SAP BI - Business Objects Market Updates

SAP BI Market Updates

9 New Joint SAP Business Objects Products

January 2008

The first range of joint products from ERP vendor SAP following its 2007 acquisition of Business Objects

SAP plans to both remain selling Business Objects BI as a standalone product as well as integrating its analytics technology more tightly with SAP's business applications. This means they have a BI offering that suits both its SAP customers as well as something for the non SAP customers, platforms and environments. They have made a direct target at Oracle with the "intention [is] to have a business intelligence solution on top of Oracle that's better than Oracle's own business intelligence solution."

The nine software packages will go on sale this month and combine products from Business Objects and SAP. They include:

• Financial Performance Management - includes strategy management and planning tools from SAP and financial consolidation and profit management tools from Business Objects
• Governance
• Risk and Compliance
• Visualisation and Reporting
• Business ByDesign - Business Objects' tools as part of its new suite of on-demand business applications for medium-sized enterprises

Business Objects already had 70,000 subscribers for its on-demand BI products at the time of the acquisition. The job of merging the BI tools into Business ByDesign has not yet started at the time of adding this update

October 2007

SAP acquires BusinessObjects, a BI Platform, for $6.8 billion -....read more

May 2007

Sap acquires Outlooksoft, a performance management vendor

SAP acquires analytics vendor Pilot Software - Feburary 2007

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