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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 for SAPinsiders
- 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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Reporting & Analytics: Case study: How Carpenter Technology Corporation is leveraging SAP S/4HANA to expedite its analytics road map
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Find out how Carpenter Technology Corporation leverages SAP S/4HANA out-of-the-box capabilities to adopt an agile methodology for analytics requirements realization. RA_2017_South_Casestudyhowcarpentertechnology Keith South If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View…
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BI & HANA: Case study: Transforming business intelligence at Mobile Mini with a Business Intelligence Competency Center
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Learn how Mobile Mini migrated from its legacy enterprise data warehouse to the SAP HANA platform to enable real-time reporting. here Heather Sinkwitz If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View…
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BI & HANA: Case study: The next data warehousing evolution with SAP HANA modeling — Strategy, processes, and development
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Learn how The Irvine Company leveraged classic data warehousing methods with new SAP HANA modeling techniques to advance business analytics capabilities. here Ken Wong If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this…
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BI & HANA: Case study: Performance tuning lessons from Newell Brands
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Explore the journey of Newell Brands from traditional SAP BW objects to SAP HANA studio-based objects. here Ketan Doshi If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member?…
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BI & HANA: Case study: How the Houston Independent School District planned and executed its upgrade to SAP BW 7.5
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Follow along as the Houston Independent School District (HISD) outlines its upgrade to SAP BW 7.5. here Jehangir Khan If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member?…
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BI & HANA: Case study: How the City of Chicago uses BI on BI to improve metadata management, increase security, and save money
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Find out how the City of Chicago leverages SAP BusinessObjects BI to secure and manage its metada drawn from sources in various departments. here Dariusz Zyskowski If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to…
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BI & HANA: Case study: Architecting data for self-service BI — How American Red Cross leveraged dimensional modeling techniques alongside the information design tool to achieve success
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Find out how the American Red Cross overcame architectural data challenges specifically associated with deploying self-service BI to a portion of its 6,000 users nationwide. here Ken Coleman If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a…
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BI & HANA: Case study: American Red Cross’ transition from a static reporting environment to modern, sleek BI applications and dashboards based on SAP Lumira, designer edition
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Learn how American Red Cross went from dull, manual, and static reports to modern, data-driven, and insight-delivering solutions using SAP Lumira, designer edition (formerly SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio). here Robert Shoemake If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You…
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SAP BI And SAP HANA Collection 2019
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Harnessing BI and analytics solutions requires a unique blend of critical thinking, strategic vision, and technical chops. How do you know if your company (and you!) have what it takes?SAPinsider has assembled a nine popular articles on SAP BI and SAP HAN Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready…
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Transforming Business in the Era of Intelligence
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With the promise of the Intelligent Enterprise, SAP is charting a roadmap to support companies on their digital journeys to turn data into insight and revenue opportunities. Partners are key in helping to support this journey by building, extending, and integrating next-generation cloud applications that contribute to the intelligent suite, which rests on the digital…
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