Business Objects  

Broadcast Agent

Broadcast Agent empowers Business Objects and WebIntelligence users to automatically process and publish their Business Objects documents via the repository, and intranet, or an extranet open to the WWW.

End Users can schedule documents for processing and distribution at times, which suit their businesses. This can help reduce network traffic congestion and enables documents to be printed or refreshed on the web at off-peak time.

By adding VBA routines to your BUSINESSOBJECTS documents, you can customize the system to automate almost any task. For example, a scheduled document can trigger a speech synthesizer call to a mobile telephone if a certain condition is met, or generate e-mail messages or pager signals to alert individuals to a given situation.

BROADCAST AGENT comes with the Broadcast Agent Console, which allows administrators to track and modify the scheduled automatic processing of documents through BROADCAST AGENT.

The Console is also available from BUSINESSOBJECTS so BUSINESSOBJECTS users can monitor the documents they have scheduled with BROADCAST AGENT. It can also be installed and used on any Windows machine on the same sub-net as the server cluster.

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