Dell’s Intended Support of SAP Business Objects Will Help Customers Lower Cost, Reduce Complexity of Managing Business Insight

Dell collaborates with SAP to provide customers “plug-and-play” business intelligence and data warehousing
Dell plans to support SAP BusinessObjects Explorer on its new PowerEdge M-series blade architecture to give customers near-instant access to critical business information

Dell today announced that through collaboration with SAP AG it plans to help make business intelligence (BI) more accessible and easier to deploy. Dell intends to provide customers with standards-based BI solutions on some of the industry’s fastest and most power-efficient servers that will increase enterprise efficiency and give business users immediate access to business-critical information.

The News:
Dell’s intended support of SAP® BusinessObjects™ Explorer software will give enterprise customers immediate access to business critical information:
Running on Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Chassis based on the Intel 5500 series processors
Delivered hardware through Dell Custom Factory Integration or ImageDirect for “plug-and-play” business intelligence

Quotes:

“Dell is one of the leading solution providers that enterprises rely on to help them to reduce complexity and drive IT efficiencies throughout their datacenters,” said Donna Troy, vice president of Large Enterprise, Americas, at Dell. “Dell’s intention to certify its new PowerEdge Blade Servers for SAP’s BusinessObjects Explorer expands our Business Intelligence portfolio and is an important milestone for our joint customers. As a result of this deal Dell is uniquely positioned to offer customers a more holistic hardware offering for running SAP software in their enterprise, and they will be able to drive greater customer insights and better decision-making on the some of the industry’s fastest and most power-efficient servers.”

“SAP BusinessObjects Explorer enables customers to navigate mountains of business data at the speed of thought,” said Marge Breya, executive vice president and general manager, SAP AG. “By designing and optimizing our next-generation of software to take advantage of the latest hardware advancements, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer running on Dell’s PowerEdge blade servers are set to provide an advanced and responsive business intelligence platform.”

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