By : Suren
It is known that Oracle has grown through a series of acquisition and so have other companies in this industry such as SAGE, CA etc. However SAP have always been concentrating on growth from within, but all this has changed in the recent past, with SAP getting in on the act of acquisitions too.
With all the hype that business intelligence solutions are going to be in great demand in the future given its unique ability to support information requirements of all 3 levels within an organization and its ability to provide information from various sources has spurred up the demand for the best-of-breed vendor created solutions catering to this requirement, however with Oracle’s acquisition of Hyperion, SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects and IBM’s acquisition of Cognos, it is unlikely that the term best-of-breed solutions is going to be used again, atleast not when referring to business intelligence I would guess.
SAP very recently acquired a company named YASU which had staff strength of about 120 in India, Hyderabad, Santa Clara, California, and Princeton, N.J. It is expected that this company’s Business Rules Management System would be embedded in SAP Netweaver. Given that SAP SEM has functionalities that allow enterprise management to significantly accelerate and streamline the entire strategic management process, it’ll be interesting to see how the adoption of business rules would help with achieving this.
With SOA being considered as the future of SAP and with SAP’s Netweaver platform having the ability to perform data warehousing functions, just goes to show that the oppurtunities are endless and the technology to support this is closer than we think.
I would recommend to be on the lookout for opportunities to work with SAP BI as well and make some time to learn the integration options in it; it will provide you with a good overview on how the various modules have been designed to compliment each other, or in certain cases how we make them to.
Hope you found this post interesting and informative, your suggestions and comments are welcome at ssurenlk@msn.com.
Have a nice day.
S.Suren
For more information on SAP SEM visit http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_02/helpdata/en/15/d75f3785b8fc49e10000009b38f842/frameset.htm
