Overview of Web intelligence

Web Intelligence is designed to help organizations increase trust in decision making by providing
an intuitive, yet powerful, ad hoc query interface for business users and analysts, as well as
interactive viewing and analysis for casual users. With BusinessObjects XI Release 2, Web
Intelligence will introduce powerful new capabilities, making it easier for end users to access,analyze, and share information.

These features include:

1). The ability to access data from multiple universes and synchronize it within a single report (also known as synchronized multiple data providers)

2). The ability to create custom queries including sub queries, combined queries, and edit SQL

3). Support for the vast majority of the full-client formula language functions

4). Report creation features such as data ranking and custom sorts

BusinessObjects full-client capabilities that will be available with
Desktop Intelligence, but not available with Web Intelligence XI Release 2
include:

1). XML or visual basic data providers.

2). Specific power-user query capabilities designed for production reporting requirements.

3). The creation of queries built on the results of other queries.

4). Stored procedures (often used to group a set of SQL statements used in a query). (Note that organizations are now using the derived tables inherent in modern database systems to meet the same needs more efficiently).

5). Some specialized users of the BusinessObjects full-client generate queries using free-hand SQL. (Note that while this is not supported in Web Intelligence XI Release 2, it will be possible to edit existing SQL.) Many organizations are transferring the burden of custom SQL to the derived table method mentioned above. This ensures these specialized results areavailable for all users, and not confined to a single report