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CNET News.com, April 26, 2005, By Alorie Gilbert

SAP offered a glimpse on Tuesday of several of the 100 new business analysis programs it plans to introduce later this year.

The German software maker, Oracle's chief rival in the business applications market, plans to release software that is designed to crunch data from various business systems and quickly report results.

The programs, called SAP Analytics, will monitor activities as diverse as tax collection, factory utilization and retail staffing, said SAP spokesman Bill Wohl. They'll also incorporate Macromedia's Flash animation software to present data in more graphic and compelling ways, he said.

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