Business Objects and Oracle: Joint Solutions Overview

Business Objects for Oracle

Working together, Business Objects and Oracle empower organizations to make better decisions every day. We both recognize that business intelligence (BI) is one of the best opportunities for companies to enhance their ability to improve the bottom line, increase customer response time, and inform management about ongoing operational results. The alliance between Oracle and Business Objects represents a large opportunity for our customers to leverage their Oracle and Business Objects investments, with the added value of our joint solutions, to deliver enterprise-class BI.

Alliance Partners Business intelligence is one of the fastest growing opportunities, for both Oracle and our customers. By choosing this tightly integrated solution from Business Objects and Oracle, the leading BI and data warehousing vendors, our customers are able to deliver high-performance analytical power to their end users, while avoiding the costs associated with building and deploying separate OLAP servers. Bronwyn Hastings, Vice President, Worldwide Alliances and Channels, Oracle Corporation

Standardizing on Business Objects and Oracle

By choosing one of the tightly integrated solutions from Business Objects and Oracle the worlds leading BI and data warehousing vendors our joint customers are now able to better monitor corporate performance. Rationalization of the back-end environment for data storage and management, and business intelligence on the front-end, will help organizations to more efficiently deliver critical business information throughout the value chain and obtain an overall lower total cost of ownership.

An Integrated Solution Stack

With our expanding footprint of complementary solutions, there are significant value levers for joint Oracle and Business Objects customers including the ability to: Run products from Business Objects on any version of the Oracle database Deploy business intelligence content within your Oracle Portal Integrate information from diverse ERP environments including Oracle Applications Access relational and OLAP data from the Oracle Database Gain business insight and report across your Oracle Applications Standardizing on Business Objects and Oracle at the front and back-end is a significant opportunity for organizations to streamline costs and get a greater return on their information assets.

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Global Partners Business Objects is an Oracle Certified Partner and the largest BI vendor* within the Oracle Partner Network. Oracle is a Global Alliance Partner within the Business Objects Partner Program.

An Integrated Solution Stack:

Oracle Applications: BusinessObjects Data Integrator and Rapid Marts Business Objects provides the technology, tools, and packaged applications required to rapidly and successfully integrate Oracle Applications data with other systems. BusinessObjects Data Integrator is the industrys first real-time and batch data integration tool designed to simplify and speed data movement and data sharing across the enterprise. BusinessObjects Rapid Marts are packaged solutions to build data marts for business intelligence and other analytic applications. They are ideal for heterogeneous applications environments and combine domain knowledge with data integration best practices to deliver pre-built data models, transformation logic, and data flows for extracting data from enterprise applications like Oracle, as well as SAP, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, and Siebel. Oracle Application Server: BusinessObjects Portal Integration Kit Oracle Application Server customers can take advantage of the BusinessObjects Portal Integration Kit. This solution gives end users personalized access to secure and relevant business information, such as business intelligence reports, through an enterprise portal running on Oracle Application Server. Business Objects has developed six key business intelligence components from Business Objects InfoView, the companys business intelligence portal, as portlets for the Oracle Application Server catalog. Users access these Business Object portlets via Oracle Portal, gaining instant access to advanced BI functions such as list documents, search, and view documents. Oracle Database OLAP Option: Business Objects WebIntelligence Oracle Database customers can take advantage of market-leading business intelligence tools for accessing and exploiting Oracle Database embedded OLAP. The business trend toward more sophisticated and collaborative planning and analysis, and the need to distribute these applications broadly within and outside the organization accentuates the need for both an enterprise business intelligence platform and BI applications. The use of Business Objects WebIntelligence with Oracle OLAP provides the ideal combination of relational and multidimensional analysis in a single, integrated environment that allows organizations to maximize the potential of both BI solutions. This enables business users to benefit from access to a broader range of information faster, more easily, and more consistently.

Joint Customers The combination of Business Objects in the front end, and the Oracle database with embedded OLAP in the back end, is just what we needed to easily and quickly expand the analytical capabilities of our decision support system. Hans Van Raak, Head of IT, Audax BV

* As measured by annual revenue, market share and number of employees

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