The functional reach of SAP’s suite of software solutions is vast. No other software company offers support for such a comprehensive range of business processes, information flows and analytics. However, all of that capability comes with a price – complexity. As a result, reporting on and drawing insight from the data captured and managed within SAP is challenging. Many customers of SAP’s flagship products, R/3 and mySAP, find the process of designing and developing new reports time-consuming and expensive.

Business Objects’ enterprise reporting solutions solve these problems in two ways – first by proving a native driver to SAP’s OpenSQL that bypasses the ABAP programming language as well as offering exceptional operational report-writing capabilities. And secondly by delivering analytical reporting capabilities through advanced Business Intelligence tools that utilize a semantic interpretation layer allowing business analysts without knowledge of the SAP model access to the data.

The markets for corporate performance management (CPM) and governance, risk and compliance (GRC)—close cousins of BI—are also experiencing rapid growth. We offere business user applications, including in the area of governance, risk and compliance (GRC), and corporate performance management (CPM).