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Turning Data into Decisions:
MIS DecisionWare and SAP BW

Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Data Warehousing: The Foundation for Decision Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Delivering Business Intelligencethrough OLAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Data Marts: Specialized Information for Business Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
MIS DecisionWare Flexible Data Marts for Planning, Reporting and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
MIS Application Server
MIS Front Ends..........................................................6

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MIS Excel Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
MIS onVision

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MIS DeltaMiner
Conclusion.......................................................7

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Introduction

MIS DecisionWare on SAP BW offers the
following benefits:

In turbulent times immediate and direct access to
critical information is key to a company's survival.
In their quest to deliver high quality metrics,
organizations are discovering that there are fewer
and feweremployees at hand who can provide
management with this crucial basis for decisionmaking. At the same time the requirements for
planning and analysis are constantly changing
due to reorganizations, acquisitions and the
volatile market environment.

n Powerful front ends with direct access to SAP
BW
n Data marts derived from SAP BW that can be
modeled by the various business areas
n SAP BWdata warehouse extracts for mobile
deployment on laptops
n Remote process management and data
acquisition for SAP BW based applications
like planning and strategic enterprise
management.

To save time and money, companies will need to
provide business users with easy-to-use solutions
that not only give unrestricted access to all
necessary information but also simply adapt to
changingrequirements.
Such solutions, however, often contradict enterprise-wide IT strategies that aim for an integrated,
consistent data environment. Unregulated
application deployment bears the danger of isolated solution growth on the division or departmental level. Systems will emerge that are neither
easy to integrate nor open to changes.
Even when companies have a powerful database
with integratedanalytic capabilities, meeting
business and IT requirements is no easy job. Many
centrally organized data warehouse projects are
paralyzed by demands like specific analyses,
customized metrics and individual reports that are
to be derived from the joint database. Since suitable tools are not available, the IT department is
flooded with requests and cannot act as quickly
as users expect. Asa result, users begin to loose
acceptance for the data warehouse, and often
turn to the unstructured Excel installations
everybody wanted to avoid at the start of the
data warehouse project.

The flexible data marts of MIS DecisionWare complement the SAP BW
data warehouse.

Data Warehousing: The
Foundation for Decision Support
Back in the 1980's Bill Inmon formulated his idea
of adata warehouse as the central data repository
for decision support. Little did he know how
dramatically information technology would
evolve in the years to follow. Due to the rapid rise
of Internet and web technologies, information as
well as the powerful machines and databases to
process them, quickly were available in overabundance. The data warehouse soon turned into
a "Corporate...