SAP Launches New Releases For Unified BI, Enterprise Information Mgmt

SAP AG has launched the 4.0 releases of business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM) solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, harnessing the advances of three years of software development.

Key elements of the 4.0 releases include the SAP BusinessObjects Data Services software, which helps consolidate any data source, assess the quality, profile and enhance it, then integrate the improved data into any BI or application environment. The SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward gives end users the power to analyse, monitor and rate their data sources for completeness, accuracy and consistency, and to share key performance indicator (KPI) scorecards.

The SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight helps understand the impact of business events — for example financial market fluctuations and network traffic patterns — as they happen throughout an entire business network, putting complex scenarios and large data volumes into actionable context with historical trends to predict future outcomes and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence is a platform for providing easy, self-service access to trusted information.

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New features of the 4.0 releases of BI and EIM solutions include real-time in-memory computing, access to BI across mobile platforms and devices and deeper text analysis integration.

The 4.0 releases help further reduce IT landscape complexity and speed deployment times by further integrating the BI and EIM environments into a single infrastructure. In addition, the consistent user experience and enhanced visualisation supports end-user requirements in an easy-to-use, self-service fashion all enabled with new versions of SAP Crystal solutions such as SAP Crystal Reports software, as well as other BI software.

The 4.0 releases also provide easy integration with enterprise performance management (EPM) and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions from SAP to allow seamless visibility of performance and risk in business analytic scenarios.

"Since Business Objects became part of the SAP family, we have been working together on the 4.0 releases of BI and EIM solutions from SAP," said Simon Dale, Senior Vice President, Solutions, SAP Asia Pacific Japan. "Combined with SAP HANA, customers can also have the ability to analyse massive amounts of data in real time. The feedback from early global customers has been tremendous."