Comments on: SAP buying Business Objects: The verdict

By: Hasso

Hasso — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:08:39 +0000

SAP didn’t have a successful reporting solution. BOBJ was in play. Would have been better to buy Hyperion, but their choices were limited so they overpaid.

By: Mike Garrett

Mike Garrett — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:59:40 +0000

I have been specializing in integrating Crystal Reports with SAP BW for the past five years. Bottom line: when implemented correctly, it’s a terrific solution for the business end user. It requires a savvy analyst or IT developer to create the content and publish it to the web, but the tool is much more robust and easier to work with than the BI tools provided by SAP. But then, of course, that’s one reason why SAP bought Business Objects. Once the dust settles on this there are going to be a lot of happy end users out there.

By: Sparjan

Sparjan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:16:24 +0000

What gets interesting is how SAP comes with its product suites as a result of the aquisition. Am sure most of BO customers are still confused with the migration path, which already faces its own significant acquisition & integration challenges.

This will be a huge advantage for its competitors like Oracle, who are way ahead.

By: Harel

Harel — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:52:28 +0000

I believe that the acquisition is very confusing for SAP customers. No matter which merged product will finally be produced – I can’t see a reasonable transition program from good old BW. So customers will hesitate to spend long time plans in BI (why migrate to BI7?), IP (the new BPS), BCS, Portal, BI Accelerator, Visual Composer……