The BO world has arrived
If we take a look at the BI space today , BI has undergone an active market consolidation and the top BI vendors offer integrated suites which make the earlier ‘best of breed strategy’ more or less unconceivable. With so much of focus on integration, it is imperative that clients realize that the benefits of an integrated suite include a greatly simplified technical landscape, resulting in higher agility, faster speed to market and lower Total Cost of Ownership.
The need of the hour is a complete reporting management system that addresses every need of the targeted users. In particular, allowing users to use BI functionalities ranging from reporting, analysis, and dashboards and visualization, to intuitive discovery and advanced predictive analytics through the various BO tools.
A global reporting architecture with BO integration across the landscape aids global reporting and along with integrated data quality, data from both structured and unstructured, disparate data sources ,provides a unified view of corporate information for efficient decision making.
Crystal Reports has shown great promise in generating highly formatted/canned reports and will report on data from the SAP BW InfoProviders (ODS, Infocubes, etc) directly.
Web Intelligence will add value in the area of querying and ad-hoc reporting.
BW Accelerator drastically improves performance with BO as front-end .Voyager will continue to provide Ajax-based OLAP analysis until Pioneer is released. Voyager will connect with SAP BEx queries and InfoCubes via XMLA.Xcelcius will deploy dashboards on SAP data and will connect with SAP NW BW via ‘Query as a Web-service'.
