Company Profile

SAP® is the world's leading provider of business software. Today, more than 43,400 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP applications — from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP solution portfolios support the unique business processes of more than 25 industries, including high tech, retail, financial services, healthcare and the public sector. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP."

Business Objects, an SAP company, has been a pioneer in business intelligence (BI) since the dawn of the category. Today, as the world's leading BI software company, Business Objects transforms the way the world works through intelligent information. The company helps illuminate understanding and decision making at more than 45,000 organizations around the globe including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 — and a network of more than 3,000 partners and resellers.

Through a combination of innovative technology, global consulting and education services, and the industry's strongest and most diverse partner network, Business Objects enables companies of all sizes to make transformative business decisions based on intelligent, accurate and timely information.

Product/Service Description

As the world's leading provider of business software, SAP solutions include enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management, product lifecycle management and supplier relationship management. Flagship solutions from SAP include the following:

• SAP NetWeaver - This composition platform provides the technical infrastructure for Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), allowing customers to compose innovative business processes from existing resources, while lowering costs through standardization and consolidation.
• mySAP Business Suite - This family of adaptive business solutions optimizes the most critical business processes. Built on the SAP NetWeaver platform, SAP Business Suite solutions include enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, product life cycle management, supply chain management and supplier relationship management.
• SAP xApps - SAP offers packaged composite applications that run on top of existing, heterogeneous systems, integrating them into cross-functional, end-to-end business systems. xApps allows companies to execute enterprisewide strategies with greater ease and efficiency.
• SAP Manufacturing - This solution empowers both discrete and process manufacturers with role-based software that leverages real-time data, enabling quick responses to changes in demand, coordination with the value chain, compliance with health and safety standards and improvements in productivity.

Business Objects is the first BI company to provide an end-to-end enterprise offering that includes BI, ETL & Analytic Applications. BusinessObjects XI is the first and only BI platform that delivers a complete set of BI capabilities. It helps you track performance, understand business drivers and manage your business through:

• Performance management: Match actions with strategy
• Reporting: Access, format and deliver data with the Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software
• Query and analysis: Self-serve analysis for users
• BI platform: Manage BI tools, reports and applications
• Data integration: Access, cleanse, transform and integrate data

Benefits of Teradata, SAP and Business Objects Working Together

SAP and Teradata have teamed to focus on providing greater analytic capabilities for companies with high data volume requirements. Teradata is committed to supporting SAP customers with a combined approach. The partnership addresses deeper strategic enterprise analytics, enabling better business decision making capability. Teradata complements the SAP NetWeaver architecture by utilizing standard SAP interfaces to protect customers' investments in both SAP and Teradata solutions. The Teradata Integration Suite for SAP is certified for SAP NetWeaver (UDC-BW-JDBC and BW-OHS) and powered by SAP NetWeaver (J2EE-DEP and EP-BP).

Together, Teradata and SAP can:

• Provide the ability to drill enterprisewide data, resulting in detailed answers to previously impossible business questions.
• Empower companies to manage ever-increasing data volumes, efficiently and cost-effectively.
• Perform deeper, industry-focused enterprise data analysis.
• Greatly reduce operational costs associated with departmental analytics, including redundant servers, data management tools and support costs.
• Improve decision making and deliver a rapid return on existing enterprise investments.

Business Objects is optimized for Teradata and the most recent release, BusinessObjects™ XI, leverages and extends Teradata by providing a highly scalable and flexible information management platform, with a powerful range of enterprise reporting, query and analysis, and performance management solutions. Read about how Business Objects optimizations exploit the strength of Teradata for excellent speed and access to detailed enterprise data.

Also read about how Business Objects and Teradata are working together.
Visit the Business Objects web site at www.businessobjects.com/teradata