SAP BI: An Overview

BI as the name suggests Business combined with intelligence.




Now a days we are able to include systems much like our collegues doing our work with more accuracy and reliability.It is a system which actually carries business information in an arranged manner so that Higher management people can react and act on it or take a good decision for their bussiness.

SAP made this technology for analyzing data warehousing and for reporting requirements of any organization

SAP launched BI as a technology many years back and it was known as BW or SAP Business Warehouse which actually means the data warehouse covering all the useful data.

Today it is replace by another more meaninful term called as SAP BI or SAP Business Intelligence.


The most common daily used a major transaction in SAP BI is RSA1 which is for Administrator workbench and in the previous versions(SAP BW) too we have RSA1 but now in SAP BI it is replaced by RSA1OLD transaction code.


We can do intgration with multliple satellite systems (other systems connected to SAP BI systems acting as a datasource e.g ECC) and can pull the data for

1. · Transforming it more better refined queries as per need. 
2. · Consolidate it for reporting
3. · Clean the unnecessary or unwanted data that may not be required for our reporting

In addition we can do planning and simulation other than Analyzing.With the help of business planning and simulation technique we can check if plan for manufacturing or production required or other requirement.

BI also uses Online Analytical Processing(OLAP) which is basically used for informational reports carrying bulk of operational and historical data.Remember it is all the transactional data reporting. The OLAP processor is also capable of allowing multi-dimensional analyses according to various business requirements.

Hope this is much for an overview will explore more latter.