Designed for midsize companies or small businesses that want better visibility into their business to anticipate changing market conditions, this comprehensive set of business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions helps accelerate time to value, reduce risk, and optimize resources – supporting your needs today and in the future

SAP Business Objects Edge BI

Backed by our open intelligence platform, SAP Business Objects Edge BI software is available in three versions:

• SAP Business Objects Edge BI, standard package – Provides enterprise and ad hoc reporting and world-class visualization

• SAP Business Objects Edge BI, with data integration – Adds the ability to combine data from multiple sources; populate a data warehouse expediently; and leverage ad hoc, advanced, and drill-down analysis
• SAP Business Objects Edge BI, with data management – Adds data parsing, cleansing, and address synchronization

“What’s New in SAP Business Objects Edge BI” (935 KB)

SAP Business Objects Edge Planning and Consolidation

The SAP Business Objects Edge Planning and Consolidation application simplifies budgeting, planning, and forecasting, enabling all stakeholders to collaborate in allocating resources. The familiar Microsoft Office user interface improves productivity and user adoption, while decreasing training and support costs. In addition, you can close books faster by harmonizing charts of accounts, automating manual processes, and eliminating use of unreliable and time-consuming spreadsheets.

SAP Business Objects Edge Strategy Management

The SAP Business Objects Edge Strategy Management application provides the score-carding capabilities that can help you improve execution against strategic goals by tying metrics to initiatives, plans, and operational activities – so you can explicitly communicate accountability throughout the business. Greater visibility and transparency helps employees see how their day-to-day actions impact business goals.

Designed for midsize companies or small businesses, Xcelsius software illuminates your business data by providing consolidated views of key metrics – so you can answer key business questions at-a-glance. Interact with your data like never before with what-if scenarios and other visual components – and use your data to make informed decisions across your entire company.

Unlike other data visualization software that provides static charts and difficult-to-integrate dashboards, Xcelsius software enables a decision maker or business user to interact with information, from any data source, in the visual format that provides the most insight.

With Xcelsius software, you can:

• Create dashboards for personal use – Xcelsius Engage software gives you the power to transform complex data into a comprehensive dashboard. Create interactive dashboards from Microsoft Excel or a live data source, and export your dashboard to a familiar format – Microsoft Office, Flash (SWF) files, Adobe PDF, and more.
• Create visually stunning and interactive presentations – Xcelsius Present software provides a powerful presentation tool that bridges the gap between static spreadsheets and the need for visual, interactive presentations. Bring Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to life with interactive charts and what-if scenarios – no training or programming is required.

Xcelsius Present (419 KB)

Enhance your company’s performance with actionable data through interactive reports provided by Crystal Reports software. Reports are a critical foundation for successful business intelligence (BI) strategy, delivering the most-requested information reliably and securely – via the Web or your management applications

Small businesses have unique requirements for reporting and information access. You must make it easy for employees to create and modify reports and leverage data contained in a many locations, while minimizing impact on IT.

The Crystal Reports family of offerings – one of the defacto standards and most widely used reporting software in the world – can help you design, manage, and share reports more easily.

Design Reports

• Crystal Reports – Allow report designers as well as typical business users to create highly formatted reports, leveraging data from virtually any data source.
• Crystal Reports Visual Advantage – Bundles Crystal Reports and Xcelsius Engage software, allowing you to seamlessly embed what-if scenarios and visualizations into your Crystal Reports.

Manage and Share Reports

• Crystal Reports Server – Securely open, interact with, manage and share interactive reports and dashboards over the Web.
• Crystal Reports Viewer – Open and interact with Crystal Reports files, online or offline, with this free desktop application for Windows or Mac.
• crystalreports.com – Share reports over the Web instantly, simply, and securely – while we host your files for you, reducing your dependency on IT

“Crystal Reports 2008: What’s New” (54 KB)

Designed for midsize companies or small businesses that want better visibility into their business to anticipate changing market conditions, this comprehensive set of business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions helps accelerate time to value, reduce risk, and optimize resources – supporting your needs today and in the future

SAP Business Objects Edge BI

Backed by our open intelligence platform, SAP Business Objects Edge BI software is available in three versions:

• SAP Business Objects Edge BI, standard package – Provides enterprise and ad hoc reporting and world-class visualization
• SAP Business Objects Edge BI, with data integration – Adds the ability to combine data from multiple sources; populate a data warehouse expediently; and leverage ad hoc, advanced, and drill-down analysis
• SAP Business Objects Edge BI, with data management – Adds data parsing, cleansing, and address synchronization

“What’s New in SAP Business Objects Edge BI” (935 KB)

SAP Business Objects Edge Planning and Consolidation

The SAP Business Objects Edge Planning and Consolidation application simplifies budgeting, planning, and forecasting, enabling all stakeholders to collaborate in allocating resources. The familiar Microsoft Office user interface improves productivity and user adoption, while decreasing training and support costs. In addition, you can close books faster by harmonizing charts of accounts, automating manual processes, and eliminating use of unreliable and time-consuming spreadsheets.

SAP Business Objects Edge Strategy Management

The SAP Business Objects Edge Strategy Management application provides the score-carding capabilities that can help you improve execution against strategic goals by tying metrics to initiatives, plans, and operational activities – so you can explicitly communicate accountability throughout the business. Greater visibility and transparency helps employees see how their day-to-day actions impact business goals.