Some are written by small shops, some, like the Business Objects application, are produced by big companies.
Another thing that Success Factors shares with Business Objects is its significance for SAP.
In its previous acquisition of Business Objects in 2007, SAP paid a 20% premium.
Two of Lims partners, Prism Solutions and Business Objects, are hot players in the data warehousing business.
Yet his decision to buy Business Objects is an admission that the firm now needs to react.
Buying Business Objects will help, but other takeovers may have to follow, argues Joshua Greenbaum of Enterprise Applications Consulting.
In October 2007 he engineered the purchase of Business Objects, a Franco-American software firm whose products are supposed to drive SAP's future growth.
Business Objects ( BOBJ - news - people ) in late 2007, so investors may react with concern to Brandt's latest comments.
It sold to Business Objects, which was later purchased by SAP.
The Samsung Mobile BI Dashboard is a joint development with SAP Business Objects software and enables mobile workers to easily access BI reports, including revenue, customer and inventory data from their Samsung mobile devices.
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The big BI vendors such as SAP Business Objects, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion all telling the end-to-end story as well, while at the same time they are trying to make their products easier to use.
There are mashups that let you see which products are selling best on eBay , that help manage the sale of foreclosed property through a network of real estate agents, or merge sales information with data mining from analysis firm Business Objects .
Well, if the history of past purchases such as Hyperion and Business Objects is any indication, the new parent company will gut them by laying off nearly all of their employees (especially the designers), add the products to their own catalog, and never seriously upgrade those products again.
Which is why HANA data can be viewed on iPad today, and why it evangelizes the use of tablets for mobile Business Intelligence, to the point that its executives are all using Business Objects Explorer on the iPad to show that the company, as the saying goes, eats its dogfood.
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"Staples is excited to bring the power of 3D printing to our customers, by being the first major U.S. retailer to announce the availability of this innovative technology that lets you create fully formed objects in your home or small business, " said Mike Edwards, Staples executive vice president, merchandising.
Facebook is a platform, its users are not objects, surely there is a good business to be made out of it!
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They chase all these shiny objects that aren't core to the business.
Smart companies are building new business models leveraging trends such as M2M which is simply the direct communication between objects and systems without the need for human intervention.
"None of the labels you're dealing with are major music companies, " objects Stuart Hersch, president of Universal Music Group, who has scrutinized Gould's business plan.
"None of the labels you're dealing with are major music companies, " objects Stuart Hersch, president of Universal Custom Records, who has scrutinized Gould's business plan.
"Kate Middleton has made repeatedly clear to the press - through the commission, to photographers, and to editors directly - that she objects to being followed by photographers when she is on her own going about her daily business and there is no specific public interest reason for following her, " it said.
The museums, two of the world's most prominent, said in a joint statement the New York-based e-business would provide Internet access for people to learn about and purchase many forms of art and architectural models and design objects, beginning in late 2000 or early 2001.
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