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Enterprise software giant SAP claims its new business intelligence solution makes mining through mountains of corporate data almost as easy as Googling the location of the nearest pizza parlor.

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The application - dubbed SAP BusinessObjects Explorer - was unveiled Tuesday at SAPPHIRE, SAP’s annual user conference, which is taking place this week in Orlando. When introducing the product, SAP executives noted that it represents the largest integration of technology from SAP and BusinessObjects since SAP acquired BusinessObjects roughly a year and half ago.

Find bits of data in record time
Business Objects, long known as a business intelligence specialist, provided the new system’s search and navigation capabilities. SAP provided application acceleration technology from its NetWeaver platform that allows the solution to locate precise bits of data in what some beta testers have described as record time.

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