Federal and national government agencies worldwide choose Business Objects

Business Objects, the world`s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that federal and national government agencies around the globe are selecting Business Objects to drive performance management initiatives. Business Objects is the leading provider of BI solutions for 2 000 public sector organisations world wide; in the US alone this includes the Department of Defense and every federal cabinet department. By deploying Business Objects, government organisations can improve programme delivery, service to citizens, and policy execution.

Compliance regulations and performance initiatives at the federal and national level such as the President`s Management Agenda, GPRA, and the European Union (EU) economic treaty have placed an increasing amount of pressure on government agencies to closely monitor their performance. To cope with these pressures, government organisations are turning to Business Objects to measure, track, and understand key performance metrics. With Business Objects, agencies can more easily map business objectives to operational and financial data, which helps organisations to troubleshoot and improve outcomes.

"Government agencies must improve efficiency and provide better service to their citizens," said Jay Johnson, VP of government at Business Objects. "Business Objects helps government institutions meet these goals by giving them trustworthy and current data, increased visibility across the organisation, and the ability to make smarter business decisions. We deliver the full spectrum of products that enable government leaders to keep their finger on the organisation`s pulse. That`s why so many government organisations are choosing to standardize on Business Objects."

Government customers around the world are using Business Objects as their BI standard. Those agencies include: Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury, National Weather Service, Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency, Military Health System, Department of Homeland Security, SOGEI (Italian Ministry of Finance), Italian Railway, Department for Work and Pensions (UK), National Offender Management System (UK), National Health Service (United Kingdom), Minist`ere de l`'education nationale (France) and Minist`ere des Finances (France).

The NCIS relies on BusinessObjects XI, including Web Intelligence and Dashboard Manager, for performance management. The solution is the agency`s BI standard for criminal investigations, counter-terrorism, and counterintelligence.

"Government organisations must adopt a performance-focused culture and business intelligence solutions are critical to this shift," said Rick Holgate, command information officer at NCIS. "At NCIS, it`s our duty to protect the Department of the Navy against terrorism and intelligence threats, and to reduce crime. It`s mission-critical that we have the most updated information at our finger tips to help identify patterns and trends in criminal activity and to manage our efforts across our entire mission portfolio. Business Objects enables us to retrieve and integrate accurate information from multiple sources, track and analyse problematic trends, and plan the right course of action. In addition, we now have increased transparency and accountability for how we are using resources and where there`s room for improvement. With dashboards and reports from Business Objects, we can deliver the right information to executives and other employees that need it to drive our organisation`s success."

The FDA uses Business Objects to track critical information about the agency`s 9 000 employees, and to access general human resource statistics, identify personnel trends, and predict potential workforce challenges. This helps the FDA maintain a world-class workforce, one of the agency`s top priorities. The FDA is in the process of migrating to BusinessObjects XI Release 2, which will offer the agency increased simplicity and enable them to extend the value of BI further across the organisation.

"All modern organisations live and die by their ability to capture and disseminate information accurately and rapidly," said Ray Russo, director of Business Enterprise Solutions, Office of the CIO, at the FDA. "Business Objects allows the FDA to do this easily and strategically. Business Objects is the premier ad hoc reporting solution for non-technical people to create and share reports. We`re excited about the new simplicity and security capabilities we`ll have access to when we migrate to BusinessObjects XI Release 2."

BusinessObjects XI Release 2 will provide NOMS with an integrated solution for enterprise information management, reporting, analysis and performance management. These capabilities will enable NOMS to deliver C-NOMIS, an end-to-end offender management system that consolidates more than 200 disparate prison and probation service databases to provide a single, accurate profile of an offender.

"A key factor in our decision to standardize on Business Objects was its ability to provide one platform for data integration, data integrity, and business intelligence," said Roy Suffield, C-NOMIS Project Director. "With C-NOMIS, we are using Business Objects to provide immediate access to an integrated view of trustworthy information for each offender. This powerful offender intelligence system will help transform the way correctional services staff receive information, improving productivity and enabling them to make more informed decisions which in turn will help them better protect the public. The expected time and operational cost savings are significant, in the region of lb50 million per year. In addition, C-NOMIS will be integral to helping NOMS achieve targets to reduce re-offending by 10% by the end of the decade."

Ferrovie dello Stato implemented Business Objects to gain a real-time view of data and a centralised information management solution that provides each of the group`s companies with the freedom to analyse the data.

"The Business Objects solutions have made a vast and complex amount of information transparent and accessible in real-time," said Riccardo Santoro, application architect at Ferrovie dello Stato Holding Company. "We are now able to coordinate our companies efficiently, while allowing each an appropriate level of freedom to make the technological choices that aid their strategic decision-making. The rapid improvement in the group`s processes has accelerated return on investment and enabled Ferrovie to quickly derive benefits from the solution."