SAP Business Objects' buy bears fruit

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SAP and Business Objects have unveiled no less than nine new combined product packages that aim to address the most common business intelligence (BI) challenges.

These packages, aimed at gaining better business insight, improving company performance and ensuring compliance with corporate governance policies, will enable companies to licence, install, and manage both companies' platforms in through a single IT investment with either sales teams.

SAP said the launch marked the beginning of a new roadmap to expand into the emerging business performance optimisation market. SAP acquired Business Objects in October 2007 for £3.3 billion.

Léo Apotheker, SAP deputy chief executive added that these initial products underlined the compatibility of both companies' product and sales organisations.

The nine new software launches can be broadly split into business performance, intelligence and mid-size targeted packages.

In the area of performance optimisation, two new modules have been launched, addressing financial performance management and governance, risk and compliance.

Built on the existing Business Objects BI platform, a new visualisation and reporting package is designed to simplify access to and presentation of data, as well as allow users to create and distribute reports from within Microsoft Office.

Enterprise query, reporting and analysis; data integration and quality and centralised master data management are additional packages that act as extensions to the new BI visualisation and reporting software.

Three packages have also been engineered, packaged and priced for small and midsized enterprises (SMEs). They include a combined SAP Business All-in-One with BusinessObjects Edge Standard for managing business operational and reporting processes.

The second SME offering is the Crystal Reports Server package allowing the SAP channel to offer SME reporting software for the first time, as a result of Business Objects' acquisition of vendor, Crystal Reports five years ago.

And the third SME launch is the BusinessObjects Edge Series package. Business Objects said its channel would continue to offer the Edge Series to its SME customers but that it now includes integration to SAP to deliver enhanced reporting and analysis capabilities.

All packages will be available from both SAP and Business Objects' field organisation and channel partners later this month.

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