BusinessObjects Data Insight Features

Threshold Alerting
Allows users to establish thresholds and set up automated alerts to notify if analysis results exceed a specific quality metric.

Summary Profile
Runs best practice, first-look test with a few clicks. These tests help users drill down further in highly critical data elements.

Data Cleansing Rules
Specifies new data standards for cleansing, as well as address cleansing business rules.

Data Element Profiling
Specifies powerful assessment rules for a single data element, including pattern checks, ranges, lookups, occurrences, and more.

Cross-Table Profiling
Extends the power of data element profiling to work on elements across tables.

Sampling
Runs the tests on a sample of the source data, specified by either percentages, custom filters, or numbers.

Auto-Rule Inference and Referential Integrity
Automatically discovers business rules and relationships that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Robust Reporting
Provides information about defects to help plan for the cleansing of data stores and data warehouses. These reports include dashboard reports.

Custom Reporting
Stores a rich set of metadata that helps users build reports specific to their company.

Flexible Processing Models
Users can decide whether to process data in place (in current data warehouse or data store) or load data into the Data Insight XI application

User Notes
Users can insert notes for specific business rules to add their own logical names and business terms.

Scheduling
Allows users to schedule assessment rules to run during off-peak hours without operator intervention and report the results.

Custom SQL
Allows users who already have some assessment rules to import these rules and then schedule them with the new assessment rules.

Multiuser
Facilitates multiple data stewards sharing their projects, and then promoting these projects to production.