What is SAP Business Intelligence?
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SAP Business Intelligence is a suite of products for data warehousing, business analytics and reporting. It is part of SAP Netweaver product line. It comprises of components including Data warehousing, BI Platform, BI Business explorer and a development platform. Organization can use BI suite to gather insights and action oriented intelligence derived from the SAP data warehouse. The data analytics can be done by collecting data from both SAP and non-SAP systems.
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Components of SAP BI:
Data warehousing component provides integration, extraction, transformation and loading from various systems. Data warehousing workbench is the tool available for performing this task.
BI platform provides the infrastructure like the analytics engine and metadata infrastructure. Analytics engine comprises of OLAP aggregation and calculation, Analysis process designer, Data mining, Business planning and analysis process design.
Business explorer is a crux of the BI suite that provides a tool set for analysis and reporting. The outcome of the analysis will be used for decision making. The tool set include:
1. Query Designer
2. Web application designer
3. Broadcaster
4. Analyzer
Development platform include support to Java SDK and SAP's Open analysis interfaces. It is set of APIs that developers can use for programming data warehousing applications.
In summary, SAP BI is the holistic business analytics offering from SAP catering to the business intelligence needs of various organizations.
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