Integrating BI with BPM
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Jan 15, 2007

Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, and Savvion, a business process management (BPM) company have announced a technology partnership to integrate business intelligence with actionable business processes.

Patrick Morrissey, Sr.VP, marketing business development, Savvion, said, "BPM software provides the final step so organizations can leverage the most out of their BI solutions. It surfaces the problem so that business managers can work toward improvement. Intelligence and analytics combined with BPM are a natural fit to deliver actionable, complete, and real world solutions that take organizations to the next performance level."

Wyatt Mullin, VP- global ISV channels, Business Objects, added, "The ability to unlock the power of intelligence is connected to an organization's ability to define and improve their current processes, and then make them actionable. Integrating business intelligence and business process management creates a perfect marriage and offers organizations a powerful way to transform their business and achieve competitive advantage."

Business Objects has recently announced its XI Release 2 Productivity Suite, a set of capabilities to enhance simplicity for end users, greater scalability and performance for enterprise information management (EIM), and improved efficiency for IT. Part of the new solution is geared towards operational BI, which delivers data to users within daily business processes - whether they're on the phone with a customer or on the road with inventory - so they can make quick, informed decisions.

With new web services focused on operational BI, Business Objects will now provide enhanced integration with Savvion BusinessManager 7.0 to ensure that BI is an integral part of business operations. For example, a procurement manager can use BI within a BPM application to monitor how well vendors are delivering against their contracts.