Analyzing and Planning Data

The Enterprise Data Warehouse offers various methods for analyzing consolidated enterprise data. Analyzing data provides valuable information for your company's decision makers.

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is used to acquire information from large amounts of operative and historical data. SAP NetWeaver BW's OLAP Processor makes it possible to perforrm multi-dimensional analyses from various business perspectives. BEx Query Designer allows you to parameterize Online Analytical Processing by defining queries.

You can use BW Integrated Planning to create planning applications. This can be used for various applications, ranging from simple, manual data entry to complex planning scenarios. For modeling, use Planning Modeler.

Data Mining helps you to research and identify contexts in your data that might not otherwise be apparent. Analysis Process Designer is the workbench required for creating, executing and monitoring analysis processes.

For business users, BW workspaces provide a location where local and central BW data can be combined for special analyses.