business intelligence platform roadmap.pdf

Business Intelligence Platform
Roadmap
Product Management Weaver BI
February 2008
Agenda
Weaver BI and Business Objects – A Perfect Match
Visualization and Reporting
Enterprise Query, Reporting and Analysis
Data Integration and Data Quality Management
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Customer Pain Today
Today, companies struggle to bridge the gap between strategy and
execution to optimize their business performance.
Decisions made Strategy disconnected
without context from operations
Strategy
Execution
Information locked Misaligned action
in silos anization
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Business Objects, an pany
Key Trends That Will Drive Our Offering Forward
1. From wide-spread data to
unified, relevant information
All data sources (internal and external, WWW
structured and unstructured) need to be
leveraged to create insight that is relevant for
decision making and business performance
optimization
2. From people to teams
People need ways to better collaborate in a
given business context and better support for
the way teams really work
3. From businesses to
works
Businesses need to leverage the
transformation of their works as
a new source petitive advantage
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Business Objects
Supporting Business Performance Optimization
For customers, business performance optimization will result in broader
insight, aligned strategy, optimized decisions, and flawless execution.
Aligned strategic Strategy Optimize operational
decision-making decisions inside and
across teams outside pany
Performance optimization applications
Business
Unified Contextual
work Decisions
information collaboration
enablement
Business intelligence platform
Generate insight from Execution pliance, risk,
structured/unstructured across multiple and optimize performance
& internal/external data transaction systems across the work
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The Business Objects Advantage
Closed Loop Bus