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- (1) A broad category of business processes that are modeled as objects. A business object can be as large as an entire order processing system or a small process...
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- SAP, Business Objects and an improving user interface
- Updated: Those tired business intelligence reports--the spreadsheet graphics meet a bunch of text--are becoming increasingly more interesting. Business Objects CEO John Schwartz delivered the keynote at Tuesday's SAP TechEd session and the presentation carried the usual theme. Using business intelligence to tie data together across the enterprise....
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- SAP Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution
- SAP is presenting the Business Objects Influencer Summit, an invitation-only event being held today in Boston. "Strategy to execution" is a key theme across the many numerous presentations. The following diagram gives an overview of this concept. Note the role of insight as driver for making smart...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Rushed? Work Less. Deliver More.
- Give business users the ability to view and update reports from anywhere. As well as to interact with them intuitively. You'll not only have happier end users, but you'll be happier too. Fewer reports to create. And the ability to schedule secure reports for automatic delivery...
- Download resources 2008-08-01
- Live From Redmond: Data-Binding, Business Objects and Data Sources [Updated]
- The presenter of this webcast demonstrate how to create an n-tier Silverlight application, focusing on the UI and business layers and showing how Expression Blend can facilitate drag-and-drop data-binding without hiding the underlying logic.
- Webcasts 2008-07-09
- SAP's Business Objects promises to 'break barriers'
- SAP's Business Objects promises to 'break barriers''break barriers' and break other stuff too'break barriers' and break other stuff too.. I would say that SAP could promise to break everything and break it often and deliver on that promise... Never again... No Thank you... I'm not into S&M IT... I'll stick...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- SAP's Business Objects promises to 'break barriers'
- Business Objects, which was just brought into SAP's orbit, announced BusinessObjectsâ„¢ XI 3.0, which the company said "breaks the barriers of traditional business intelligence BI." Every BI company makes a similar claim--promising to provide the key to making better business decisions and more profit. According to the...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- M&A Day: Winners and Losers
- Oracle finally nails BEA, SAP completes its deal to buy Business Objects: the day started out making a lot of sense. But when I heard that Sun had spent $1 billion to buy MySQL, I had to check the calendar. No, it wasn’t April Fools Day, just another day in...
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- SAP-Business Objects combo ready to roll
- This morning, 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...
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- SAP - Business Objects acquisition: Linking value proposition to action
- SAP announced yesterday that it has successfully completed the share purchase requirements needed to acquire Business Objects. Coming on the heels of that announcement, SAP held a special briefing for bloggers with Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP, and John Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects. Discussing the value...
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Crystal Reports 2008 (Windows)
- Crystal Reports 2008 is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the Web or embedded in enterprise applications. It enables end users to consume reports with stunning visualizations, conduct on-report business modeling, and execute decisions instantly from the report itself--reducing dependency...
- Software downloads 2007-12-05
- SAP bid for Business Objects begins December 4
- SAP bid for Business Objects begins December 4Crystal ReportsWe should be pleased that Microsoft's new Visual Studio includes a beefed up version of Crystal Reports. It was banter here that caused that. Business Objects and Microsoft were mortal enemies just a year ago. SAP, I think is still Microsoft's largest...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- SOA Insights analysts view IBM's information umbrella, explore SAP's Business Objects grab and define 'Guerrilla SOA'
- Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 26, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts and experts. In this episode, our group examines the relationship and tension...
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Why Did SAP buy Business Objects?
- Why Did SAP buy Business Objects?SAP Made the Right ChoiceI am in agreement with the substance of this article. SAP has always had a longing for the presentation tools for the data warehouse side of its business and has already integrated may of BOs offerings into its distribution. It was...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Why Did SAP buy Business Objects?
- There’s been a lot of back and forth about this deal, covered admirably by Dennis Howlett, Dan Farber, and other bloggers, but precious little on what it means to blend a premier applications company with a premier business intelligence vendor. I think it’s worth trying to get inside the though...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Doubts over Business Objects deal hit SAP shares
- Doubts over Business Objects deal hit SAP sharesSAP must have arangement with MicrosoftI have been pointing out for sometime the disappointment in Microsoft's dropping of Crystal Reports. It is one of the reasons I recommend IBM's Rational Application Developer which now integrates this Business Objects software. Microsoft is currently installing...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- SAP's growth spurt: $6.8 billion for Business Objects
- SAP's growth spurt: $6.8 billion for Business ObjectsSAP is great if you want to shut your business down for 6 monthsHoneywell implemented SAP a few years ago to control not only inventory but also manufacturing operations. We had so many problems that we where bascially shut down for 6 months...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- Five questions: SAP's acquisition of Business Objects
- Five questions: SAP's acquisition of Business ObjectsWOW Crystal Reports Visual StudioSunday found me with a human resources guy from Microsoft. He was explaining 360 reviews and how post-Enron Microsoft had gone to all narrative reviews so that it would not be possible to score those reviewed and then can the...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- Five questions: SAP's acquisition of Business Objects
- SAP took a rather big plunge with its $6.8 billion acquisition of Business Objects and left the business intelligence market much smaller than it was a day ago. Here are some lingering questions that remain to be resolved: Can SAP digest a large acquisition? Business Objects is...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- SAP's acquiring Business Objects: 1st take
- SAP's proposed acquisition of Business Objects is an interesting move on a number of fronts: It provides a fresh route to achieving the 100,000 customer target that Leo Apotheker has previously described as 'aspirational.' While there is significant overlap, BusinessObjects' 44,000 customers as a top line number...
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- SAP's growth spurt: $6.8 billion for Business Objects
- SAP took a page out of Oracle's grow-by-consolidation playbook in acquiring business intelligence leader Business Objects for $6.8 billion (42 Euros per share). SAP CEO Henning Kagermann positioned the acquisition as part of his company's strategy to rapidly grow its customer base. SAP wants to have 100,000 customers by 2010,...
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
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