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Independent Analyst Platform (IAP) SAP/BO

Up first this morning is SAP and Business Objects. Paul Clark, Senior Director of Marketing at Business Objects kicked things off with a presentation on Enabling Closed-Loop Strategy for Enabling Execution a couple of key takeaways are that compliance and governance need to be integrated into your processes not an afterthought outside of the on going day to day business. The underlying key to successful closed-loop strategy is part culture and part software, the culture part is probably the hardest and it includes getting everyone involved with business intelligence. The access to information continues to be the key to this strategy.

Dan Kearnan Director, SAP Business Intelligence did a great job of covering how Business Objects is fitting into the SAP Ecosystem in short the migration for SAP customers to get fundamental BO services is fast and easy. BO plans to continue to work with other data sources as it has in the past and wants to stay data agnostic going forward. From a technology standpoint its clear the merger of these two companies is a solid fit but SAP still has a long road ahead of it with regards to fully integrating the power of a combined SAP/BO. The first phase seems to be in place with many of the logical features of BO already snapped onto the stack.

Aaron Mahimainathan Senior Director, Platform Marketing SAP wrapped up the presentations and talked about leveraging business intelligence and information management foundations. Giving us insight into the MDM side of the solution

Good session its great that SAP did 2 hours we needed it just to get a high level view of all that's happening with SAP/BO.

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Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, SAP

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