Trusted Business Intelligence choices for mid-sized organizations

BusinessObjects™ Edge Series is the business intelligence (BI) choice of mid-size companies that want to improve business processes, discover new opportunities, and gain an advantage over the competition. This comprehensive mid-market suite delivers solutions that address any BI requirement - from flexible ad hoc query reporting and analysis, to dashboards and visualization, to powerful data quality and integration.

Backed by our enterprise intelligence platform, BusinessObjects Edge Series 3.0 gives mid sized customers access to our latest technology innovations delivering the industry's most connected, interactive, and open business intelligence solution to Mid-Market customers.

Designed for small to mid-size companies like yours, BusinessObjects Edge Series provides an affordable and proven business intelligence (BI) solution. Now you can have the same insight into your business data as the big guys at a level of investment appropriate to your size.

There are two different versions of the BusinessObjects™ Edge Series: Standard and Professional.

Product Benefits

Easy to deploy, flexible, and affordable, BusinessObjects Edge Series 3.0 makes it simple for midsize companies to get immediate insight into their business data for fast, well-informed decisions.

Features:

• Reporting, query, and analysis
• Live data access in Microsoft Office applications
• Dashboard and interactive visualizations
• Security, scheduling, and management (including your existing Crystal Reports)
• Data Integration (extract, transform, load) and data quality (cleanse, validate, profile)

 

BusinessObjects Edge Series 3.0 Product Comparison Matrix

Feature	BusinessObjects Edge Standard	BusinessObjects Edge Professional
Operational Reporting	•	•
Ad hoc Query and Analysis	•	•
Dashboards	•	•
Office Integration	•	•
Security	•	•
Scheduling	•	•
Auditing	•	•
Mobile (add-on)	•	•
Data Integration		•
Data Quality (add-on)		•
Rapid Marts (add-on)		•

 

Technical Information

Version:	BusinessObjects Edge Series 3.0
Editions:	BusinessObjects Edge Standard, Business Objects Edge Professional
Data Sources:	Native, ODBC< OLE DB, and JDBC connectivity to relational, OLAP, web services, SML, legacy and enterprise data sources.
License Model:	5, 10 and 20 CALs(Concurrent Access Licenses)
Languages:	English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

 

Pricing & Purchasing Information