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

System Requirements

Minimum hardware requirements: 1 CPU - 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 MB hard disk space Operating Systems: Windows 2000 SP4 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 SP4 Datacenter Server, Windows 2000 SP4 Server, Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 Web Edition, Windows Server 2003 SP1 Datacenter Edition, Windows Server 2003 SP1 Enterprise Edition, Windows Server 2003 SP1 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 SP1 Web Edition, Windows 2003, Windows 2003 SP1 Internet Browsers and Plug-ins: Internet Explorer 6.0.1 or later, Firefox 1.0.4 or later, Safari 1.3 or later, Adobe Flash Player 9 Web Application Server: Tomcat 5.0.27

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