A recent worldwide survey listed business intelligence (BI) as CIOs’ number one priority for 2008, the third consecutive year BI topped the list. In this light, organizations that run SAP® software should perform due diligence on solutions from SAP and from Business Objects, an SAP company. New milestones in areas such as user experience and information integration, from both business-user and enterprise-IT perspectives, will be hard to ignore under such a mandate.

CIOs of companies that run SAP software now have a full portfolio of options to face their number one priority: enabling business intelligence. But they must choose the right business cases, architecture, organizational structure, and implementation strategy to achieve success. This white paper will provide insight into the new opportunities created by the SAP and Business Objects by sharing scenarios that illustrate current opportunities to deliver high value.