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Despite an explosion of data in the last few years, most business users still lack the information and insight they need to move beyond a "gut feel" approach to decision-making to a fact-based approach that yields more consistently effective results. The second wave of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version, introduces the ability to accelerate any data source beyond SAP NetWeaver(R) Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW). Based on the packaging of SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM) Accelerator software, any company, whether or not it is running SAP applications, will be able to use SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to visualize and act upon its business data.
The new capabilities can help organizations in many ways:
-- Sales and marketing units can gain a better understanding of key
campaigns, product profitability and forecasting information, including
third-party data and data from marketing databases in the cloud.
-- Operations can explore inventory levels, deriving insight from their
enterprise data warehouse and/or data provided by their extended
business network, their supply chain for SKU management, stock-out
planning, product recall and traceability management.
-- Finance professionals can deliver revenue, cost and profitability
insights to constituents in a safe, secure way, exposing a 'single
version of the detailed truth' within the organization.
Providing Quick Access to Relevant Information
Consol Glass (Pty) Ltd, the leading Southern African glass container packaging manufacturer, plans to use SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to reduce the time and cost of access to business data, expanding the type and number of users in addition to analyzing its business quickly and accurately.
"We chose SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to help more business users easily identify the most relevant pieces of information in our data store," said Johan du Plessis, IT director, Consol Glass. "Our challenge is that we have a large business intelligence platform and needed a way to access information quickly and without a heavy degree of IT involvement. We are looking to SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to provide more business people with the decision-quality information they need to get their jobs done."
Kraft Foods, maker of the world's favorite food brands, is working to bring quick business insight to a greater number of employees.
"With a company as large as ours, it is inevitable that we would have an enormous amount of data," said Laura Topel, senior director, Information Systems, Kraft Foods. "We are testing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer based on its ability to be a key enabler to our BI strategy of fostering superior decisions and driving business value by providing the right information to the right individuals at the right time. SAP BusinessObjects Explorer can make information more broadly and easily accessible across the entire organization. Potential users need simplicity and ease of use in their BI; we believe that this tool would help our business users quickly discover and visualize key relationships between information."
OraSure Technologies, a leader of point-of-care, oral fluid diagnostics, is using SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to provide line-of-business executives with their own real-time analytical capabilities.
"In the past, the analytics I needed were custom reports with limited detail," said P. Michael Formica, executive vice president of Operations with OraSure Technologies. "With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, my team, the user community and I can perform our own analyses, identify potential variances in our distributor supply chains and take immediate corrective action based on data internal and external to SAP. As a result, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer helps OraSure Technologies act faster to positively impact our bottom line."
Teradata and SAP are delivering the availability of an Intel-based Teradata blade architecture for running SAP NetWeaver(R) Business Warehouse Accelerator software as well as SAP Business Objects Explorer -- which supports capabilities ranging from enterprise data warehousing persistence to in-memory acceleration and intuitive search and navigation. This will give Teradata and SAP customers the opportunity to standardize on a single hardware platform across their existing investments.
To extend SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to even more hardware platforms, SAP also announced plans to collaborate with Cisco. Cisco Unified Computing System combines industry-leading Intel processors, 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified fabrics and expanded memory capabilities to offer stronger scalability for SAP applications. (See the initial announcement from SAP: "SAP to Revolutionize Business Intelligence With New Solution that Delivers Insight at the Speed of Thought.")
"With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, you get answers in seconds, even if you don't know what question to ask," said Marge Breya, executive vice president and general manager, Intelligence Platform and SAP NetWeaver Group, SAP AG. "That implies you start asking questions out of curiosity, which opens up a whole new realm of possibilities. New trends, new ideas, new opportunities begin to emerge immediately. The significance of this solution is that it is not only a breakthrough in data-exploration technology, it is also the catalyst for a cultural shift in the enterprise, empowering every worker to make informed decisions, which cumulatively and dramatically strengthens the effectiveness of the organization as a whole."
SAP(R) TechEd 2009 in Phoenix, Vienna, Shanghai and Bangalore
More than 12,000 SAP customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAP(R) TechEd 2009, the company's largest ecosystem education event, to gain the inspiration and skills needed to maximize impact on their organizations at a time when companies need both skilled professionals and agile, efficient IT solutions that can efficiently adapt to change. Now in its 13th year, SAP TechEd 2009 was held in Phoenix from October 13-16; is being held in Vienna, Austria, on October 27-29; and will be held in Shanghai, China, on November 11-12 and Bangalore, India, on November 18-20. For more information, please visit www.sapteched.com. Join the conversation via Twitter at #sapteched09.
About SAP
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software(*), offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 89,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol "SAP." For more information, visit www.sap.com.
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