Timely access to relevant information has always been critical to business success. Now it is even more important, with the widespread use of the Internet, wired and wireless data collection technologies such as RFID, and the subsequent increase in new data sources. As a result, companies have amassed huge amounts of data in an effort to understand their business, improve performance, and build stronger relationships with employees, customers, and partners.
But it's often times difficult to exploit that data - to make sense of it and put it to work across the enterprise. As many companies have learned, data is scattered throughout the organization in a variety of systems, and many companies have little more than a piecemeal approach to collating, organizing, and interpreting their data. They struggle with fragmented tools and fragmented data - and end up with a fragmented, incomplete view of their business.
SAP offers a better approach, one that paints a complete picture of a business:
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW - formerly BI) brings together powerful analysis tools, planning and simulation capabilities, and data-warehousing functionality - delivered through sophisticated and user-centric enterprise portal technology to provide a coherent, comprehensive solution. That means you can use SAP NetWeaver BW to integrate data from across the enterprise and beyond, and then you can transform it into practical, timely business information to drive sound decision making, targeted action, and solid business results.
With the growing network of processes and systems, the need for efficient management support systems is also increasing. However, for this it is not enough to place a company strategically and give guidelines for its further development. Instead it is essential to have real time analysis and graphical visualization of the key performance indicators.
In SAP Netweaver BW automatic assimilation and analysis of information is possible. BW gives a holistic view of the company by considering both the financial data and non-financial assets of the company. As corporate planning is often not done in one common planning tool (e.g. turnover plan in a sales system and cost center plan in excel) studying interdependencies and coordination among them has become even more tedious. Thus, the strategic management system must establish a planning process through all levels of planning in the company to make the data available for all responsible persons in one system.
With SAP BW it is possible to upload data of different planning tools, manipulate planning data and write back changed data to the operational system. SAP BW can also be used as early warning system to inform the responsible persons about critical indicators on the basis of already defined thresholds of these indicators.
In a nutshell, with SAP NetWeaver BW, you can tightly integrate data warehousing capabilities on a comprehensive and scalable platform, while leveraging best practices to drive business intelligence predicated on a single version of the truth.
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