Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites. Performance Management: Planning Software for the Enterprise. And Hyperion. Ranzal & Associates Weblog. Ranzal – The Oracle / Hyperion Experts - Specializing in HFM, Planning, Essbase, FDM, MDM, DRM and Budgeting.
Central. West. Other_BDM. IAC. SAP’s Application Software Business Worth More Than Oracle's. SAP ( SAP ) and Oracle ( ORCL ) are the two biggest players in the enterprise application software market. SAP mainly sells application software solutions, while Oracle's business is much more diversified, including database software and middleware along with customer-facing applications. Having acquired Sun Microsystems last year, Oracle is now in the hardware business as well, selling servers and storage products loaded with its own software. We estimate that SAP's applications software business is worth about $62 billion, versus $45 billion for Oracle's application software business. Our analysis follows below. Application software primer SAP and Oracle compete in several business software application segments, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management ( CRM ), business intelligence (BI) and supply chain management (SCM).
ERP software is used to integrate an organization's data and processes into single system. Oracle vs. Oracle IP suit against Google tied to Boston-area startup. Last month, Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) sued Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), complaining the Mountain View, Calif., search giant stole its technology for use in Android — the mobile phone operating system that Google is using to give Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone a run for the money. As far as technology intellectual property lawsuits go, the stakes could hardly be higher. This week, a couple of mobile industry analysts at Bernstein Research said Android phones, now selling at a rate of 200,000 a day, could outnumber iPhones by the end of 2011, giving Google the dominant position in the fast-growing market for mobile apps.
Woven in and out of the back story behind this three-way power struggle is SavaJe Technologies, a little Boston-area startup that amassed more than $70 million from a long list of venture-capital and strategic investors before flaming out and selling to Sun Microsystems in 2007. Oracle Growth Plans Worry Rivals and Customers. But Oracle’s annual takeover of San Francisco pales against its larger ambitions — to supply just about all the technology, software and hardware, that businesses might need. This sweeping agenda has rattled the nerves of customers, who fear that Oracle has its own best interests, not theirs, at heart. The worry is that instead of saving money, customers will end up paying more over the long term, and that Oracle, already known for its aggressive tactics, will use its strong position in software to gain even more leverage over a larger array of products.
Companies have long used Oracle’s software to keep track of their most prized information. For Oracle, this resulted in sales of $26.8 billion last year and hints of an annual revenue goal of $100 billion. Over the last five years, Oracle has acquired a staggering 66 companies, most of which were software makers that provided expertise in niche areas. But customers are objecting to Oracle’s moves. Ms. Save $ 195: SAP BI Software for Free. SAP Crystal Presentation Design – formerly known as SAP Xcelsius Present – is business intelligence software from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio. With it, you can generate well-founded forecasts and interactive charts, presentations, graphics, and dashboards from simple spreadsheets. The software does not draw data from SAP systems in real time; SAP Crystal Dashboard Design offers this function, but comes at a price.
The free, slimmed-down SAP Crystal Presentation Design does, however, enable you to visualize data from Microsoft Excel in an attractive graphical format. In doing so, the software exports the raw data as Flash (.swf) files for use in Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, for example). Besides generating interactive charts and graphs, SAP Crystal Presentation Design can also construct what-if scenarios based on an existing basis of data. This helps managers and other employees calculate potential sales and other forecasts with increased accuracy. SAP BusinessObjects l SAP Crystal Presentation Design. Community Network Blogs.
To be perfectly honest, this Reportapalooza challenge scared me the most. While I have more Crystal Reports solutions under my belt than I care to count, I had never actually used SAP Crystal Presentation Design (formerly Xcelsius). In fact, other than some hands-on tutorials over the last few weeks, this would be my first ever dashboard. It turns out that while development time was limited, the process was surprisingly easy. Of course, having a background in Excel was pretty critical to the successful completion of the project. Before I go any further, if you want to see the dashboard, please visit the Reportapalooza Dashboards by Request page: The original concept called for a dashboard that celebrated Bobby Cox’s career managing the Atlanta Braves. Bobby has managed the Braves for 25 seasons, from the 1978-1981 seasons to the 1990-present seasons. Now I had an idea of what I wanted the dashboard to do. So there you have it. David Deitch.
S Mobile Strategy. RoamBI – Beautiful Mobile BI for the iPad | CloudAve. RoamBI for iPhone, which I reviewed last year, has long been the best-looking mobile BI application available in the market. Now the folks at RoamBI have been one of the very first vendors worldwide to come out with an updated application for the iPad, and they provided me with one in order to test their brand-new version. First Impressions It’s as beautiful as its predecessor, and the new document formats available use the new expanded workspace to pack in a lot more analytic ability. This video from Information Week shows Quinton Aslbury of RoamBI demonstrating what you can do, including additional data not included in the original documents, such as overlaid trending algorithms.
There is a series of videos available on the RoamBI web site that illustrate the different document types available. View SAP Carbon Disclosure Data SAP and RoamBI have partnered to provide easy access to information from SAP and the Carbon Disclosure Project. Pricing Conclusion Summary: Pros Cons. Friend Network Optimizer App Explodes Overnight. Over the past 24 hours a new application, sponsored by SAP, has been spreading like wildfire: Friend Network Optimizer. The application tells users how active they are on Facebook in comparison to a segment of their social graph.
It’s an interesting tool and it also is spreading by automatically posting feed stories the moment a user installs the application. The technique has effectively helped the application grow to tens of thousands of users overnight. As soon as users go to install the application, they see the following permissions dialogue: As you notice, the application requests to be able to post wall posts at any point. While Facebook’s new permissions process is much more efficient, and will most likely result in increased conversion of new users, users are also now required to grant all or no permissions to application developers.
After installing the application, users have the following story posted to their profile: BusinessObjects Takes On Android. Since early 2010, users have been able to analyze business data on their iPhones with the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer app. Those with smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system can now do the same with firmware 2.2 (codename: “Froyo”), which supports Adobe Flash content. The supported version of Adobe Flash is the same on which the applications SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design (formerly known as Xcelsius) and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer rely. The advantage? Unlike on iPad and iPhone, Android smartphones require no additional software – users can access their data through a Web browser.
Right now, Android’s firmware 2.2 is only available for Google’s own cell phone, Nexus One. SAP BusinessObjects Explorer in the Android Browser (graphic: Timo Elliott) Those looking to release Xcelsius dashboards for Android devices should bear a number of factors in mind. Facebook meets SAP « Page 2. Dashboard-Design "Friend Network Optimizer" (Screenshot: grasundsterne) Straightforward analysis of Facebook profile So, what does the Friend Network Optimizer actually do with your data? First, the app creates a list of your friends. Up to 50 of them can be chosen for an analysis or can be selected at random. Activity in your network is then displayed using graphics. For example, a diagram shows your number of activities in the past five days and those of your busiest friends. Furthermore, your activities are divided into four categories: social activity, status updates, wall posts, and photo uploads. From occasional user to Facebook star – using fictitious scenarios But the app can do more than that.
You can change your network reach by removing existing friends or adding pretend “new friends” – even if you don’t actually know them. Next page: Why install the app? Leaderboard for most active Users (Screenshot: grasundsterne) Oracle's Larry Ellison sailing team wins America's Cup. Network World - Larry Ellison has already accomplished more in 2010 than most people do in a lifetime. In just a few weeks, the billionaire founder of Oracle finished off a long-awaited acquisition of Sun Microsystems and this past weekend he celebrated again after winning the America's Cup, the oldest trophy in international sports.
Ellison's BMW Oracle Racing won the prestigious sailing trophy on Sunday with a victory over Alinghi, a Swiss team. Ellison not only financed the quest but was reportedly on the high-tech boat for the race, in which a U.S. team won the trophy for the first time in 18 years. Can Oracle stop Sun customers from defecting to HP and IBM? "Valencia -- muchas gracias! " Ellison has never been shy about spending millions or billions of dollars to improve Oracle -- most recently with the $7 billion acquisition of Sun -- and he approached international sailing with the same energy and financial commitment. Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms.