Audio Conference: Extending Reporting Throughout Your SAP Environment

Topics:

• When and where you should seek third party BI tools to extend your BW/BEx reporting capabilities
• The impact on BW ROI and user satisfaction
• The IT skills, staffing and support needed
• Best practices in uniting SAP and non-SAP data
• How Cognos ReportNet™ provides the breadth of reporting to deliver any report to any user

Discussion Questions

SAP BW penetration

• What is NetWeaver and how does SAP BW fit into it?
• How broadly deployed is SAP BW now in North America and in Europe? What is the trend - what accounts for the growth rate?
• What are some of the benefits and challenges that organizations that have deployed BW are seeing?
• Is SAP BW the only data warehouse in most organizations that have SAP BW? What strategy should organizations take in a mixed environment where SAP is not their only source of corporate information?

Third Party BI as a Compliment to BW

• When and where should organizations seek third party BI tools to extend beyond the reporting capabilities of BW/BEx?
• What architectural considerations should organizations make in deploying BW & third party BI tools?
• What are some of the best practices in uniting SAP and non-SAP data?
• What impact do 3rd party BI tools have on BW ROI and user satisfaction?

Skills, Staffing & Support

• What are the required skills, staffing and support in a BW & 3rd party BI implementation?
• What elements of the implementation are typically better suited to a 3rd party partner like Deloitte?

Cognos and SAP BW

• How does Cognos compliment a BW implementation?
• Can you provide examples where SAP customers are gaining advantage with Cognos BI?