Events

Attend a free webcast or live event and learn about OnDemand software solutions from SAP BusinessObjects. At live webcasts, you can talk to presenters in question-and-answer sessions at the end of each seminar.

Live Webcast

SaaS Business Intelligence
Interactive Analytics: The Newest Web 2.0 SaaS BI Solution - Register Now
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Learn why software as a service (SaaS) is one of the fastest-growing trends in business intelligence (BI). Hear Boris Evelson, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, share the five use cases for SaaS BI and the typical SaaS adoption drivers and inhibitors. See how you can leverage an enterprise-class SaaS BI solution for more advanced reporting and to solve your business challenges.

• Boris Evelson, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, discusses the key findings and results in his latest report: "BI in the Cloud? Yes, and on the Ground, Too"
• Anil Chitkara, VP of Market Development at Oco Inc., discusses the characteristics of an enterprise-class SaaS BI solution and how it can solve business problems
• SAP BusinessObjects demonstrates the latest innovations in Web 2.0-based interactive analytics

Who should watch: IT professionals, line of business professionals.

Recorded Webcasts

SaaS Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence in the Cloud - Register Now
With so many subscribers already using our software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) solutions, doesn't it make sense for you to find out what all the hype is about?

Many of our customers are leveraging our enterprise BI platform with minimal upfront investment by using our online report-sharing solutions.

Find out if your organization can join others who have achieved their business intelligence goals quickly and with lower upfront investments. Our customers are selecting our OnDemand solutions to achieve many different goals, but all are realizing similar results: a lower total cost of ownership and a more predictable business intelligence expense.

SaaS Business Intelligence
5 Reasons, 5 Uses, 5 Benefits: Using SaaS for Your Divisional BI Needs - Register Now
Leading companies are choosing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) solutions to provide reporting and analytics for divisions and business units. There are specific use cases where a SaaS model quickly delivers business value and grows with the needs of the business. It is a faster, less expensive option that can meet all your requirements.

Learn how divisions are using SaaS-based business intelligence solutions to meet the varying needs of their business users to get a more complete picture of how the organization is performing. Register now and hear:

• Anil Chitkara, Senior Vice President, Oco Inc., share why companies are using SaaS for their divisional BI needs including case examples
• Mike Beckerle, Chief Technology Officer, Oco Inc., discuss how large companies are using SaaS for their divisional BI needs
• Aaron Graber, Senior Manager OnDemand Solutions Engineering, SAP BusinessObjects, share benefits companies have achieved using SaaS BI

Who should watch: Senior executives and managers responsible for IT and finance.

SaaS Business Intelligence
Share Critical Information Securely Beyond the Firewall - Register Now
How do you share critical information with customers or partners outside your firewall? Delivering reports via email - or worse, by hand - is ineffective: The data is quickly obsolete, and you have no control over who else may have access. In this prerecorded webcast, you'll learn how to:

• Segregate report and dashboard viewing privileges among users based on their roles or requirements
• Connect to and refresh web-based reports with "live" on-premise data - through your firewall
• Extend the system to as many users as needed - with nothing to install and no additional dependency on IT
• View reports from on-premise systems like BusinessObjects XI and Crystal Reports Server alongside web-based reports, all inside a single online account

SaaS Business Intelligence
How SaaS BI Can Improve Your Efficiency In Uncertain Times - Register Now
In this prerecorded 44-minute webcast, you will learn:

• Key tactics SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand customers are using to manage, share, and analyze their data
• How to share information securely with partners and customers beyond your company firewall
• Options available for connecting to on-premise data sources and refreshing reports with "live" information

SaaS Business Intelligence - for OEM
Add Value to Your Application with Advanced Reports and Live Dashboards - Register Now
By building an online application, you have enabled your customers to be more nimble and responsive through your on-demand software solutions. But are your customers getting all of the insight they need from the data inside your applications?

Information is critical to success in the rapidly moving and occasionally fickle on-demand world. Now with the move of business intelligence (BI) to an on-demand model, BI applications have gotten easier to integrate in to your applications and more cost effective to deploy, allowing you to share more valuable insight.

Join SAP BusinessObjects, the leader in business intelligence, for a discussion of on-demand business intelligence solutions customized for your SaaS and on-demand applications, their impact, and why you can't afford not to employ them.

Inventory Management
The SAP BusinessObjects-Oco Inventory Management Solution: Identify Inventory Reduction Opportunities Within Weeks - Register Now

• Is your company struggling to reduce and rebalance its inventory levels?
• Are you trying to determine inventory levels in a multi-tiered distribution model?
• Are you out of stock in one location while inventory of the same SKU sits in another?
• Do you struggle to get a unified view of inventory and fulfillment source performance from multiple, disparate systems?

In today's tough economic times, more and more companies are looking to software-as-a-service (SaaS) on-demand business intelligence (BI) solutions to assess how they can quickly reduce inventory levels, assemble information, analyze operations, and gain new insights in how to improve performance.

Learn how to:

• Reduce inventory by using an analytical reporting solution to get one global view of inventory with detailed data down to SKUs and locations, combined with expected demand usage.
• Enhance global visibility into key business data to significantly reduce inventory in a few short months and drive increased customer experience.
• Integrate data from disparate source systems to identify service supply chain performance and inventory levels across multiple geographies, organizations and product lines.

Presenters:

• Steve Morandi, VP of Manufacturing Vertical, Oco, Inc.
• Aaron Graber, Senior Manager, OnDemand Solutions Engineering, SAP BusinessObjects
• Craig Cole, Global Strategic Operations Director, Beckman Coulter