Overview

With the rapid changes in today’s market, business, and technology landscape, organizations need today’s business intelligence (BI) platforms to provide real-time performance on big data, insight with trust across business and social data, and instantly available mobile BI. And they need BI solutions that are globally ready, easily scalable, and flexibly deployable.

A successful BI platform must support all the information access, interaction, and analysis needs of the different profiles of users across your organization, all based on a common framework.

• Reporting
SAP Crystal Reports® software is the clear industry standard for reporting and helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the Web or embedded in enterprise applications. Developers and designers create reports that answer the most regularly asked questions (such as account statements, invoices, and regulatory reports) and distribute them to hundreds or thousands of users.

• Query and Analysis
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence® and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis software enables your users to identify trends and find root causes from just about any data source including an SAP HANA database, relational databases, and OLAP cubes. A range of users – from experienced analysts to mainstream business users – can quickly create queries and perform calculations without understanding complex database schemas or structured query language (SQL). Cutting-edge visualization functionality allows users to view two- and three-dimensional charts and hone in on specific areas of focus for more powerful, revealing analysis.

• Data Exploration
With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer™ software, business users can explore mountains of heterogeneous information at the speed of thought. SAP BusinessObjects Explorer brings together the simplicity and speed of search with the trust and analytical power of BI to give your users immediate answers to their business questions. They can employ familiar keyword searches to find information hidden in data sources, and then navigate and explore the data directly – no existing reports or data structure knowledge are required.

• Dashboards
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards software is a drag-and-drop visualization tool designed to create interactive analytics for powerful, personalized dashboards with live connections to any data source. You can share these interactive dashboards with all of your business users so they can measure their results and progress to take the right actions.

• Predictive Analysis
SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions include market-leading functionality for data mining and predictive analysis, so that data analysts and business users can explore past and present business scenarios, as well as uncover trends and identify outliers to project future outcomes.