Foreword
Business Objects launched the modern business intelligence (BI) industry 16 years ago with a simple but profound idea: a “semantic layer” that would make it easy for nontechnical business users to access data from various databases and applications and create reports from their business systems without requiring programming help from the IT or IS department. In the years since, BI has evolved far beyond this modest goal into a comprehensive set of technologies that are, organization by organization, changing the way the world does business.
BusinessObjects XI Release 2 is the latest BI platform from Business Objects and represents ...