A) BusinessObjects itself does not build any OLAP cubes.

SAP BW does.

B) BusinessObjects can access Non-SAP data sources.

C) SAP's cash-cow used to be ERP, BusinessObjects is all

about reporting/BI and not about providing ERP or CRM

systems, etc.

D) BusinessObjects provides far better reporting and

analysis than SAP did.

E) SAP wants to be the market leader in the BI sector, so

it bought one of the BI leaders: BusinessObjects.