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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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Live from SAPinsider Studio: Jayne Landry on SAP’s BI Roadmap
Jayne Landry, SAP Global VP of Product Management for SAP Analytics and SAP Leonardo, joins SAPinsider Studio at the 2018 BI-HANA event to discuss SAP’s BI strategy. Topics include SAP Analytics Hub and how a hybrid cloud approach for consuming analytics drives a culture of innovation; a pilot project for hybrid licensing with a single...…
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Live from SAPinsider Studio: Ivo Bauermann and Gerrit Kazmaier from BI-HANA 2018
SAPinsider BI-HANA 2018 keynote speakers Ivo Bauermann and Gerrit Kazmaier join SAPinsider Studio to recap their keynote presentation. Topics covered include SAP Analytics Cloud and why it’s so important for a digital enterprise to have business intelligence, planning, and predictive reside in the same application.... Membership Required You must be a member to access…
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User Adoption Can Make or Break a Project
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When SAP customers struggle with the implementation of a new business intelligence (BI) tool, it’s rarely because of the tool itself. In most cases, the issue is user reluctance to adopt the technology — users will only use a new BI tool if they are certain that it serves their needs. Learn about a six-step…
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Creating an SAP BusinessObjects Multi-Source Universe: A Step-by-Step Guide
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With the exponential growth of data from multiple sources, using conventional methods for extracting it is time-consuming, costly, and resource intensive. SAP has simplified Multi-Source Universes in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 as an answer to this issue. Created with the Information Design Tool (IDT), a Multi-Source Universe can combine data from SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)…
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Create an SAP BusinessObjects Multi-Source Universe – A Step-by-Step Guide
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With the exponential growth of data from multiple sources, using conventional methods for extracting it is time-consuming, costly, and resource intensive. SAP has simplified Multi-Source Universes in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 as an answer to this issue. Created with the Information Design Tool (IDT), a Multi-Source Universe can combine data from SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)...…
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How to Configure and Explore Geographic Data Within Web Intelligence 4.2
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Learn the basic concepts of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.2. With these easy step-by-step instructions, learn how to configure geographic data within a Web Intelligence 4.2 query so that geographical data can be displayed and analyzed within both a map and chart. Also learn how to configure state and city data fields for analysis. Key...…
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Advice on SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Documents and Universes
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Are you using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to create reports? Whether you are an advanced report developer looking to use WebI as an ad hoc dashboard creator or a newcomer who is just trying avoid committing a deadly WebI sin, experts Alan Mayer and Michael Welter answered questions and shared expert advice on SAP BusinessObjects...…
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RESTful Services Eases the Documentation of Web Intelligence Reports in SAP BusinessObjects 4.X
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Documenting Web Intelligence reports can require a great deal of effort, but if this task is combined with exploring internals of Web Intelligence, and learning the basics of Powershell and SAP Raylight Representational State Transfer (RESTful) Web Services API, it can be a fun and very useful experience. Key Concept Powershell is a free tool...…
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SAP BI Product Convergence Update: What’s Happening Today, What is Coming Next, and What Does It Mean for You?
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SAP’s BI suite continues its course of ongoing product advancements, and there are significant new product releases on the very near horizon. With the pending SP4 release of SAP BI 4.2 due to impact the full BI suite, and the major new release of SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 (where SAP BusinessObjects Lumira and SAP BusinessObjects Design...…
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BI 2017 and HANA 2017: Insights from Deloitte’s Penny Silvia
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As a longtime speaker of 15 years, Penny Silvia is no stranger to SAPinsider events. And her expertise is a familiar feature to frequent attendees. On Wednesday morning, I sat down with her to learn a little more about her areas of expertise and what kind of content she brings to the SAPinsider events. Silvia,…
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