By combining the power of business intelligence with the engaging experience of rich Internet applications (RIAs), Adobe and SAP are bringing to market a new, user-defined work environment that easily facilitates real-time communication, collaboration, and retrieval and exchange of intelligent data.

The partnership is centered on combining technologies that transform static documents, applications, and dashboards into intelligent and connected experiences that are more relevant to business users – and on eliminating islands of outdated information.

The SAP and Adobe Advantage

The combination of Adobe and SAP BusinessObjects solutions offers a dramatically simpler, more engaging, and intelligent work environment – where business data is no longer static, but fluid and intuitive.

• SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES connector – Enable SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards users to use LiveCycle Data Services to stream real-time data into interactive dashboards, animated charts and graphs, financial presentations, or business calculators, delivering meaningful information in a visually engaging way.
• SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and Adobe Flex integration – Broaden the landscape of components that both SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and Flex developers can use to create richer, more engaging business intelligence applications in a shorter period of time.
• SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards export to Adobe AIR – Allow developers to use HTML/CSS, Ajax, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Flex to extend RIAs to the desktop. With export to Adobe AIR, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards opens Adobe AIR development to a new, non-developer audience with its unique capability to create interactive Adobe AIR applications without writing a single line of code.