What is SAP’s future offering for the data warehouse?
• SAP NetWeaver BI provides a complete BI solution including a sophisticated modeling environment, industrial strengths for data provisioning and dissemination, and an enterprise-ready solution for handling business intelligence. SAP NetWeaver BI thus offers an efficient approach for dealing with BI, giving enterprises the opportunity to standadrize on one technology that runs their transactional and information environment. • But there are still a number of pain points for the customer. The main ones are: • How can the costs for BI be cut while maintaining a competitive edge? • Standardization provides an option for cost cutting but seems to require compromises in capabilities as no BI vendor covers the entire process. • How can broader user acceptance of Business Intelligence be achieved? • While BI tools have become more user friendly, complex data models and user interfaces still alienate our user base. • How can more resources be freed for innovation projects? • Facing an ever inc
