BusinessObjects XI

Just now I'm playing with BusinessObjects XI(BO) to design the reports for customers demand. As for me, I'm more familiar with Crystal report than BO, a new era in IT to design the report to meet with customer requirements like crystal. I would like to mention(copy & paste) a few about BO. :P


BusinessObjects XI Release 2 is a complete suite of performance management, information management, reporting, and query and analysis software. It is consistently recognized as the industry’s leading business intelligence platform and enables companies to answer critical questions and share trusted insight across their organization. For additional information on BusinessObjects XI Release 2.



The key issued of using BO is that can create an environment where the users not required to know technically to view and retrieve the data for business decision and performance management.

I couldn't use not all BO tools from BO XI but designer and intelligence tools only. In BO designer, you need one dsn for DB connection to create the Universe which is the new interesting things in BO to make the relationship, joins & context between the tables. The BO intelligence tools seems like Crystal Report designer which can design the report with database fields and then can create the formula also. The main advantages is that can auto generate SQL and filter also.

I'm not very skillful in BO and just shared my experiences with new era. I think if you would like to play with BO, you will have some difficulties as it's lack of samples, source codes and information.