Often
enterprises determine there are functional and technical realties
to their SAP R/3 and BW systems that drive the demand to use
Microsoft platforms and familiar user tools for SAP based
Reporting and Analytics.
Users may want
to apply the rich features, ease of use and familiarity of
the Microsoft platforms and tools with data coming directly
from their mySAP Business Suite, in order to enhance knowledge
worker productivity, embed real-time BI in new eBusiness scenarios,
and generally enhance and extend their SAP system with the
Microsoft platforms and tools.
Desired scenarios could be:
- Utilizing SharePoint Portal Server for Report Access and collaboration
- Support Goal-Oriented, BI Driven Business Processes.
- Leveraging MS Business Scorecard Manager for analytic based manager dashboards
- Deploying MS Reporting Services for full function Report Presentation and delivery services for R/3 or BW
- Send SAP Operational Data to Data Marts or Data Warehouses
- Extend access and interaction with SAP BW info with Non-SAP tools
- Combine SAP info with info from other systems
- Feed SAP R/3 Data to SQL Server OLAP cubes to support full function OLAP and Business Intelligence Reporting
- Updating EXCEL workbooks in real-time with SAP data
- Executing and fully reflecting report views of existing SAP Report and Query Objects from Sharepoint®
- View Business Information (Customer Open Orders, Ship status, etc) on a Smart Phone or wireless PDA via MS Compact framework.
- Combine BI functionality with data write-backs to SAP solutions via supported interfaces
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Full
Functionality
iNet.BI enables a
complete range of SAP BI functionality and provides SAP information
objects as both Business Information (BI) and Business Intelligence
(BI) so .NET platforms and toolsets can be fully leveraged
for Reporting and Analytics. iNet.BI provides Meta Views of
all SAP objects; enables the Microsoft platforms to call and
trigger execution of any type of SAP info Object provider
and have the resulting data returned actionable; .NET and/or
OLAP ready.
Maximum ROI
ERP-Link's iNet.BI provider enables
enterprises to realize those business drivers in a unique,
quickly deployed and most cost effective manner, by re-using
existing SAP info Objects via SSIS/VS plug-ins which enable
rapid discovery of relevant SAP data sets, reducing the cost
to create enhanced BI reports to 1/20th that of past methods.
Total security and data integrity
The iNet BI Service
passes thru of all SAP security conventions in support of
BI scenarios, including SAP Roles & Authorizations, plus
enables additional/alternative security via Active Directory
and .NET Permissions. Further it has full support for ACID
compliant data transmission across distributed systems. |
