SAP Business

Intelligence
Analytical Reporting

Index
What is BI?
Definition
Benefits
How BI Works

Square Approach

Motivation
Identify User Scope
Identify KPIs
Implementation

Business Explorer (BEx)

What is BEx.
Advantages
Limitations

What is Business intelligence(BI)

Business intelligence(BI), is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of
software applications used to analyze an organizations raw data. BI as a
discipline is made up of several related activities, including data mining,
online analytical processing, querying and reporting.
Business Intelligence is a broad category of applications and technologies
for gathering, storing, analysing, and providing access to data to help
clients make better business decisions.
This is a strategy to ensure the right information is available to the right
decision makers at the right time.
The Business Intelligence mission is to connect the data to the people to
allow them to make better decisions

Benefits of BI
Improve Visibility
Improve Efficiency
Reduce labor costs
Turn Data into Actionable Information
Align business activities with corporate strategy.
Reduce information bottlenecks

Benefits of BI
Identify areas for cost cutting.
Uncover business opportunities
Roll ERP data into accessible reports
PREDICTIVE ANALYTIC AND TRENDING ANALYSIS
Rack up impressive ROI figures
Connect the data to the people to allow them to make
better decisions

Sap BI Architecture

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BEx

CEO/BPO

Analytical Users

Business Users

Motivation

Analyze Big Data:

Data from Different Platform: The need to integrate data
from multiple business applications or data sources.
Data Visibility: Lack of visibility into the companys
operations, finances, and other areas at a glance.
The need to access relevant business data quickly and
efficiently
Different data Into a single platform.

BEx
Single point of access to all information is possible through BI. The data from various sources can be accessed at the single
place(i.e BI).
Data collected from various sources are presented in the form of reports which is efficient for analysis of the data at a high
level.
SAP BI provides easy to use GUI and better formatting
Some of the key functionality that makes SAP BI better than rest is its ability to analyzemultidimensionaldata sources in
both web and MS office environments, flexible dashboards, mobility and a flexible, scalable BI platform.
SAP BI is known for its awesomequery performance, while requiring little administration
MobileBIfor end users on the go
Easy Integrationwith other platforms
Single point of access to all information is possible through BI. The data from various sources can be accessed at the single
place(i.e BI).
Data collected from various sources are presented in the form of reports which is efficient for analysis of the data at a high
level.
SAP BI provides easy to use GUI and better formatting
Some of the key functionality that makes SAP BI better than rest is its ability to analyzemultidimensionaldata sources in
both web and MS office environments, flexible dashboards, mobility and a flexible, scalable BI platform.
SAP BI is known for its awesomequery performance, while requiring little administration
MobileBIfor end users on the go
Easy Integrationwith other platforms