The SAP ecosystem brings together thousands of customers, partners, communities of developers, and business process experts to co-innovate industry-leading solutions, access resources, and share best practices. The addition of Business Objects and their expertise adds to the vibrancy of this ecosystem and enables us to deliver unmatched opportunity for collaboration, innovation, and profitable growth.

Zia Yusuf, Executive Vice President, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group  SAP

The combination of SAP and Business Objects, an SAP company, brings together best-in-class software for process management and analytical insight – providing a combined ecosystem for collaboration, innovation, and profitable growth.

Our aim is to help companies transform widespread data into unified, relevant information, while helping people better collaborate in teams and businesses better collaborate in business networks.

SAP's leading customer-focused ecosystem, combined with Business Object's extensive partner network, further expands opportunities for the entire ecosystem demonstrating value to customers and partners.

Value to Customers

• Deliver more choices, more innovation, more openness by:
• Enriching the depth and range of skills, services, solutions
• Stimulating new innovation and fostering vibrant market for third-party business performance optimization packages
• Driving greater value and openness for cross-platform environments
• Connect augmented ecosystem with an environment for collaboration through:
• Providing a unique array of programs, resources, and communities
• Engaging customers directly as co-innovators

Value to Partners

• Expanded revenue and market opportunity by:
• Increasing customer base
• Expanding offerings
• Targeting new market opportunities
• Accelerated time to value by:
• Rapidly transforming knowledge into revenue opportunities
• Providing 360-degree enablement
• Streamlining go-to-market
• Increased collaboration, innovation, and insight by:
• Accelerating the transformation of how people, information and businesses connect
• Accessing more expertise and deeper insight