SAP Business Intelligence
What is Business Intelligence (BI)?
The end-to-end process of BI pertains to analyzing the data generated by businesses, transforming the data into insights, and then leveraging those insights into making optimal decisions. BI tools primarily leverage “descriptive analytics,” as these tools traditionally focus on analyzing the current and historical performance based on data generated by the enterprise.
What is Business Intelligence (BI)?
The end-to-end process of BI pertains to analyzing the data generated by businesses, transforming the data into insights, and then leveraging those insights into making optimal decisions. BI tools primarily leverage “descriptive analytics,” as these tools traditionally focus on analyzing the current and historical performance based on data generated by the enterprise.
Sap BI Tools
SAP BusinessObjects is among the most widely used centralized BI tools that provides organizations the ability to perform reporting, create visualizations and generate real-time BI. BusinessObjects is the on-premises BI layer for SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP). SAP Analytics Cloud is another analytics related solution from SAP. It is currently the flagship analytics tool that SAP positions as an enterprise analytics tool. It encompasses all the analytics capabilities that Business Objects has to offer and much more.
In addition to these tools, there is a wide portfolio of third part BI tools available from SAP partners like Pyramid Analytics
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 (SAC), BI tools like BusinessObjects provide a great opportunity to fine-tune the “data-driven culture” aspect of your organization. Success with analytics tools is more about the capability to assimilate, absorb and leverage the tool in day-to-day decision making and less about the tool itself (Source: SAPinsider research “Analytics in The Cloud”)
- Document BI tools in action: A powerful way to capture the value BI tools deliver is to document use cases generated by business users and share these across the organization to promote the penetration of not only the tool but the culture of data-driven way to run the business. You can find examples of BusinessObjects use cases on leading platforms like SAPinsider and SAP blogs.
- Understand the transition to cloud roadmap: There is no doubt that SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise has amassed an immense userbase. 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 on this transition strategy. Read more about what product leaders at SAP have to say about this journey to the cloud.
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How to Set Up Business Partner Determination in mySAP CRM
Learn about how the partner determination procedure works in mySAP CRM. Although you may be familiar with partner determination in R/3, the mySAP CRM version offers additional options. Key Concept Partner processing is a basic function in transaction processing that includes the partner determination procedure, which the system uses to find and enter partners in...…
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Adapt SAP S/4HANA Business Functionality to Meet Your Company’s Requirements
Discover how to apply two extensibility options to modify SAP S/4HANA business functionality. Key Concept SAP S/4HANA is the next generation of business applications that can be installed locally in a data center or in a public or managed cloud. One of the central issues users have is how to extend the business functionality delivered...…
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How to Move SAP BusinessObjects Data Services from One Data Center to Another
Learn how to migrate an SAP BusinessObjects Data Services’ source data center to a target data center environment by following these step-by-step instructions. In this scenario, both the source and target systems are Windows-based servers.
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Better Use of Web Intelligence Formulas Leads to Added Convenience
Formulas, variables, and functions are important elements in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence data analysis and report creation. The extensive set of functions used in combination with operators allows for the creation of complex, unique, and informative custom objects. The ability to add formulas and modify existing ones while viewing reports provides users with an increased...…
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Stabilize Security for BusinessObjects Reports When Queries Come from Multiple Systems
See how to simplify the security setup for SAP BusinessObjects reports when a user is reporting from SAP NetWeaver BW or from a non-SAP system. A common challenge a security administrator faces is to build security for reports for different types of users coming from multiple applications or systems and to keep that security setup...…
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Give Managers Detailed, Visual Dashboards for Improved Decision Making
Find out how you can use Xcelsius, SAP BusinessObjects Live Office, SAP NetWeaver BW, and Crystal Reports to provide compelling data visualizations and dashboards. For example, you can add simple drop-down selection boxes to your charts to allow users to easily manipulate the data views in real time. Key Concept With the current BI roadmap,...…
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Choose the Appropriate SAP NetWeaver BI and mySAP ERP Landscape
Discover the deployment options for mySAP ERP 2004 and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI). Know your landscape choices and the sequence in which you should implement your software. Key Concept The most recent ERP release from SAP, mySAP ERP 2004, provides greater access for end users to the SAP NetWeaver platform’s features. SAP...…
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Steps to Safely Define and Customize Business Roles and Authorizations in SAP CRM
See how to define a business role in customizing, assign it to a position in an organizational model, and then analyze its content. Key Concept Business roles and authorizations are prerequisites for SAP CRM upgrades or cutovers. This means that during the user acceptance test, users should test each business scenario using appropriate profiles and...…
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3 Tips to Ensure Quality Business Partner Master Data
To prevent users from selecting the wrong business partner role in transaction BP, learn how to turn off business partner roles you don’t need. Then find out how you can limit the search further by using custom business partner role categories that contain only business partner roles that are related to your business. This prevents...…
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Selecting the Right BI Tool: SAP BusinessObjects BI Portfolio and Personas
With the acquisition of SAP BusinessObjects a few years back, SAP extended its offerings in the Business Intelligence (BI) area and is now in a position to offer companies a broad range of BI products. With this larger set of BI clients also comes more complexity when choosing the right BI tool based on your...…
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