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SAP® BusinessObjects™ BI STARTER PACKAGE

ENABLING GREATER INSIGHT FOR MORE CONFIDENT DECISIONS

Worldwide, every business faces demands to cut costs, improve performance, streamline processes, and increase productivity. Despite executive and management efforts to makewellinformed decisions an everyday reality, one of the remaining obstacles to fulfilling business requirements is the failure to empower employees with timely, relevant, and trustworthy information. Business users require access to the right information, at the right time, from a variety of sources. They need the appropriate interfaces to work with diverse information and make confident decisions.

Theresult of not having access to the right information, at the right time, from any source can seriously affect the productivity and success of employees and decision makers. The effect of inadequate access to information, whether too little or too much, is profound, and exposes organizations to several risks and challenges. In a survey conducted by The Economist of executives from variousindustries, a majority of the 565 respondents cited inadequate access to information as a contributing factor to lost productivity. Close to half of those respondents mentioned that inadequate access contributed to flawed decision making and loss of agility when responding to competitive threats and new opportunities (see figure).1

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What is the impact on you and your company of inadequate access to the information you need to get your job done? (Choose the top three)
Lost productivity 54% Flawed decision making 47% Loss of agility or competitive responsiveness 45% Inability tooptimize processes 31% Lower quality 26% Higher costs 24% Limited or delayed innovation 24% Limited process compliance 9% Figure: Impact of Inadequate Access to Information 1. “Understanding risks and opportunities,” an Economist Intelligence Unit report sponsored by SAP, 2007.

In addition to hindering employees’ decision-making ability and affecting individual performance, poor access toinformation has tremendous effects at the organizational level as well. Negative outcomes may include: • Questionable data that reduces productivity and challenges wide-ranging consensus • Delayed decisions, resulting in missed opportunities, lost revenue, and cost escalation • Reduced confidence across the organization that limits momentum and helps maintain the status quo – often the least-desirableoutcome Compounded, these effects reduce profitability for the organization and severely limit its ability to react to changes as the market evolves.

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• SAP solutions • Oracle E-Business Suite applications • PeopleSoft Enterprise applications • JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications • Siebel software This level of connectivity makes the most of data that is stored in leading enterprise applications, used by organizations worldwide. With the starter package, your organizationcan consolidate and transform its vast amounts of corporate data into meaningful information for more effective decision making. Meeting the Information Needs of All Your Business Users The SAP BusinessObjects BI starter package supports all the information access needs – reports, analyses, dashboards, and visualizations – of the business users across your organization. By giving each employee...