SAP’s Business Intelligence solution offerings:

By S.Suren

In my previous article I had mentioned the takeover syndrome that was present in the ERP Arena, and how some companies poached up some other relative mature companies providing Business Intelligence Solutions. Read "The Take-Over Syndrome".

In this article I thought I’ll details out how SAP’s Business Intelligence Solutions offering have changed after the takeover of Business Objects this year January for $6.8 B. It a known fact that prior to the takeover of BO by SAP, BO had itself taken over one of the most commonly used report designing tool, known as Crystal Report. Now with Crystal Report in SAP’s arsenal, it was announced that this is going to be SAP’s main enterprise-grade reporting tool.

On its BI Platform, SAP has revealed that Business Objects XI is going to be SAP’s main BI Platform. One of the main reason for doing this is, BO’s XI being able to access non-sap data sources unlike SAP Net weaver BI.

SAP is also diving deep into Predictive Analysis with Business Objects. Business Objects™ Predictive Workbench is the new tool offering data mining and predictive analytics integrated with Business Objects XI 3.0, the industry’s first unified business intelligence (BI) platform. Given the current economic climate experienced in the world market this solution is going to be up there for the grabs.

Another product that is expected in 2009 is a solution combining the functionalities of the BEx Analyzer and Business Objects Voyager.

Some of the products and solution offerings that SAP is likely to phase out during the coming years are, SEM-BCS, BEx Report Designer, BEx Web Analyzer and BEx Excel Analyzer. These offering will be replaced by one or more of the above mentioned products and solutions.

With close to $7 B going into the acquisition of Business Objects and the large amounts of R&D already spent on SAP’s BIW solutions, it is only likely that the new products and solution offerings are going to come attached with a fancy price tag, only time will tell, and when it does I shall keep this site updated with the details.

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