Previous versions of this particular appliction have been released
with many different names, partially because of the constant changing
of ownership of this application, and partially because of the
ineptitude of the groups releasing the application. For this reason,
I will explain how this goes for you:
This is the main BI suite/portal. It was originally called Seagate
Crystal Enterprise (before version 9). For versions 9 and 10, it was
called Crystal Enterprise (Seagate sold the app). After 10, Crystal
was bought by a company called Business Objects, and BO decided that
using decimal numbers for versions was a silly idea, so the next two
versions of BO were called Business Objects Enterprise XI and XI R2.
Then Business Objects was bought by SAP, who decided that BO was
pretty stupid in moving from decimal's to roman numerals, but they
felt that the product needed the XI in its name, so they decided
to start it at v3.1, making this release as shown in the title.

I hope that clears things up for you, now enjoy this very fine
release from SHOCKiSO!
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise software is a flexible and scalable
information infrastructure that makes it easy for you to discover
and share insight for optimal decision making. Built on a
service-oriented architecture, the software offers an extensive
set of solutions on a single platform . and enables IT departments
to extend BI to any application or process in any environment.
With SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise, the BI software that empowers
your organization to gain uncontestable insight essential to making
cost-effective and profitable business decisions, you can:
Deliver the most extensive set of BI solutions on a single platform
for better and faster decision making while requiring minimal IT
dependence
Empower employees with visibility and self-service by providing a
single place where users can find the relevant information they need
to do their jobs

Reduce deployment- and maintenance-related costs by facilitating
integration with your existing IT infrastructure and deploying BI
applications for heterogeneous environments

Extend insight from BI to everyone by taking advantage of
near-linear scalability and technological innovations such as
built-in load balancing, caching services, and data sharing

Embed BI in any application or business process with comprehensive
integration capabilities such as fine-grained software development
kits and Web services

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