The comprehensive features and functions of SAP BusinessObjects Data Services can enable the following:

Agility – Leverage features that can accelerate time to market, encourage reuse and collaboration, increase developer productivity, and create unified skill sets.

Trusted information – Improve the reliability of your data with functions for data governance – including transparency, change management, security, and controls – global data support, and end-to-end metadata management.

Operational excellence – Gain a single data repository, platform, and environment so you can reduce costs associated with supporting multiple applications; Leverage multi-platform support for 64bit, Unix, Linux, and Windows.

Enterprise class – Benefit from highly scalable performance with support for parallelization and grid computing, enterprise connectivity, and support for service-oriented architecture (SOA).