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BusinessObjects XI 3.1 –

What’s New?

Chris BullockJanuary 26, 2010

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1. Major Enhancements Delivered in XI 3.0

2. What’s New in BusinessObjects XI 3.1

3. Conclusion

Agenda

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CMC Redesign

� Improved Usability

� Tree Control

� Menus and Toolbars

� Modal Dialog Boxes

� Relationship Query

� Improved Productivity

� Bulk Actions Supported

� Instance Console

� User Rights Management Enhancements

� Inheritance Viewer

� Security Query

BusinessObjects XI 3.0

CMC Improvements

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Publishing Goals for 3.0

� Close the feature gap with BCA Publisher

� Offer Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence support and feature parity with Desktop Intelligence XI R2 publishing

� Scalability

� Provide external recipients support (ability to mix BusinessObjects Enterprise users and external recipients in one publication)

� Multiple Content types in one publication (Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, PDF, Excel, Text, etc.)

� Multiple Formats and Destinations

� Configurable single-pass or multi-pass database fetching (administrator-definied number of recipients per batch, specialized architecture to support high volume scenarios, parallet processing architecture to scale across multiple server instances)

� New PDF Export Options (option to merge PDFs and other reports, optional continuous page numbering across multiple Crystal Reports, optional Tables of Contents, password protection and security options

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Publishing

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Federation Goals for 3.0

� Enable distribution of content and/or security principals across geographically separated repositories

� Simplify the administration of multiple deployments

� Avoid heavy use of the Wide Area Network

� Support for strict legal and corporate policies (enables Reverse Proxy and strict Firewall port allocation to support legal and corporate policies that require that sensitivie data not be removed from country boundaries)

� Allow customers to keep multiple BOE deployments in sych

� Increase performance and obtain local and dispersed information faster as reports can be processed where the data resides

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Cross Site Federation

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Server Management Goals for 3.0

� Eliminate redundant modifications required for each old service (e.g. to change a password, it only needs to be done once, and it will be reflected in all processes that are part of a node)

� Improve fault tolerance and performance

� Automate server administrator process

� Decrease chances for faulty server configuration

� Restart or shut down servers upon crash

� Allow administrators to add new servers through the CMC

� Support server configuration backup and restore inside the cluster

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Server Intelligence

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Auditing Goals for 3.0

� Bring usage reporting capabilities into parity with BO 5.x/6.x

� Provide client auditing for all desktop Intelligence two-and three-tier clients

� Capture IP address and machine name, if the name can be resolved

� Track which service triggered an event, rather than the server

� Audit the folder path to show which report the event refers even if there are multiple reports with the same name

� Audit the parent-child relationship and parent CUID so reports can be built that aggregate all operations to the level of a common parent

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Auditing

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Web Intelligence Enhancements for 3.0

� Percentage rank in the Query Panel

� Ability to define random, fixed sampling in the Query Panel

� Ability to ran a given percentage of the dimension volume, sliced (or not) on another dimension (Query Panel )

� Ability to track data changes, and visually alert the user to what those changes were

� Universe List of Values property (search is delegated to the database to return a reduced result set)

� Enhanced usability in the Interactive (Dynamic HTML) Query Panel (easier to format reports, and present data with hyperlink creation and ability to embed images)

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Web Intelligence

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Web Intelligence Rich Client Goals for 3.0

� Provides equivalent document creation, editing, formatting, printing and saving capabilities as the Java Report Panel

� Allows offline use and local file management

� Permits use of Personal Data Providers (Excel and TXT)

� Improves performance with fewer time-out issues

� Offers native print, zoom and send-to-users-via-email capabilities

� Has Rich Client-specific security commands

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Web Intelligence Rich Client

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Crystal Reports Enhancements for 2008

� Interactive sorting

� Interactive parameters (change values without accessing the data source)

� Improved Prompting (parameter panel and optional parameters)

� Flex integration (embed any SWF in a Crystal Report)

� Barcoding support (Code39 Barcode Fonts shipped with Crystal Reports; new “Turn to Barcode” workflow in Designer

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Crystal Reports 2008

Parameters can be added to the panel

Changes can be applied to saved data.

Benefits: Ease of use: Consumers can do more within the viewer and reduce designer usage.Reduced backlog: Reduce report proliferation by having a single RPT file support different data sets.Good for CR.COM: Consumers can filter existing report instances without a data connection.

Embed Flex Applications

Take action with operational reporting to make static reports actionable and increase the end user productivity by adding new actions into regularly scheduled reports:

Using Adobe Flex (SWF) applications enables usage cases like “approve\reject”buttons with comments on an expense reports or “buy” buttons that link to order placement in an online store. Organizations improve their operational efficiency by integrating reporting with already existing processes

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Xcelsius Enhancements for 2008

� Excel worksheet is now embedded in the Designer framework

� Ability to cut and paste between XLF files

� Re-designed architecture in Adobe Flex and Flash 9

� Ability to embed visalizations in Crystal Reports

� Leverage the new Xcelsius SDK to extend the available components, and re-use those components on new models

� New components out-of-the-box (Tree map, panel container, tab set container, trend analyzer, print button, history, reset button)

� Improved Maps and Alerts components

� New Global Features (dual axis, dynamic selected items, insert filtered rows, insert filtered range, alerts in selectors)

� New connection type – Crystal Reports

� Connection Refresh button

� New UI Color Schemes (themes, file menu, fonts, menus, toolbars, layout, property sheets)

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Xcelsius 2008

More components and capabilitiesCreate more powerful presentations with new features such as Heat Map charts,

a print button, and dual-axis charting capabilities.Use the new multi-page component to quickly build multi-tab dashboards without needing to write a single line of Excel logic.Discover critical patterns and easily highlight trends in your data using built-in trending functionality.

Advanced integrations and customizationCreate custom Xcelsius components to meet unique business needs using Adobe Flex and Xcelsius SDK.Deliver an unparalleled interactive report experience by embedding Xcelsius analytics inside Crystal Reports.

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Live Office Enhancements for 3.0

� Full support for Microsoft Outlook

� Insert Web Intelligence or Crystal Reports content directly into an email

� Copy and paste Live Office objects into an email

� Check and refresh Live Office objects in Outlook

� The Live Office ribbon is the same in Word, Excel and Outlook for improved consistency and ease of use

� Ability to Copy and Paste Live Office objects between Office applications. The copied versions can be refreshed and updated from within any Office application.

� With Crystal Reports interactive parameter feature, Live Office can return data without hitting the database

� Universe-level security (ability to set rights for queries for each universe

� Content search as suggestions (search provides suggestions for reports or universes based on entered criteria)

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Live Office

In previous versions of Live Office, the only way to send Live Office objects via Microsoft Outlook was to use Microsoft Word as an email editor and insert the content as an attachment.

Now, BusinessObjects Live Office XI 3.0 supports Microsoft Outlook application natively, that is, it implements an add-in to the Outlook application that provides the same level of functionality to Outlook as is in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

A custom Live Office ribbon allows you to easily access Live Office objects from within Office 2007. The Live Office ribbon is the same in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Both the Excel and Outlook Live Office ribbons are shown on the

below.

In Live Office XI 3.0, you have the ability to copy and paste Live Office objects between Microsoft Office applications. The copied versions can be refreshed and updated from within any Microsoft Office application.

Copy and paste is basically respected in terms of what the clipboard accesses. Make sure the data is on the clipboard to ensure it copies correctly.

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Dashboard Builder Enhancements for 3.0

� Improved user interface (allows for simplified dashboard creation using new AJAX UI)

� Enhanced Dashboard editing features

� Floating Analytic Toolbox

� New Docking layout style

� New templates

� In-place Tabs editing

� Query panel for Analytics enhancement (new filter option for universe query analytics

� Interactive Metric Trend enhancement (ability to control Y axis minimum and maximum values)

BusinessObjects XI 3.0Dashboard Builder

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1. Major Enhancements Delivered in XI 3.0

2. What’s New in BusinessObjects XI 3.1

3. Conclusion

Agenda

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What’s New in


Refined Ease of Use

for Analysts and

Business Users

Real-World BI

Deployment

Flexibility

Best BI Platform for

Heterogeneous

Environments

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� Best OLAP exploration with Voyager

� Powerful easy-to-create analysis with Web Intelligence

� Easiest BI from within Microsoft Office


Best BI

Platform for Heterogeneous

Environments

Refined Ease

of Use for

Business Users and Analysts

� Improved integration with Microsoft environment

� New integration with Oracle E-Business Suite

� Broader data access and improved trust

� Content lifecycle management

� Native 64-bit platform architecture

� Support for IP Next Generation (IPv6)

� Global reach – 17 languages including 3 new ones

Real-World BI Deployment

Flexibility

What’s New in


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BEST BI

PLATFORM FOR

HETEROGENEOUS

ENVIRONMENTS

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Heterogeneous Environments

Improved Integrationfor Microsoft-Enabled IT Environments

Seamless Integrationwith Oracle Applications

Broader Data Accessand Improved Trust

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� Deployment environments (platforms and operatingsystems)

� Databases

� Development tools

…is driving IT to eliminate overlapping technologies and

standardize


� Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008

� Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008

� Support for Microsoft Analysis Services 2008

� Native .NET support for BusinessObjects InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence

� Updated BI platform .NET software development kit

Improved Integration for Microsoft-

Enabled IT Environments

Increasing pressure to reduce integration, development, and maintenance costs…

IT Dev.

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Seamless Integration

with Oracle Applications

Native connectivity to Oracle applications

� Oracle E-Business Suite

� PeopleSoft Enterprise

� JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

� Siebel

One platform for all BI needs while ensuring security and compliance

Increase end-user productivitythrough contextual awareness

Continued investment and support forour customers using Oracle applications

Connectivity to other major enterpriseapplications

� SAP solutions

� ESRI GIS software

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Broader Data Access

Provide the flexibility and power to connect to all data – regardless of format or location

� New data connectivity

� HP Neoview 2.3

� Microsoft SQL Server 2008

� Netezza 4.0 and 4.5

� Oracle 11g / Oracle 11g RAC

� SalesForce.com version 12

� Siebel 8

� Teradata 12

� OLAP support for

Microsoft Analysis Services 2008

� New operating systems

� HP-UX Itanium

� Red Hat 5

� Windows Server 2008

� Windows Vista SP1

� Linux, Solaris, and AIX support for Data Services

WWW

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Improving Trust in Data

Data Quality Enhancements

� Ease of use and performance optimizations for data cleansing functionality

� Added data cleansing capabilities for Benelux and Denmark

� Enhanced support for English and German name/title/firm

� Additional country data cleansing enhancements for Australia, Austria, Canada,

Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, and United Kingdom

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REFINED EASE

OF USE FOR

ANALYSTS AND

BUSINESS USERS

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Refined Ease of Use for Analysts

and Business Users

Best OLAP Explorationwith Voyager

Powerful Easy-to-Create Analysis with Web Intelligence

Easiest BI from within Microsoft Office

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Best OLAP ExplorationBusinessObjects Voyager

New data visualizations painta thousand words

� Scatter plot

� Bubble plot

� Radar chart

� Box plot

Easier discovery with exception highlighting

Interoperability – Drill through to Web Intelligence or Crystal Reports

Support for Microsoft Analysis

Services 2008

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BusinessObjects Voyager

Additional Visualizations

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Easy-to-create analysis

� Flexible comparison

� Convenient and simple data

filtering with new Report Filter bar

� Expanded Excel export

capabilities

Enterprise-class robustness

� Document auto save and recovery

� Improved server resiliency to

memory-intensive requests

Powerful Easy-to-Create AnalysisBusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Easiest BI from within MS OfficeBusinessObjects Live Office

Secure, easy to use access to BI from within the familiar Microsoft Office

environment

Improve business user self-sufficiency and decrease IT involvement

Securely share live documents with

others for collaborative decision-making using Microsoft Outlook

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Real-World BI Deployment Flexibility

Content Lifecycle Management

Native 64-Bit Architecture

Support for IPv6

Global Reach – 17 Languages

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Lifecycle Management from Design

to Deployment and Maintenance

Application for BI content lifecyclemanagement – promotions and

rollback

Simplify BI content deployment

Reduce maintenance and

maximize platform utilization

Q: How well your organization is able to implement and manage BI Lifecycle Management (0 = very easy, 10 = very difficult)

89% rank 5 or higher!

� Integrated as another tab in the Central Management Console

� Granular control over objects

� Dependency check and analysis

� Can be used to administrate BI content for XI 3.1 on Windows or UNIX

Addressing Feedback from Customers

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High 64-bit performance on HP-UX Itanium

� Support for HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)

� HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) support within 90 days

Experience 64-bit performance on:

� Web Intelligence

� InfoView

� Central Management Console

� All BI platform services(CMS, FRS, PageServer, Job Server, etc)

� BusinessObjects Integration for SAP, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards

Native 64-Bit Architecture

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“

Best-in-Class Support for IP Next

Generation – IPv6

� BusinessObjects XI 3.1 supports both

32-bit and 128-bit IP addresses

� IPv6 will be a key IT requirement in public

and governmental organizations

All agency infrastructures

(network backbones) must be

using IPv6 and agency

networks must interface with

this infrastructure by June 30,

2008.”Executive Office of the U.S. President

August 2005

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Business users can consume reports, queries, analyses, and visualizations

in their own language

Global Reach

x Existing Languages

1 Chinese Simplified

2 Chinese Traditional

3 Dutch

4 English

5 French

6 German

7 Italian

8 Japanese

9 Korean

10 Polish

11 Portuguese

12 Russian

13 Spanish

14 Swedish

Thai

Norwegian

Danish

� Three new languages

� Total of 17 languages

� Cover 90% or the 100 highest GDP

countries of the world

� Official or legal status in over 96

countries

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Web Services Enhancement for

Service-Oriented Architecture

Improved web service performancefor BusinessObjects Data Services

� Native web service calls from Data Services

Easier administration of web servicesfor BusinessObjects Data Services

� Execute any batch or real-time job with a

single web service operation

� Retrieve information such as list of

published jobs, input and output schemas

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Summary

Refined Ease of Use

for Business Users

and Analysts

Real-World BI

Deployment

Flexibility


Heterogeneous

Environments

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Compelling Migration for Existing

Customers

BusinessObjects

v5 and v6

Crystal Enterprise

9 and 10

BusinessObjectsXI 3.1

� Most extensive set of tools on a single platform

� Real-world deployment flexibility

� Go-forward platform for BI innovation

BusinessObjectsXI Release 2

� Increased end user productivity

� More trusted information

� Lower deployment costs

� Unmatched reliability, performance, scalability, and security

� Best-of-breed reporting, query & analysis, performance management

� Better ad hoc access and Office integration

� Web-based administration and industry standard security

� Trusted and reliable data from unified data integration and data quality

� Single BI platform based on proven,

modern, service-oriented architecture

� Web Intelligence/DesktopIntelligence parity

� Improved administration console

� Advanced publishing

� BI federation and lifecycle management

� Improved support for all platforms

� Improved import wizard and report

conversion

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