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December 10, 2009

Taking the “giant leap” into the world of Business Objects reporting on SAP

The last couple of years have been exciting times in the SAP-Business Intelligence (SAP-BI) space with SAP making a flurry of acquisitions in the Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) areas with the big fish being the Business Objects acquisition in the middle of 2007. With the Business Objects acquisition came a host of applications in the area of reporting, data services and EPM, into SAP’s kitty.

 

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July 15, 2009

Using the power of BW Accelerator with BO Explorer

BO Explorer(prior name Polestar) is marketed by SAP more as an intiutive search tool and can be a google in the world of SAP BW.

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June 15, 2009

BI in the Cloud

A quick look at how 'Business Intelligence in the cloud' is a fast growing on-demand solution for an SAP environment...

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April 22, 2009

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.

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Planning and Forecasting with EPM

In today’s economic environment every organization realizes the need for planning various business functions and processes to achieve optimum results. The uncertainty of the future has made it mandatory to plan and simulate each of the scenarios business will be facing in time of credit crisis and falling demand levels.

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Get a 360 degree view of your corporate strategy

A blog that highlights how a ‘Performance Measurement KPI Framework’ allows business executives to take a holistic view of strategic goals and link them appropriately to tactical and operational performance indicators.

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February 25, 2009

BO and BIA Combo - How does that look like ?

A quick look on how BO fares on top of BI Accelerator enabled datamarts.

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February 11, 2009

Branding changes for SAP BI

A quick look at what BI is going to sound like in 2009 from an SAP stand-point.

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January 20, 2009

BI Accelerator for agility and profit

With Business Intelligence (BI) emerging as an all-pervading success factor for strategic, tactical and operational information users, access to information alone is no longer enough to separate the winners from the others.

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December 17, 2008

Let's talk about BI Layers – Series 3 of 3

Coming to the last of the blog series on BI layers, this topic will also touch upon some popular analysis models used by data architects and analysts to develop and understand an enterprise data model.

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December 16, 2008

Let's talk about BI Layers- Series 2 of 3

In the earlier blog I covered the names of the various BI layers and the need for a logical model/data architecture in an enterprise data warehouse.Now let us get into the details.

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December 12, 2008

Let's talk about BI layers - Series 1 of 3

To deliver effective Business Intelligence , organizations need to progressively design and implement a rugged data warehouse with the right enterprise data flow architecture and not to forget a logical data architecture.

 

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