As the amount of data that businesses collect increases, it becomes more difficult to turn that data into decision-making information. And this is no truer that in the mid-market space, which most business intelligence vendors have ignored over the years, preferring to focus their energies (and products) on larger enterprise deployments.
But that is slowly changing as BI vendors recognise the value of the mid-market. Business Objects is one of the vendors trying to capitalise on that market segment with the release of Crystal Vision Server, a new product combining reporting with data visualisation.
Most IT professionals would have heard of Crystal Reports, but Business Objects has recently expanded the Crystal Product line, incorporating technology the company acquired from Infomersion. The original Infomersion product has been rebranded Crystal Xcelsius and integrated into the product family.
The new Crystal Vision product line combines technology from Crystal Reports, Crystal Xcelsius and Business Object's Live Office product to provide reports, dashboards and interactive analytics across a variety of data sources. This 360 degree, consolidated approach ensures that even smaller organisations can access the information they need to make better decisions. They also get facts "at-a-glance" with interactive dashboards that allow them to do what-if analysis and present information in an easy-to-ready visual format.
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