The SAP Business Analytics team, for its part, breaks down its SAP BusinessObjects product suite into six categories. (At SAP, business intelligence falls under the business analytics category. Got it?) Here’s a quick explainer on each product area. 1. Analytic Applications The growing line of SAP BusinessObjects applications is classified by two categories. The first category is broken out by industry, such as financial services, manufacturing, consumer products, retail and utilities. Second, by line of business, which include: supply chain, finance, HR, IT, and service, sales and marketing. 2. Business Intelligence The BI category (officially known as: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence) encompasses five different product sets. Reporting and Analysis. Includes: Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Predictive Workbench, and the SAP BusinessObjects Analysis editions for Microsoft and OLAP. Dashboards and Visualization. Includes: BusinessObjects Dashboards (former
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