A Complete e-Business Intelligence Solution for the Enterprise

Business Objects has built its business by providing e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions that give mainstream business users the ability to access, analyze, and share information stored in their company databases; and by giving IT departments the tools necessary to control and manage that access, enterprise wide.

With more customer sites that exceed 10,000 users than any other e-BI vendor, Business Objects is uniquely positioned to help you manage a large e-BI user community. From retail and finance, to services and communications, all organizations need a high-performance e-BI solution if they are to retain market leadership in today's highly competitive landscape. Business Objects offers the easiest, most scaleable, and most tightly integrated e-business intelligence solution for your enterprise deployment.

The transformation of key business processes through the use of Internet technologies.

The Web is changing every aspect of our lives, but no area is undergoing as rapid and significant a change as the way businesses operate. As businesses incorporate Internet technology into their core business processes, they start to achieve real business value. Today, companies large and small are using the Web to communicate with their partners, to connect with their back-end data-systems, and to transact commerce. This is e-business — where the strength and reliability of traditional information technology meet the Internet.

This new Web + IT paradigm merges the standards, simplicity and connectivity of the Internet with the core processes that are the foundation of business. The new killer apps are interactive, transaction-intensive, and let people do business in more meaningful ways.

e-business processes

So how does your company become an e-business? How can becoming an e-business help you maximize the value of your information technology investment? How can it help you reduce your costs and grow your revenue? There are four important areas or stages in this process. We think of these four stages collectively as the e-business cycle. They are:

- Transforming core business processes.
- Building flexible, expandable e-business applications.
- Running a scalable, available, safe environment.
- Leveraging knowledge and information you've gained through e-business systems.

There isn't a set order or hierarchy to this cycle. Successful e-businesses start at different points, and you can, too. But first, you must identify which of your core business processes are most suitable for, or most in need of, conversion to e-business.