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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 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.
SAP BI Tools
SAP BusinessObjects is a centralized BI tool that provides organizations with the ability to perform reporting, create visualizations, and generate near-real-time BI. SAP BusinessObjects is the on-premises BI layer for SAP 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:
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 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.
SAP BI Tools
SAP BusinessObjects is a centralized BI tool that provides organizations with the ability to perform reporting, create visualizations, and generate near-real-time BI. SAP BusinessObjects is the on-premises BI layer for SAP 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
- Integration with SAP technologies
SAP Analytics Cloud is an evolution of SAP’s initial business intelligence (BI) offering as an extension of its all-inclusive SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) product. But this evolution in the form of SAP Analytics Cloud also aligns with three top trends in today’s rapidly evolving data and analytics solutions landscape, as identified in SAPinsider research report Enterprise Data and Analytics State of The Market.
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, BI tools like SAP BusinessObjects provide an 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 SAP BusinessObjects 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 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 a cloud roadmap: There is no doubt that SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise has amassed an immense user base. 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 this transition strategy. Read more about what product leaders at SAP have to say about this journey to the cloud.
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Is SAP Business Data Cloud Right for You?May 13, 2025 — There are many data and analytics tools available for businesses of all sizes. What is more not always easy to understand is where and how to get started with these tools. SAP recently announced the release of the Business Data Cloud which allows organizations to unleash transformational insights, connect data across the enterprise, and foster reliable business AI. But is your organization ready for Business Data Cloud?
Something that is frequently asked is how SAP BDC differs from what customers may already be using today. This session, targeted at both business and IT leaders, aims to clarify what makes up SAP’s Business Data Cloud. What will also be covered is the process necessary to evaluate the status of your current analytics landscape and architecture and develop an analytics roadmap that makes sense for your organization as well as aligning with its strategic goals and objectives.
By attending this session, you will:
Be able to understand the SAP Business Data Cloud offering and how it is licensed
Understand the benefits that using SAP BDC can bring to an organization.
Receive an introduction to the process of a Business Intelligence Assessment and how it helps define a data and analytics near and long-term roadmap
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Accelerate developer productivity with Microsoft Power PlatformMar 26, 2024 — Microsoft Power Platform developer tools are enabling professional developers to create more effective business solutions using Power Platform than ever before. Development is faster, applications are more secure, and deployed within managed environments that have guardrails applying organizational policies and promoting best practices.
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What’s new: Power Apps February 2024 Feature UpdateMar 26, 2024 — Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share a summary of product, community, and learning updates from throughout the month so you can access it in one easy place. This month we’ve got a great set of updates for Makers, Admins, and users across Power Apps, Dataverse and […]
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Copilot in Power Automate: New time-saving experiences announced at Microsoft Ignite 2023Mar 26, 2024 — Sangya Singh, VP, Power Automate and Power Pages, Wednesday, November 15, 2023 Today at Microsoft Ignite 2023, we’re sharing new ways you can automate and orchestrate business processes across your organization with Copilot in Power Automate. Earlier this year, we announced how users can use Copilot to create and refine cloud flows and assist in data ingestion for process […]
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Make Smarter Business DecisionsOct 19, 2020 — Augmented analytics is defined by Wikipedia as an approach to analytics that employs the use of machine learning and natural language processing to automate analysis processes typically done by data scientists. Smart Assist is a collective group of features that enable augmented analytics to occur in SAP Analytics Cloud. The Smart Assist portfolio enables features across multiple aspects of data analysis, story creation, conversational analytics, and statistical methods. This article will explore each of these features in detail.
After reading this article you will be able to:
- Define augmented analytics and its role in data analytics;
- Describe each of the features available in the Smart Assist portfolio and how each feature can assist the end user in adding business value; and
- Understand how the Smart Assist portfolio aligns with SAP’s forward-looking and cloud-first strategy.
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