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Peak Performance, by Mark Smith
Mark Smith is the CEO and SVP of research at Ventana Research, an advisory services and research firm providing insight and education on best practices and technology in performance management. See More by Mark Smith Is SAP Ready for BI?
The market for BI has never been more vibrant, or the interest at midsized and large organizations in adopting BI greater. Yet in the face of this opportunity, I continue to hear reports of unrest on the part of companies using SAP for BI – reports about its lack of enterprise capabilities and the usability of the technology. Recently I heard from Clorox that it is planning to decommission its SAP BI technology, which is called SAP Business Information Warehouse or SAP BW. Also, Estee Lauder is transitioning its SAP BW deployment to become just a data source for its enterprise BI needs. With market demand expanding faster than SAP’s capability to respond, there is clear opportunity for vendors like Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy and others that interface to SAP BW and R/3 to further supplant SAP as the application-level data source across areas like accounting and the supply chain. SAP has declared it understands the importance of BI, but it has yet to offer cutting-edge products that meet the needs of today’s intensely competitive organizations. As these large enterprises are standardizing on vendors for BI, it will be interesting to see if SAP will be able to respond to its customers’ and potential customers’ needs to be taken seriously. Are you challenged making BI work on SAP? Share your comments below. Mark Smith is CEO And Senior Vice President Of Research at Ventana Research. Write to him at mark.smith@ventanaresearch.com.  E-MAIL | SLASHDOT | DIGG This is a public forum. CMP Technology and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. CMP Technology makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of CMP Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in CMP Technology's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business.
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