New mySAP Business Intelligence pioneers the market in delivering accessibility

Yesterday at the SAP Conference on Business Intelligence and Enterprise Portals being held in Leipzig, Germany, from 30 January to 1 February, the world's largest conference of this kind with more than 2 500 attendees, SAP AG announced the next generation of the mySAP Business Intelligence (mySAP BI) solution.

Major enhancements to this solution enable companies to achieve true business intelligence by providing the business ability to deploy the access, analysis and delivery of any information, structured and unstructured, to anyone throughout the enterprise and beyond. To achieve this capability, mySAP BI includes the fully integrated mySAP Enterprise Portal, the market-leading portal technology from SAP Portals, Inc, that provides collaboration and knowledge management capabilities. This provides anyone inside and outside the business with the ability to quickly access and relate information from any source at any time through a unique capability called Business Unification.

This is achieved through an integrated platform that includes architecture which supports the performance and scalability required for an enterprise and is not found in any other business intelligence solution. The offering also provides new capabilities for customers to completely integrate information from anywhere and supports the information exchange to any system in the enterprise. In addition, the offering provides new interactive access and broad deployment capabilities via the Web, mobile and offline devices, and the desktop to enable all business users to meet any of their decision-making needs.

"With recent enhancements, mySAP Business Intelligence is the first integrated offering that enables business insight and analysis from inside and outside the enterprise to allow collaborative decision-making across a broad set of constituents," said Shai Agassi, CEO of SAP Portals. "Further, we are confident that with the significant enhancements to our offering, we will set the industry standard by actually delivering a solution that fulfils the real definition of business intelligence."

With mySAP Business Intelligence, the ability to integrate and analyse business data across applications, structured and unstructured information, and heterogeneous systems extends the traditional business environment and provides users with a complete view of the business. Any individual can quickly access and relate information from any source through Drag&Relate, which provides unparalleled new levels of efficiency that result in higher-quality relationships with employees, customers and suppliers.

"Forward-thinking organizations are increasingly identifying business intelligence as a strategic imperative and are investing accordingly," said Barry Wilderman, senior vice president of the Meta Group. "However, as complementary enterprise technologies such as ERP, CRM and supply chain management evolve to meet the demands of these organisations, business intelligence offerings must enable collaboration by converting data into insight from all applications, in an easy-to-use environment. We believe vendors like SAP are providing support to both traditional business intelligence activities and collaborative decision-making to optimise processes throughout the enterprise."

mySAP Business Intelligence features predefined business content for any business area or industry, enabling organisations to rapidly deploy relevant information to any users so they can understand the performance of key success factors, optimise operations and quickly adjust their actions. Significantly reducing the time to develop analytical or business intelligence applications, this release includes a new tool that can rapidly build and deploy Web-based applications. By leveraging industry standards such as XML, the new ability to use XML for Analysis will provide companies with the ability to integrate business intelligence into any e-business system. The offering also includes integrated Crystal Decisions Crystal Reports for seamless operational reporting of more than 500 predefined report templates and the option to completely integrate with Ascential Datastage, which enables the rapid integration of data from other enterprise applications. The entire solution is managed through a sophisticated set of warehouse management capabilities that can ensure the consistency and quality of information through the use of metadata leveraging the Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange (CWMI) industry standard.

"In our organisation there is a growing need to increase the effectiveness and timeliness of our business reporting throughout the enterprise," said Mark Evans, vice president of Information Technology at Tesoro Petroleum. "With mySAP BI our users will have the improved access they need to make decisions and take action. mySAP BI provides the business intelligence framework we need for analysing our key performance metrics and optimising our operations."

Supporting thousands of customer installations across industries throughout the world, mySAP BI allows global enterprises to achieve maximum business value by fully leveraging information and knowledge throughout the enterprise. Companies depend on this solution to dynamically translate information and intelligence to their global network, reducing time to action regardless of cultural or communication barriers. mySAP BI is distributed to 120 countries and supports every relevant language and foreign currency required by global companies.

Customers presenting at the SAP Conference on Business Intelligence and Enterprise Portals include Akzo Nobel (Netherlands), BASF (Germany), Bayer AG (Germany), Coop (Switzerland), Clariant International Ltd. (Switzerland), EON (Malayasia), F Hofman-La Roche AG (Switzerland), Getronics (Netherlands), Die Schweizerische Post (Switzerland), tesa AG (Germany), Volkswagen Bank GmbH (Germany) and Zurich Financial Services (Switzerland).

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