It’s been a while since a major release of BusinessObjects/SAP BI so 4.0 is a big deal – over a million person hours invested. SAP’s overall focus is to help companies “run smarter” and obviously the work on BI 4.0 has to be part of this overall environment – how do analytics help companies run [...]
Business Objects
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork In a recent post, Big BI is Stuck: Illustrated by SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, Stephen Few took issue with the claims of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. I have not spent any time with the product so I am not going to discuss his specific criticisms but I was struck by a caution he added [...]
Using business rules and analytics together is one of the defining characteristics of an enterprise decision management approach. Dan Selman had an interesting post over on the ILOG blog today – Integrating Business Objects and JRules using SOA. The post discusses a well-written “lab” white paper that walks through the process of this integration in [...]