BOE Professional is the core BI Platform license that organizations license to deliver BI capabilities to end users and administrators. It includes a centralized and customizable BI platform for IT to manage and administer. Through a secure, personal BI portal (InfoView), end users have the right to work with one BI content type – Crystal Reports or Web Intelligence/Desktop Intelligence/Voyager.
Product Capabilities
Key end user BOE Professional capabilities include:
BI Portal
The InfoView BI portal allows users to view and work with one of the following two content types:
Crystal Reports content (BusinessObjects Enterprise Professional for Enterprise Reporting) – From BOE, users can view, refresh, and schedule Crystal Reports. Interaction, such as prompts and guided navigation, are permitted when the capability has been pre-engineered into the reports by the report author. Report authoring requires Crystal Reports.
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Web Intelligence/Desktop Intelligence/Voyager content (BusinessObjects Enterprise Professional for Query, Reporting, and Analysis) – From BOE, users can view, refresh, and schedule Web Intelligence and Voyager content. Interactive viewing is available with a Web Intelligence Interactive Viewing license. Interactive viewing and full self-service query and analysis capabilities require a full Web Intelligence license.
The BI Portal also supports the management of third party documents such as Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
Discussions
Threaded discussions provide collaboration to users from within the BI portal and within performance management dashboards and scorecards. Discussions are available for all BI content types.
Scheduling
Time-based scheduling of reports including support for business calendars
Sending reports to email, file server, or to other users within the system
Offline/batch processing of documents
BI Content Search
Securely find existing BI content from within the InfoView BI portal.
Key word search allows users to quickly find the right Crystal reports, Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence documents, and Dashboard Manager metrics.
New navigation capabilities categorize results, which helps users further refine their search and find the right information.
Auto report generation from search requires a Web Intelligence license.
Delivered with the BusinessObjects XI Release 2 Productivity Suite.
Auditing
Allow administrators to monitor, analyze, and optimize their BI system. BOE stores audit data in a relational database.
Configure and setup auditing database.
Track success and failure of system and user actions.
Leverage sample templates or create custom auditing reports.
Ad hoc analysis of your BI systems.
Identify and track trends.
Customers that are currently license for Auditor can receive Auditing provided they are current on maintenance.
Publishing
Ability to send information from a single report with information specific to each recipient.
Refresh selected documents once for each user based on their individual security profile.
Included in BOE Professional for Query, Reporting, and Analysis only.
Key administrative BOE Professional capabilities:
Web-based management console
License key management.
Security access control and configuration.
User & group creation/management.
Server/service setup and configuration.
Semantic layer creation• Universe and Business Views creation
Development and SDKs
Web services, Java, and .NET SDKs for application and portal integration.
Portal Integration Kits (PIKs) integrate BI content into popular enterprise portals.
SDK documentation.
•Management samples.
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