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What is Business Intelligence (BI)?
The end-to-end process of BI involves analyzing the data generated by businesses, transforming the data into insights, and leveraging those insights to make optimal decisions. BI tools primarily leverage “descriptive analytics,” because these tools traditionally focus on analyzing the current and historical performance based on data generated by the enterprise.
SAP BI Tools
SAP BusinessObjects is a centralized BI tool that provides organizations with the ability to perform reporting, create visualizations, and generate near-real-time BI. SAP BusinessObjects is the on-premises BI layer for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). It is currently among the most widely used BI tools in the SAP technology ecosystem, according to SAPinsider research The Future of Business Intelligence. Key capabilities of this tool are:
What is Business Intelligence (BI)?
The end-to-end process of BI involves analyzing the data generated by businesses, transforming the data into insights, and leveraging those insights to make optimal decisions. BI tools primarily leverage “descriptive analytics,” because these tools traditionally focus on analyzing the current and historical performance based on data generated by the enterprise.
SAP BI Tools
SAP BusinessObjects is a centralized BI tool that provides organizations with the ability to perform reporting, create visualizations, and generate near-real-time BI. SAP BusinessObjects is the on-premises BI layer for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). It is currently among the most widely used BI tools in the SAP technology ecosystem, according to SAPinsider research The Future of Business Intelligence. Key capabilities of this tool are:
- Near-real-time BI
- Increased user autonomy
- On-premise deployment
- Integration with SAP technologies
SAP Analytics Cloud is an evolution of SAP’s initial business intelligence (BI) offering as an extension of its all-inclusive SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) product. But this evolution in the form of SAP Analytics Cloud also aligns with three top trends in today’s rapidly evolving data and analytics solutions landscape, as identified in SAPinsider research report Enterprise Data and Analytics State of The Market.
Key Considerations
- Build a foundational analytics culture: While SAP sees the future of analytics in the cloud, primarily in the form of SAP Analytics Cloud, BI tools like SAP BusinessObjects provide an opportunity to fine-tune the “data-driven culture” aspect of your organization. Success with analytics tools is about the capability to assimilate, absorb, and leverage the tool in day-to-day decision making (SAPinsider research Analytics in The Cloud).
- Democratize BI: Modern BI tools like SAP BusinessObjects have functionalities like drag-and-drop features to build reports, intuitive interfaces, and dashboards that allow business users to leverage these tools without needing any technical or coding skills. Ensure that you put these tools in the hands of more business users.
- Document BI tools in action: A powerful way to capture the value BI tools is to document use cases generated by business users and share these across the organization to promote a data-driven business culture. You can find examples of BusinessObjects use cases on SAPinsider.
- Understand the transition to a cloud roadmap: There is no doubt that SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise has amassed an immense user base. However, as the need for business intelligence evolved, SAP created a new Software as a Service (SaaS) product in SAP Analytics Cloud. SAP has made it clear that the ultimate go-forward solution for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise users is SAP Analytics Cloud. Many SAP BusinessObjects customers have yet to move to SAP Analytics Cloud, and it is therefore imperative that they start planning this transition strategy. Read more about what product leaders at SAP have to say about this journey to the cloud.
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SAP Predictive Analytics: The End Result of a Long History of Data-Mining Tools from SAP (Part 1)
Published: 01/July/2015
Reading time: 18 mins
This is the first installment of a series of three articles that help with understanding the basics of the SAP Predictive Analytics toolset and its history. In this part, learn about the automated analysis component of SAP Predictive Analytics (specifically, a classification analysis) and see how it can be used to generate money-saving analysis of…...…
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How to Optimize Your Migration to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central: Live Q&A with Ari Levin
Published: 01/January/2017
Reading time: 37 mins
Conversion and migration to SuccessFactors Employee Central can be a complex and costly activity. In this session, HR 2017 speaker Ari Levin shared insights in the migration to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. Learn what factors your organization needs to consider when moving from your on-premise SAP ERP HCM to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. Live Blog…
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Special Report: Implementing SAP HANA – An End-to-End Perspective
Published: 17/October/2012
Reading time: 69 mins
In this exclusive special report, get an in-depth, step-by-step look at the aspects of implementing BI solutions on SAP HANA. Gain insight into how ETL integrates with SAP HANA and how SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 analyzes and visualizes the data stored in SAP HANA. Key Concept SAP HANA modeling is a process whereby a developer…...…
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Implementing SAP HANA: Experiences and First Impressions
Published: 20/February/2012
Reading time: 17 mins
/IT/HANAGet a first-person account of an SAP HANA installation, including initial impressions with the software’s features, challenges encountered during the implementation, and lessons on SAP HANA’s integration with SAP BusinessObjects BI tools. Key Concept SAP HANA Studio is the primary client tool used to manage SAP HANA and to create analytic views. It contains database…...…
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SAP NetWeaver 2004s: What’s New in the BI Front End: Part 1
Published: 01/April/2006
Reading time: 17 mins
Learn about the new BEx Report Designer and BI Integrated Planning included in SAP NetWeaver 2004s and see how they fit into the SAP NetWeaver BI data output landscape. Key Concept The BEx Suite consists of reporting and analysis tools to help you create formatted reports (reports with a specific design) to distribute SAP BI…...…
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How to Select the Best BI Tool to Meet Your Requirements: Part 1
Published: 22/February/2016
Reading time: 13 mins
Gain a look at the overall SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence portfolio offerings, including the new SAP Cloud for Analytics, to help you evaluate your company’s requirements and carefully select the best products to meet those requirements and the ones that also are a safe investment for the future roadmap. Key Concept SAP’s recently announced the…...…
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Leveraging Operational Intelligence for Competitive Advantage
Published: 29/June/2021
Reading time: 5 mins
While there are many aspects and features that are evolving as business intelligence tools evolve, one key aspect is the transition from leveraging BI tools as providing historical insights into “what happened” to being tools that also provide answers to questions like “what is happening” and “what can happen”. And this is where Operational Intelligence…
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How to Use BICS to Connect SAP BusinessObjects Client Tools to SAP BW (Part 1)
Published: 24/October/2016
Reading time: 8 mins
Learn how the Business Intelligence Consumer Services (BICS) connection works internally, and connects Business Explorer (BEx) Queries to SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 client tools. Key Concept Business Intelligence Consumer Services (BICS) is an optimized data access protocol used within SAP systems. It connects SAP BW Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) sources, such as BEx Queries and InfoProviders,…...…
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Using Social Media in Your Daily Work — An Interview with Thomas Jenewein
Published: 18/November/2011
Reading time: 11 mins
ManagementSocial media is changing the way SAP professionals work. Learn how using social media can help you do your job more efficiently and effectively. With the explosion of social media — Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, just to mention a few examples — the lines are increasingly blurred between what is social and what is business. Many…...…
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What You Need to Know About the Information Design Tool in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2: Q&A with Michael Welter and Alan Mayer
Published: 01/September/2016
Reading time: 31 mins
The information design tool in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, the information design tool introduced a new semantic layer for customer environments, as well as new opportunities for end-users to access data and create reports. The 4.2 release has added even more features and enhancements. What are best practices for migrating existing universes onto this tool…
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