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But it is always good to hear from someone from SAP BusinessObjects.

Thanks a lot again!

Mohan

Your BW team is absolutely correct that we aim to providing tight integration between BusinessObjects and the BW warehouse.

But they shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that that is all we’re doing just because they didn’t hear about the rest. The roadmap presentations we’ve provided are explicitly focused on integration, because that’s where our customers have had the most questions.

But we absolutely stand by our commitment to continue providing BusinessObjects as a platform that provides best-of-breed information management, business intelligence, performance management, and governance, risk, and compliance across whatever underlying business applications systems your organization is using.

Another question,

I had attended two days workshop conducted by SAP on Explorer Accelerated. When I came back to my work place and conducted the session for a larger audience (SAP BW & BusinessObjects), the SAP BW folks kept making one statement. The statement – “In the future BusinessObjects may not be promoted as a neutral BI platform by SAP” as the roadmap that was shared by SAP only talked about the future of SAP BW and not about BusinessObjects as a standalone product.

What are your thoughts about it?

Mohan

I assume people are asking about whether to implement a data warehouse such as SAP BW, where a lot of the work is done for you and you’re dealing with metadata rather than SQL, or to create/maintain your own relational data warehouse (e.g. using Kimball methodology). In general, there are all the normal tradeoffs of build vs. buy, and people are moving more to buying as the products in the space improve.

Timo

I am trying to ask this question to all the experts I know. Your thoughts?

Mohan