The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Recently the United Nations declared with certainty that the world’s population reached 7 billion people. By analyzing enormous amounts of data compiled from virtually every geographic level – continents, counties and local communities – the global agency was able to predict not only what individual nations will look like in 20 years, but what social changes they are likely to undergo. (more…)

Watch this new SAP customer story to learn more about how Deloitte uses business analytics on mobile devices to improve the level of dialog it has with its customers and clients. Using SAP BusinessObjects Explorer on the iPad, Deloitte can instantly look across the profitability of its services organization and access internal talent and training requirements. (more…)

SAP today announced that IDC has found SAP to be the leader in the worldwide business intelligence (BI) tools market based on software license and maintenance revenue (including subscription revenue). IDC also reported that SAP has grown faster than the worldwide market for financial performance and strategy management (FPSM) applications for the fifth consecutive year. Read the newsbyte.

Keith Costello, EVP of Analytic Solutions at SAP, took a moment at SAPPHIRE NOW to share some insights into the popularity of SAP analytic applications and a sneak peek into the future plans for these apps. (more…)

Speaking from SAPPHIRE NOW, Jason Rose of BI Solution Marketing at SAP has a few words to say about the business intelligence (BI) solutions that SAP released in February – and why these solutions will become exponentially more mobile in the next couple of months. (more…)

In his theater session today, King Arthur Flour’s Steve Cochran reported that using SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand has had some surprise benefits in addition to expected results.

King Arthur Flour is a 210-year-old, employee-owned company with approximately $85 million in revenues and 200 employees. The company selected SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand because it was looking for a solution that could be up and running in three to four months, from a software partner that had strong expertise in BI. (more…)

SAP today announced it has been named the overall market share leader in the worldwide BI market, owning nearly a quarter of the market according to the April 2011 report issued by Gartner Inc. – “Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence (BI), Analytics and Performance Management, 2010, Worldwide.” In the report, SAP ranks No. 1 with 23 percent share of the worldwide market based on revenue. Read the newsbyte.

SAP today announced its newest release of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software, providing a single, unified environment for the most comprehensive support for management, monitoring and analysis of enterprise risk and compliance activities. Nearly three years in the making, the new release integrates GRC capabilities into everyday business processes, helping make risk management, regulatory compliance and safe, productive operations a standard and a consistent practice. Read the press release.

SAP and partners discuss what the speed of in-memory technology and a new wave of business analytics means for customers, providing further insight into recent news of the 4.0 releases of business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM) solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio (see “SAP Unveils Future of Analytics: Real-Time, Mobile“). Speakers include Jacob Klein, vice president, SAP HANA-Project Leader, and Timo Elliott, BI Evangelist.

• Watch the replay: SAP Press Roundtable “Game Changers in Today’s Business”at CeBIT 2011.

Today in New York we introduce the new 4.0 releases from our SAP BusinessObjects portfolio. I am particularly excited about these because, in my humble opinion, they are the strongest releases of BI and EIM solutions in SAP’s history. I’d like to focus on one reason why: integration.

Over the past three years, we have listened closely to our customers and worked bring more unity across all our SAP BusinessObjects solutions. As the analytics portfolio has evolved, customers achieved remarkable results for their businesses using BI, EIM, EPM and GRC solutions from SAP. The 4.0 releases are part of our ongoing commitment to help customers get the most out of their analytics, beginning with tighter integration of our BI and EIM solutions, giving them a common look and feel, making them easy for people to use and derive value from, and delivering it to them quickly, in real-time, any way they want it, on any device — at their desk or on the go. (more…)