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    Business Intelligence

    Value Proposition
    Why Business Intelligence Matters

    “Gut Feel” Decisions


    Base: 675 U.S. and European
    business executives and managers
    Source: BusinessWeek Research
    Services
    All of the time 3%

    75% of the time 16%

    50% of the time 42% “Gut feel” used by


    >60% of people,
    25% of the time 36%
    >50% of the time
    Never 3%

    Information Available for


    Important Business Decisions
    Aware of bad
    Always just the
    decisions
    Usually 22% right amount (rare)
    managers have
    too little 41% made due to
    77%
    38% insufficient
    Usually too much information

    © SAP 2007 / Page 2


    The Power of Business Intelligence

    Empowers organizations to better understand, analyze, and predict


    what’s occurring in their company

    Turns data into useful and meaningful information

    Distributes information to those that need it, when they need

    Allows organizations to combine data from a wide variety of sources for


    an integrated, up-to-date, 360-degree view

    Helps IT be more strategic

    Enables business users to become more self-sufficient by providing


    access to information
    BI is #1 on CIO’s agenda
    IT can’t keep up

    90% of IT spend on mundane tasks


     Integrating hodgepodge of tools
     Managing user requests
     “Re-inventing the wheel” for each business
     Overwhelmed with low value-add tasks (ex. tuning)

    Situation is getting worse

     Data volumes growing at exponential rate


     Key information hidden within unstructured data
     Necessary data resides outside the four walls of the organization
     Dramatic increase in demand for BI

    What is needed
     Release IT from mundane tasks
     Self-service information access for business users
     Focus on managing service level agreements with business…
     … so IT can drive more strategic uses of information

    Source: Analyst and SAP research

    © SAP 2008 / Page 4


    Past: information push by IT
    IT responsible for Information delivery

     IT centric, static processes only


     Months to years to implement
     IT spend 90% on mundane tasks
    Business Value

    User
    Involvement
    Business
    Standards

    Shadow IT
    Biz

    Biz
    Biz
    BI
    COE

    IT IT IT

    Time
    System Department Enterprise
    Focused Focused Focused

    1990’s 2000’s

    © SAP 2008 / Page 5


    Now: information pull by business
    IT focus on managing services levels

     User centric, in context of processes Business


    Standards
     Agility, faster time-to-value User
     Strategic IT, lower cost
    Business Value

    Involvement

    “Process of Me”

    Biz

    Shadow IT
    BPX
    Biz Performance
    Optimization Apps
    Biz
    Biz Access EIM
    BI
    COE
    COE Processing

    EIM Infrastructure IT
    IT IT IT

    System Department Enterprise Process- & User Focused


    Focused Focused Focused (Intra- / Inter Enterprise)

    1990’s 2000’s 2005+

    © SAP 2008 / Page 6


    Most Common BI Challenges We Hear

    “We need an easier way for users to access information on their own”
     Users not getting the information they need, when they need it in the format they prefer.
     Result: IT the backlog for reporting; delayed decisions making for poor productivity

    “We need to create reports and dashboards appropriate for management / executives”
     Not able to create reports or dashboards with a professional look and feel in the time demanded
     Result: Frustration with IT, Excel utilised on ad-hoc basis

    “It is difficult to tie together data from multiple sources for a holistic view of the organization”
     Challenges in analyzing multi source data for a 360º view of the business
     Result: Companies rely on parallel data warehouse approach, multiple BI tools

    “We are not sure the data in our reports is accurate”


     Data quality is a key issue leading to end user mistrust of reports and information
     Result: End user mistrust of reports often leads to poor user adoption of Business Intelligence
    Self-discovery
    Easy access to all information

    BusinessObjects Text Analysis

    BusinessObjects Explorer

     Self-service
     Exploration
     Any information

    SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search

    © SAP 2008 / Page 8


    Self-authoring
    End-user report creation

    BusinessObjects Web Intelligence


    BusinessObjects Voyager

     User-empowered
     Business-relevant
     Reduced IT backlog

    BusinessObjects Web Intelligence


    © SAP 2008 / Page 9
    Best-in-class capabilities
    Powerful, flexible designers

    BusinessObjects Xcelsius Designer

    Crystal Reports Designer

     Any data and format


     Easy-to-create
     Fast-to-deploy

    Crystal Reports Designer


    © SAP 2008 / Page 10
    Consumer web-like simplicity
    No manuals required

    BusinessObjects Xcelsius
    BusinessObjects Mobile

     In-the-office
     On-the-go
     Anytime, anywhere BusinessObjects BI Desktop

    © SAP 2008 / Page 11


    Where the user works
    Seamless Microsoft integration

    BusinessObjects Live Office (Microsoft PowerPoint)

    Duet

     Easily embedded
     Secured data
     User-driven
    BusinessObjects Live Office (Microsoft Word)

    © SAP 2008 / Page 12


    INFORMATION REALITY

    Spreadsheets
    Information explosion
     Multiple data sources
     Disparate Information silos

    ERP

    Marketing

    Sales

    Enterprise DW

    Budgeting
    Summary

    Everyone in your organization needs access to


    the right information, in the right format at
    the right time

    The business intelligence platform delivers


    all information to all people on one platform

    SAPBusiness Objects
    offers a complete solution

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