ibm and business objects partners in portal and workplace solutions

IBM and Business Objects

Partners in Portal and Workplace Solutions

IBM and Business Objects

Partners in Portal and Workplace Solutions

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2 Business Objects Corporate Overview – Q1 2004

Year Founded 1990

Headquarters San Jose, CA and Paris, France

Customers 28,000 in more than 80 countries

Partners 3,000 global partners

Stock Markets NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB)

Employees 4,000 worldwide

Annual Revenue 2004 $925 Million


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Partners for 12+ Years Business Objects is a Premier member

of IBM PartnerWorld IBM is one of 3 Business Objects

Strategic Alliances

Customers Over 5000 joint customers

Solutions Industry and horizontal solutions with

IBM in Retail, CPG, Life Sciences, Industrial, Automotive, Financial Services, Insurance, and Risk & Compliance

IBM Brand Business Objects Support

DWE, DB2 UDB, DB2 OLAP Server, Information Integrator, Cube Views, Informix, Redbrick, Entity Analytics, Content Manager

Business Objects OEMs Information Integrator into their ETL tool, Data Integrator

WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Information Integrator

Notes, Domino and Workplace solutions including IBM’s risk & compliance/SOX solution with Workplace for Business Controls & Reporting

Run natively on pSeries and xSeries; Access data stored on iSeries and zSeries

Business Objects is OEMed into the Rational suite

Business Objects is OEMed for use with the Tivoli Data Warehouse

IBM Developer Relations says Business Objects has the broadest BI

support for IBM middleware

IBM and Business Objects Partnership


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Business Intelligence

Business Objects XI and Crystal Reports XIwww.businessobjects.com

Business Objects' 2004 acquisition of Crystal Decisions and the Crystal Reports line of reporting tools has launched the company into the small and medium business sector. BusinessObjects XI and Crystal Reports XI give Domino professionals powerful enterprise reporting, query and analysis, report distribution, and decision support tools. BusinessObjects XI is a business intelligence platform designed to help users get the information they need wherever it might be located in the organization. Crystal Reports XI expedites report development, presents user information in familiar formats, and simplifies managing, securing, and delivering reports over the Web.

http://www.businessobjects.com/


5 Business Objects Solution Stack


6 WIFM? BI Drives Demand For IBM Software

Accelerate incremental revenue for IBM

Speed deployment of middleware and hardware

Optimization of customer solutions

Differentiates IBM’s offering

Business Intelligence drags…Database 59% of the timePortal 53%Tools 48%Systems Management 47%

--Source: IBM 2005

Business Objects and

IBM Websphere Portal Integration

Business Objects and

IBM Websphere Portal Integration


8 How we integrate with Websphere portal?

Portlets available for both Crystal Enterprise and Business Objects XI released in January 2005 Business Objects is the most requested portlet from IBM’s Portlet Catalog An object browser, that will allow you to navigate through your report

repository, by folder, to display the contents A document viewer that will allow you to display reports Both the explorer and viewer accept Click-to-action properties for controlling

the content, so you can push content in to them from another C2A enabled portlet.

IBM Workplace solutions that leverage Business Objects portlets include:

Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting On Demand Workplace for Retail Retail Business Intelligence Solution Workplace for Procurement (Coming October 2005) First BI vendor validated for Workplace Services Express Portlets are published to IBM’s Portlet Catalogue

Customer Success Stories

Performance Management – KPIs, Scorecards and Dashboards

Lands’ End and Somerfield

Customer Success Stories

Performance Management – KPIs, Scorecards and Dashboards

Lands’ End and Somerfield

http://www.somerfield.co.uk/site/home/index.asp


10 Metrics To Monitor And Manage

Dashboards & Scorecards Key performance indicators (KPI) Stop-lights, speedometers, graphics, charts

Reports Alerts & updates Interactive and drillable reports

Historical perspective Actual to target Historical insight Proactive & predictive management

Proactive access to key indicators


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Lands' End a leading direct retailer owned by Sears

Situation Ineffective coordination of seasonal and promotional campaigns Insufficient inventory to meet customer demand Inability of management to anticipate and make timely decisions

Solution Workbenches to monitor key metrics for supply chain efficiency Gain visibility to item and product line performance Alerts to adjust inventory requirements at the DC and Store levels Analyze inventory and demand to reduce obsolete items

Benefits Over 30% reduction in lost sales Increased top line and profitable growth Improved customer service and satisfaction


12 Somerfield

5th largest Supermarket Retailer in UK Situation Vast amounts of poorly aggregated data Poor adherence to processes – store operations and product range review (category

management) Extensive cost of capital on inventory

Solution Balanced scorecard dashboard for senior execs and over 1,200 store managers KPI’s across finance, customers, human resources, new initiatives Custom analytic to track overall range review process Flag excess and limited stock quickly for corrective action

Benefits Align operations more closely with strategy Monitor and ensure adherence to corporate processes Identify issues fast enough to take corrective action “Speed to Shelf”


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CEO Management Dashboard


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Promotional Managers KPI Dashboard

Exception based information


15 Where to get more information and assistance:

What we can do for you: Contact us to engage with our sales teams on joint opportunities Get free training on our software Help you sell more of your software and understand how our BI solutions

promote the value of IBM software Use our software as a front end to many Portal, Workpace, Notes and Domino

solutions Become a Business Objects partner

Email:[email protected] or [email protected] me: 1-800-877-2340 extension 8156Download our portlets:http://www.businessobjects.com/jump/ibm/ws/default.asp

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