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Business Objects (BO, BOBJ, or BObjects) was an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI). Business Objects was acquired in 2007 by German company SAP AG . The company claimed more than 46,000 customers in its final earnings release prior to being acquired by SAP. [ 1 ]
Business Objects's Data Integrator is a data integration and ETL tool that was previously known as ActaWorks. Newer versions of the software include data quality features and are named SAP BODS (BusinessObjects Data Services). The Data Integrator product consists primarily of a Data Integrator Job Server and the Data Integrator Designer.
The industry counterpart and main competitors of OBIEE are Qlik Sense, Tableau Software, Microsoft BI, TIBCO Spotfire, IBM Cognos, SAP AG Business Objects, Looker and SAS Institute Inc. The products currently leverage a common BI Server providing integration among the tools.
In 2013, SAP rebranded the software under the Lumira name and began offering a version of the software as a cloud computing program. [6] In 2015, the cloud version of Lumira was absorbed into SAP's Cloud For Analytics software, while the Lumira Server and Lumira Desktop software remained separate. [7] [8] In 2016, Lumira 2.x was announced.
A business object is an entity within a multi-tiered software application that works in conjunction with the data access and business logic layers to transport data. [ citation needed ] Business objects separate state from behaviour because they are communicated across the tiers in a multi-tiered system, while the real work of the application ...
Terry Cunningham and the Cunningham Group originated the software in 1984. [2] Crystal Services Inc. marketed the product [3] (originally called "Quik Reports") when they could not find a suitable commercial report writer for an accounting software they developed add-on products for, which was ACCPAC Plus for DOS (later acquired by Sage). [4]
Business intelligence software is a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data for business intelligence (BI). The applications generally read data that has been previously stored, often - though not necessarily - in a data warehouse or data mart .
SAP R/3 is the former name of the enterprise resource planning software produced by the German corporation SAP AG (now SAP SE).It is an enterprise-wide information system designed to coordinate all the resources, information, and activities needed to complete business processes such as order fulfillment, billing, human resource management, and production planning.