The purpose of business intelligence is to gather and summarise the data that companies produce in the course of their business processes, to create analyses and to support the decision-making process. Business intelligence products include tools with which data can be extracted from source environments, processed, stored and reported.
SAP NetWeaver BW is a solution in which data can be extracted and stored from different SAP and non-SAP source systems, and the stored information can be reported through different front ends. Thanks to advanced ETL tools (UD Connect, DB Connect) and flat-file loading, data can be summarised, cleansed and standardised.
Users can prepare their queries with the drag-and-drop "Query Designer" and create fast, visual, remotely accessible reports through BEx Analyzer (Excel) or web reporting. Thanks to the advanced OLAP engine, reporting is delivered with high performance.