Free Webcasts

Attend a free webcast and learn about OnDemand software solutions from SAP BusinessObjects. Live seminars include question-and-answer sessions in which you can talk to presenters.

Live Webcast - March 10, 2010
The Next Generation of BI OnDemand - Register Now
Get a preview of the new SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand offering - including its interface and the online analytical tools that can help you be self-sufficient - and discover how you can get up and running with business intelligence with no prior experience or training. With BI OnDemand, you can access and explore data from any source, combine data in just a few clicks, and follow a guided path that walks you through reporting and analysis. You'll be able to view reports just like you could with crystalreports.com, and now you'll also be able to explore data and create visualizations on your own.

Recorded Webcasts

SaaS Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence in the Cloud - Register Now
With so many subscribers already using our software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) solutions, doesn't it make sense for you to find out what all the hype is about?

Many of our customers are leveraging our enterprise BI platform with minimal upfront investment by using our online report-sharing solutions.

Find out if your organization can join others who have achieved their business intelligence goals quickly and with lower upfront investments. Our customers are selecting our OnDemand solutions to achieve many different goals, but all are realizing similar results: a lower total cost of ownership and a more predictable business intelligence expense.

SaaS Business Intelligence
5 Reasons, 5 Uses, 5 Benefits: Using SaaS for Your Divisional BI Needs - Register Now
Leading companies are choosing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) solutions to provide reporting and analytics for divisions and business units. There are specific use cases where a SaaS model quickly delivers business value and grows with the needs of the business. It is a faster, less expensive option that can meet all your requirements.

Learn how divisions are using SaaS-based business intelligence solutions to meet the varying needs of their business users to get a more complete picture of how the organization is performing. Register now and hear:

Anil Chitkara, Senior Vice President, Oco Inc., share why companies are using SaaS for their divisional BI needs including case examples
Mike Beckerle, Chief Technology Officer, Oco Inc., discuss how large companies are using SaaS for their divisional BI needs
Aaron Graber, Senior Manager OnDemand Solutions Engineering, SAP BusinessObjects, share benefits companies have achieved using SaaS BI

Who should watch: Senior executives and managers responsible for IT and finance.

SaaS Business Intelligence
Share Critical Information Securely Beyond the Firewall - Register Now
How do you share critical information with customers or partners outside your firewall? Delivering reports via email - or worse, by hand - is ineffective: The data is quickly obsolete, and you have no control over who else may have access. In this prerecorded webcast, you'll learn how to:

Segregate report and dashboard viewing privileges among users based on their roles or requirements
Connect to and refresh web-based reports with "live" on-premise data - through your firewall
Extend the system to as many users as needed - with nothing to install and no additional dependency on IT
View reports from on-premise systems like Business Objects XI and Crystal Reports Server alongside web-based reports, all inside a single online account

SaaS Business Intelligence
How SaaS BI Can Improve Your Efficiency In Uncertain Times - Register Now
In this prerecorded 44-minute webcast, you will learn:

Key tactics SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand customers are using to manage, share, and analyze their data
How to share information securely with partners and customers beyond your company firewall
Options available for connecting to on-premise data sources and refreshing reports with "live" information

SaaS Business Intelligence - for OEM
Add Value to Your Application with Advanced Reports and Live Dashboards - Register Now
By building an online application, you have enabled your customers to be more nimble and responsive through your on-demand software solutions. But are your customers getting all of the insight they need from the data inside your applications?

Information is critical to success in the rapidly moving and occasionally fickle on-demand world. Now with the move of business intelligence (BI) to an on-demand model, BI applications have gotten easier to integrate in to your applications and more cost effective to deploy, allowing you to share more valuable insight.

Join SAP BusinessObjects, the leader in business intelligence, for a discussion of on-demand business intelligence solutions customized for your SaaS and on-demand applications, their impact, and why you can't afford not to employ them.

crystalreports.com for salesforce.com
Advanced Reporting for Salesforce.com - Register Now
As a salesforce.com customer, you understand gathering data is only the first step towards success. Reports from Salesforce still require a lot of hands-on manipulation to get to the level of insight you and your executives need to make effective decisions.

What's needed are advanced reports and live dashboards that can be shared instantly, simply, and securely - and crystalreports.com makes this possible. Attend this complimentary webcast and learn how to maximize the value of your Salesforce data. Join us and learn how to:

Create advanced reports and live dashboards from your Salesforce data
Publish, view, refresh, and schedule your reports over the web and inside Salesforce
Gain greater insight into your salesforce.com data with ad hoc query and analysis and live dashboards
Optimize the performance of reports against large Salesforce datasets via a hosted business intelligence solution

crystalreports.com for salesforce.com
Getting Started with crystalreports.com and Business Intelligence OnDemand for Salesforce.com - Register Now
Create and share advanced reports and live dashboards inside Salesforce. View this recorded seminar and learn how to:

Create exception reports, such as Accounts without Opportunities, using Crystal Reports and your Salesforce.com data
Install the Salesforce.com Driver into Crystal Reports, and how to install crystalreports.com into Salesforce.com
Publish, view, refresh, and schedule your reports over the web - inside Salesforce.com
Gain greater insight into your Salesforce.com data with ad hoc query and analysis and live dashboards

Inventory Management
The SAP BusinessObjects-Oco Inventory Management Solution: Identify Inventory Reduction Opportunities Within Weeks - Register Now
Is your company struggling to reduce and rebalance its inventory levels?

Are you trying to determine inventory levels in a multi-tiered distribution model?

Are you out of stock in one location while inventory of the same SKU sits in another?

Do you struggle to get a unified view of inventory and fulfillment source performance from multiple, disparate systems?

In today's tough economic times, more and more companies are looking to software-as-a-service (SaaS) on-demand business intelligence (BI) solutions to assess how they can quickly reduce inventory levels, assemble information, analyze operations, and gain new insights in how to improve performance.

Learn how to:

Reduce inventory by using an analytical reporting solution to get one global view of inventory with detailed data down to SKUs and locations, combined with expected demand usage.
Enhance global visibility into key business data to significantly reduce inventory in a few short months and drive increased customer experience.
Integrate data from disparate source systems to identify service supply chain performance and inventory levels across multiple geographies, organizations and product lines.

Presenters:

Steve Morandi, VP of Manufacturing Vertical, Oco, Inc.
Aaron Graber, Senior Manager, OnDemand Solutions Engineering, SAP BusinessObjects
Craig Cole, Global Strategic Operations Director, Beckman Coulter

Information OnDemand
BI On Demand: How to Make Your Business Intelligence Faster, Better, Stronger - Register Now
View this prerecorded webcast hosted by JVKellyGroup and Business Objects, and learn about:

The value of integrating external third-party data into your internal analysis
Tools and processes to report and improve supplier key performance indicators (KPIs) and improve supplier management
How to use dashboard visibility to drive continuous improvement
How to document and deliver cost avoidances and savings tracked in a dashboard to show the ongoing value-add of procurement