BusinessObjects InfoView

Navigate, Create, and Interact Easily access the webbased portal for corporate information, to create powerful documents and personalize your viewing experience.

Intuitive Web Environment for Exploring and Interacting with Information

Business users throughout your organization need quick-and-easy access to documents and information, to make timely and accurate decisions. What they need is a tool that simplifies information access and understanding, and helps them be more productiveby providing business intelligence (BI) information, and business and technical metadata within a web environment. BusinessObjects XI delivers an all-new, end-user BI portal interface BusinessObjects InfoViewa single web interface that accesses and interacts with any type of BI informationincluding reports, analytics, dashboards, scorecards, and strategy maps.

Put Context to Information via Integrated Discussions Threaded discussions provide underlying document context.

Self Service Scheduling With self-service scheduling, you can quickly deliver information as well as share documents in various formats for further interaction.

Flexible Deployment Support for Java and .NET web server standards

BusinessObjects InfoView is an all-new, intuitive, end-user web interface with integrated threaded discussions.

Navigate, Create, and Interact

BusinessObjects InfoView is a central web environment that allows end users to easily find the documents and information they need. Users can navigate using an integrated search facility as well as with a folder navigation tree. In addition, users can personalize their experience by customizing the folder or document they want to view when they login, choose their preferred language, and the level of interaction for different information. Some userssuch as business analystsmay choose interactive views of information, while otherssuch as business managersmight prefer a more static summary view using the My InfoView feature that allows for the creation of a personalized starting page.

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Put Context to Information via Integrated Discussions

Documents are often meaningless without contextual information. Threaded discussionsa fully-integrated feature of the InfoView environmenthelp users understand the business context of information in the document for better insight, leading to greater confidence in decisions. The platform allows for discussions to be displayed within the InfoView portal, as well as within performance management dashboards and scorecards, so your users can discuss and share business insight in any managed documents.

Self Service Scheduling

To increase user information empowerment, BusinessObjects Enterprise includes scheduling for BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and performance management metrics. Integrated scheduling from InfoView, combined with user-role based security allows users to quickly and easily deliver the right information to the people or groups that need it, regardless of whether the users are part of the BI Automaticallyscheduleyourdocumentsonarecurringbasisincluding system. Users can create schedules on onapredefinedbusinesscalendar. virtually any timetable including daily or weekly dates and times, as well as any business calendars. Users can share documents via email or send them to a system inbox, printer, or filein several different formatsallowing further interaction.

The Best Choice on the Market Today

BusinessObjects InfoView is a completely redesigned web interface that enables user to navigate, create, and interact with corporate information. Integrated search and navigation tools allow users to easily find the information they need. Users can also personalize their interactions to simplify consumption of corporate information. InfoView is built to support Java and Microsoft based web servers, to easily fit within your organizations IT infrastructure. To learn more about BusinessObjects Enterprise or BusinessObjects XI, visit our website at www.businessobjects.com

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