According to Gary Lawrence, country manager at Business Objects South Africa, the continued growth in size and scope of business intelligence (BI) deployments is forcing IT managers to balance end-user demands for higher performance and availability of the BI system while maintaining system and administration costs. Now more than ever IT needs to monitor, analyse, and optimise their business intelligence deployment.
Business intelligence vendor Business Objects` new version of Auditor 5.1, its Web-based auditing tool, accelerates return on investment (ROI) on its BI systems by allowing customers to better monitor the use of their BI systems, analyse usage patterns and trends, and optimise their BI solutions to generate new revenue opportunities.
Auditor 5.1 offers more deployment options and improved user features than the previous version, giving customers deeper insight into more aspects of their Business Objects deployment. By understanding how users really use the system, the database or BI administrator can tailor the BI solution to end users` evolving needs and can help guarantee the resources that will provide high availability and performance of the BI system.
"Being able to monitor BI systems is critical to enabling customers to tailor their systems to meet users` needs and realise a rapid return on their IT investment. Auditor enables customers to understand the day-to-day reality of the users and how that translates into back-end resources," said Lawrence.
Auditor 5.1 is built on the Business Objects platform and thus leverages all the benefits of the existing BI framework. A new interface, key indicators and reports provide easier access to essential BI system information.
"With this knowledge, our customers are better prepared to deploy BI across the enterprise and beyond," says Lawrence.
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Business Objects is the world`s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. BI lets organisations access, analyse, and share information internally with employees and externally with customers, suppliers, and partners. BI helps organisations improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings.
The company`s products include BusinessObjects 2000, the industry`s leading integrated business intelligence toolset and platform, and BusinessObjects Analytics, an integrated suite of enterprise analytic applications.
Business Objects pioneered the modern BI industry in 1990 by inventing a patented "semantic layer" that insulates users from the complexity of databases. In 1995, the company was first to focus on enterprise-scale BI deployments and today supports customers with more than 20 000 users. The company moved aggressively to the Internet in 1997 by pioneering the market for BI extranets, a market that it continues to lead today. In 2000, the company delivered the industry`s first interactive wireless BI solution. Today, Business Objects continues to innovate, creating and delivering a unique vision for enterprise analytic applications.
Business Objects has more than 14 000 customers in over 80 countries. The company`s stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris: code Euroclear France 12074, and included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. For more information, see www.businessobjects.com.
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