SAP Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence, or BI for short, describes the general ability to organize access and analyse information in order to learn about and understand the business.

The goal of self-service BI is to empower end users so they can make decisions based on their own analyses, instead of forcing them to use only the data and reports available from a data warehouse (in this case SAP BW).  Self-service BI gives end users the tools they need to access and analyse data contained in a larger BI solution. That way, they can create their own views of the data, and ultimately design and customise their own reports.

Implement the analytic tools of the SAP BusinessObjects suite and SAP Cloud Analytics.  These tools allow information consumers to access BI data through multiple channels in a way that best suits the business need.  The tools also allow for access to non-SAP data (either via a data warehouse or direct to the source application).

The vision for SAP BI is to support the organisation through the use of a cost-effective functional capability to improve efficiency and provide trusted and relevant information to the right users in the right format in a timely fashion.