Business Intelligence Solutions for SAP Customers: BusinessObjects Rapid Marts

Rapid Marts for SAP R/3 BusinessObjects Rapid Marts are packaged solutions to build data marts for business intelligence and analytic applications that enable dataintegration managers to accelerate time to value. They combine domain knowledge with data integration best practices to deliver pre-built data models, transformation logic, and data flows for extracting data from enterprise applications such as SAP.

Cost-Effective Data Warehouse Solutions for SAP Customers

Many mid-market SAP customers have considered implementing SAP BW to meet their enterprise reporting and data-warehousing needs. However, SAP BW can prove to be either too expensive or too complex for many customers to implement and support. For these midmarket customers, BusinessObjects Rapid Marts are cost-effective alternatives. As part of our latest business intelligence (BI) suite, BusinessObjects XI Built for SAP, Business Objects Rapid Marts offer the flexibility of a fully functional, enterprise-class data warehouse solution without the complexity and intensive resources required by SAP BW. BusinessObjects Rapid Marts are packaged solutions specifically engineered for SAP R/3. BusinessObjects Rapid Marts include pre-built database schemas, semantic layers, data extractions and ETL tools, and reports. Rapid Marts are available for many functional areas of SAP including accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, materials management, purchasing, and sales. By leveraging BusinessObjects Rapid Marts for SAP, you can implement and deliver a fully functional data warehousing environment in a matter of weeks.

SAP Rapid Marts include:

Rapid Marts for SAP Checklist

Cost Center Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Human Resources Inventory Purchasing Plant Maintenance Production Planning Project System Sales Customer Order

Business Objects offers lower cost, fixed-price alternatives to SAP BW, packaged in easy-toimplement bundleswhich are ideally suited to the size and data warehousing needs of your organization. With these packages, you can deploy a data warehouse and reporting solution faster, and without the complexity, cost, effort, or specialized skills necessary for SAP BW. BusinessObjects Rapid Marts are ideal for your organizations current situation: Considering implementing SAP BW, but concerned that its too complex, time consuming, or will require additional resources that you do not have Looking for the functionality that SAP BW offers in terms of slice and dice and drill down Using an SAP solution that covers a number of application subject areas including sales, finance, manufacturing, and logistics, that would benefit most from data integration Concluding that migrating to SAP BW is not an option Planning an SAP BW implementationbut it is too far down the road to meet immediate needs Attempting to combine SAP and non-SAP data into a single data mart or data warehouse

Data Integrator BusinessObjects Data Integrator is the industrys first real-time and batch-data integration tool designed to simplify and speed data movement and data sharing across the enterprise. Data Integrator is certified to extract and load SAP R/3 and/or SAP BW, and can augment your SAP data with information from your other applications, databases, or legacy systems.

Special Promotion for BusinessObjects Rapid Marts and Data Integrator

Save over $60,000 on this special promotion: featuring Rapid Marts for SAP and Data Integrator. The regular list price value of this offering is $160,275. $99,000 fixed price for 15 named-users licenses (NUL) BusinessObjects Data Integrator Basic BusinessObjects SAP ABAP Interface One Rapid Mart for SAP

Business Intelligence Solutions for SAP Customers: BusinessObjects Rapid Marts

Cost-Effective Data Warehouse Solutions for SAP Customers

Professional Services for SAP R/3 This special service offering from our North American consulting partner, Claraview, has you up and running with the functional area analytic reporting application of your choice in just 15 days. Four SAP R/3 business intelligence (BI) experts will work on site with your team to plan and install a BusinessObjects Rapid Mart for SAP R/3. This engagement includes:

BusinessObjects Web Intelligence BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Additional Options: Additional Rapid Marts may be purchased at $40,000/each Additional users can be purchased for a list price: $1,500/NUL for Web Intelligence and BusinessObjects Enterprise

Packaged Components: Rapid Marts

BusinessObjects Rapid Marts are packaged solutions to build data marts for business intelligence and analytic applications that enable data integration managers to accelerate time to value. They combine domain knowledge with data integration best practices for extracting data from SAP.

Analysis & Planning Security Design Workshop Installation of BusinessObjects Data Integrator & BusinessObjects Enterprise Rapid Mart Development Report Design Workshop

Data Integrator
Data Integrator allows you to manage the bi-directional flow of information in both real-time and batch between SAP R/3 and other enterprise software applicationswithin a single environment.

Web Intelligence
Web Intelligence is a web-based query and analysis tool designed to provide insight into the maximum number of users via an easy-to-use environment and highly scalable platform. It is an element within our packaged solutions for enterprise reporting.

Project cost: $90,000

(excluding travel and expenses)

BusinessObjects Enterprise
BusinessObjects Enterprise is the complete BI platform for our product line and the core to our packaged solutions for enterprise reporting. The platform powers the management and secure deployment of specialized, end-user toolsfor reporting, query and analysis, and performance managementon a proven, scalable, and open-services oriented architecture.
Printed in the United States - May 2005 (Author: A. Jaffer; Contributors: M. Rollins, D. Townley)

In just 15 days, your team will learn best practices in BI for SAP R/3. In addition, your organization will have a worldclass enterprise reporting platform and the functional analytic capability you need to enhance business performance.

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