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Business Objects Software Limited

Florent Vermeulen

Alexis Naibo

Xiaohui Xue

Bruno Dumant

Rodolphe Boixel

Mathieu Bournat

A computer-implemented method for initiating, at a user interface, execution of a software application implementing a plurality of business processes associated with a plurality of business objects, and displaying, in the user interface, a query box and a plurality of visualizations depicting data corresponding to at least a portion of the plurality of business objects. The method includes receiving and parsing a free text input, generating and executing a search using a plurality of keyword search queries based on one or more keyword tokens. The method also includes applying grammar rules, generating query trees, and generating a number of search suggestions using the query trees.

Business intelligence (BI) query and answering using full text search and keyword semantics

A system, method, and computer-readable medium, including receiving a user-supplied expression for which a definition is sought; generating, in response to reception of the user-supplied expression, at least one suggested definition specifying a meaning for the user-supplied expression, the at least one suggested definition being generated based on, at least in part, a knowledge base of metadata associated with a data set; presenting the at least one suggested definition, as at least one keyword, to a user; receiving, in response to the presentation, an indication of one user-selected keyword from the at least one suggested definition; defining the user-selected keyword by at least one value; and persisting the defined user-selected keyword with the at least one value in the knowledge base for the data set.

Metadata enrichment with a keyword definition editor

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Levallois-Perret, France

Florent Vermeulen