Comments on: Microsoft’s Dallas Copies BusinessObjects Information OnDemand

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:01:13 +0000

I think Alex and Charles are missing the point of Timo’s post … you don’t need to have a “cloud” platform to provide “BI OnDemand” … what Business Object and, now, “SAP BusinessObjects” provides is the ability to use their BI tools on existing cloud services from a myriad of providers (D&B, US Census, etc.) — which is helpful for businesses looking to analyze information managed by these service providers

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:27:38 +0000

I agree with Alex. It certainly helps when Microsoft can trot out the President Obama’s CIO to do a demo on the fly of “Dallas” from the White House. He combined it with a demo of Project PinPoint and showed how it would work with Azure. All in 5 minutes, he had a ‘White House Approved’ job search application. I think the interesting question is not whether Microsoft copied SAP (they didn’t, their vision is much more complete – see Alex’s response), but WHAT will SAP do to take advantage of the MSFT cloud platfrom?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:20:55 +0000

The benefit for MS is, that they are about to have a cloud development platform, and MS can be trusted that they build one and not just make some Marketing buzz. And MS is really good in establishing a platform. SAPs “information on demand” is just a store wih some flashy dashboards, the cloud platfrom is missing. I think it cant be compared at the moment, because SAP is missing the cloud platfom.