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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 then 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.
What is SAP BusinessObjects?
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 then 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.
What is SAP BusinessObjects?
SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ) is a centralized BI tool that provides organizations with 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 (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
- Seamless integration with SAP technologies
Key Considerations of SAP BusinessObjects for SAP Users
- 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 BusinessObjects provide a great 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 BOBJ 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 deliver 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 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 BOBJ 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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An Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Cloud: Taking the First Steps (Part 2)Jun 9, 2016 — Learn how to use SAP BusinessObjects Cloud (formerly SAP Cloud for Analytics) to leverage your own corporate information, and create a variety of different visualizations of your data. Get step-by-step instructions for how to upload information, fine-tune the generated model, and then use the information as part of a visual story, which you can then […]
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SAP’s Business Intelligence Strategy and Roadmap: Latest Functionality and Future DirectionMay 25, 2016 — View this session in its entirety from SAPinsider’s BI2016 conference. Blair Wheadon, GM of Data Discovery at SAP, provides an up-to-date guide to SAP’s BI and analytics portfolio, including new and planned functionality, and product convergence strategy roadmap. Come away armed with the ability to make smart investment decisions around your organization’s future business analytics program, […]
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A Guide for Using Exploration Views and View Sets in SAP BusinessObjects Explorer 4.1May 3, 2016 — Learn how to use SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to rapidly explore data in a highly graphical and intuitive format using views and view sets. The latest release of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer comes with two new components that greatly enhance the user’s ability to analyze and interact with data: exploration views and exploration view sets. Key Concept […]
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Live from SAPinsider Studio: Details on SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2Mar 9, 2016 — Sathish Rajagopal, SAP, Director, Solution Management, BI Solutions, GTM, joins SAPinsider Studio at the 2016 BI-HANA event in Las Vegas to discuss SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.2, which is on track for release at the end of Q1. Topics of this discussion include: New features and functionality centered on the three themes of simplification, innovation, […]
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How to Solve Loops, Fan, and Chasm Traps in SAP BusinessObjects UniversesFeb 10, 2016 — Learn how to identify, segregate, and fix the different SQL design traps (e.g., loops, fans, and chasms) that may occur when creating SAP BusinessObjects universes. Learn about the issues that come up if these design traps are not fixed. Finally, learn how to use SAP BusinessObjects functions, such as shortcut joins, contexts, aliases, and data […]
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Live from SAPinsider Studio: JMC Steel on SAP BusinessObjects AnalysisJan 4, 2016 — JMC Steel’s Kalyan Boggavarapu, BI Lead, and Kerry McGuigan, Director of Finance, visit with SAPinsider Studio during the 2015 Reporting & Analytics conference in Las Vegas to discuss the company’s move from SAP Business Explorer (BEx) to SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office. This is an edited transcript of the discussion: Ken Murphy, SAPinsider: […]
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