SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise software includes the following features and functions:

• Auditing – Allows administrators to monitor, analyze, and optimize SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise software using a set of reports and a sample audit universe
• BI content search – Enables information search from within an SAP BusinessObjects infoview component; Indexed content includes existing reports, metrics, and universe-based metadata.
• BI widgets – Delivers at-a-glance business intelligence to a desktop in the form of widgets; Using the software's simple drag-and-drop interface, you can organize, customize, and access BI content that matters to you – right from your desktop.
• Central management console – Provides an intuitive and comprehensive interface to manage, control, and configure an entire BI deployment; With integrated support for security entitlement databases and granular, object-level security access control, the console gives administrators tools to deploy virtually any BI project.
• Encyclopedia – Delivers improved user insight by providing informative BI reference guides for your organization's information; Accessible from within your BI portal, Encyclopedia helps end users locate and interpret corporate information for more confident and accurate decision making. (Note: This feature is available only with SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Premium.)
• InfoView – Collects and consolidates your company's BI information and presents it in a secure, personalized view through a BI portal for users inside and outside an organization; You can personalize how you view, manage, and distribute BI content. As a standalone BI portal, InfoView can easily integrate with popular enterprise information portals.
• Java portal integration kit – Integrates content directly with Java-based portals and provides business users with a personalized, single, secure view of corporate information.
• Life-cycle management – Helps organizations manage the promotions of BI content throughout its typical life cycle – development, testing, and production
• Publishing – Distributes personalized BI content to a mass audience in an automated and efficient manner
• Process tracker – Helps link BI content to your business processes for more consistent, proactive decision making; You can visually map, track, and communicate a business process through a set of activities and their associated reports and analytics. (Note: This feature is available only available with BusinessObjects Enterprise Premium.)
• Query as a Web service – Allows you to quickly create queries and publish them as Web services and allows secure delivery of BI information to any application that can consume Web services
• Microsoft Office SharePoint portal integration kit – Integrates content directly with Microsoft Office SharePoint portals and provides business users with a personalized, single, secure view of corporate information
• Software development kits – Include native Java EE and Microsoft .NET software development kits that provide tight integration with Java and Microsoft-based platforms; SAP BusinessObjects also offers a comprehensive set of Web services that expose BI capabilities as platform-agnostic interfaces.
• Universe designer – Acts as a graphical design tool used to create the rich semantic layer (metadata) that makes SAP BusinessObjects products intuitive for non-technical users