Turning Insight into Action
SAP provides a comprehensive, industry-specific, range of software applications for automating business processes, including finance, human resource (HR), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain and business intelligence.
SAP Business Intelligence
SAP has paved strong inroads into the business intelligence market with its solutions for governance, risk and compliance (GRC), corporate performance management and business intelligence. SAP’s suite of Business Intelligence solutions help organisations access and make use of widely distributed data to provide meaningful information and analysis to employees, customers, suppliers and partners for more effective decision making.
In October 2007, SAP added to its existing suite of business intelligence solutions when it acquired the BI market leader and visionary, Business Objects. Together, SAP and Business Objects offer high value solutions for process- and business-oriented professionals.
Growth in the business user segment is driven by three major trends transforming the business environment. First, companies need to make decisions more effectively based on a broader array of data sources from both inside and outside the enterprise, and from structured and unstructured sources. Second, today’s business users need better tools and applications that go beyond individual views to support collaborative decision-making. Third, companies are seeking competitive advantage by extending beyond their businesses to create and manage business networks with partners, supplier and customers.
Together, SAP and Business Objects will tightly link business information with business processes to enable companies to translate insight into action. As an independent business unit of the SAP Group, Business Objects will provide its market leading portfolio of business intelligence solutions to customers in SAP and non-SAP environments. SAP and Business Objects helps customers leverage the applications and technology choices customers have made in the past, enabling them to continue gaining value from their investments.
Leading independent industry analyst firms including Gartner and Forrester have recognised SAP and Business Objects market leadership in the business intelligence sector.
For information about SAP’s Governance, Rick and Compliance click here.
