Chapter 3. Reporting and Analysis: Getting Ready for Growth
The main benefit of an integrated solution is better information to support crucial business decisions. Simply obtaining information may improve the way your business operates. For example, if your employees know that their Internet browsing activity is tracked, the quality of the sites they visit will improve. The same applies to your business system. In this chapter, we will see the key aspects of a reporting strategy. As part of that, we will touch upon all of the features in the SAP Business ONE application that are relevant for reporting. In the process, the following areas will be covered:
Reporting architecture and its forward-looking vision - How does it fit in? I will explain the key role reporting plays within your SAP solution.
Real-time reporting - The information in SAP is real time. What does this mean for your reporting strategy? We will look at how information can be categorized in SAP.
BI - What is BI? We will look...