White Papers

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies

Thought Leadership
Ready to move beyond spreadsheets? Find out how to recognize the signs your company needs business intelligence (BI) solution and what you should look for in a solution and a vendor. Learn more about BI components and approaches to implementing a BI solution to improve your company’s efficiency and effectiveness.

Financial Asset Management for Insurance Companies

Solution Briefs
Discover how the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio of solutions can help insurance companies optimize financial portfolio management. Learn how you can use the solutions to gain the transparency, flexibility, and efficiency needed to plan and manage your investments for maximum return and minimum risk.

Interactive Dashboards for Decision Makers

 Product Brief
Read how SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis, desktop edition, provides timely access to critical business information for anyone in your organization who needs to make decisions. The software lets business professionals view standard reports, analyze data, perform ad hoc queries, and create new interactive reports.

Data Migration

The SAP® BusinessObjects™ xi solutions integrate SAP BusinessObjects products

and the crystal Reports® software onto a single platform, so you can consolidate and standardize your business intelligence (Bi) deployment and lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) with reduced system maintenance, hardware, enduser training, and support costs.

A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Retail Banking Topic - Data Migration for Project Leaders Mike Ferguson

This paper by Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. He defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in retail banking and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.

A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Insurance Topic - Data Migration for Project Leaders Mike Ferguson

Mike Ferguson looks at the importance of reliable data to the insurance industry, focusing on the impact of poor data. He discusses how an enterprise data quality approach can help get you back control of your data.

A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Manufacturing Topic - Data Migration for Project Leaders By Mike Ferguson

This white paper by Mike Ferguson from Intelligent Business Strategies explores how reliable, trusted data can contribute significantly towards reducing unnecessary operational costs, avoiding customer dissatisfaction and cash flow problems for manufacturing companies.

The Application of Business Intelligence to Facilitate Decision Making in the Consumer Products Industry

This white paper provides an overview of the decision-making advantages provided by analytics and business intelligence. Learn about the benefits that a prebuilt analytic application can provide to strengthen decision-making organization-wide

Improving Bank Performance Overcoming Common Planning-Related Obstacles 

This white paper reveals how many common planning-related obstacles in the banking industry can be overcome with robust analytic and predictive applications built with the financial sector in mind. Inside, learn how this approach can provide better visibility for increased performance

Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies—Improving Your Company’s Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size  

Find out how to recognize the signs your company needs a business intelligence solution and what you should look for in a vendor. Learn more about BI components and approaches to implementing a solution to improve your company’s efficiency and effectiveness

Business Objects XI 3.0

Introducing Business Objects XI 3.0

Business Objects White Paper - Cover image BusinessObjects XI 3.0 is the latest major release of the BI product suite from Business Objects, an SAP company. Building on the BusinessObjects XI platform, BusinessObjects XI 3.0 delivers the industry's most connected, interactive, and open BI solution for any organisation. Designed to shed light on your business problems, BusinessObjects XI 3.0 provides substantial functional improvements and innovations across the BusinessObjects suite.

This "What's New" document provides a high-level overview of the capabilities of BusinessObjects XI 3.0.

All Information, All People, One Platform - Confronting the Gap Between Strategy and Execution

Business Objects White Paper - Cover image Almost all organisations around the world are confronted with the same fundamental business pain - the disconnect between the world of making decisions and the world of executing them. Research from organisations such as the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative indicates that as many as nine out of 10 organisations fail to execute their strategies today. This gap between strategy and execution keeps organisations from optimising business performance.

XI Editions

Business Objects White Paper - Cover image BusinessObjects Enterprise XI from Business Objects, an SAP company, is the most flexible and scalable business intelligence (BI) platform that makes it easy for everyone to discover and share insight for optimal decision-making. Built on a service-oriented architecture, it offers the most extensive set of tools on a single platform and allows IT departments to extend BI to any application or process in any environment.

Two BusinessObjects Enterprise XI editions are available to address your specific requirements: Professional and Premium. This document describes the differences between these editions so you can decide which is most appropriate for your BI deployment.

The Most Flexible and Scalable BI Platform

Business Objects White Paper - Cover image To deliver the decision-making insight needed by everyone inside your organization, your IT department must have flexible means of sharing and making available business intelligence (BI) content. Business Objects, an SAP company, allows your organization to provide intelligent information to anyone - from the CEO to business analysts, to field-based staff, to suppliers and partners. BusinessObjects Enterprise XI is the most flexible and scalable BI platform that makes it easy for everyone to discover and share insight for optimal decision-making. Built on a service-oriented architecture, it offers the most extensive set of tools on a single platform and allows IT departments to extend BI to any application or process in any environment.

Optimizing Performance with SAP BusinessObjects Solutions

Solution in Detail Find out how the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio of solutions helps provide clarity for your business in its strategy and execution. Your organization can achieve strategic alignment, gain predictable performance, and make confident decisions regardless of the underlying applications.

Achieve Remarkable Results with SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions

Solution Briefs
  Discover how SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions can help you achieve remarkable results by giving everyone in your company the means to be highly effective. The solutions provide self-service access to critical information, so your people can achieve new insights, make better decisions, and act boldly like never before.

Explore Your Business at the Speed of Thought

Solution Briefs
Learn about the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer solution: a singular, unified offering that combines intuitive information search and exploration functionality with high performance and scalability. Now, all users can employ familiar business terms to find relevant information that lies hidden in both SAP and non-SAP data source.

Crystal Reports Serve: A Functional Overview

Function in Detail  
Get the details about a complete reporting solution that helps small businesses and midsize companies create, manage, and deliver reports via the Web or from within enterprise applications. Crystal Reports Server 2008, part of SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions, addresses the entire reporting process.

Data Warehousing

Understanding the Data Warehousing Strategically

This white paper discusses the relationship between data warehousing, and strategy and strategic thinking. As background, business application types and data architecture are also discussed.

Data Warehousing - An Executive Perspective.docx

A data warehouse is a computer system designed to give business decision makers instant access to information. The warehouse copies its data from existing systems like order entry, general ledger, human resources and stores it for use by executives rather than programmers. Data warehouse users use special software that allows them to create and access information when they need it, as opposed to a reporting schedule defined by the information systems (IS) department.

Enterprise Data Warehouse Strategy - Articulating the Vision

A weak strategic plan for an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) environment can result in untold millions being wasted in rework. That does not even include lost opportunity to increase bottom-line dollars to an organization via incisive analytics and reporting. While frightening, the good news is that projects can be planned and implemented in a judicious manner that will deliver results with speed and certainty. The typical EDW initiative is driven by the business need for organizations to compete at a global level. This requires data standardization, data conformance and data sharing. An EDW sets the foundation for sharing data across the enterprise in a controlled and managed environment.

Data Quality

Three Critical Steps to Improving Product Data Quality Topic – Data Quality & Governance By Jim Harris

This white paper describes a general approach for planning your organization's efforts to improve data quality, providing a data-example-driven perspective of some of the unique challenges of product data quality, as well as discuss and demonstrate three critical steps to improving product data quality.

Master Data Management (MDM)

Data Quality and the Bottom Line Topic – Master Data Management – Challenges to Success TDWI

This report is from TDWI's 2002 series on data quality, compiled based on interviews with industry experts, customers and survey data, and examines the costs of data quality problems.

Data Integration: Using ETL, EAI, and EII Tools to Create an Integrated Enterprise Topic – Master Data Management – Challenges to Success TDWI

This report from TDWI's evaluates the recent evolution of data integration tools and methodologies.

Data Integration

Data Integration – Moving beyond ETL

With large amounts of data generated every day, it’s not surprising that organizations can become overwhelmed by the task of managing it. Whether they have created their own disparate data stores over the years or inherited information through mergers or acquisitions, business frequently struggle to find reliable, consistent ways to move & manipulate data. As a result, their data becomes too disorganized & unwieldy to be of any business use.

Case Studies

FBN Bank

For the rapidly growing business of FBN Bank, UK, they need faster , more scalable and easy adoptability for the change in business dynamics. All these business requirements will be easily catered with SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 advance features. From Friendly analytic generation to mass content distribution with respective security on data , everything is bundled in single solution giving Bank more flexible, scalable and Fit-For-Future solution.

Mahindra & Mahindra

The Mahindra Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered at Mahindra Towers in Mumbai, India, with operations in over 100 countries across the globe. The group has a presence in aerospace, agribusiness, aftermarket, automotive, components, construction equipment, defense, energy, farm equipment, finance and insurance, industrial equipment, information technology, leisure and hospitality, logistics, real estate, retail, and two wheelers. It is considered to be one of the most reputable Indian industrial houses with market leadership in utility vehicles as well as tractors in India.

Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd

Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd (formerly known as Goodlass Nerolac Paints Ltd) is largest in industrial paint and second largest decorative paint company based in Mumbai. It is a subsidiary of Kansai Nerolac paints, JAPAN. It is engaged in the industrial, automotive and powder coating business. It develops and supplies paint systems used on the finishing lines of electrical components, cycle, and material handling equipments, bus bodies, containers and furniture industries.

Value Documents

Fast Moving Consumer Group (FMCG)

The purpose of this document is to brief about FMCG sector by listing important KPIs that are monitored in a FMCG company across various department/Functions. This document also talks about general user hierarchy, IT Setup & general BI Implementation approach.

Banking

Retail banking is the fastest growing segment in the banking industry. Across the globe, Retail banking business has been high volume and low value business proposition. The most basic retail banking services include savings accounts, Current/checking accounts and Fixed Deposits. From Lending perspective disbursing Home Loans, Auto Loans, Credit Cards, Personal Loans are the basic services proved by the bank.

Insurance

Document contains information regarding how business intelligence can be applied to insurance industry in order to improve overall performance.

Security

Document contains information regarding how business intelligence can be applied to a Security industry in order to improve overall performance.