SAP Brings SaaS Business Intelligence to India

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has announced the SAP
BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) OnDemand solution to meet
a growing demand from companies of all sizes for SaaS BI tools. This
easy-to-use offering makes SAP's powerful analytics available to a
community of business users outside the traditional IT department.
“SAP is the best place to deliver what customers need in this new
reality,” said href="http://dqchannels.ciol.com/content/reselleralert/110021103.asp">Peter
Gartenberg, MD, SAP India. “With SAP
BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution, organizations can empower their
users instantly and easily. The best way to experience the tool set
is to try it today at www.biondemand.com.
This
is an important milestone in SAP's on-demand vision, and
further proof that we continue to innovate in the cloud.”

On-demand offerings from the SAP
BusinessObjects portfolio currently have more than 260,000
subscribers who are empowered with the tools and information required
to drive their businesses forward. The solution will also include
capabilities that make it easier than ever for business users to tap
into their data online, get better insight into their organization
and securely share illustrative reports and dashboards with
colleagues inside and outside the firewall.

Significant features include:

· SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
software, which is built for powerful data exploration and
visualization capabilities

· Guide to product usage for
people
with no prior BI experience through the processes of accessing,
exploring, visualizing and sharing data, without needing to switch
between applications

· The ability to access all
on-demand
and on-premise data, including SAP data and data from the Salesforce
customer relationship management (CRM) application. Users can easily
upload data to create dashboards, reports or interactive
visualizations

· An on-demand solution for
creating
ad-hoc reports, conducting what-if analysis and securely sharing this
information inside or outside the company. Business users can provide
customers, partners and employees across all lines of business with
immediate, anytime access to the most current data

· SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand
also
has a flexible pricing model, offering three editions of the product
to address the different needs of each customer: free personal,
essential and advanced editions. “Current market trends show strong
demand for SaaS BI tools that are easy to use and acquire, and IDC
research expects the SaaS BI market to grow three times faster than
the overall BI and analytics market over the next five years,” said
Dan Vesset, Program VP, Business Analytics, IDC. “As organizations
look for intuitive, cloud-based solutions that can empower their
end-users, applications that supplement traditional BI functionality
of query, reporting and analysis with support for workflow, search
and collaboration will become increasingly attractive to them,
especially applications that offer rapid, alternative deployment
options,” he added.

SAP is currently planning to make SAP
BusinessObjects BI OnDemand available through its SAP PartnerEdge
program in the channel partner ecosystem later in 2010.