New solution strengthens alignment between business intelligence and business operations and extends business intelligence to a wider audience.

Business Objects, a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, announced availability of BusinessObjects XI Built for Operational BI. The new solution extends the BusinessObjects XI platform and enables embedded analytics, process optimization and guided decision-making to make BI more useful to more people in an organization. BusinessObjects XI Built for Operational BI is part of a strategic initiative from Business Objects to bring insight to all users in an organization by making BI more process-aware and real-time enabled.

BusinessObjects XI Built for Operational BI provides two new integrated components designed to align BI with business processes—BusinessObjects Process Tracker and BusinessObjects Process Analysis. Together, these components provide the critical link between performance management and business operations by aligning BI with decision-centric business processes.

BusinessObjects XI Built for Operational BI enables:

• Embedded analytics, by giving more end users across an organization access to the information they need, when they need it, directly in the context of their business processes;
• Performance management on an entirely new scale, by combining business process data with alerting capabilities so enterprise performance is linked to operations in real-time; and
• Guided decision-making, by providing a framework for defining BI best practices and guiding users through effective, repeatable decision-making processes.

"BusinessObjects XI Built for Operational BI aligns business objectives to business processes where front-line employees need access to timely, accurate information to make mission-critical decisions every day," said Lance Walter, vice president of worldwide product marketing at Business Objects. In addition, BusinessObjects XI is the only platform that provides the entire spectrum of BI capabilities on a single, integrated platform, and the only platform to deliver these capabilities in an easy to use format that enables more users to take advantage of BI to improve operations.