BI Platform 

Purpose

The Business Intelligence platform serves as a technological infrastructure and offers various analytical technologies and functions.

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) provides information preparation for large amounts of operative and historical data. The OLAP processor enables multi-dimensional analyses from various business perspectives.

The Metadata Repository enables you to display information on the metadata objects from the BI system in the running system or to use it independent of BI system operation. 

With Business Planning and Simulation (BW-BPS), you create planning applications. The areas of application range from simple, manual data entry to complex planning scenarios.

Special analysis processes such as Data Mining can be achieved using the Analysis Process Designer (APD). Using an analysis process , information can be combined in the BW system in order to create new information. This new information can be obtained using analytical processes, such as data mining methods or simpler, customer-specific calculations and transformations.

The Reporting Agent is a tool used to schedule reporting functions in the background.