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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 2017, HANA 2017, and Basis & SAP Administration 2017: Keynote Recap
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To kick off BI 2017, HANA 2017, and Basis & SAP Administration 2017, SAP’s Mike Flannagan delivered an insightful keynote talk, followed by a deep dive into some emerging technologies with Chris Dinkel and Jag Bandla of Deloitte Consulting LLP. In his keynote, Mike Flannagan, Senior Vice President of Analytics, spoke on why he chose…
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BI 2017: One-on-One with Mark Cooper of British American Tobacco
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Mark Cooper, Global Analytics Solution Architect at British American Tobacco (BAT), has been presenting case studies at SAPinsider events since 2011. His experience both as an SAPinsider speaker and as an analytics expert made for an in-depth and engaging conversation on site. Mark recently completed a five-year project that placed the entire company on one…
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The Role of Analytics for the Digital Enterprise
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Data is the currency of the digital economy, and figuring out how to best mine your enterprise data — including the increasing amount of unstructured data that is now flowing into businesses — is key to gaining a competitive advantage. Digitization creates the environment that enables the enterprise analytics needed for this purpose — but…
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Drive Business Insight with Shared Asset Intelligence
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Smart products have become important components of manufacturing networks. The information that smart devices can deliver about an organization’s assets has the power to transform business processes, business models, and manufacturing — particularly when that information can be shared across the entire ecosystem of suppliers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), service providers, and asset operators involved…
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Optimizing BI Administration in SAP Environments: Q&A on How to Properly Maintain and Secure Complex, Shared Landscapes
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Business intelligence (BI) is the lifeblood of data-driven organizations, enabling you to turn the data in your SAP systems into actionable information that drives better decision making, uncovers opportunity, and improves efficiency. The modern BI landscape is an increasingly complex one, however, with trends such as big data, the cloud, and the Internet of Things…...…
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Q&A on SAP BI 4.2: What’s Happening with SAP’s BI Products, and What Does It Mean for You?
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During this live Q&A session, Jayne, Ty Miller, Olivier Duvelleroy, and several other key product leaders from the BI product groups at SAP, including SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Lumira, SAP Design Studio, SAP Analysis for Office, and SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports, gathered to answer readers’ questions on the road ahead for SAP’s BI products,…...…
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Glazer’s Distributors Celebrates Enterprise Business Intelligence
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Wholesale alcohol distributor Glazer’s Distributors makes roughly 250,000 monthly deliveries of malt beverages, wines, and spirits to customers in 15 US States, the US Virgin Islands, and Canada. Entering its second century of doing business, Glazer’s mapped out a vision for a future-state IT infrastructure with a focus on supporting an influx of data, advanced…
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Live from SAPinsider Studio: EV Technologies on the Evolution of BI
SAP Mentors Eric Vallo and Dallas Marks of EV Technologies join SAPinsider Studio at BI-HANA 2016 to discuss fundamental changes to enterprise business intelligence (BI). Topics of this discussion include tips on moving the analytics needle, data management strategy for the digital enterprise, and what a transition to “pervasive BI” means to businesses from a…...…
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Live from SAPinsider Studio: Houston Independent School District’s BI Journey
Jehangir Khan, Senior BI Architect, Houston Independent School District, joins SAPinsider Studio at the 2016 BI-HANA event to discuss the district’s evolving use of the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite. Topics of this discussion include how the district is driving better decisions with tools such as Lumira, Design Studio, and Web Intelligence. This is an edited…...…
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How to Select the Best BI Tool to Meet Your Technical Requirements: Part 2
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As part of the overall SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio, SAP offers a wide range of tools to help companies meet their reporting and analysis needs. No one tool is a silver bullet that meets all of the technical requirements of a company. However, this comprehensive overview helps identify your company’s specific technical needs and determine…...…
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