SAP Business Objects and SME Analyst Event Coverage Next Week!

Next week PAC will be attending both SAP's "Business Objects Influencer Event" as well as a separate "SME Deep-Dive" in Boston.

With the integration of Business Objects operationally complete, PAC expects more news from SAP on its new strategy targeting the "business-user" and "office of the CFO" segments, as well as updates on the planned integrations between Business Objects (for my European colleagues, please stop calling it "B.O."! ;-)) and the rest of the newly formed business unit housing GRC, Duet and other SAP BI components.

On the SME side, PAC is of course very interested to hear what's new around Business ByDesign, following decelerated roll-out to GA. Particularly in the area of service delivery for Business ByDesign, will SAP consider opening up third-party hosting for its IT Services partners? Potentially opening up a huge opportunity in the mid-market?

...expect new postings next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday!

As for PAC's SAP Services Research, the "SAP Consulting Services Market in the UK - 2008" is now available online and is a thorough examination of this IT Services segment, trends, expectations and positioning. Expect the USA and Germany in the next couple of days, and Japan and France next week!