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SAP AG 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 analytics available to a community of business users outside the traditional IT department.
Peter Gartenberg, Managing Director, SAP India, said, “With SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution, organisations can empower their users instantly and easily. The best way to experience the toolset is to try it today at www.biondemand.com. This is an important milestone in SAP’s on-demand vision, and proof that we continue to innovate in the cloud.”
The solution will also include capabilities that make it easy for business users to tap into their data online, get better insight into their organisation 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 data exploration and visualisation capabilities.
* Guide to product usage for people with no prior BI experience through the processes of accessing, exploring, visualising 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 CRM application. Users can easily upload data to create dashboards, reports or interactive visualisations.
* An on-demand solution for creating ad-hoc reports, conducting what-if analyses 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 is currently planning to make SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand available through its SAP PartnerEdge program in the channel partner ecosystem later in 2010.