Beverley Head
Wednesday, 05 May 2010 17:08
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German software giant SAP has finally unveiled local pricing for its business intelligence on demand system, three months after the tool was announced internationally.
In Australia SAP has teamed with Sqware Peg (which bills itself as offering ‘systems integration 2.0’ – effectively tying together different cloud based offerings for customers) to offer SAP Business Objects BI On Demand to local clients. Targeted at what SAP refers to as ‘casual’ business intelligence users, the system can take and analyse a range of data including on-premises data, SAP and Salesforce data.
Three levels of pricing have been announced: a free personal edition which allows customers to try the system using limited storage; an “essential” edition for $45 per month per user which is targeted at departments or teams; and for $123 per month per user an advanced edition which includes a hosted data warehouse, development environment and security features which will be made available later this year.
According to Shawn Stilwell, managing director of Sqware Peg; “The problem we saw in the market was that all products sold SaaS (Software as a Service) have a dashboard themselves,” but when organisations started to stitch together a range of different SaaS products there was no way to make sense of the islands of data which developed in the cloud, he said.
“Now we can stitch together a BI On Demand for them - for their SaaS tools and any on-premises data.”
Stilwell said that the company had yet to sign any local clients, although it was in discussion with a number of organisations. Sqware Peg itself however has been using the tool he said.
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