SAP Business By Design Adds Third-Party Web Services

SAP today announced new collaboration agreements that allow SAP Business ByDesign users to more easily leverage web services from third-party providers, including: Business and investment news. Users can access investment research and other data from Hoover’s, Morningstar, and Business Wire, Google News, and Google Finance, and combine it with their own information about customers and suppliers. Mapping and address services. Users can map and route... [Read More...]

Will BI 2.0 Sparql Thanks to the Semantic Web?

var maceTitle = ""; var ua = escape("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"); var url = escape(self.location); var args = "&ua=" + ua; args += "&url=" + url; args += "&ip=204.50.70.28"; args += "&si=11"; args += "&br="; args += "&pt=2100"; args += "&nd=13416"; args += "&ncat=6037:13416:"; args += "&autoplay=false"; ... [Read More...]

BI As a Service: Ready to Explode?

A post by David Linthicum on the Intelligence Enterprise weblog called “SaaS Explodes…” has statistics on the growth of software as a service in large organizations that can give some hints about the future of BI as a service. It’s a cultural issue I wholeheartedly agree with David’s sentiments: “What’s significant is not that SaaS is growing, but that SaaS is gaining acceptance within businesses... [Read More...]