “safe choice” for the CFO Successful track record High customer satisfaction Low total cost of ownership Vertical and domain expertise Customized for verticals Sales, service, and support COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Agenda Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Xtreme Insight Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Planning & Budgeting Data Integration Demonstration COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

The CorVu 5 Solution CorStrategy™ CorRisk™ CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Aligned Initiatives & Day-to-Day Activities Objective Management Resource Risk Incentive Business Intelligence CorStrategy™ CorBusiness™ CorRisk™ CorPlanning™ CorIncentive™ Strategy CorVu 5 is… Four integrated applications―CorStrategy, CorPlanning, CorRisk, and CorIncentive―form the CorVu strategic management system. And CorBusiness, the powerful CorVu business intelligence application, provides enterprise-wide performance metrics. Aligned Initiatives & Day-to-Day Activities COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Data Integration Provide trustworthy information Provide trustworthy data foundation for successful BI Provide trustworthy information Maximize developer productivity Deliver extreme ETL scalability Data quality is a fast-growing concern, and a key part of ensuring the quality of your data is having clear, repeatable processes for loading your analytical data store. Along with poor user skills, poor data quality is the main reason for BI initiatives failing to deliver. As you introduce our data integration product specifically, you want to focus on its core capabilities: It’s a productivity tool that helps make organizations more efficient in getting the information out to their end users – if companies don’t do a good job up front in getting to the data, there are limited benefits to the end user The ETL engine is extremely scalable, using the latest in grid computing This helps set our agenda in terms of DI being the first step to end-to-end business intelligence. DI has the ability to track data changes, and the effects of those changes throughout the BI environment to help IT managers understand the impact of these changes on their user community and take any corrective action Designing and implementing a data warehouse is a complicated and resource-intensive IT project. The most critical part of such an undertaking is the extract, transform, and load (ETL) design process. It's often plagued by many disparate data sources, lack of organizational knowledge of source systems, and unexpected data-quality issues. With web-based BusinessObjects Composer, your IT team can efficiently design and manage "bulletproof" ETL processes. Composer complements BusinessObjects Data Integrator, the most productive and scalable data integration platform on the market. It's also the only product on the market to address the costly and non-systematic processes associated with ETL design, implementation, and maintenance. Metadata Manager - Integrate and consolidate metadata Combine disparate metadata Audit metadata use Explore and understand metadata relationships Impact analysis and data lineage Understand change management implications From sources, to targets, and back again Generate universes Choose metadata objects and generate universes COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

BusinessObjects Data Integrator Explore, transform, and move data anywhere, at any frequency Deliver trusted information Maximize developer productivity Deliver extreme ETL scalability BusinessObjects Data Integrator The most productive and scalable enterprise data integration platform for BI that helps organizations easily explore, transform, and move data anywhere at any frequency. Trusted - Data lineage, end-to-end impact analysis, data validation and auditing Productive - Easily design, deploy, and manage data integration projects Scalable - Pervavise parallelism, intelligent distributed processing, and powerful transforms COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Agenda Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Xtreme Insight Reporting Query & Analysis Performance Management BI Platform Planning & Budgeting Data Integration Demonstration COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Demonstration COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

Business Intelligence Exchange Sessions Monday 2:00, Room 4, COMP-8: Business Objects XI R2 Tuesday 9:15, Room 6, COMP-6: Integrating Crystal/Progress 10:30, Room 3, COMP-2: Enterprise Reporting 3:30, Room 2, COMP-9: Crystal Xcelsius 4:45, Room 6, COMP-15: BI Information Exchange Wednesday 3:45, Room 8, BOF: BI Birds of a Feather Meeting COMP-4 Crystal XI R2 and CorVu Users

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