Understanding SAP BW in 5 Minutes

The Need for Business Intelligence Example

Your organization is debating the need to implement a Business Intelligence Solution and a Data Warehouse solution.  As part of the decision process, as a CIO, you want to clearly understand how your company would benefit from using a Business Intelligence system. More importantly, you would like to understand the benefits of the SAP BW module.

Business Intelligence System: OLTP and OLAP Environment

We have collected the following information into a 5 page informative guide for you so that you can make an informed implementation decision:

• How business intelligence software helps to control the masses of information in your enterprise
• ERP systems and business intelligence systems
• Business intelligence systems properties and objectives
• Requirements of a modern business intelligence system:
  • Standardized structuring and display of all business information
  • Simple access to business information via a single point of entry
  • Highly developed reporting for analysis with self-service for all areas using tools like SAP Web Intelligence, SAP xCelsius, SAP Dashboarding, Qlik, Tableau and other visualization tools.
  • Quick and cost-efficient implementation
  • High performance environment. Data modeling from heterogeneous sources
  • Relieving OLTP systems
  • The Data Warehouse component of Business Intelligence
  • Desirable properties of a data warehouse
    • Read-only access
    • Cross-organizational focus
    • Persistent storage
    • Long term data storage
    • Designed for efficient query processing
    • Differences Between an OLAP and an OLTP System
      • Level of detail
      • History
      • Integration
      • Normalization
      • Read access

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