This report describes SAP’s partnership and integration with the major pure-play business intelligence (BI) vendors: Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy and SAS.
The partnerships are described in terms of the company, the technology of the BI vendor and the integration with SAP.The products evaluated are the latest BI platform releases from the vendors; respectively, Business Objects XI Release 2, Cognos 8, Hyperion System 9 BI+, MicroStrategy 8 and SAS 9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform.
The version of SAP’s BI functionality that the integration described refers to is also the latest release: SAP NetWeaver BI 2004s.This report addresses both users with an enterprise BI standard who want to know how this standard integrates with SAP, and how it compares with the competition and users looking to make a BI software purchase, or set an enterprise standard for BI – and for whom SAP integration is a priority.
Users who have standardised on SAP BI but want to complement with additional ‘look and feel’ for specific user groups may also find relevance.