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'Consolidation' Isn't The Only Driver In Software
There's no glory for CIOs in keeping transaction systems humming. But they can wring out competitive advantage by getting better information from those transactions, and that's the potential of SAP's acquisition of Business Objects, and SAS's road map toward embedded analytics in databases. There's excellent in-depth analysis of SAP/Business Objects at Intelligent Enterprise. As for SAS, CTO Keith Collins sees three big changes in the use of data analysis, to explain the "why now?" of its push for embedded analytics.
One other interesting point Collins made: Data analytics are starting to have Sarbanes-Oxley implications. Companies are taking the governance of the analytics process -- documenting the flow of data -- more seriously, he says, because they're concluding their analytics can have a "material" effect on total revenue, thus falling under SarBox measures. SAP-plus-Business Objects is part of this bigger picture, where analytics will increasingly be blended into processes and transactions to make information far more valuable and timely. Done right, that's got bottom-line value for a company that goes well beyond having fewer software vendors to deal with. « SAP, An Industry, And Their Customers Grow Up | Main | U.S. Unveils New 'Wave of Agony' Ray Gun » |
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