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Every Angle in combination with SAP BI (BW)

• SAP BI (BW) and Every Angle complement each other. SAP BW BI stands for the SAP Business Warehouse Business Intelligence software platform. Part of the SAP Netweaver system, the BW BI component serves as the technological infrastructure and offers various analytical technologies and functions.
• The majority of companies use Every Angle in combination with SAP BI. They use SAP BI for the management reports and use Every Angle for operations management.

Traditional database versus Live Objects technology.

• SAP BI (BW) is based on traditional database technology. A substantial knowledge of SAP and the business is required when making overviews and analyses.
• The technology provides options to create cubes to generate the overviews and analyses. From a technical perspective, a cube is nothing more than a table on a drive. Cubes contain a predetermined number of dimensions and can contain data that is not or no longer available in the transaction system.

Live Objects technology is much faster.

• The software solution Every Angle is based on Live Objects technology. It is very large, super fast and contains all current data available on the SAP transaction system. However, the technology is completely different. All details are available and the performance is a thousand times faster.
• The SAP BI(BW) data is automatically placed in the correct context through the built-in SAP knowledge in Every Angle. This allows the end-user to intuitively click through the data to independently create the desired overviews and analyses immediately after installation, without requiring any specialist knowledge of SAP.

The Pros of SAP BI(BW)

Here are the advantages of using SAP Business Intelligence products.

Full range of business intelligence-related products.

• While not surprising for an old, established company like SAP, it has to be considered a pro. SAP offers all required technological units to leverage a data platform and reporting tools at your company. There are a couple of options for each product, so depending on your needs you may deploy on an actual server or use the cloud. Cloud, on premise, and hybrid deployment options are valid for nearly the entire product line both in Analytics solutions and Database solutions.
• Analytics Cloud, in turn, is a good way to centralize your BI related instruments in one place. From this place, you may provide permission-based data access, so that each user will utilize an interface touching only the data required for them to do their job.

Seamless graphical user interface.

• Business intelligence tools often look like cave drawings mainly because business users and self-service tools aren’t the main focus of the vendor. This results in a bulky interface aimed at skilled programmers or data analysts.
• SAP Business Intelligence provides a bunch of good instruments with intuitive user interface. While it may require some time and skill to learn how to use it (pretty much like any BI tool), SAP user interface happens to be easy to understand. On top of that, with accessing all the instruments from a single web-based interface, it’s much easier to conduct onboarding for your business users.

Sharing functions and Microsoft Office compatibility.

• Having the access to data is not enough. The real value of reports and insights you get from using business intelligence comes with sharing this knowledge. So, there are two cool things about it:
• Nearly all the reporting or dash boarding instruments on SAP Analytics solutions are armed with sharing functions. This guarantees your employees or executives can easily share valuable insights with each other. When we speak about reporting, these can be reports in the textual format, visual storytelling, or shared access to the constructed dashboards.
• It’s also possible to upload the data into Excel or Spreadsheets documents and share across organization the “traditional” way.
• But if your primary concern is data security, you can provide rules and permission either via database SQL permissions or data management tools.

Self-service tools availability for wider user audience.

• Working with data requires a lot of data-specific knowledge and engineering skills. While the main function of BI tools is to automate the process of dragging data from a large storage and introducing it to a user, sometimes they need the support of a human agent. This job is often done by BI developers, ETL developers, or a dedicated IT department.
• SAP BI offers a number of self-service instruments (Business Objects, Lumira) that provide a toolset for casual users to cope with data. It doesn’t mean that your BI users won’t need any help, but it will definitely reduce maintenance costs and time spent on reporting-related tasks.

SAP BI/BW real-time database and performance.

• Considering all the aspects of SAP BI products, we should mention the BW database. The database provides real-time data access, which guarantees quick processing of large amounts of data and small response time. BW database is also compatible with different database management systems. That makes data integration a lot easier within the whole organization.

Data Source Integrations.

• We’ve mentioned the wide integration list with external sources, but it deserves to be a separate point. SAP offers integration with two of its own data storages (SAP HANA and Data Warehouse). But it also covers external services such as Apache Hadoop, Hive, and Hbase. This can be especially beneficial when working with big data and using a BI interface as a data exploration tool.

Flexibility.

• Most of SAP’s BI products are cloud-based, which are pretty easy to integrate with and use. However, SAP also offers options in deployment type for almost each of their products. Depending on your preferences, it allows you to get a bit of flexibility in terms of deployment, hardware maintenance, and system management.

Good fit for the enterprise.

• SAP is mostly used by big companies for a number of reasons. The primary focus of the product line is to serve enterprise needs. BusinessObjects and Analytics Cloud are good for distributing content for a large number of consumer groups.
• The Enterprise Planner and overall list of integrations (namely with SAP’s ERP) suggest good option for corporations with a large amount of data and human resources to supply data with. Add here costs, and a complete service range for creating a BI solution, and you’ll get an optimal solution for the enterprise.

Integration with multiple data sources.

• SAP BI(BW) offers some good options on integrating with various data sources, mainly because of SAP HANA source agnosticism. The overall list of integrations is massive enough. The last-but-not-least feature is integration with MS Office products, the most used data storage format.