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Foreword
Foreword from David Hafford Data warehousing provides a strategic advantage and clarity of vision to enterprises. The user's level of understanding the available analysis and decision-support tools can make or break a data warehouse implementation. Many organizations are committing considerable human and financial resources to building and using data warehouses. The ability to use knowledge discovery and information access toolssuch as multidimensional queries, decision-support tools, spreadsheets, web-enabled business decision applications and graphical analysis toolsenables organizations to view information through previously undiscovered dimensions. These tools can broaden the organization's overall awareness. SAP offers the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) software to accommodate rapid access to high-quality information. To make the best use of the software, the user community needs the appropriate educational tools for effective knowledge transfer. The educational tools should allow knowledge workers and IT organizations to quickly take advantage of the software's capabilities. As per the recommendations of ASUG, SAP's Simplification Group created the SAP BW Reporting Made Easy guidebook, providing step-by-step instructions covering the Business Explorer, the frontend tool of SAP BW. Many organizations design Business Information Warehouse user roles as casual users, analysts and power users. The SAP BW Reporting Made Easy guidebook takes the same approach in presenting information at the appropriate level for each type of user. The book provides both basic and advanced information on the Business Explorer frontend tool and topics on specialized functions of SAP BW. We look forward to getting more such up-to-date educational tools from SAP. DAVID HAFFORD ASUG Chairperson Business Information and Analysis Foreword from Klaus Kreplin Information is the most important business asset of the twenty-first century. But how can your company leverage this intangible asset "information" to increase employee productivity and create value for the customer? How can you make sure that your daily decisions and your company strategy are based on the right information? SAP's philosophy from the beginning has been that business decisions must be made in the right context. In the Business Intelligence arena, the right context means delivering the right information to the right decision makers at the right time. Since its first release, SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) has shipped with Business Content preconfigured, industry-specific extractors, key performance indicators (KPIs), and queries. This approach not only leads to a rapid return on investment for the customer, but by focusing all analysis on business processes, it also helps the user to interpret quantitative information the right way. With mySAP Business Intelligence (mySAP BI), SAP takes the concept of context on the next level. In addition to the management and analysis of structured information with SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), mySAP BI integrates unstructured information into the decision-making process. On the basis of both structured and unstructured information, SAP BW enables the company to plan and simulate alternative scenarios and measure the performance of the corporation. All information is deployed through the mySAP Workplace, a role-based and personalized enterprise portal. The support of mobile devices with mySAP BI ensures that end users can access business information anytime and anywhere. Together, all key functional areas of mySAP BI provide the right business context for decisionsthus leveraging all relevant information for the success of the company. The structure of this book reflects the role-based approach of mySAP Business Intelligence. By offering examples and scenarios for the casual, analytical, and power users within a company, the guidebook takes the specific requirements of these groups into account. Enjoy reading this guidebook, and may you benefit from the business value of working with SAP Business Information Warehouse. KLAUS KREPLIN Senior Vice President
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