Business Objects targets SME market with new BI offering
ConvergenceAsia Staff
17/07/2007

BI software company Business Objects has announced the availability of Crystal Decisions Professional Edition, a pre-optimised bundle of fully functional business intelligence (BI) modules, for Singapore's rapidly growing mid-market organisations.

According to consulting firm Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, many mid-tier companies (with 100 to 999 employees) in Singapore and across the Asia Pacific region are discovering the need for deploying business intelligence solutions in a bid to stay competitive.

SMEs require BI tools specifically tailored to their needs, which at the same time are affordable and easy to deploy and operate within small and less skilled IT departments.

Said V.R. Srivatsan, Vice President, South Asia, Business Objects, "Our customers look to us to provide innovative solutions that are easy to deploy, easy to use, and can deliver immediate value."

This new edition of the Business Objects Crystal Decisions suite offers the benefits of data integration functionalities as well as intelligent reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, and dashboards capabilities, to address specific SME requirements, like web reporting and data integration from multiple sources.

The data integration feature, which provides the ability to extract data from different database types that include Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle, Ingres, and integrate that data into a single target source, is especially critical for small and mid-sized companies that need to integrate their business intelligence functionality across multiple data sources.

Another key element of the new offering is an SME-friendly concurrent user licensing scheme. "This means that a 100-user company can buy 20 concurrent licenses optimised to their usage patterns, instead of having to buy a 100," said Srivatsan.

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