I’m not the SAP BI consultant and I confused by the product name of SAP BI solution stack after SAP purchased BusinessObjects. I didn’t know when I should use BW or BI. Some SAP standard documents also help to cause this confusion. I think SAP should have a link in its official website to clarify all the product names. I also encountered this kind of confusion one year ago when I worked on an SAP ECC E-commerce project. Below is what I found from the Internet to help my audience to have a clear picture of SAP BI solution.
At SAP, we strive to establish clear, concise, and meaningful names for our applications and solutions. We have, however, been known to change our minds on occasion. Case in point: SAP has recently spent time reevaluating the naming conventions for all solutions related to business intelligence (BI).
– From the Director of SAP Business Intelligence at SAP Americas
BI Definition
Read more…
Many people knows SAP because of it’s the world’s largest ERP solution provider. SAP core ERP solution develops from R1, R2, R3 to SAP ERP 6.0. But nowadays, SAP provides more that just ERP solution. Its solutions portfolio covers every corner of an enterprise from business manage solutions to business analytical solutions, from line of business solutions to industry specific solutions. SAP also provides solutions specific for SME which allows small and midsize businesses leverage SAP leading-edge solutions with an affordable price.
I spent several hours by reading SAP official website and help portal and developed a mind map for SAP solutions. I hope this diagram gives you an full picture of SAP solution portfolio. I just put the screenshot for each part of SAP solutions. For the entire picture, please download it from below link.
SAP Business Process & Business Analytics Solutions
Read more…
What is HANA?
SAP HANA is a platform which is a combination of in-memory software and SAP partner hardware, can help you query multiple types of data sources in real time, at speeds and volumes like never before. Blow diagram shows the position of SAP HANA system in the company IT infrastructure. The key component in SAP HANA is IMDB(In-Memory Database).
Read more…
The SAP product names also make users confused. Even senior consultants sometimes might use the obsolete names. When we browser the SCN, help portal, service marketplace, these confused names always make the reader frustrated and wanna know what the hell is going on?
I collected the explanation from internet and summarized them in this post. I hope this can help you to find the correct term to use.
Read more…
