When ITM Software decided to embed best-of-breed reporting into their product, they turned to Saama

ITM Software develops enterprise application software that enable the CIO and IT organization to better manage the business of Information Technology.

The Challenge:

The business requirement from ITM Software demanded a robust analytics to be integrated into their core product timely using off-the-shelf proven technologies. The challenge was to identify a ‘best-of-breed’ product to integrate seamlessly without affecting the end-user experience of their product and in the shortest possible time.

The Solution:

Saama brought its extensive experience in business intelligence to the process of evaluating the options, and identifying Business Objects as the optimal product to integrate with. Leveraging its relationship with Business Objects, Saama facilitated and helped finalize the OEM relationship for ITM. Working with ITM’s product team, a total of 60 individual reports that would best meet their end-user requirements were developed for “out-of-the-box” functionality. Saama created two Business Objects universes that would support the standard, pre-designed reports (organized into 20 documents), as well as allow users to run ad-hoc reports. The design and technology (WebI SDK, JSP version) approach to integrating WebIntelligence, the web access module of Business Objects, ensured easy access from within ITM’s product without requiring an additional log-in.

The Benefits:

As a start-up product company, ITM Software realized critical go-to-market benefits by teaming with Saama:

• Decreased time-to-market
• Met critical customer requirements with ‘best-of-breed’ reporting
• Enhanced end-user experience of their core product
• Focused in-house engineering on core development