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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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BI & HANA: Case study: Taking it to the cloud — Using SAP BusinessObjects at Fairfax WaterMar 11, 2019 — Learn about Fairfax Water’s experience using SAP BusinessObjects Cloud and get firsthand feedback on the solution’s capabilities. Click this link to view the slides from this session — BIHANA2017_Powlas_Casestudytakingittothecloud. Tammy Powlas
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BI & HANA: Case study: Top 10 ways Fairfax Water squeezes value from its SAP BusinessObjects BI and analytics investmentsMar 11, 2019 — Learn how SAP mentor and BI guru Tammy Powlas drives maximum value from the SAP BusinessObjects BI and analytics tools at Fairfax Water. Click this link to view the slides from this session — BIHANA2017_Powlas_Casestudytop10ways.
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Reporting & Analytics: Case study: How Carpenter Technology Corporation is leveraging SAP S/4HANA to expedite its analytics road mapMar 7, 2019 — 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.
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Reporting & Analytics: Case study: Metrics on the move — How ALDO Group puts live insight into the hands of users anywhere, anytime with SAP RoambiMar 7, 2019 — Learn how the ALDO Group implemented SAP Roambi. RA_2017_Dadoun_Casestudymetricsonthemove David Dadoun If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.
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Reporting & Analytics: Case study: Resistance is futile — How Breakthru Beverage delivers SAP HANA model analysis and visualizations to users who insist on ExcelMar 7, 2019 — Find out how Breakthru Beverage accommodates the needs of analysts who insist on using Microsoft Excel, while also leveraging its investment in SAP HANA models. RA_2017_Foley_Casestudyresistanceisfutile Desmond Foley If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.
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BI & HANA: Case study: Performance tuning lessons from Newell BrandsMar 4, 2019 — 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.
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BI & HANA: Case study: The next data warehousing evolution with SAP HANA modeling — Strategy, processes, and developmentMar 4, 2019 — 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.
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BI & HANA: Case study: Transforming business intelligence at Mobile Mini with a Business Intelligence Competency CenterMar 4, 2019 — 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.
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BI & HANA: Case study: How the Houston Independent School District planned and executed its upgrade to SAP BW 7.5Mar 1, 2019 — 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.
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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 editionMar 1, 2019 — 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.
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