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SAP unveils Business Objects 4.0
By siliconindia
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Friday, 25 February 2011, 19:13 IST
New York: SAP, provider of enterprise application software, unveils the Business Objects 4.0 of Unified Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Solutions, a portfolio which makes the real-time enterprise a reality. The product has been launched after three years of development.
Two new modules have come up which are Information Steward for monitoring data quality and Event insight for complex-event processing (technology from SAP's Sybase acquisition in 2010). They share common capabilities to aggregate data from across a common enterprise from structured as well as unstructured data and social networks.
Unified on a common infrastructure and with a user experience boasting the friendly usability of social networking tools, the new BI and EIM releases manifest the broad range of technology innovations that are shaping the future of analytics - in real time, with in-memory computing, instant powerful BI in users hands, with more mobile devices supported than ever before, across business and social data with certainty, combining structured and unstructured information and providing the tools to govern the information, and providing the best fit, right now in any deployment model, whether on-premise, on-demand, embedded in business operations, or in a "hybrid" manner.
"The latest BI and EIM solutions from SAP are designed to help tackle big data, integrating structured and unstructured data and even information from social networks. New capabilities for event insight and information stewardship bring the benefits of data trustworthiness and process timeliness to customers. All of these components should provide the basis for an information environment that is nimble and responsive - one that fosters a culture of knowing, helping every person in the organization derive context and meaning, decide and act with confidence, and contribute to greater efficiency and profitability."
Two Canadian customers, Canadian National Railway and motion picture studio Lions Gate Entertainment, assisted SAP AG's version 4.0 launch of its Business Objects software suite. Part of that transformation for CN Railway has been establishing a business intelligence platform, based on Business Objects to enable decisions in operational efficiency, service performance, cost control, asset utilization and staff empowerment.
CN, one of the most efficient and profitable railroads in North America, is using SAP Business Objects software to improve productivity. "We will add complex event processing (CEP) capabilities such as SAP Business Objects Event Insight to help us move from the mindset of 'what happened yesterday' to 'what is happening today' Because we have millions of assets - many of them in motion - across North America, we need CEP capabilities to integrate real-time asset telemetry and operational systems with robust analytics in an intuitive, map-based user interface," said Alan Capes, Director, IT Business Development and Strategic Planning, CN.
