Reach Out to XI 3.0

Building upon substantial Business Objects and SAP BI expertise, Business & Decision have developed "Reach Out to XI 3.0", a fixed price evaluation of BOXI 3.0 within client environments to provide additional value and power for Business Objects customers who may have both BW and non-BW data. Read more.

Designing Compelling Business Intelligence Business Cases for an SAP Software Landscape:
Scenarios for Leveraging Solutions from SAP and Business Objects

By David Dixon, Vice President in Inforte's SAP Practice and Jean Michel Franco, Solutions Director, Business & Decision

Understand the different scenarios where ‘best in class' tools from both the SAP BI Netweaver and Business Objects XI platforms can be used to maximize the end-user experience and power of the BW database. Let B&D's industry experts guide you through the combined stack and position the various tools and scenarios to meet the challenge of making BI more pervasive and interactive within an Enterprise environment for both SAP and non-SAP data. Read more.

Business Intelligence in SAP Environments: Understanding the Value of Complementary BI Solutions

By David Dixon, Vice President in Inforte's SAP Practice

With the recent SAP offer to acquire Business Objects, understanding how to maximize the value of hybrid architectures with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence becomes even more pertinent and important. This timely white paper talks about how Specialist BI solutions can complement the native SAP capabilities: It provides a condensed executive summary for decision makers, holistic coverage for decision support teams, and appendices which include historical and technical details that give the assertions made in this document context and support for the experts. David Dixon expands the vision of SAP NetWeaver where his definitive book, Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse: Leveraging the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver, left off by demonstrating how "best-of-breed" has evolved into "best-of-hybrid" solutions that leverage complementary Specialist BI suites in SAP environments. Read more.