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KPIs are indicators which will be evaluated on a periodically basis in order to understand the organizations’ performance and take corrective action where needed. It is essential that these KPIs represent the strategic goals of the organization.

This is a standalone application used to compare a Business Objects report created in an earlier version, with a converted or migrated Business Objects report in a newer version. It uses color coding to alert the user about the detected changes. Also sometimes referred to as "Business 0bjects delta viewer".

This tool can be used to convert Business Objects DeskI reports (Desktop Intelligence) into Business Objects WebI reports (Web Intelligence). The original and converted reports need to be stored in the repository, known as the Central Management Server or CMS. This conversion does not always run smoothly and depending on the success, there are three levels of conversion (fully, partial and not converted) depending on the used features in the original report.

SAP Crystal Reports is a reporting solution that gives the user the possibility to create professional reports based upon multiple data sources which can be accessed by amongst others ODBC data connections.The reports can be exported to all known popular data formats and can be interactive integrated into portals and Microsoft Office documents by the use of applications like .NET, Java and COM applications.Crystal Reports focuses more on so called "operational reporting” and in its origin remains a report writer, where Webintelligence is more end-user oriented BI.

Business Objects Xcelcius is a Windows application that allows to create attractive, interactive visual dashboards, analysis, tables and graphs based upon plain Excel spreadsheets.It is completely integrated with the Microsoft Office products and does not require any programming skills. The output can be exported immediately into PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, Outlook or the web.Originally an acquisition by Business Objects, the product is meanwhile much better integrated in the latest SAP BusinessObjects releases.

A dashboard is an easy consumable BI user interface which can represent anything that is interesting to monitor or measure (mostly tactical or operational) in an integrated and visual way. Mostly the visualization of the data is done through interactive dials, sliders, check boxes, gauges, maps, traffic lights and other highly visual components. It records actuals performance and tells us how we are doing. A dashboard is not to be confused with a scorecard.

This is a data warehouse which holds the business data of an entire enterprise. The corresponding definitions have been accepted by the entire organization. The enterprise data warehouse is normalized and is source driven.

(Data) Consolidation is the concept of storing data, which exists in different systems and in different formats, in a central place and in a uniform way, from where it can be accessed by multiple users and applications.

This is one method in which a database or data warehouse can be designed. Data sourced from different operational systems is stored in such a way that it can be completely traced in term of history. In the data vault architecture you can have three basic entities: hub, link and satellite.

Data Integrity stands for the process that guarantees quality, reliability, outcome, trustworthiness, stability and consistency of the data.