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SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio Value Proposition

Sean Anderson — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:18:31 +0000

If you’re evaluating business intelligence solutions, you’ll find that there are 3-4 main vendors in the market (SAP Business Objects, Microsoft, IBM Cognos, Oracle) who are gobbling up emerging technologies to add into their overall stack and that the overall stack can now include segments that were once considered separate (eg ETL tools and performance management). There are also emerging niche vendors who can tell very good stories of specific areas within business intelligence but struggle with overall picture. This 3-minute animated video explains the unique value proposition of the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio compared to the competitive offerings.

Sample Xcelsius Asset Utilization, Availability and Outage Dashboard

Ronald Moore — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:29:50 +0000

This sample interactive Xcelsius Asset Utilization, Availability and Outage Dashboard uses a combination of report tabs, scorecarding, bar charts, line charts, pie charts and dials to enable water utility executives and managers to analyze performance (both current and trend) with respect to:

Scheduled Compliance
Overall Equipment Efficiencies
Overtime
Asset Utilization
Asset Availability

In addition, it provides information on:

Backlogs (open orders)
% of Unplanned Orders
O&M Costs

Learn How MCI Reduced Billing Errors and Improved Customer Satisfaction

Sean Anderson — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:10:58 +0000

In this case study, MCI, a leader in the wholesale telecommunications industry, wanted to reduce the administrative burden of reporting and billing as well as improve the speed and access to customer information by consolidation data from multiple source systems.

By deploying Business Objects Enterprise Business Intelligence and Web Intelligence, MCIwas able to provide customers with 24/7 access to critical information and:

Reduce billing errors
Improve customer satisfaction

Customer Testimonial:

“Business Objects supplies us with much greater detail on how our communication services are consumed. We have a much broader vision. For example, we can track the trends and variances of our customers’ calls.”
Ron Briggs, Senior Business Intelligence Analyst Supporting Wholesale Services, MCI

You can view the entire embedded case study below. Alternatively, if you prefer to download a PDF copy of the case study to your desktop, please click on the link below to download the PDF file from SlideShare.

MCI Business Objects Case Study

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