Business intelligence (BI) is red hot today, and for reasons more significant than the recent spate of high-profile vendor acquisitions. BI’s value is proven; its mettle is battle tested. For years now companies have leveraged BI and analytic software to make intelligent, timely business decisions that yield meaningful and measurable bottom-line results.
BI’s handicap, however, is that, historically, far too few people within a company have had access to these impactful, data-driven applications. SAP is on a mission to change this, making bold moves on multiple fronts to extend the power of BI throughout the enterprise—from the C level to the T (as in workers in the trench) level.
Read article by Sam Sliman, president of Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc., a leading SAP consulting and staffing firm and Premier SAP Consulting Partner: SAP: Bringing Intelligence to an Application Near You
Check out previous Optimal SAP Blog posts for more info and insight into SAP's BI play:
Read post: SAP's Business Objects Buy Understood
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