SAP-Business Objects combo ready to roll
Dan Farber, ZDNet Between the Lines, January 16, 2008
Excerpts from the post:
...after digesting Oracle’s acquisition of BEA and Sun’s consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP’s Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest acquisition, Business Objects.
SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said Business Objects gives his company number one leadership in one of fastest growing markets--business intelligence and business performance optimization. According to IDC, Business Objects has 17 percent market share in its space, 50 percent more than its closest competitor. The deal is expected to close in about a week...
SAP CTO Vishal Sikka described the three layers of the company’s new business intelligence (BI) platform. At the bottom is enterprise information management--entering structured and unstructured data; common data management; and text analysis (using Business Objects’ Inxight Software acquisition). The middle layer consists of the SAP’s enterprise Business Warehouse and Business Objects departmental RapidMarts, and technologies such as in-memory database management. The top layer is query interfaces, reporting, analysis and visual representations...
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