Still here in inexplicably sunny Chicago (65 degrees!) at the Gartner BI Summit, and my last blog entry of the day is about the SAP representatives I just spoke with (Don't worry, I'll blog more later or tomorrow about some of the other great meetings I had).
SAP has been working for the last 30 years on developing a process-centric approach for providing the right kind of intelligence to the right people at the right time, and SAP is the fastest growing vendor in the BI space right now, said Lothar Schubert, director of SAP's Netweaver product marketing.
SAP senior vice president Nimish Mehta talked about how SAP seeks to infuse business processes with the intelligence provided by analytics, "to convert these tools into useful insight into the business," he said. An example of this is that SAP can "write software that manages the customer engagement process and then provide exactly the right kind of analytics that support that," Mehta said.
Mindy Fiorentino, SAP's vice president for analytics and performance management, also told me about SAP's extremely recent February acquisition of Pilot Software, which ebizQ covered in our news section. Mindy reported that SAP intends to integrate Pilot Software's core product, the business analytic application PilotWorks, into its suite of business software products that run on the NetWeaver integration platform. We look forward to hearing more about this exciting product suite, which is rated in the top four of all BI platforms according to Gartner.
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