I recently attended SAP TechEd in Las Vegas to hear the latest from the company regarding its analytics and business intelligence offerings as well as its data management platform. The company used the event to launch SAP Data Hub and made several other data and analytics announcements that I’ll cover below.
SAP Data Hub Orchestrates Data for Business and IT
Topics: SAP, Analytics, Data Preparation, Big Data, Machine Learning
SAP Enterprise Information Management 4.0: A Technology Secret
SAP has launched its Enterprise Information Management (EIM) 4.0 release as part of its “Run Better Tour.” It includes a broad range of information management components spanning data integration, data quality, data profiling, metadata management and more. The launch was done in conjunction with SAP Business Intelligence (BI) 4.0, which got much bigger billing at the event –to the point where one might call this a stealth marketing campaign. However, the event did identify three themes intended to highlight EIM capabilities: event insight, trusted data and text processing. The goal here was to communicate the integration SAP has achieved within and between its BI and EIM products. IBM announced a similar advance with its InfoSphere products and Informatica has also invested heavily in integrating its information management products. Our Information Management benchmark research validates this approach, finding that incompatible tools create a significant obstacle to organizations’ quest for consistent sets of data.
Topics: Analytics, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Technology, Complex Event Processing, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Quality, Information Management, Information Technology, Operational Intelligence, SAP, Social Media, CIO, IT Performance Management (ITPM)
Last week SAP launched the 4.0 Release of its Business Intelligence and Enterprise Information Management products in conjunction with the New York City stop on its “SAP Run Better Tour”. My colleague Mark Smith has already covered the announcement in the context of some of today’s major technology trends. In this post, I’ll focus on the specifics of the product announcements.
Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Technology, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Information Management, Information Technology, Mobility, Operational Intelligence, SAP, Social Media, CIO