# Presentation: 688327

## Business Objects

**Budgeting & Finance Reporting Seminar**
**What’s New and What’s Good**

- December 6, 2000

**Notes:**
This version includes notes.

## Topics

**Introduction to Business Objects**
**e-business intelligence**
**Intranets: core technology**
**Intranets: enterprise deployments**
**Business Objects 2000**
**InfoView Demonstration**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
We’ll start off with an introduction to e-business intelligence and Business Objects, then talk about how we can help you implement e-business intelligence. First, we’ll discuss the core requirements of end users and IT wanting to access information. Then we’ll discuss the needs of information access for the enterprise as a whole, and extending information access as part of e-business applications, out to customers, partners and suppliers.

## The Technology Leader

***A decade of constant innovation***

**Business representation**

**Centralized repository**

**Integrated slice and dice**

**Metadata reuse **

**Business templates**

**Query from Excel **

**Integrated drill**

**Web publishing**

**Web access**

**Analytical reporting**

**Extranets**

**Set-based analysis**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
Business Objects has changed the marketplace by designing a suite of products to meet the needs of the modern client/server RDBMS environment.
In 1990, Business Objects was the first to introduce (and patent) the notion of a business representation layer to insulate users from the complex database schema, and we remain the standard by which all others are judged.
Over the years, we have continued to be in the forefront of new developments, with the introduction of a series of technologies designed to make BusinessObjects the easiest product to use and to deploy enterprise-wide. 
In 1996, we were the first tool to fully integrate query, reporting and analysis in a single product, and one of the first to allow users to automatically generate and post reports to a web browser, allowing them to be shared and viewed by thousands of users worldwide.
In 1997, we introduced WebIntelligence, the first query, reporting and analysis tool for the web.
In 1999, we pioneered the use of business intelligence tools for extranets, helping companies provide information to their customers as part of their overall e-business relationships...
As you can see, from the very beginning, BusinessObjects has focused on the needs of mainstream business users, using the latest technology to give them more and better access to the information they need.
Bottom line: Continues to be in the forefront of technology. The safe choice.

## Market Leadership

**#1 in end user Query and Reporting**

**Source: IDC Information Access Tools Survey, June 2000**

**% market share**

**Ability **
**to**
**Execute**** **

**Leaders**

**Challengers**

**Visionaries**

**Niche Players**

**Completeness of Vision**

**August 2000**

**Business **
**Objects**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
There seem to be a lot of “leaders” in this industry, don’t there? Well, unlike most, we have the independent numbers to back up our claim. 
On the left, we can see that an information access tools survey carried out by IDC, a leading US consulting company, shows BusinessObjects as the clear leader in end user query and reporting market, with a market share that is over a third higher than the nearest rival (Other bars show Cognos, Seagate, Brio). IBM and Oracle not shown.
On the right we see an independent analysis of the position of Business Objects in the market as published by the Gartner Group, one of the leading technology analyst companies worldwide.
The Gartner Group measures leadership of a market on two distinct axes. The first is “Completeness of Vision,” a measure of a company’s technology and ability to adapt to emerging technologies. The second is “Ability to Execute,” represents the vendor’s ability to turn their technology into market solutions, measured by market share, management and partnerships.
The coveted leadership quadrant – that indicates that the vendor has both the technology and market ability to succeed – has seen much movement in the last twelve months. Today, only two companies remain: BusinessObjects and Cognos.
Gartner recommends that companies wishing to choose products should do so from one of the leader vendors, unless there are particular circumstances for doing so.

Bottom line: Business Objects is a leader, a safe choice.

## The History of e-Business Intelligence

***From workgroups to the extended enterprise***

**Number of users**

**Query, reporting and analysis**

**Enterprise deployments**

**e-Business and extranet deployments**

**Workgroup deployments**

**Business users**
**Mobile sales staff**

**Customers,**
**Suppliers,**
**etc.**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
e-Business Intelligence has gone through three major phases. The first tools to allow business users to access information came out in 1990, and were initially deployed to knowledge workers, whose job was primarily to analyze information.
These tools were then deployed throughout the enterprise, to business users who needed information to do their jobs, including mobile sales forces.
The latest trend – and one that promises to bring the greatest value to the enterprise – is to roll out information to customers, partners and suppliers, as part of the “extended supply chain” or in order to increase customer satisfaction.

## Industry Recognition and Acclaim

- Business Objects and Penske Logistics win DCI Excellence in Business Information Award

- Readers of the Java Developers Journal voted WebIntelligence as number two in the “Best Java Reporting tool" category

- Intelligent Enterprise Magazine Names Business Objects as One of the Most Influential Companies in Information Technology.

- Technology Marketing Corporation Recognizes Business Objects with the 2000 CRM Excellence Award.

- Business Objects and Owens & Minor win TDWI Best Practices Award

- Business Objects has been selected again to Software Magazine’s Software 500 awards list.

- Business Objects was recognized with the prestigious IT industry’s Star award for service excellence in 1999.

- For the third consecutive year, DM Review readers rank Business Objects among the industry elite.

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
Business Objects and our customers have one many awards.

Industry publications such as Enterprise Magazine, Software Magazine and DM Review place Business Objects in the top tier of the database industry, and we are one of the “database dozen” – the top companies that are influencing the data warehousing industry.

But what’s more important for us are the awards from users and for real-life implementations. Our WebIntelligence product was voted one of the top Java reporting tools by readers of the Java Developers Journal. And our customers were awarded excellence awards by DCI, Data Management Review and the Data Warehouse Institute – for real-life implementations, with real-life benefits.

## Over 500 Leading Partners

**Baan**
**J.D. Edwards**
**Lawson Software**
**Oracle**
**PeopleSoft**
**SAP**

**CRM**
**Clarify**
**Remedy**
**Siebel**
**Vantive**

**Strategic Systems Integrators**
**Andersen Consulting**
**Arthur Andersen **
**Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu**
**Ernst & Young**
**KPMG**
**Pricewaterhouse****Coopers**

**Database Software Vendors**
**Hyperion**
**IBM**
**Informix**
**Microsoft**
**Oracle**
**Sybase**

**Data Warehousing**
**Acta**
**Ardent **
**IBM**
**Informatica**
**Microsoft **

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
Business Objects is focused on decision support, but we realize that this forms only a part of your company's total client/server RDBMS investment. That's why we've developed engineering, marketing and support partnerships with many of the industry and data warehouse leaders. You will probably find the other companies that you do business with on this list.
Through those partnerships our role is to deliver "best of breed" client/server decision support tools and technology, partnering with "Best of Breed" industry players to provide you with complete solutions, with the added assurance of integration and compatibility.
Most key players listed here have selected BusinessObjects as the only front-end solution to promote along with their data warehouse products and services.

Bottom line: We have partnerships with the key players in the industry. The safe choice.
Note that more information about these partners can be found on the BusinessObjects web site: 
	www.businessobjects.com/partner/index.htm

## Enterprise e-Business Intelligence Leader

**The enterprise e-business intelligence leader**
**More enterprise deployments than any other vendor**

**SBC****	****22,000**
**French Min. of Educ.****	****20,000**
**EDF****	****19,000**
**Telecom Italia****	****15,000**
**GE****	****12,000**
**ABN AMRO****	****11,200**
**Peugeot****	****11,000**
**Lucent Technologies****	****10,000**

**US Military Health****	****60,000**
**US DOD****	****10,000**
**US Navy (DML)****	****10,000**
**US Dept. of Energy****	****  5,000**
**Sandia National Labs**
**Germantown, MD**
**Washington, DC**
**Hanford, WA**
**US Dept. of State****	****  New**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
Business Objects has been used for more large-scale enterprise deployments than any other e-BI tool. This year we broke even our own impressive record, with a 60,000-seat license deal.

As web utilization grows, so do deployments. Example is EDF (Electricité de France – the French electricity utility). As an early customer of Business Objects, it took them 4 or 5 years to grow their deployment to 9,000 users. Last year, because of our web solution, they purchased an additional 10,000 user licenses. It’s not shelf-ware.

## Topics

**Introduction to Business Objects**
**e-business intelligence**
**Intranets: core technology**
**Intranets: enterprise deployments**
**Business Objects 2000**
**InfoView Demonstration**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
We’ll start off with an introduction to e-business intelligence and Business Objects, then talk about how we can help you implement e-business intelligence. First, we’ll discuss the core requirements of end users and IT wanting to access information. Then we’ll discuss the needs of information access for the enterprise as a whole, and extending information access as part of e-business applications, out to customers, partners and suppliers.

## What is e-Business Intelligence?

***The convergence of business intelligence and e-business***

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
What is e-business intelligence?
It’s the convergence of business intelligence and e-business – accessing, analyzing and sharing information through the “extended organization”. It’s information access for both intranets – from the workgroup to the enterprise – and extranets, rolling out information to customers, partners and suppliers.

## The Uses of e-Business Intelligence

**Shipping**
**Which products arrived late,and why?**
**Finance**
**Which department has the highest travel costs per head?**

**Human resources**
**Payroll, gender analysis**
**Diversity analysis**
**Manufacturing**
**Which supplier’s products have the most quality issues?**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
Where can you use e-business intelligence? In all functional and vertical areas, anywhere in the organization. Everybody can benefit from better access to information. Here are some examples of the kinds of questions that users can ask with this technology.

## BusinessObjects 2000 – Core Products

**Business intelligence portal**
**BusinessObjects InfoView**
**Query, reporting, and analysis for non-technical users**
**BusinessObjects: full client / WebIntelligence: thin client**
**Quick and easy deployment for administrators**
**Designer: easy creation of the semantic layer**
**Supervisor: easy setup of security profiles**

**Admin tools:**
**Designer**
**Supervisor**

**BusinessObjects client**

**Server products**

**Web browser:**
**InfoView**

**RDBMS**

**BusinessObjects client**

**Web browser:**
**WebIntelligence**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
So what is the Business Objects solution to these core e-business intelligence needs?

Business Objects provides a single integrated infrastructure with two different “brands” of product – BusinessObjects for the full client, WebIntelligence for the thin client.

And we provide two tools that help IT set up and maintain the environment – Designer and Supervisor. Let’s take a closer look at these tools.

## Fast, Easy Access to BI Information

**Centralized**
**All BI content available**
**Any document format**
**Personalized**
**Screen layout/content**
**Personal documents**
**Relevant information**
**Secure**
**Full Business Objects security applied to all documents**

***BusinessObjects InfoView: the first business intelligence portal***

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
First, let’s look at the needs of end-users. Above all, they need quick, easy access to their reports. Business Objects offers users the InfoView BI portal. Users log on and see a customized, personalized view of the information that is available to them. Information is not buried under a complex interface– with two clicks, users can get access to their standard reports.

InfoView provides a searchable report catalog that organizes reports by categories for better navigation. InfoView has a common report catalog for both thin- and full-client users, which offers enhanced ease-of-use for mixed-client corporate environments. 

Users can schedule report updates and WebIntelligence reports can be refreshed in the background, and users can receive automatic updates to these reports based on business conditions or events. 

Users can view reports in all technical environments – HTML, full client reader, Active X or plug-ins.

## “Semantic layer” maps database to business terms
Maps tables and columns to “classes” and “objects”
Objects are key business indicators
Sales revenue, average quantity, sales region...

**Corporate databases**

**End users**

**Business representation**

**Query panel**

**“****Semantic layer” maps database to business terms**
**Maps tables and columns to “classes” and “objects”**
**Objects are key business indicators**
**Sales revenue, average quantity, sales region...**

- Business Representation of Information

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
But standard reports are not enough. If that’s all that end users are provided with, IT will be stuck on the treadmill of keeping up with the constant demands for new views of the information. 
BusinessObjects gives users full ad hoc access information to their corporate information. The data in your corporate relational database is stored in a complex, technical format. A standard language called “SQL” exists for reading data from the relational database, but it is hard to learn and to use – even database experts can get wrong results without realizing it.
In 1990, BusinessObjects revolutionized database access with the invention of new technology that allowed end users to get at their information using a business representation. BusinessObjects was duly awarded a US patent for this.
Instead of SQL, BusinessObjects lets you ask your questions in business terms, using a business representation that shields you from the technical complexity of the relational database. This business representation is provided by a “semantic layer” – “semantic” just means “meaning,” so a semantic layer is a layer that gives more meaning to the data – it maps technical concepts to a business representation using your everyday vocabulary and concepts. It maps the tables and columns of the database to “objects” grouped into logical “classes.” A collection of related classes and objects is called a Universe.
The objects are the different concepts you use in your work. They are two basic types: relatively simple labels, such as “customer” or “product,” and the key business indicators that you use to measure the performance of your organization. These business indicators, such as “sales revenue,” and “average quantity,” usually require complex calculations to be carried out in the relational database.
BusinessObjects is the only tool that completely insulates you from this complexity while still providing you with the ability to ask the questions you need.
Giving end-users ad-hoc, self-service access to information in addition to production reports is the only way to resolve the “fact gap” that leads to report backlogs, frustrated end users and expensive day to day support for the IT staff.

## Create Professional Reports

***Full-featured, easy-to-use report writer***

**Production and****ad hoc reports**
**HTML reports**
**Multiple data sources**
**Full formatting**
**Alerters highlight exceptions**
**Ranking**
**Templates**
**Conditional formatting**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
Once you’ve finished querying, you are ready to communicate that information to other people. BusinessObjects’ report writer combines powerful formatting features for production reporting with ease of use for end-user, ad hoc reporting.
Reports can be published to the web using standard HTML, and can contain data from different sources. In the report shown, for example, the table and the pie chart could have come from separate databases.
BusinessObjects includes a full range of powerful formatting features, including:
Full, intuitive control of borders, colors, and formatting.
Powerful forward references and break calculations.
An easy to use, drag-and-drop “what you see is what you get” WYSIWYG interface.
An extensive set of more than 80 powerful local functions from IF-THEN-ELSE to Standard Deviation which can be called from any report cell.
BusinessObjects provides a customizable gallery of dynamic report templates which allow you to define a standard look-and-feel for your company reports, which can then be automatically applied to any future reports.
No other report writer on the market today provides such a complete, powerful, and yet easy-to-use set of features.

## Powerful OLAP Capabilities

**Powerful OLAP capabilities**
**Slice, dice, and drill**
**Calculations**
**Fully integrated with Q&R**
**Live reports**
**Automatic multidimensional transformation**
**Dockable dimension bar**
**For easy OLAP navigation**
**Dynamic microcubes**
**Local multidimensional cache**
**Improved performance**
**Mobile computing**

***Integrated online analytical processing***

**Drill anywhere**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
OLAP is another term for “analysis” – it means you can manipulate the data, using “slice and dice” techniques to look at it in different ways and find trends, and using “drill” to determine what’s driving the overall numbers.

BusinessObjects provides powerful OLAP calculations and business ratios.
This extra analytical power is fully integrated with query and reporting. Users can simply take an existing report, and start drilling. There’s no need to swap to another tool, or use complex transformation utilities to reformat the data.
Users can use OLAP techniques wherever the information comes from, whether it’s a relational database or an OLAP database like Essbase or Express – or even a user’s own Excel file.
This flexibility is made possible through the use of “dynamic microcubes.” Information brought back from the server is automatically stored in a multidimensional format, using sophisticated sparse-matrix techniques for efficient, powerful analysis.
The microcubes are stored within the BusinessObjects documents, allowing them to be sent to other users – or used on the road.
And unlike older-style static cubes, BusinessObjects microcubes are dynamic – they can be refreshed and expanded by users themselves, without having to rely on IT.

## Topics

**Introduction to Business Objects**
**e-business intelligence**
**Intranets: core technology**
**Intranets: enterprise deployments**
**Business Objects 2000**
**InfoView Demonstration**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
We’ll start off with an introduction to e-business intelligence and Business Objects, then talk about how we can help you implement e-business intelligence. First, we’ll discuss the core requirements of end users and IT wanting to access information. Then we’ll discuss the needs of information access for the enterprise as a whole, and extending information access as part of e-business applications, out to customers, partners and suppliers.

## Enterprise Requirements

**Any server****(NT/UNIX)**

**Any data**

**Any device**

***Enterprise deployments differ from large workgroup deployments***

**Any user**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
BusinessObjects was designed from the start to cope with the needs of the enterprise, and has been chosen by more 100, 1000 and 10000 user projects than any other tool.
Most products are designed only to cope with small workgroups, with a total of less than 10 users, carrying out fairly simple query and reporting, against a basic data mart.
But enterprise BI is more demanding, and even if your initial pilot project may indeed fit the “workgroup” criteria, it’s important to think ahead to choose a product that can scale up to 10s, 100s or 1000s of users – because successful e-BI projects drive their own demand, with other users within the enterprise demanding the same competitive advantage as the pilot group.
And enterprise BI means supporting a solution for 10,000 users or more, spread out geographically, and with a variety of different technical and functional needs.
And rather than a single type of data interaction, like just query and reporting, or just analysis, your organization will eventually need a suite of different tools, from query and reporting, to OLAP, to data mining, to access for the spreadsheet users in finance, three-tier production reporting and web publishing, and powerful set analysis for marketing users. BusinessObjects covers the full spectrum of users’ needs, with a single, integrated solution.
Most organizations have many different sources of data. BusinessObjects’ open architecture means that you can access information wherever it is stored – in relational or multidimensional data marts, production databases, data warehouses, packaged applications – even the web itself, with new standard for information exchange like XML becoming increasingly important. BusinessObjects allows easy access to all these different sources of data, with rapid deployment templates available for all major business applications.
As you move to enterprise-web deployment, support for the web becomes increasingly important, along with other delivery mechanisms like email, faxes and the new growth in thin client devices like Palm Pilots.
And finally, scaling beyond the workgroup involves thinking about things that aren’t relevant when there are less than 10 users, like industrial-strength security and resource controls, and the maintainability of the solution. 
So it comes down to supporting information access and analysis for all users, all data and all devices. Lets take a look at each of those in turn.

## Customers & Partners

**Browser**

**EIS user**

**Drill & refresh**

**Spreadsheet**
**user**

**Query and****reporting**

**Query, reporting and OLAP**

**+ Data mining**

**Customers & Partners**

**Directors**

**Commercial mgrs**

**Financial mgrs**

**Project mgrs**

**Product mgr**

**Mktg**

- Any User

**Fit the functionality to the users’ capability & needs**
**Enable more functions as users needs grow**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
When you think about it, there’s no such thing as a stereotype “end user” – we all have different needs, and want to interact with information in different ways. Some users will want to use all of the query and analysis power we’ve talked about earlier in this presentation, but others may simply want to do querying and reporting, or just read reports that have been prepared by others. 
BusinessObjects has a fully configurable interface. Over 95 individual product features can be set for each individual user, to ensure that the interface remains easy to use for all types of end user – no confusing toolbars and menu for the users that don’t require them.
Lets take a look at some of the other ways that different types of users can benefit from the integrated Business Objects platform.

## Topics

**Introduction to Business Objects**
**e-business intelligence**
**Intranets: core technology**
**Intranets: enterprise deployments**
**Business Objects 2000**
**InfoView Demonstration**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
We’ll start off with an introduction to e-business intelligence and Business Objects, then talk about how we can help you implement e-business intelligence. First, we’ll discuss the core requirements of end users and IT wanting to access information. Then we’ll discuss the needs of information access for the enterprise as a whole, and extending information access as part of e-business applications, out to customers, partners and suppliers.

## BusinessQuery for Excel

***Access to relational databases from Excel***

**Lets the Excel user stay in Excel**
**Forecasting**
**Modeling**
**Charting**
**Use query panel to access corporate data**
**Tight Excel integration**
**SmartSpace intelligent results placement**
**Query on cell/range**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
According to a recent survey conducted by IDC, the N°1 priority for spreadsheet users is to access corporate data from their spreadsheet. BusinessQuery gives Excel users the power of BusinessObjects queries directly from their favorite interface. Once they have retrieved the data, using the same query panel as BusinessObjects, they can use all the forecasting, modeling, and charting functions of Excel.
BusinessQuery is a tightly integrated add-in. Unique SmartSpace technology preserves the integrity of existing spreadsheet data and calculations, and queries can use existing cells as values in conditions – for example, I can run a query that asks for the list of customers with sales revenue greater than cell A5.

## BusinessQuery for Excel

***Access to multidimensional databases from Excel***

**First Excel front end for Microsoft OLAP Services**
**Turns Excel into a powerful OLAP analysis tool**
**Exposes 100% of OLAP Services functionality**
**Tight Excel integration**
**VBA/Macros**
**Functions**
**Query on cell/range**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
BusinessQuery can also provide multidimensional data access within Excel, leveraging the power of OLAP servers.
OLAP servers such as Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services provide a wide range of powerful data navigation and calculation functions, and BusinessQuery provides best-in-breed access to all of that power.
This means that you can not only access data from Excel, but also perform OLAP calculations directly against the server, right inside the spreadsheet. After analysis, the data remains within Excel for sharing, and can also be refreshed on reconnecting to the OLAP server.

Supports Excel ’97 and 2000

Note: This functionality is provided by what was previously the OLAP@Work Excel add-in.

## Set Analyzer

**A Selection tool allows you to...**
**Define any selection criteria ****	****	****Age= x , Gender = y**
**Specify the size of your result set****	****Select only 10,000 people**
**Add structure to your result set****	****	****Select 50/50 Males/Female**
**Who uses it?**
**Typically used in Marketing**
**Also empowers IT/MIS or Business Analysts**
**What do you use it for?**
**To define the right question to ask**
**To share selections with other tools**
**To add insight and certainty to the analytical process**

***It’s a Best of Breed ******Selection Tool****** for Customer Segmentation***

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## What value does Set Analyzer add?

**Visual Selection**
**Visual Selection provides insight into the shape, size and quality of your data, avoiding the need to run many fruitless queries**
**Step-Wise Querying**
**Step-Wise Querying simplifies and accelerates the definition and processing of complex selections**
**Set-Based Analysis**
**Set-Based Analysis enables the development & deployment of consistent customer segmentation**

***Three Unique Concepts will Accelerate Your Marketing Processes***

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## BusinessObjects InfoView Wireless Edition

**Further simplification of e-BI access**
**Opens up data to people without a PC**
**A major advance on push technology**
**Interactive – closes the information loop**
**An evolving technology**
**Initial support for WAP phones and PDAs**
**Extensible to any future wireless devices**
**Built on the InfoView platform**
**Offers the usual Business Objects data personalization and security**

***The first e-BI solution for the wireless internet***

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
With the introduction of BusinessObjects InfoView Wireless Edition, Business Objects has opened up data access to more users than ever before. Now all that is needed to get full, interactive access to corporate databases is a simple WAP phone or PDA.
A major advance on existing “push” technologies (where tools send out information to pagers or other devices) InfoView Wireless Edition lets users interact with their data. This means that when they receive an alert, they can dial back into the database and find out what is going on.
Equally importantly, unlike push technology, users no longer need to wait until something goes wrong before finding out what is happening to their data. They can call up key business indicators whenever they need them, wherever they are.
As a fully integrated part of the Business Objects suite, InfoView Wireless Edition offers the usual data personalization (users only see the data that concerns them) and security (access is password protected, and users cannot see data they are not entitled to see).

## Any Device

**Scheduling and distribution**
**Report bursting**
**Profile-based delivery**
**Intelligent agents**
**Distributed component architecture**
**Scaleability**
**Load balancing**
**Failover**

***Broadcast Agent – integrated enterprise report server***

**Broadcast Agent**

**Cell phones**

**Faxes**

**Pagers**

**Printers**

**PDAs**

**Web**

- DW

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**Notes:**
Broadcast Agent provides enterprise reporting (scheduling, distribution and web publishing) to BusinessObjects and WebIntelligence users.
Users can offload the processing of reports onto a middle tier, running on Windows NT or Unix. The reports are executed from the Broadcast Agent machine against the database, the results are returned and the report (along with its associated microcube) is stored in a document agent repository, a set of database tables that can reside either in the server database or in a separate database on the Document Agent machine, as shown in the diagram. Users’ PCs are freed to carry out other tasks, and the reports are generated on a high-performance machine.
Reports can be scheduled to be executed and distributed to groups of users. For example, I can set up a report that is automatically executed every Monday morning by Broadcast Agent and the resulting report automatically sent to a list of users. In addition to using Broadcast Agent, reports can also be distributed directly by users via email or by placing it on a shared file server. Server load is reduced, because the report is executed only once for the whole group of users, and network traffic is reduced because the document is distributed as a compact microcube rather than each user executing the query against the server.
In addition to client/server distribution, reports can be automatically published to the web directly from the Broadcast Agent server. Any user with a standard browser can view the HTML report, without any product or code installed, and advanced users can download the report for local analysis, with BusinessObjects installed on their PC to slice, dice and drill the data.
Broadcast Agent can broadcast information to a variety of devices, including email, fax, pagers, and PDAs.

## Conclusion

**Why e-Business Intelligence?**
**Access, analyze, and share information**
**For intranets and extranets**
**Why Business Objects?**
**Easy, secure, scaleable suite of products**
**A safe company to do business with**
**Further Steps for Business Objects & Dept. of Energy?**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
Business Objects is first in e-business intelligence – the ability to access, analyze and share information for intranets, extranets and e-business.

Business Objects products are easy, scaleable and integrated, a safe company to do business with.

## Topics

**Introduction to Business Objects**
**e-business intelligence**
**Intranets: core technology**
**Intranets: enterprise deployments**
**Business Objects 2000**
**Demonstration**

- Standard Sales Pitch

**Notes:**
We’ll start off with an introduction to e-business intelligence and Business Objects, then talk about how we can help you implement e-business intelligence. First, we’ll discuss the core requirements of end users and IT wanting to access information. Then we’ll discuss the needs of information access for the enterprise as a whole, and extending information access as part of e-business applications, out to customers, partners and suppliers.