What Customers Are Saying
Apotex, Inc.
“SAP and Business Objects are industry leaders that have always delivered two very complementary toolsets. Business Objects solutions excel in usability and streamline taking SAP data that can be used to generate key reports from a single, intuitive interface. The reach and flexibility of the combined solutions strengthen confidence in BI and address the varied needs of our business.”
John Mayer
Director of Consulting and Testing Services
Apotex, Inc.
Audi AG
“At Audi, we employ Business Objects for business intelligence services, and SAP-BW for data warehousing. Since the IT sector of AUDI AG has set itself the goal of promoting standardization, we can only profit from the coming-together of SAP and Business Objects.”
Mr. Reiter
Manager Business Intelligence Solution
Center of Competence Information Technology
Audi AG
Disneyland Resort Paris
“The combination of Business Objects and SAP will improve our ability to more tightly integrate Business Intelligence with our operational, transactional and financial systems.”
Bruno Brocheton
Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Disneyland Resort Paris
Marcus & Millichap
“I look forward to the synergies that will result as SAP and Business Objects build on their strengths to deliver enhanced solutions. SAP provides market-leading systems for handling data and generating transactions, while Business Objects solutions are unmatched for enabling users to quickly analyze data to drive strategic decision making.”
Marty Louie
Vice President of Finance
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services
Rhodia
“At Rhodia, SAP is our worldwide core system. We are also relying on BW and Business Objects for business intelligence. As we consider the possibilities in the consolidating enterprise software market, we couldn't ask for a better combination with SAP and Business Objects.”
Claude Cohen
Rhodia Service BI Strategy manager
Rhodia
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc.
“The acquisition of Business Objects by SAP opens up new possibilities for existing Business Objects customers to leverage SAP’s areas of expertise. We are excited that Business Objects will gain a stronger focus on market segmentation and expand its predictive analytics capabilities.”
Malcolm Wood
Director of Business Analysis and Strategic Planning
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc.
Total
“For the finance department of our Drilling and Production Division the key success factors of this acquisition are to continue supporting our implementation as well as improving the functionalities of the combined solutions.”
Philippe Chalon
Directeur Finances, Economie et Informatique
Exploration Production
Total
What Partners Are Saying
Services Partners:
Accenture
“According to 160 CIOs recently surveyed, more than 75 percent of organizations plan on having enterprise-wide analytics in three years time,” said Patrick Puechbroussou, managing director for Accenture’s SAP business.
“Accenture works with organizations globally to successfully harness and manage information across the enterprise: SAP’s vision for business performance optimization aligns with ours. Our experienced practitioners, already familiar with SAP Business Suite and the Business Objects BI platform, will develop solutions that enable deeper analysis and drive performance through more competitive differentiation. And, the positive partnering environment already in place with both companies means we are optimistic about our joint business opportunities in this market.”
Capgemini
“Capgemini welcomes the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP. With this step, business intelligence capabilities are moved from being adjunct to business processes to core of the business – something which we describe as the ‘Intelligent Enterprise,’” said Paul Hermelin, CEO, Capgemini.
“The combined business has a number of synergies and opportunities around the very hot market area of ‘Performance Management’ and we anticipate that this will bring highly flexible performance management solutions into the market which will be natively integrated into the operational applications speeding up the deployment of performance management solutions. We support this acquisition and look forward to future collaborating for the benefit of our mutual customers and continuing to deliver joint value to the market.”
Deloitte
“The Deloitte organization welcome SAP's acquisition of BOBJ as a significant evolution of our strategic alliances with both companies,” said Ainar Aijala, global managing partner for Consulting at Deloitte.
“The combination of the BOBJ business intelligence platform and applications with SAP's arsenal of world-class technologies should further strengthen SAP's ability to provide integrated, architected solutions to help customers meet their enterprise-wide information needs. The acquisition will strengthen Deloitte's ongoing collaboration with SAP to help clients meet information management needs, including but not limited to GRC and CPM. As well, it will support Deloitte's global CFO Program, financial excellence and compliance, integrated performance management, and, more broadly, business intelligence initiatives at our joint clients.”
IBM
“Companies seek to derive greater insight from their corporate information to help them innovate and drive strong results,” said Volker Loehr, IBM General Manager, SAP Alliance.
“As a long- time partner of both SAP and Business Objects, IBM enhances these business solutions with a proven, flexible infrastructure including servers and database technologies as well as industry-specific process and implementation know-how. Today, this already provides over 13,000 joint clients with strategic choice, global delivery capabilities and operational return for their projects and business.”
TCS
“TATA Consultancy Services Limited embraces SAP's acquisition of Business Objects and sees it as an opportunity to serve additional customers and extend benefits through the combined offerings and open approach to the market,” said Mr. N. Chandrasekaran, COO, TCS.
“TCS, with its strong industry and domain capabilities, will be looking forward to leveraging this combination of assets from the two market leaders and offering innovative solutions to our joint customers, providing them with significant business benefits.”
Wipro
“The combination of business process and analytics applications will enable a new level of business performance optimization that customers are asking for,” said P R Chandrasekar, president, Americas & Europe, Wipro.
“We look forward to taking advantage of the expanded service offerings afforded by the union of SAP and Business Objects which, together with the deep domain experience of Wipro, will help customers extend the value of their enterprise applications and improve the business context of information.”
Software & Technology Partners:
Adobe
“Today, collaborative decision making is critical for business users across functions and business processes. We believe SAP and Business Objects have a compelling vision to meet those needs and together they will greatly improve how users analyze business data to make complex decisions more quickly,” said David Mendels, senior vice president, Business Productivity Business Unit, Adobe.
“Adobe has strong relationships with both companies, beginning with SAP in 2003 with SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and more recently with Business Objects in 2007 to combine the power of business intelligence with RIAs. We are excited about partnering with the newly combined company and joint prospects to revolutionize how business users engage with corporate information.”
Callidus
“Customers are looking for new ways to extend the value of their enterprise applications and optimize business performance,” said Leslie Stretch, president and CEO, Callidus.
“With the union of SAP and Business Objects, Callidus looks forward to building on the existing relationship with both companies and sees natural opportunities to continue to collaborate for the benefit of our mutual customers.”
HP
“HP has enjoyed successful partnerships with both SAP and Business Objects for many years, and we expect our partnership to be strengthened with the completion of SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects,” said Ann Livermore, executive vice president, Technology Solutions Group, HP.
“With HP's strong portfolio of business intelligence offerings, we will continue to work with SAP to provide integrated solutions to help our joint customers solve some of the most complex information challenges.”
Microsoft
“SAP and Business Objects are both longstanding partners of Microsoft. Our work with SAP has ranged from SAP applications running on Microsoft Windows and SQL Server to our joint Office Business Application development with Duet,” said Jeff Raikes, president Microsoft Business Division.
“We’ve partnered with Business Objects for 15 years on Microsoft Visual Studio and more recently on the delivery of the Business Objects XI integration kit for Microsoft SharePoint Server. Microsoft enthusiastically supports the combination of SAP and Business Objects, and I welcome the opportunity to build on our joint efforts with these two great partners as they become one.”
Sage
“Business Objects is a long-standing partner of Sage Software,” said Nina L. Smith, President, Sage Software Business Management Division.
“We applaud SAP’s commitment to keep Business Objects an independent business unit, and we look forward to expanding our relationship. Together, Sage Software and Business Objects will continue to deliver tangible value to our mutual customers.”
Teradata
“Together, SAP and Business Objects offer a powerful combination of both a business information platform and a business process platform enabling companies to translate business insight into action,” said Darryl McDonald, chief marketing officer, Teradata.
“We congratulate them on their new union and look forward to working together to deliver the best in enterprise analytics to our mutual customers.”
Channel Partners:
Contemporary – The Business Intelligence People, UK
“SAP's acquisition of Business Objects combines the world’s largest business software company with the world’s leading BI software company,” said David Whitehead, managing director, Contemporary - The Business Intelligence People, UK.
“This is exciting news for both existing and future customers looking to reduce costs, improve performance, and gain the agility to respond to changing business needs. Their combined strength will result in new, innovative offerings to meet the growing demands of today’s business users, regardless of company size.”
Decision First
“The joint company will link together two vibrant and successful communities,” said Taylor Courtnay, Co-Founder and vice president of Sales, Decision First. “We are excited at the prospect of providing enhanced business information solutions and services to a wider range of customers, regardless of platform.”
Dunn Solutions
“We are excited about the opportunity to continue to deliver powerful BI solutions to our customers – but with the added benefit of tighter integration,” said Bill Dunn, CEO, Dunn Solutions.
“We also feel comfortable that Business Objects will continue to support all of our clients, regardless of their platform, and stay true to its roots.”
IDS Scheer
“Together, SAP and Business Objects will offer high-value solutions for process- and business-oriented professionals,” said Wolfgang Köstler, director MidMarket Solutions Europe.
“The solutions will be designed to enable companies to strengthen decision processes, increase customer value and create sustainable competitive advantage through real-time, multi-dimensional business intelligence. For us, IDS Scheer, this combination will boost our ‘ARIS SmartPath solutions for SAP’ and will allow us to increase higher value for our midsize customers.”
itelligence
“We are very excited about the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and look forward to collaborating to serve the needs of itelligence's midmarket customers,” said Uwe Bohnhorst, COO, itelligence AG.
“The combination of business process and analytics applications allows non-technical users to dramatically improve the quality of their decision making by instantaneously and easily providing the information that they need without having to leave their every day productivity tools.”
JOIN(+) GmbH
“The SAP acquisition will provide us great business opportunities - especially in the area of integration of Business Objects and SAP BI technology,” said Erich Anhut, JOIN(+) GmbH.
Navigator
“We are very excited about the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP,” said Grant Fraser, CEO, Navigator Business One Solutions.
“Particularly with our small enterprise customers, we see a strong demand for transparency and advanced reporting capabilities - the union of those two companies will certainly help us better serve our customers’ needs and expand our user base.”
SDG Group
“The biggest opportunity we see is the possibility to extend our customer base to SAP customers who are not currently using Business Objects as a BI solution,” said Fabio Bombana, partner at SDG Group in Italy.
“The combined company and offering will surely allow us to improve our positioning and to approach these customers with a stronger value proposition. We look forward to expanding our partnership with SAP and Business Objects.”