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SAP stops dashboard- and scorecard development at Business Objects
Monday, 31 March 2008 13:48
sap.gifThe recent takeovers in the business intelligence and performance management arena give rise to important reorganizations and strategic refocusing of product portfolios. As a result Giant SAP halts important developments at Business Objects in the area of dashboarding and scorecarding. Even more the reason to keep a close eye on Bizzscore for strategic scorecarding!

SAP reorganizes its software portfolio
The recent acquisition of Business Objects has resulted in serious overlap in SAP’s software portfolio. The most significant overlap is the result of prior acquisition of SAP and Business Objects. These include Pilot Software, OutlookSoft (SAP), as well as ALG, SRC and Cartesis (Business Objects). The German software giant wishes to eliminate these overlaps.

This means that for financial planning SAP will focus on the OutlookSoft products; within the SAP-portfolio these have been relabeled as SAP Business Planning and Consolidation.

Organizations that use SRC-software from Business Objects will have to migrate. For profit and loss management SAP will promote Activity Analysis, the label that Business Objects has put on the software from ALG. SAP’s competing offering in this field from Acorn Systems’ has been relabeled as SAP Business Profitability Management.

For consolidation purposes SAP will follow a twofold strategy. Main product will be the Cartesis-software that was introduced with the acquisition of Business Objects. Customers that prefer tooling that integrates consolidation and planning will be able to continue with the OutlookSoft-product as included in SAP-BPC.

For strategic management, including dashboarding- and scorecarding SAP has chosen to promote its Strategy Management-product. This originates from the acquisition of Pilot Software. Pending developments at Business Objects in this field will be stopped.

Read the full article in Dutch in the Automatiseringsgids of March 28 2008.