SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence helps you perform advanced ad hoc reporting and analysis. Its user-friendly interface turns data into insights, improves decision-making, and increases productivity.
To stay competitive, your team needs reliable business intelligence (BI). Predefined IT reports are useful, but they may not meet all your needs. Additional reporting requests can overwhelm IT and slow decision-making.
Using multiple tools can result in inconsistent data, which may lead to poor decisions. This also makes it harder to learn from past decisions.
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Data-to-Decision Workflow
- Acquire data: In this step, you connect to and extract data from various sources. These sources include enterprise databases (such as SAP BW, SAP HANA, SQL Server, and Oracle), data warehouses, flat files (such as Excel and CSV), and other systems. The goal is to bring together all relevant information, regardless of its original location or format, so you can analyze it. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence often accesses this data through universes (semantic layers), which simplify access for you as a business user.
- Transform data: After you acquire raw data through the query panel, you often need to prepare and refine it before you can visualize and analyze it. You perform this step in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence's Data mode.
- Build visualizations: At this stage, you turn transformed data into actionable insights. You create interactive documents by choosing visualization types such as bar charts, line charts, pie charts, tables, and cross tables. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence offers many options to help you present information clearly. The goal is to help you quickly understand and interpret trends, patterns, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Analyse & decide: After you create visualizations, you can interact with reports to perform in-depth analysis. You can use features such as drill-down to explore details, dynamic filtering, prompts to customize displays, and data breaks to examine different aspects of the information. The goal is to move from simple visualization to understanding the reasons behind the data, so you can draw actionable insights that guide your decisions.
- Share and comment: In the final step, you share documents and analyses with your teammates. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence lets you distribute documents to colleagues, teams, or stakeholders through the BI portal, email, or scheduled delivery. This feature supports collaboration, enables group reviews, and ensures everyone works with the same understanding of the data. You can also add comments directly to reports to support discussion and joint decision-making.
Let's Summarize What You've Learned
- Connect and extract data from multiple sources to ensure comprehensive and consistent analysis.
- Prepare and refine data in Data mode before creating visualizations.
- Build interactive visualizations to highlight trends, patterns, and key performance indicators.
- Analyze documents using features like drill-down, filtering, and prompts to gain actionable insights.
- Share and comment on documents to support collaboration and informed group decision-making.