Also represented on the stand are the BI solutions for SAP R / 3 and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse as well as the comprehensive range around the BI platform from Infor, Oracle and IBM. In addition, the visitors can also directly at the stand to take the Free Limited special version of Cubeware Cockpit V6pro. The technology of Cubeware is open to all databases and legacy systems. Particularly in view of ever-expectant heterogeneous IT environments, this is an important factor in building a future-oriented BI solution is critical to success.

Cubeware Cockpit V6pro

The first featured Release 3 of Cubeware Cockpit V6pro Cubeware launching its new product feature “interactive maps support” on the market. Due to the dynamic display and interactive analysis of data in the context of position maps can be derived relationships and trends that would be from the clean data, or material not difficult to identify. Tickets analysis can be integrated directly into a Business Intelligence Dashboard or combined with other information presented.

Analysable cards are not only geographical maps, but also other visualization templates, including elevations for buildings or production facilities, where they are stored as shapes. Further innovations in the cockpit Cubeware V6pro Release 3 are also further developed the integration of relational data as well as “on-the-fly” aggregation and associative browsing for even more flexibility in the ad-hoc data analysis.

Cubeware Importer

Also visible is the Cubeware Importer. The fachanwenderorientierte OLAP ETL tool automatically extracts data from various source systems or data warehouses, merges, checks them and invites them modeled in an OLAP cube. With the Service Release 7.3, the existing mapping capabilities have been expanded even further. Thus, for example, can now be read dimensional structures and attributes from OLAP databases in mapping. This example supports the migration of, alteration or renovation of older cubes and simplifies this considerably. Also new: more documentation possibilities of import definitions and parameterization of mappings, which increases its range of applications.

As part of planning solutions Cubeware Importer also enables a flexible solution for the implementation of planning workflow and KPI (Key Performance Indicator) monitoring.

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The new version will be recouped quickly, more adaptable and easier to use. They provide integrated analysis capabilities from the SAP Business Objects portfolio, the companies a better insight into their business processes are. The new version was developed in close cooperation with SAP midmarket partners.

Advanced Mobility

Together with Sybase, a provider of mobile software solutions, introduced two new solutions designed specifically for use on the iPhone and on mobile devices running Windows Mobile. The new solutions for SAP CRM Mobile Sales, Sybase and Sybase Mobile Workflow for SAP Business Suite, aimed at field personnel access to key business processes and applications to provide customer relationship management.

Both run on the Sybase Unwired Platform and extend the functionalities of the SAP Business Suite and the application of SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM). Customized to allow customization to access different databases, web services, files, or even business applications that are deployed on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The marketing solutions incorporate both SAP and Sybase together.

NetWeaver Business Client 3.0

The software SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0 is available immediately for customers using the SAP Business All-in-One solutions, generally available. The new version is a rich client, a unified environment for centralized access to SAP Business All-in-one offers and other applications. It brings improvements in appearance and usability, more design options for the user as well as numerous other improvements.

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This result has identified the latest investment survey of the association. When it comes to user support largely rely on tried and tested – to the standard support.

IT budgets remain in 2010 compared to the previous year. The type of the approximately 300 companies that have participated in the Investment Survey 2010, the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) eV. Approximately one third of IT budgets, therefore deleted on SAP. Also, this value has remained stable compared to 2009th Nearly two thirds of SAP expenditures are for services for SAP solutions fifth scheduled.

Of the investments in SAP solutions, in turn, accounts for nearly 60 percent on the SAP ERP environment. In second place SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, with over 30 percent, followed by SAP Business Objects, SAP NetWeaver Portal, is the SAP Solution Manager and the industry solutions. Prof. Dr. Karl Liebstückel, DSAG CEO of the investment behavior: “Our member companies are currently focusing on projects with which they can update their core applications and expand. The users behave conservatively at the moment. ”

Last year, the spread of SAP ERP 6.0 has not yet received a further boost. About 80 percent of the participating companies now put the latest version of ERP (cf. 2009: almost 47 per cent). The high percentage refers primarily to the main installations. The value determined, however, permits only one conditional inference based on the overall prevalence rate of SAP ERP 6.0. The proportion in respect of all installations is to experience significantly lower.

In addition to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (over 30 percent), the SAP Business Objects is in the interest of Porfolio DSAG members. Nearly 15 percent of respondents plan to the newly created products to invest. This represents an increase of 50 percent compared to last year. Slightly more than one fifth of the respondents feel about the issue by SAP well informed. However, there is the rest of the respondents still demand more information.

While nearly one third the impact on SAP’s product portfolio is evaluated positively, nearly 20 percent previously had no opinion on the developments are around the acquisition of Business Objects in the autumn of 2007.

To 15 March 2010 SAP customers have time to opt for a variant of the support model. Among the organizations in the DSAG CIOs shows a clear trend towards standard support. The majority of the IT manager has expressed himself so to maintain the simple support model. Then as now, roughly two thirds of users had no significant value to SAP Enterprise Support.

The DSAG investment survey is conducted once a year. In 2010 participated in the survey of almost 300 member companies. The data was collected during the period from December 2009 until the end of January 2010. The German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) e. V. in Walldorf, Germany sees itself as an independent interests of all SAP users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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