A recent worldwide survey listed business intelligence (BI) as CIOs' number one priority for 2008, the third consecutive year BI topped the list. In this light, organizations that run SAP® software should perform due diligence on solutions from SAP and from Business Objects, an SAP company. New milestones in areas such as user experience and information integration, from both business-user and enterprise-IT perspectives, will be hard to ignore under such a mandate.

From a business user perspective, this translates into more interactive and pervasive BI, both creating a richer user experience and reaching every place where work is done. As enterprise productivity increasingly depends on knowledge work, enabling business users becomes critical to success.

In addition, there are new BI richness and reach scenarios that the SAP world has not seen before. BusinessObjects Xcelsius set the standard for a whole new product category called interactive visualization. Similarly, BusinessObjects Polestar is part of an innovative new product class of easy-to-use guided analysis that eliminates the need for any report or query development from scratch.

This white paper will provide insight into the new opportunities created by the SAP and Business Objects by sharing scenarios that illustrate current opportunities to deliver high value.