Applied dimensionality

SAP bla-bla-bla BO bla-blapros: bla-bla-blacons: bla-bla-blaI’m kinda bored with those M&As. It’s bad for technology and industry focus. And IBM bla-bla Cognos.

When BO acquired SGL, another planning vendor, after SRC, I was asking myself: How these guys will be selling their products? As one product (that the very CPM-circle), or as a number of products. Now Craig Schiff tells us that BO tried “cpm-bundle” selling with SRC and decided to sell BI and Enterprise Planning separately, [...]

Another CPM acquisition. BO buys another planning applications vendor after buying SRC a year ago. SRC was supposed to enrich BO proposal to a full CPM system, bringing up the planning part, as was widely announced. Latter acquisition of ALG shows that either SRC didn’t “go well” with other BO apps (couldn’t integrate or such), [...]