EQM is not just for the large corporate. Every organisation needs to have control of their reporting environment and for some companies regulatory compliance is forced upon them before they are truly able to handle it. EQM helps you achieve compliance with regulatory standards, gives you better visibility and control of your environment and ensures that you grow your BI space in a controlled and calculated manner.

Who should consider EQM for SMB:

Business Objects customers who have

• 100 or less Business Objects user licenses on company level
• More then 6 months experience using Business Objects
• Pure Business Objects or mixed with Web Intelligence environments

Compelling Events

• Customer purchases (additional) Business Objects licenses
• Proliferation of Universes and Reports at customer site
• Migration from Business Objects 5 or 6 to XIr2
• Government regulations (e.g. audit trails for Sarbox or FDA)

Key Benifits

• Gain full insight and control over your Business Objects deployment
• Decrease BI development and support costs
• Faster return on Business Objects investments
• Migrate to XIr2 at least 40% faster (using EQM and proven SPECS methodology)

Key Capabilities

• Systematic Business Objects deployment
  • Change management capabilities; assign responsibilities to various users
  • environments in D(T)AP; more control / predictability / quality
  • Transfers of Universes/Reports using drag & drop; faultless workflow
  
  
• Version control on Universes and Reports
  • Analysis capabilities add intelligence to version control; reduced testing time
  • All versions are stored in EQM and can be restored at any time; ease of use
  • Difference analysis compare current and old versions automatically; save time
  • Impact analysis identify reports and queries impacted by Universe changes; reduce testing time to items which have changed … efficiency
  
  
• Real time monitoring of Business Objects & Web Intelligence
  • Monitor usage of Universes and Reports for BO, Web Intelligence and BCA; decrease support costs by deleting the non-used items (up to object level)
  • Monitor user-activity; decrease support costs by only supporting actual users
  • EQM stores all monitoring history for analysis; system optimization and advanced first line helpdesk support leads to improved BO user-satisfaction
  
  
• Software supported migration methodology
  • SPECS methodology and EQM help migrate to BO6 at least 40% faster
  • Monitor every step in the migration process; full control and accountability
  • Clean-up current BO deployment; no redundancy in newly migrated environment