By Eleanor Reader
SAP AG has announced new Analytics Editions of SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence and SAP® Crystal Solutions to help companies of all sizes make better use of their data.
By tailoring the software to specific industries and lines of business, SAP has ensured all organisations, no matter how varied, will be able to use the solutions to gain a better insight into “big data” with advanced data visualization, self-service data discovery, mobile BI and predictive capabilities.
“With the new analytics editions of SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP Crystal solutions, customers can start driving their own decision revolutions more cost-effectively than ever before,” said John Schweitzer, senior vice president and general manager, Analytics, SAP.
“As technologies such as BI, data warehousing and data integration continue to come together, organizations large and small are looking for end-to-end solutions that can turn ‘big data’ into ‘intelligent data’ and quickly answer any business question. The analytics editions take this even further by offering the expert content they need to accelerate return on investment.”
This ‘intelligent’ data can be accessed on both desktop and mobile, with a focus on easy-to-use tools, allowing businesses to quickly discover, access, manipulate and analyze transactional data in enterprise systems, machine or device-generated data and Web data.
The software bundles SAP® BusinessObjects™ business intelligence (BI) solutions and the SAP® Sybase® IQ server, a high-performance data foundation designed specifically for analytics.
SAP currently offers the following analytics editions:
· SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence suite, analytics edition
· SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence platform, analytics edition
· SAP® BusinessObjects™ BI, Edge analytics edition
· SAP® Crystal Server, analytics edition
