SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform for Cloud Vendors

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As a software provider, your offeringshelp your customers run their businessmore efficiently and compete moreeffectively. Delivered in the cloud, yourproducts help your customers holddown capital expenditures while increas-ing business agility. But customer rela-tionships never stand still. Over time,customers seek added value – and yourgoal is to find ways to deliver it.

One area in which many of your custom-ers can derive significant value is busi-ness intelligence (BI). Powerful businessintelligence can deliver the insights yourcustomers need to spot trends, improveoperations, understand consumer needs,and make informed decisions that sup-

port their business strategy. Businessintelligence, however, is a complex,specialized field – and building suchfunctionality into your offerings canmean a lengthy development effort thatrequires substantial time, human capital,and financial resources.

This is where SAP can help. SAP makesit possible for you to incorporate power-ful BI content such as reports and dash-

boards into your own solutions by usingthe SAP® BusinessObjects™ BusinessIntelligence platform. You implement theplatform in your own data center, andSAP assists you with the initial integrationeffort. The result is a flexible, scalableinformation infrastructure for deliveringpowerful BI content to your customersin the form of dashboards, reports, inter-active analysis, and data explorationtools. This content provides your cus-tomers with actionable insight into theprocesses and data that your solutionssupport. Ultimately, this helps you in-crease the value of your offerings as well as the value of your customerrelationships.

Comprehensive BusinessIntelligence at Low Cost

By deploying the SAP BusinessObjectsBI platform you can deliver powerful BIfunctionality to your customers at a muchlower cost than developing and main-taining your own proprietary reportingtools. What’s more, the platform is builton a service-oriented architecture thatsupports multitenant cloud deployments,

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SAP Solution BriefSAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions

SAP® BusinessObjects™BI PLATFORM FOR CLOUD VENDORS

DELIVER THE BEST IN BUSINESSINTELLIGENCE TO YOUR CUSTOMERS

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tors key insights into peak systemloads, processing efficiency, and usagepatterns so that you can monitor and

properly configure your BI deploymentfor optimal performance.

You’ll also find that the SAPBusinessObjects BI platform supportsquick and flexible delivery of BI contentto your customers. For example, theplatform includes application program-ming interfaces (APIs) that enable youto customize user interfaces and work-flows to meet unique customer require-ments. It also comes with tools and

best practices that help your adminis-trators manage customer accounts,reports, and other BI content. Mean- while, self-service tools empower your customers to manage their ownaccounts, thus alleviating demand on your staff and helping to minimize admin-istrative costs. All of these featuresmake it easier for you to quickly on-board new customers and managerelationships over time so that you cangrow your business and maximize yourrevenue.

enabling you to serve a wide range ofcustomers on a single platform whileproviding data security and privacy.With a comprehensive set of BI tools at your disposal, you can extend powerfulBI functionality to any of your customersfor any of your offerings in any environ-ment – quickly and efficiently. Whether your customers need standard reports,ad hoc queries and analyses, or visual-izations and dashboards, the SAPBusinessObjects BI platform enables you to deliver what your customersdemand.

The platform is also designed to supportongoing growth. It accommodates anincreasing number of users and can

process a growing volume of data whilemaintaining high performance. The plat-form’s near-linear scalability has beendemonstrated in published benchmarksand in numerous deployments with userbases greater than 20,000. One bench-mark, in fact, shows the platform sup-porting 7,000 concurrent active users, which is equivalent to the requirementsof a deployment serving a much larger

population of named users.1 In the end, your organization can rest assured thatthe SAP BusinessObjects BI platformdelivers the robust, scalable functional-ity you need as you grow your organi-zation and add customers over time.

Deployment, Management, andDelivery – Without Headaches

The SAP BusinessObjects BI platformhelps you get your BI infrastructureup and running quickly and efficiently,giving you more time to respond toever-changing business requirements.The platform supports global, multilin-gual deployments and heterogeneousenvironments running mixed operating

systems, including HP-UX, IBM AIX,Microsoft Windows Server, Red HatLinux, Sun Solaris, and SUSE Linux.It also supports a broad range of appli-cation servers and databases, so it fitsright into your existing IT infrastructure with minimal changes. Equally important,the platform supports data- and content-level security for multitenant environ-ments whether you decide to colocatecustomer data or isolate it in dedicateddata stores.

Once you’re up and running, the SAPBusinessObjects BI platform usesadvanced technology to optimize per-formance and help ensure high-volumethroughput without compromising re-sponse times. For example, cachingservices and built-in load balancing helpcut response time and reduce usage ofnetwork resources. This enables you togenerate significantly more reportsthrough adaptive data sharing. Addi-tionally, the platform gives administra-

Incorporate powerful BIcontent into your ownsolutions using the SAPBusinessObjects BusinessIntelligence platform. Theresult is a flexible, scalableinformation infrastructurefor delivering powerful BIcontent to your customers.

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platform is built on a service-

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deployments, enabling youto serve a wide range of

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1. Measuring Performance for Enterprise Business Intelligence, Winter Corporation, 2009.



As your customers become accus-tomed to the insights you enablethrough your solutions, you’ll be ableto respond to future demand by quicklyadding new services and content asneeded. For example, automated life-cycle management tools allow you tomodify, reconfigure, or upgrade yourdeployment. This gives you greaterflexibility to move from developmentto test to production servers. You canalso move specific parts of your deploy-

ment to different physical servers located within the same server farm or to a totallydifferent data center or geographic area.

Flexibility You Can Build On

As your own product suite grows and your customer relationships deepen, you may want to extend BI functionalityto your customers beyond the context you originally intended. The SAPBusinessObjects BI platform gives you the flexibility to expand the reach

of BI content to whatever applications,services, and tools you deliver to yourcustomers.

In addition, the BI platform provides you with full-featured software develop-ment kits (SDKs) to build applicationsthat extend your BI investment whereverneeded. Whether for authentication,authorization, scheduling, content dis-play, ad hoc query, or server adminis-tration, the SAP BusinessObjects BIplatform delivers functionality via SDKsdirectly in any .NET or Java application.The platform also offers a comprehen-sive set of Web services that exposeBI functionality as platform-agnosticinterfaces for integration into whatever

application or services you deliver to your customers.

Value for You, Value for YourCustomers

By adopting the SAP BusinessObjectsBI platform, you can quickly enhancethe value of your own cloud softwareofferings for your customers. With timelybusiness intelligence, your customerscan make better decisions, faster. They

can increase their own business agilityby spotting trends and taking action toimprove business performance.

What’s more, the SAP BusinessObjectsBI platform is based on a flexible infor-mation infrastructure that performs welleven under the most demanding condi-tions. This means that the platform hasthe scalability you need to serve an ever-growing customer base. In the end, youcan offer your customers significantinsights into your software – insights

that help increase the value of yourown offerings so that you can extendand increase the value of your customerrelationships.

For More Information

To learn more about how your companycan use the SAP BusinessObjects BIplatform to add value to your offeringsand build stronger customer relationships,contact your SAP representative or visitus online at www.sap.com/ecosystem/partners/partnerwithsap/oem.

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SummaryThe SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence platform is a flexible, scalable informationinfrastructure with a comprehensive set of business intelligence (BI) tools. Used in conjunction with your own cloud-based software offerings, this platform empowers your customers to uncoverinsights and make more effective business decisions. This helps to increase the value of thesoftware you deliver.

Business Challenges• Deliver timely, accurate decision-making insight to your customers• Develop a flexible, scalable information infrastructure to support robust BI for a growing

customer base• Increase the value of your existing offerings

Key Features• Comprehensive BI – Deliver BI functionality to your customers at a much lower cost than

developing your own tools• Support for multitenant environments – Serve multiple customers on a single platform

while supporting data privacy and security • Infrastructure management – Configure, manage, secure, and control your entire BI

infrastructure from a central location• Delivery – Quickly on-board new customers and deliver a customized BI experience• Scalability and performance – Accommodate more customers and process a growing

volume of data through a service-oriented architecture• Integration with heterogeneous environments – Expand the reach of BI by accessing,

interacting with, and analyzing data regardless of format or location

Business Benefits• Better-informed decision-making capabilities for your customers thanks to timely BI• Increased value for the software you deliver due to insights your customers glean from

the processes your software supports and the data it generates• Improved business agility for your customers resulting from BI they can act on to seize

opportunities and improve business performance• Scalability to help you grow based on a flexible information infrastructure that maintains

high performance under the most demanding conditions

For More Information

To learn more about SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions, visitour Web site at www.sap.com/ecosystem/partners/partnerwithsap/oem.

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