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What is SAP BI?

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What is SAP BI ?

SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions simplify data manipulation, allowing users to access, navigate, analyze, format, and share information across a corporate environment.

SAP BusinessObjects BI (also known as BO or BOBJ) is a suite of front-end applications that allow business users to view, sort and analyze business intelligence data.

The reporting, analysis, and interpretation of business data is of central importance to a company in guaranteeing its competitive edge, optimizing processes, and enabling it to react quickly and in line with the market. With Business Intelligence (BI), SAP NetWeaver provides data warehousing functionality, a business intelligence platform, and a suite of business intelligence tools with which an enterprise can attain these goals.

Features

Crystal Reports -- Enables users to design and generate reports
Xcelsius/Dashboards -- Allows users to create interactive dashboards that contain charts and graphs for visualizing data
Web Intelligence -- Provides a self-service environment for creating ad hoc queries and analysis of data both online and offline
Explorer -- Allows users to search through BI data sources using an iTunes-like interface. Users do not have to create queries to search the data and results are shown with a chart that indicates the best information match.

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References

https://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/b2/e50138fede083de10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
http://searchsap.techtarget.com/definition/SAP-BusinessObjects-BI
posted Apr 21, 2015 by anonymous

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