The Warehouse Group needs no introduction. As one of NZ’s largest retailers, Warehouse Group deals with a wide range of products from clothing, entertainment, technology and music to sporting, gardening, grocery and many others, across multiple brands, since 1982.
US rental chain store Rent-a-Center is locked in a legal battel with SAP over whether the rent-to-own chain owes the vendor about US$9 million in fees for excess use of its Business Objects analytics software.
SAP is gearing up to launch Business Objects 4.0, its biggest BI (business intelligence) release in roughly three years, later this month at an event in New York.
Add open-source business intelligence vendor Pentaho to the list of vendors rolling out financial incentives to lure customers during the global recession.
Carter Holt Harvey is the first high-profile New Zealand company to select SAP Business Objects since SAP bought the business intelligence software company for $NZ8.8 billion 16 months ago.
Business Objects has released Metadata Management XI 3.0, its product for collecting and managing "data about data" within a company.
Sydney Water will save more than A$1.6 million (NZ$1.96 million) in operational expenditure (OPEX) after it replaces its ailing data collection system with an enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform from Business Objects.
Despite being in the process of acquisition by SAP, business intelligence software vendor Business Objects expects that its operations will remain a “distinct unit” within the ERP vendor, says Business Objects’ Australia/NZ managing director Rob Wells.
It’s all on again with Oracle bidding for BEA while SAP is buying Business Objects. The international IT marketplace continues to consolidate around the core group of ICT giants.
IBM and Business Objects have signed a new joint development and product distribution deal, for pre-integrated data warehousing and business intelligence.
The main impact of SAP’s planned acquisition of Business Objects in New Zealand and Australia will be in the area of distribution channels, says Ian Bertram, managing vice president for business intelligence at analyst firm Gartner.
In a move to jump-start growth in the business intelligence arena, SAP will acquire Business Objects SA for about €4.8 billion (NZ$8.8 billion).
Eagle Technology, one of the great survivors of the New Zealand information technology market, has recently moved to new Wellington premises, after 17 years in Eagle Technology House, in Willis Street.
Fuel industry support organisation Fuelquip has quickly realised benefits from installing a business intelligence system, demonstrating that BI is no longer just a tool for major corporations.