Only about 10% of BO customers have SAP, but who knows how many SAP customers do not have BO. There is a clear corporate focus on delivering the rest of them to BO. They will do this with a light roadmap, which is to say BO just works on top of SAP. Another focus area is the non-SAP customer, which currently comprises 90% of their customer base. With mostly separated companies, this dual strategy for growth can work.
Also discussed were the plans for SAP Netweaver and incorporating MDM (A2i acquisition) into it as Netweaver MDM, one of the only MDM products with ‘writeback’. Also, a lot of focus was on BO Accelerator - which I’ve blogged about before - to speed up BW performance. One gets the impression it’s supposed to be more than a luxury item for BW. Of course, Crystal Reports remains a focus (BEX moving to Crystal) and Xcelsius was mentioned as their dashboard. I’m a fan of Xcelsius, but it takes a knock here and there for being more of a desktop, than an enterprise, tool.
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Posted July 6, 2008 12:17 PM
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