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Business Objects Labs brings you some new software prototypes based on concepts and ideas we've heard from our customers, partners, and internal teams. We may or may not include them into our future products, so please download them and give them a try. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, and what else you'd like to see from us. Send your comments directly to the Labs.

Press release: Business Objects Announces Business Objects Labs

Business Objects has also initiated the "Academic Research Center (ARC)" for longer term innovation.

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BI Widgets on AIR

BI Widgets on AIR is a prototype of an Adobe Air Rich Internet Application that delivers personalized intelligent information for everyone. With BI Widgets users can quickly and easily search and access BI content, create personal dashboards on their desktop, and integrate BI content into other Windows applications using drag and drop.

April 14, 2008 - Give us feedback

Xcelsius Export to AIR

The Adobe's introduction of the AIR framework brings new possibilities for deploying your Xcelsius dashboards and analytics as desktop applications. Xcelsius export to AIR enables you to deliver interactive, live business dashboards and widgets to your end-users’s desktops with a click of a button. AIR applications built with Xcelsius run across different operating systems, without a web browser and provide all the convenience of desktop applications.

March 14, 2008 - Give us feedback

BISense

BISense provides a very easy and intuitive way to enhance web applications with contextual Business Intelligence content. Wouldn’t it be great to get the most relevant BI content automatically displayed when navigating a web page?

March 6, 2008 - Give us feedback

Data Accelerator

Data Accelerator enables universe designers to speed up their universe query performance and leverage their database server power via the use of aggregate tables

March 3, 2008 - Give us feedback

Exploration Trees

Exploration Trees give you the big and small picture of your business in a single glance, while allowing you to analyze up, down, and across your information. With Exploration Trees, you can do a deep analysis of your data while keeping the high level context, quickly and in a visual way.

December 31, 2007 - Give us feedback

Intelligent Search for Google Desktop

Intelligent Search for Google Desktop extends Google Desktop to "go the extra mile" – helping you find documents faster and locate hidden information that would otherwise be overlooked. Search results are automatically grouped, enabling users to preview document content, navigate through documents and filter their result sets by key mentions: people, companies, places, concepts, and other relevant information contained within the full text of results sets and documents.

December 31, 2007 - Give us feedback

Query and Business Rules Integration White Paper

Extracting, transforming and using information within business processes in a meaningful way through heterogeneous integration is a challenging task. Information extractions and entry points must be defined while preserving data integrity requirements.

This white paper explains how to quickly integrate Business Objects query technology with business rules. It is based on a practical sample based on ILOG JRules BRMS in a service oriented architecture (SOA).

December 31, 2007 - Give us feedback

Take Action as a Web Service

Take Action as a Web Service (TAWS) helps align business intelligence with operational systems. With TAWS, business users can leverage BI context to securely interact with their enterprise business processes.

TAWS is a framework for hosting service-oriented actions and delivering web services targeted to business users. Writeback, the first module delivered with TAWS, allows non-developer users to easily create actions to write data back into relational databases. Users can quickly build scripts and publish them as a web service, thanks to an easy-to-use graphical designer. This web service can then be consumed by any web service-enabled application.

October 26, 2007 - Give us feedback

Content Rating

Content Rating allows users to rate and share their opinions on published BI content in a collaborative manner. It also enables to define and manage document validation. Content Rating is fully integrated with BusinessObjects XI Release 2 BI portal and provides a new way of enriching existing BI content with valuable context.

October 3, 2007 - Give us feedback

BI Annotator

BI Annotator allows BI users to relate and combine text data to business dimensions in a database/datawarehouse. Both text and structured data are exposed to business users via a single Business Objects semantic layer (or universe) and directly consumed by BusinessObjects XI R2 reports.

July 30, 2007 - Give us feedback

BI Desktop

BI Desktop has been renamed to BI Widgets (.Net version) and has graduated from the Labs, it is now part of BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0. Learn more about BusinessObjects XI 3.0. BI Widgets accelerates the decision-making process by delivering timely, personalized intelligent information for everyone. End users can quickly and easily search, organize, and access business intelligence (BI)content right from their desktop using drag and drop. This results in simplified access to BI, and increased productivity for end users as well as reduced cost of deployment for IT.

July 6, 2007 - Give us feedback

Web Intelligence Extension Points (for developers)

Web Intelligence Extension Points allow developers to programmatically extend and customize the functionality of the Web Intelligence ad-hoc reporting client. The ability to configure, customize, and extend the functionality of the Web Intelligence XI R2 SP2 Java client means that Web Intelligence workflows, feature sets, and interface can be completely adapted to your business environment and needs.
May 21, 2007 - Give us feedback

Data Feed as a Universe

Data Feed as a Universe allows business intelligence (BI) users to retrieve and combine data from RSS feeds and Web Services (including QaaWS) with data warehouse and other internal BI information. External data are exposed to business users through semantic layer universes in BusinessObjects XI R2. Other examples of external data include CSV files and Excel files.
March 31, 2007 - Give us feedback

Business Objects Masher

Combine web application resources like Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps and/or new types of visualizations into your business intelligence (BI) content. This component allows developers to create BI 'templates' that allow ordinary business users to use mashup visualizations just like any other Web Intelligence chart. Business Objects Masher includes an extended set of chart types and pre-built access to Google Map views.
March 31, 2007 - Give us feedback

Visual Data Analyzer

Visual Data Analyzer lets users easily and interactively visualize, analyze, and understand semantic, relational, and OLAP data.
November 2, 2006 - Give us feedback

Mobile Business Intelligence (MoBI)

MoBI is a J2ME application that allows end users to interact with BI content in real time, see metrics live, and drill into performance data precisely when needed. MoBI truly puts the power of the BusinessObjects XI Release 2 suite at an end user's fingertips.
September 18, 2006 - Give us feedback
MoBI is now an official Business Objects product - Learn more

BI Collaborator (Windows Live Messenger integration)

Discuss the findings within your business intelligence content with a colleague instantly via Windows Live Messenger.
August 1, 2006 - Give us feedback

Query as a Web Service

Query as a Web Service is a small desktop wizard that allows you to create web services for specific Business Objects queries. Using Business Objects’ web services, you can share these queries with authorized users anywhere within any software application.
November 14, 2006 - Give us feedback
Query as a Web service is now an official Business Objects product - Learn more

Developer Tool

Open Quark is a high performance, general purpose functional language and runtime for the Java platform that enables representation of business logic as reusable, composable pieces embeddable within the Java environment as objects called "Gems." The framework and core tooling is released here with sources under a flexible BSD-style license.
November 14, 2006 - Give us feedback

Bernard Liautaud on Business Objects Labs

"The worlds of technology, media, and global commerce are going through a massive transformation. And nowhere is this more evident than in business intelligence, where a BI 2.0 revolution is taking place. By applying emerging technologies like mashups, search, and web-collaboration, we can dramatically simplify and increase the value of BI to more users, and in so doing allow people to use business intelligence to transform the way the world works."

Bernard Liautaud, founder, chairman of the board, and chief strategy officer at Business Objects
Read the press release here