Live Office Infuses Microsoft Office with Intelligent Information

Live Office integrates with Microsoft Office, embedding up-to-the-minute corporate data in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word documents. This releases you from your dependency on IT and provides self-service access to your trusted business intelligence (BI) from within your familiar business tools. Then, you can share the resulting Office documents with others over the web for collaborative decision-making.

Live Office Features

• Self-Service Access
  Access business intelligence (BI) content directly within Microsoft Office - no IT assistance required. Select data from a Crystal Reports report, Web Intelligence document, or via ad hoc data selections—all within Microsoft Office.

• Trusted Information
  With Live Office, your Office documents display data from the same trusted source that supports your organization's decision-making and enterprise performance - the BI platform.

• Secure, Direct Refresh
  Automatically refresh a single data item - or all the data in your Office document. Instant refreshing and refiltering put the most accurate, up-to-date data at your fingertips for more confident decisions.

• Formatting and Calculations
  Once you have embedded your BI data, format and perform calculations using familiar features of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. All formatting and calculations are retained.

• Shared Documents
  Publish Office documents to BusinessObjects Enterprise for instant access over the web or email your "live" Office documents - security is maintained, even when you share the document outside the firewall.

  

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