Business Information Warehouse

General Benefits of BW

• Flexible business analysis and reporting
  
• Easy access to all enterprise information
  
• Combination of data from different systems(incl. historical data)
  
• Include external data - e.g. Marketshare
  
• Combine different SAP modules(e.g. to build KPIs such as profit by employee…
  
• Avoid double data maintenance
  
• Data harmonization
  
• Use of Attributes(e.g. address data for customers)
  
• Improved system performance -> BW is constructed for data read only
  
• Business Know-how is built in
  
• Data management tool
  
• Designed for large data volumes
  
• Single-point-of-entry
  
• Single-point-of-administration
  
• Easy to maintain
  
• Cut down number of ABAP reports
  
• R/3 Extractors
  
• Relief of R/3-System and IT-Organisation
  

Business Information Warehouse

Customer Relationship Management

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Integrated Enterprise Solutions

Strategic Enterprise Management