Polestar

SAP BusinessObjects Polestar combines the simplicity and speed of search with the trust and analytical power of business intelligence (BI) to provide immediate answers to business questions. Users employ familiar keyword searches to find information and explore data directly. Polestar leverages the BI platform's universe metadata, security, trust and administration services – reducing IT backlog and making it deployable in days.

Product Benefits
With Polestar, you can:

Provide self-service business intelligence for all users
Get fast facts and answer investigative questions
Explore and understand new data sources and unexamined parts of the business
Eliminate the need to understand the data, where it's located or how it's structured
Ensure that information is secure, trustworthy and easily sharable
Deploy in days, not months
Fully leverage existing BI investments, including metadata, security and administrative services
Reduce IT and report author backlog

Technical Details
Version: SAP BusinessObjects XI R2 Data Sources: Operational applications, data warehouses, marts, RDBMS, OLAP servers and even unstructured sources recently processed via SAP BusinessObjects Text Analysis. Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish

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