Labs

BI Desktop Graduated From the Labs

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.

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Benefits

BI Widgets is a small .NET application that delivers BI to end users' desktop in the form of "desktop widgets." BI Widgets enables enterprise BI to be easily deployed on Windows workstations in a very user friendly manner and reduces the number of steps required to access BI information traditionally viewed in a browser.

BI Desktop

Technology Gets Personal

At Symposium/ITxpo 2006, Gartner stated: "We expect that during the next 30 years of this journey, technology will continue to drive further and further into business, but the real transformation will be the way technology reaches individuals and changes the way we work and play. If the last 30 years have been about delivering technology to the enterprise — the next 30 years will be about technology transforming the lives of individuals. Technology is getting personal."

BI Widgets explores some of the ways that this trend towards personalization might impact the delivery and consumption of business intelligence. BI Widgets framework provides the following functionality:

BI Desktop