Business Intelligence

Sun's reputation for integrity and our relationships with our stakeholders are among our most important assets. Sun's Standards of Business Conduct set forth the guidelines by which we expect our employees to act in order to safeguard those assets. Since the first edition of Sun's Standards of Business Conduct was published in 1991, our company and our industry have undergone unprecedented growth and change. Over the years, we have periodically updated and revised our Standards of Business Conduct to reflect changes in our business and address new ethical and legal challenges. However, the core values encompassed by our original Standards of Business Conduct continue to form the foundation of our company today.

Scorecards enhance conventional reporting by including user-set targets. You can set targets for operational priorities in your own department and monitor your progress. You can also use targets to manage objectives and execute on the larger strategy with approaches such as the Balanced Scorecard. Cognos scorecarding is a core capability of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture. It delivers seamless reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and business event management. It makes all systems and data sources available. It simplifies your IT environment and the way everyone works with information.

Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognised leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market. With 12 million users, 88,700 installations, and more than 1,500 partners, SAP is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's third-largest independent software supplier overall. We have a rich history of innovation and growth that has made us a true industry leader. Today, SAP employs more than 32,000 people in more than 50 countries. Our professionals are dedicated to providing high-level customer support and services.

We're the world's leading BI software company. Our software helps organisations gain better insight into their business, improving decision-making and enterprise performance. Business Objects is a global business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 30,000 customers - including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 - and a network of more than 3,000 partners and resellers. It all began Aug. 3, 1990 in Paris. Business Objects was founded on the vision of two young software entrepreneurs. Today, we lead the BI industry and are one of the largest software companies in the world. And it's our employees that make Business Objects successful.

Oracle's business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. The 2005 combination of Oracle and PeopleSoft marks a major turning point in the evolution of the software industry. The combined companies are now positioned to deliver a more competitive offering in the enterprise applications market and increase innovation with a larger applications R&D budget. Today, Oracle is helping more governments and businesses around the world become information-driven than any other company.

Together with its key partners IBM will be demonstrating cross-industry solutions for the small to medium business, through to solutions relevant to large enterprises.