Business Objects  

BUSINESSOBJECTS is an integrated query, reporting and analysis solution for business professionals that allows you to access the data in your corporate databases directly from your desktop and present and analyze this information in a BUSINESSOBJECTS document.

BUSINESSOBJECTS makes it easy to access this data, because you work with it in business terms that are familiar to you, not technical database terms like SQL. You don’t need any knowledge of the database structure or technology.

Once you’ve used BUSINESSOBJECTS to access the data you need, you can present the information in reports as simple as tables 

or as sophisticated as dynamic documents with drillable charts.

You can then save those documents for your own personal use, send them to other users, or publish them to the corporate repository for potentially even broader circulation.

You can add images and embedded objects and format your documents to high presentation standards for viewing on screen or for printing.

On-report analysis allows you to switch your business perspective by dragging and dropping data, insert on-report calculations or drill into a report for detailed information:

You can quickly and easily share the documents you have created with other
users in your company, either by sending them directly to selected individuals or groups, or by publishing them as corporate documents. When you distribute documents in these different ways, you use the BUSINESSOBJECTS repository. 

The repository stores the documents you send so that other users can retrieve and view them. It also stores information about the documents it stores, such as name of sender, date and time, and also which users in the company have the right to retrieve and view a document.