But are users any closer to better decisions?
Today IDC released two reports pointing to SAP's Business Objects portfolio as the business intelligence (BI) leader by revenue and market-share with figures around $1.5B and 20% respectively. This gorilla continues bulking up through acquisitions such as the $5.8 billion deal for Sybase approved today by the EU.
More interesting is the fact that IDC confirmed the continued growth of the BI market in an otherwise lackluster IT spending environment. There's still quite an appetite for the clarity of analysis and reporting promised by BI software on top of the scarily complex SAP Business Suite.
Big systems, like SAP, are so complex that an entire industry of system integrators and trainers has appeared to help make sense of it all. Ironically, the same is true for BI software. The high skill levels required for wrestling, crunching, and analyzing data has created BI trainers and consultants who help your people understand their own BI software.
Therein lies the value of Klipfolio Dashboard to the enterprise. Most of your people aren't SAP gurus. Very few of your people are BI professionals. They're important but they could all sit around one boardroom table. What about the other 95% of your workforce that makes operational decisions all day? Even if you could afford to train them all, not everyone is able or willing to plumb the depths of SAP.
Instead, Klipfolio Dashboard presents a streamlined view of operational KPIs to 95% of your organization without any need for training. It acts as the operational bridge to get information out of the complex reporting environment of SAP using Open Hub and J2EE web services.
As the tag-line goes, SAP will run your business. And BI will let power users crunch it and query it once it’s in order. But when these systems and experts succeed in producing actionable KPIs, the way to get them out of the lab and into the hands of people who can use them is with Klipfolio Dashboard.
