The world of business is becoming increasingly global and marked by virtual organisations using mobile technology and social networks. Organisations must be equipped to better assess and act decisively on huge volumes of data both from within and outside their businesses.
In response to this transformation, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) on Thursday launched the 4.0 releases of business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM) solutions from the SAP(r) BusinessObjects(tm) portfolio, harnessing the advances of three years of software development.
"Historically, companies have dealt with BI on a project-by-project basis, separate from each other and from their EIM initiatives, lacking the ability to bring that data together," said Hassan Latif Jamal, Country Head, SAP Pakistan (Liaison Office SAP Malaysia). "The latest BI and EIM solutions from SAP are designed to help tackle big data, integrating structured and unstructured data and even information from social networks.
New capabilities for event insight and information stewardship bring the benefits of data trustworthiness and process timeliness to customers. All of these components should provide the basis for an information environment that is nimble and responsive - one that fosters a culture of knowing, helping every person in the organisation derive context and meaning, decide and act with confidence, and contribute to greater efficiency and profitability."
"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 Atul Patel, Vice President, Business Analytics and Sustainability, SAP Asia Pacific Japan. He added.
"This product is a perfect example of what the combination of these two companies has been about. By combining the beauty and the consistency - bringing in the beautiful user experience for which SAP Business Objects software was always famous, the elegant simplicity together with the strength of SAP software, integrated identity management, SAP NetWeaver Application Server and integrated lifecycle management - we have wonderful products to share with our customers. And now with SAP HANA, we also bring the ability to analyse massive amounts of data in real time. The feedback from early customers has been tremendous."-PR