Business Intelligence or SAP BI, refers to the processes and tools used to analyze business data, extract information from it, and help anyone in the company make data-driven decisions.<\/p>\n
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A BI system, also known as a Decision Support System (DSS), analyzes current and past data; presenting the results in easy-to-understand reports, dashboards, charts, tables, and maps that can be shared throughout the company with SAP Business Objects.<\/p>\n
BI answers questions like \"What happened in the company?\" and \"What should I change?\" but be careful, as it won't answer why something happened or what will happen in the business environment, thus improving decision-making.<\/p>\n
A good BI program will help companies improve profits, improve the performance of all their operations, detect problems thanks to report analysis, optimize operations, etc.<\/p>\n
The following will show you some benefits of SAP BI. Take note!<\/p>\n
BI applications help executives, managers, and employees discover information relevant to their functions and responsibilities and make decisions based on facts rather than guesswork.<\/p>\n
Having a SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence solution, it is possible to compare processes and performance metrics with industry standards to identify areas for improvement, establish meaningful benchmarks, and monitor progress towards achieving goals.<\/p>\n
With an intelligence system, you can reduce the time it takes to search for information in the database, analyze it, and generate reports for all users. It can also identify repetitions or areas of inefficiency between departments.<\/p>\n
You can deliver data and reports to everyone: Business Intelligence software has an intuitive interface, drag-and-drop reports, as well as function-based dashboards that team members can use without coding and other technical skills.<\/p>\n
While it is true that SAP Business Intelligence is a highly effective tool for customers, venturing into Business Intelligence with: SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) SAP Knowledge Management (SAP KM) and SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM).<\/p>\n
It can be a somewhat complex process in certain aspects, so there may be certain disadvantages for some businesses.<\/p>\n
Learning to operate SAP BI: <\/strong>One of the disadvantages of introducing BI in SAP is that it takes time to learn how to use it. There are reports that can be created using templates, but it is necessary to customize the elements and configuration to create reports that better adapt to the type of analysis and reach insights and create graphical reports to visualize them.<\/p>\n High cost:<\/strong> The price of the product varies depending on several factors, but the higher the performance and the more functions and applications, the higher the cost.<\/p>\n Depending on the business, some of them can be used for free, but there are often restrictions on functions, so you should be careful to have a correct data visualization.<\/p>\n Many clients have asked us if the solutions offered by SAP BI are better than Excel. Let's understand that the purpose of BI and Excel is the same, they are applications to manage and analyze data.<\/p>\n In terms of functionality, there are many similarities between the two, but there are clear differences between Excel and BI that allow for better planning.<\/p>\n The first reason why you should introduce BI for SAP instead of Excel is the difference in data capacity.<\/p>\n Excel limits the amount of data that can be displayed in a worksheet, and SAP is one of the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems that integrates the central systems necessary for business activities. Data accumulates through daily business activities, and the amount of data reaches large volumes.<\/p>\n For example, Excel 2019 limits data capacity to 1,048,576 rows x 16,384 columns, which has increased compared to the past, but is considered small for a Business Intelligence tool that handles SAP data.<\/p>\n Another problem with Excel is that its performance degrades as the amount of data handled increases. If the processing speed slows down or freezes, the data cannot be easily analyzed.<\/p>\n In the case of BI tools compatible with SAP, the system is created under the premise of processing large amounts of data, so data analysis can be performed without worrying about the volume or performance of the data.<\/p>\n Don't forget to share this content and subscribe to the newsletter.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Business Intelligence or SAP BI, refers to the processes and tools used to analyze business data, extract information from it, and help anyone in the company make data-driven decisions.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":349853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business_intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353847,"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/353847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xamai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why is SAP Business Objects better than Excel?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
What capacity do both have?<\/strong><\/h2>\n