SAP® BusinessObjects™ EdgE BI, StAndArd PAckAgE

1 SAP Solutions for Small business and Midsize Companies SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, StAndArd PAckAgE Preferred business intelligence Choice for Growing Companies Executive Summary business intelligence for Midsize Companies SAP BusinessObjects Edge Busi . ness intelligence (BI) software is the business intelligence choice for midsize companies that want to improve busi . ness processes, discover new oppor . tunities, and get an advantage over the competition. The software delivers affordable functionality that addresses BI requirements from flexible ad hoc query, reporting, and analysis, to dash . boards and visualization, to powerful data quality and integration.

2 SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, stan . dard PAckAgE , offers midsize compa . nies an extensive BI solution that helps them transform the way they use in . formation to drive their business . The software helps provide an intuitive BI SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, StAndArd PAckAgE , experience wherever and however you work from mobile devices and dash . offers midsize companies an extensive BI solution boards to integration within Microsoft that helps them transform the way they use infor . Office. It offers many features, including: mation to drive their business . The software helps Flexible BI functions that you can provide an intuitive BI experience wherever and configure to your business Secure, clear, and understandable however you work from mobile devices and dash.

3 Data boards, to integration within Microsoft Office. Adaptable deployment options for faster time to value 2. Flexible BI to Meet Your business Needs A Single, Affordable PAckAgE SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, stan Live Data Access Within Microsoft and the creation of complex business dard PAckAgE , lets you deploy and use Office calculations. SAP BusinessObjects different business intelligence functions Edge BI, StAndArd PAckAgE , gives to complement the way you do busi Incorporating data into presentations, analysts a broad range of functions ness. It's available in a single, afford spreadsheets, and documents often for multidimensional data sets, helping able PAckAgE so you can address the is a time-consuming task especially them to quickly answer business ques.

4 Diverse needs of business users within when you need updates. With SAP tions and share their analysis and work your company and across your external BusinessObjects Edge BI, StAndArd space with others (see Figure 3). value chain. PAckAgE , your users conveniently ac . cess and use live company data direct . ly, leveraging familiar tools like Micro . soft Office and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (see Figure 2). Because the data is live, it's instantly updated while retaining all formatting and calculations in the Microsoft Office document. Plus, your information is secure, so colleagues view only the data they have the rights to access.

5 Whether it's inside the company firewall Figure 3: Complex Multidimensional Analysis or over an extranet deployment. Interactive Dashboard Viewing for Figure 1: Access to Data Live Within Executives and Managers a Web Browser For executives and managers, SAP. Ad Hoc Reporting, Query, and BusinessObjects Edge BI, StAndArd Analysis for business Users PAckAgE , lets you deliver personalized business dashboards and stunning With SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, visualizations (see Figure 4). It has StAndArd PAckAgE , your decision mak intuitive point-and-click features, visual ers can benefit from flexible ad hoc sliders, and gauges to help business reporting, query, and analysis via the users identify new opportunities and Web or offline without relying on IT challenges.

6 What-if analysis lets man . (see Figure 1). Using an intuitive Web agers proactively understand the im . interface, business users can access Figure 2: Accessing and Refreshing Data Live pact of decisions before they are made, company data that's presented in Within Microsoft Office potentially uncovering critical business business -friendly terms, analyze it us issues and opportunities. Users can ing intuitive point-and-click functionality, Comprehensive Analysis Function- also present multiple kinds of BI con . and format it to meet personalized ality for business Analysts tent in a single view to receive a quick requirements.

7 Your users have con and consolidated look at your business siderable flexibility in how they access, business analysts spend a large performance. format, and interact with their data on amount of time analyzing and exploring line or offline. Gut-feel decisions information, requiring fast access to are replaced by accurate, fact-based large multidimensional data sources decisions. 3. This functionality allows IT to create multiple reports based on different data sources and distribute them to a dy . namic list of recipients all with a sin . gle action. The reports can be loaded with data, personalized for each reci . pient, and combined into a single file, such as a PDF file.

8 Content can be op . tionally archived, printed, or e-mailed. This helps you schedule reporting more quickly and easily, and aids you in con . ducting more cost-effective one-on-one Figure 4: V. isual Models and Dashboards for Insight into Issues and Opportunities marketing campaigns and other person . alized high-volume report runs. Innovative Search and Exploration Content Delivery on a Wireless Functionality Device Flexible Deployment to Leverage Your Current Investments The Web-based search and exploration SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, stan . tool in SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI dard PAckAgE , helps organizations de SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, stan.

9 Software allows novice and experi liver content over virtually any wireless dard PAckAgE , is designed for flexible enced users to find, navigate, and ana device. business users can drill into deployment on a single server using lyze corporate data on the fly. Results data and interact with reports and met Linux or Microsoft Windows software. are displayed on interactive charts. rics to take immediate action. You can Its open architecture leverages many The charts are generated dynamically deploy the software quickly with no of the data sources, business applica . to include the data most likely to inter additional servers and fully leverage tions, and platforms you've already in.

10 Est the business user, and presented in the underlying security of SAP vested in. For example, if your develop . the chart type that makes the selected BusinessObjects Edge BI. business ment platform of choice is Java, our data intuitive to analyze. When the user users can be notified when a new re solution includes a software develop . filters the search parameters, the port has been scheduled or modified. ment kit that allows you to customize graphical representation of the results They can also define what types of your system to meet your specific changes accordingly. You can export alerts they want to receive through needs.