SAP has announced the availability of “Business Analytics at SAP EcoHub,” a site offering the business analytics solutions from SAP and its partners. SAP says that the site is intended to be an intuitive starting point for customers looking to address analytic questions and quickly find analytic solutions.
Customers will be able to search through more than 100 offerings and evaluate product demos and trials to help them quickly assess the appropriateness of solutions to their business needs. Additionally, the community environment of SAP EcoHub will allow customers to rate product and service offerings and help each other understand each offering’s key benefits.
FSN explored the site a little – see below.
In 2010, SAP introduced 26 new industry-specific and line-of-business analytic applications, which SAP plans to double by the end of 2011. These will be among the growing number of offerings from SAP and partners such as Column5 and Deloitte Consulting on “Business Analytics at SAP EcoHub.” In addition, it will go beyond analytic applications and offer dashboards, reports and other content that can be deployed on premise or on demand, with some starter content available free of charge.
“This will be a premier analytics site for thousands of partners and millions of subscribers, acting as a resource for customers and prospects to test our solutions via free trial, consume our solutions via a subscription model, download mobile analytic solutions and share information such as a reports by line of business via SAP EcoHub,” said Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general manager, Analytics, Line-of-Business and Industry Solutions, SAP. “By leveraging our analytic products, the strength of our ecosystem and the extensiveness of our subscriber network, we are creating a great resource with easy access to all the solutions, guidance and expertise companies need to understand and choose from the best business analytic solutions on the market. This is a game-changing approach to delivering analytics to everybody.”
