SAP Product Brief

SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence Solutions

SAP BusinessObjects
LIVE OFFICE
INFUSE MICROSOFT OFFICE DOCUMENTS
WITH BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Trusted Information for Any

Microsoft Office User
Business users often spend too much
time collecting corporate data for use in
Microsoft Office documents. Usually the
data resides within multiple systems, and
its hard to be sure youre working with
the most recent information. The cycle
of uncertainty repeats every time you
need to update or change data. And on
top of the challenges with accessing

and trusting the data, few if any safeguards are in place to make sure it only
goes to the authorized recipients.
The SAP BusinessObjects Live Office
software integrates information within
your Microsoft Office environment
which means you can quickly embed
accurate, refreshable data into documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
The result is a document you can share
with others for secure, collaborative
decision making.

Figure: Inserting Data from Reports and Ad Hoc Queries into Your Microsoft Office Documents

The SAP BusinessObjects

Live Office software integrates business intelligence
(BI) within the Microsoft
Office environment. Embed
trusted, refreshable data
within Microsoft Office documents to share with your
coworkers. Or go beyond
the organizations firewall by
adding BI directly in Microsoft
Outlook e-mail messages.

Self-Service Access to Corporate

Data

SAP BusinessObjects
Live Office helps you
embed trusted, refreshable corporate data into
Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets,
presentations, and
e-mail messages.

Without help from IT, locating the precise data you want can be difficult and
time consuming. SAP BusinessObjects
Live Office gives you convenient, selfservice access to corporate information.
You log on once to a single, centralized
system to access all the key data you
need. Using intuitive wizards and toolbars, you connect to and select data
from documents in Crystal Reports or
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
software or via ad hoc data selections
all within Microsoft Office. Once
youve embedded the information into
your document, you can quickly format,
reorganize, and perform calculations
using the familiar features in Microsoft
Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.

Confident Business Decisions

SAP BusinessObjects Live Office lets
you embed refreshable, corporate data
managed by the SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise software, a flexible and scalable intelligence platform. Use SAP
BusinessObjects Live Office to access
live data connected to accurate underlying reports and business-friendly queries data your IT team has already
verified. Modify data filters and formulas as needed, while retaining all existing formatting and calculations. Then
automatically refresh a single item
or all the data in your document for
instant access to the most up-to-date
information.

With SAP BusinessObjects Live Office,

your Microsoft Office documents display
data from the same trusted semantic
layer that supports your companys
query, reporting, and analysis system.
When everyone uses the same correct
source of information, you dont spend
time disputing the validity of the data.
Instead, everyone focuses on making
quicker, more confident decisions. SAP
BusinessObjects Live Office helps you
be confident that the data you access
is timely, consistent, and accurate.

Secure, Shared Documents

Traditionally, Microsoft Office documents contain static information that
relies solely on version control for
proper updating and a password for
security.
SAP BusinessObjects Live Office
takes advantage of the security SAP
BusinessObjects Enterprise provides.
You can publish documents to SAP

SAP BusinessObjects Live

Office gives you convenient,
self-service access to
corporate data and puts the
most accurate, up-to-date
information at your fingertips for more confident
decisions.

BusinessObjects Enterprise for instant

access over the Web or embed them
directly in your e-mail messages using
Microsoft Outlook. The underlying
report automatically retains your security
parameters to help ensure that users
see only the data they should have
access to and security is maintained,
even when you share the document
outside the firewall.

Share and Present BI with

Microsoft Office Today
By integrating data within the Microsoft
Office environment, SAP BusinessObjects Live Office gives you an efficient method for embedding trusted
data in your documents, spreadsheets,
presentations, and e-mail messages
and increasing business users selfsufficiency. Instant refreshing puts the
most accurate, up-to-date data at your
fingertips for more confident decisions.
And by taking advantage of the proven
infrastructure from SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise, you can share any
resulting documents securely with
others for collaborative decision making.

Find Out More

The benefits of SAP BusinessObjects
Live Office can be realized today in
all supported versions of Microsoft
Office. To learn more about SAP
BusinessObjects Live Office, call your
SAP representative or visit our Web site
at www.sap.com/sapbusinessobjects.

SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio of

Solutions
The SAP BusinessObjects portfolio of
solutions helps you optimize business
performance by enabling you to close
the gap between strategy and execution
while addressing business and compliance risks. To manage operations effectively, contain costs, and meet customer demands, you need comprehensive
business solutions that provide complete and integrated business information. With insight into every aspect of
the business, you can monitor performance, spot inefficiencies, and identify
opportunities for growth.
In the face of growing compliance
challenges including environmental,
health, financial, trade, border security,
waste disposal, and specific customer
requirements you need to build controls and checks into your business
processes. Supporting regulatory compliance also requires these processes
to be fully transparent.

Turn Insight into Strategy

SAP BusinessObjects solutions are
open, action-oriented, and connected.
They deliver a complete, intuitive profile
of business performance using any
data from any application and any platform and ease collaboration to improve
decisions and resolve issues. The solutions automatically detect significant
risks and performance issues within
and beyond the business.

By taking advantage of
the proven infrastructure
from SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise, you
can share any resulting
Microsoft Office documents securely with
others for collaborative
decision making.

With the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, you gain broader insight and can
align strategy, optimize decisions, and
improve risk management, regardless
of underlying transactional systems.
The SAP BusinessObjects portfolio
provides consistent, integrated solutions that are portable and interoperable, transforming the way you work
by connecting people and information
and optimizing business performance.
In short, SAP BusinessObjects solutions help you turn insight into strategy
and strategy into operational decisions
ready for execution.

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Summary
SAP BusinessObjects Live Office software integrates business intelligence (BI) within
the Microsoft Office environment. Embed trusted, refreshable data within documents,
spreadsheets, and presentations and share them with your coworkers. Or go beyond the
organizations firewall by adding BI directly in your e-mail messages using Microsoft
Outlook.
Business Challenges
Reliance of business users on IT department to provide reports and data
Constant discussions over data accuracy that delay decisions
Assurance that data in Microsoft Office documents stays current without struggling
with version control
Security of documents while sharing them
Productivity loss caused by manually updating spreadsheets
Learning curve associated with advanced BI analysis tools
Key Features
Self-service access Access BI content directly within Microsoft Office documents
without IT assistance
Sharable documents Publish Microsoft Office documents to SAP BusinessObjects
Enterprise software for instant access over the Web, while maintaining data security
even when shared outside the organization
Trusted information Display data in documents from the same trusted source that
supports your organizations intelligence platform
Secure, direct refresh Automatically refresh a single data item or all data in your
document to stay current
Business intelligence in Microsoft Outlook Embed BI directly in your e-mail
messages using Microsoft Outlook
Formatting and calculations Format and perform calculations using familiar features
of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
Business Benets
Support confident business decisions based on current, accurate information
Share trusted data for collaborative decision making while maintaining security
Eliminate time-wasting debates over data accuracy
Improve business users self-sufficiency and decrease IT involvement
Reduce the cost of delivering BI by leveraging your existing BI content and metadata
investment
For More Information
To learn more about SAP BusinessObjects Live Office, call your SAP representative
or visit our Web site at www.sap.com/sapbusinessobjects.

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