Gartner Names SAP a Leader in BI and CPM

For the eighth year in a row Gartner has positioned SAP as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites

SAP AG has been named a leader in both Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytic Platforms as well as Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Suites.

SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions empower organizations to achieve remarkable results by allowing self-service access to relevant information and by helping business users transform their decision-making by providing fact-based, quality information regardless of where the data resides. SAP continued to innovate across BI and Analytics in 2013, key advancements included:

Introduction of SAP Lumira software: The next step in SAP’s self-service BI vision, SAP Lumira enables users to visualize any amount of data in real time in a repeatable, self-service way, accelerate decision-making with fact-based answers to business questions and increase self-service data usage without adding to the IT workload

Acquisition of KXEN and Launch of SAP InfiniteInsight solution: Based on patented automation technology from KXEN, SAP InfiniteInsight provides businesses the simplicity and productivity to deploy predictive analytics across their business.

One Million Mobile BI Downloads: The SAP BusinessObjects Mobile mobile app has become the first SAP mobile app to reach one million lifetime downloads on iTunes and Google Play. Bringing together multiple BI and analytic applications from SAP into a single app, SAP BusinessObjects Mobile offers customers the flexibility and freedom to do business better on-the-go.

For the eighth year in a row Gartner has positioned SAP as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites. SAP has also improved its positioning for Completeness of Vision.

“As a recognized leader in the EPM space, we’re pushing the boundaries on leveraging mobile and in-memory innovations to transform who and how people engage in EPM processes as well as transform the performance and capabilities of the applications themselves,” said David Williams, head of EPM Product Marketing, SAP.