SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI)

The SAP solution BI (SAP Business Intelligence) is the system of the business analysis allowing to perform strategic analysis of data and support of process of acceptance of management decisions in the company. It is intended for providing access and the information processing which is contained in the different systems or databases of the organizations, its analysis. Any information systems, accounting and financial programs, specialized industry solutions and also local sources can act as sources (for example, Excel or Access files).

SAP Business Intelligence is a complex of analytical applications. Provides the multidimensional analysis of results of activity for forecasting and planning of future indicators of business. The solution includes tools for creation and the publication of the configured interactive reports and applications which provide qualitatively new level of knowledge of the persons making decisions. A system provides tools and ready models for information analysis and a reporting preparation that provides complex approach to justification for decision-making.

SAP Business Intelligence − the complete solution which provides necessary functionality of end users − IT specialists, responsibles and the management:

Data warehousing

SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) - Control functions by data warehouses, business simulation, extraction, conversions and data loadings allow to build data warehouses, to model architecture of information according to business structure and to manage data from different sources.

Knowledge management

SAP Knowledge Management (SAP KM) - Online analytical processing, search of implicit dependences, search of correlation and identification of special situations.

Measurement and management

Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) is the solution for management of corporate strategy. Decision support at any level, analytical applications and control panels.

SAP Business Intelligence is focused on decision support at any level. Measuring instruments and managements contain analytical applications and tools for quality improvement of the made decision.

Planning

The complex component, the solution "The Integrated Planning" (BW/BI-IP - in terminology of SAP), together with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence helps to accelerate decision making process, to predict trends on the basis of the historical analysis and provides to all employees, responsible for decision making, uniform access point to information and data.

This solution is completely integrated in the BI system (SAP Business Intelligence).

Planning and modeling

"Planning and modeling" - BW-BPS (Business Planning and Simulation) - as well as the solution BW/BI-IP, is completely integrated into the BI complex and the SAP NetWeaver platform.

Integration

Business Intelligence as component of a complex of BI-applications, is integrated with all components of the SAP NetWeaver platform.

Openness

Business Intelligence supports open standards, such as XML, XML for Analysis (XMLA), OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO), Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange (CWMI), programming interface of business applications (BAPI), ABAP programming language, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and JDBC interfaces.

Expansibility

Business Intelligence has the potential of expansion and adaptation to the changing requirements of the enterprise. It a component contains tools and interfaces for improvement and expansion of the existing business contents and integration into the tools for the analysis and drawing up reports developed by other suppliers.

This product allows to solve an extensive range of the problems concerning the financial sphere, a business intelligence, etc.

Main advantages of SAP BI:

• Complete integrated solution for data analysis, arriving from different sources, the reporting and information exchange in a unified environment
• Simple and clear interface, easy data loading, rich opportunities of visualization, powerful functionality of search, analysis and comparison of data from different sources
• Modern security aids for access restriction and data protection
• Management of key indicators of efficiency on the basis of financial results, exact forecasting for risk management, opportunities and financial effects
• Liquidation of expenses on creation, development and testing of reports, increase in efficiency of creation of requests and reduction of time for drawing up reports
• Scaling option of the solution on a business growth measure, expense reduction on information infrastructure and total ownership cost

Depending on the purposes of the implementing solution SAP BI, different employees for whom information which is stored in systems – the staff of the sales department, departments of IT, marketing, accounting, etc. is necessary for work can use it.

Key problems of the business analysis

• Complexity and duration of operational information analysis in a type of large volumes of data.
• Impossibility of obtaining business information without involvement of specialists of IT of service.
• Complexity of the analysis of business information which is stored in different sources.
• Impossibility of effective comparison and analysis of historical data.

Possibilities of SAP BusinessObjects

Dashboards and visualization

• Creation individual, based on flash technology, dashboards.
• Lungs in creation and use of model for carrying out the analysis "that if".
• Integration into a corporate portal.
• The preconfigured components: diagrams, cards, speedometers, selectors, switches.

Processing of special requests, reporting and analysis

• Simplicity of an ipolzovaniye and focus on business users.
• The single interface for access to all data sources.
• Use of usual business terms at creation of an analytical request.
• Possibility of independent creation of non-standard analytical requests.

Reporting

• Data acquisition from any sources.
• Access and information transform to a report form without programming.
• Possibility of creation of hierarchical reports.
• Ample opportunities for preparation of printed forms.
• Providing information through WEB.

Search and assessment

• Simplicity of assessment and sweep rate hundreds of internal and external data sources.
• Usability (similar to use of Yandex, Google).

Expanded analysis

• Accomplishment of interactive analytical data processing.
• Broad spectrum of functions for the analysis of versatile data sets.
• An opportunity to carry out more perfect and exact forecast analysis.

Integration of BusinessObjects with MS Office

• Easy integration of analytical data into Microsoft Office applications.
• Upgradeability of data directly from Microsoft Office applications.
• Possibility of exchange of documents with the built-in analytical reports.

Remote access to analytical data (BusinessObjects Mobile)

• Access to analytical information from the mobile device.
• Simple installation and setup.
• Secure access to data.

Benefits from SAP implementation of Business Objects BI

Increase in profitability. Increase in efficiency of sales office

• Optimization by contrastive analysis of profitability of each product.
• Optimization of food price according to their cost value.
• Increase in indicators of sales by use of client analytics.

Understanding of clients. Optimization of marketing strategies

• Possibility of involvement of long-term clients.
• Attraction and preserving of the necessary clients by means of target marketing.
• Tracking and management of all aspects of customer acquisition.

Optimization of a supply chain and supply

• Expense reduction on stock holding by optimization of a material flow.
• Increase in income by the improved inventory management
• Ensuring timely existence of products in places of sale

High-quality service and customer retention

• Element of the outflow of clients marked a spiskasokrashcheniye by increase in their satisfaction and loyalty.
• Customer service according to models of consumer behavior.
• Operational solution of the problem of outflow of clients by means of the analysis of the prime causes.

Management of finance

• Management of key indicators of efficiency (KPI) on the basis of financial results.
• Fast reaction to changes by reduction of planning cycles, budgetings and consolidations.
• Exact forecasting for risk management, opportunities and financial effects.

Increase in efficiency of IT department

• Liquidation of expenses on creation, development and testing of reports.
• Increase in efficiency of creation of requests and reduction of time for drawing up reports.
• Expense reduction on information infrastructure and total ownership cost.

Links

• Analytical SAP Business Intelligence system
• Business intelligence - a complete picture of intellectual business operations
• Business planning as complex component