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A High-Tech Company Enhances Decision-Making with Power BI and SAP Data
A leading high-tech company has improved its decision making process by working with HSO to integrating Power BI with their SAP data. This combination has enhanced business intelligence and reduced costs via customized reports and a future-proof data architecture.
Imagine your organization is investing heavily in a new ERP system, but you're struggling with a lack of insights, business intelligence, and reports. That's where our client, an international high-tech services company found themselves. The organization was not only looking to solve the immediate problem, but also prepare the company for a data-driven future and unlock cost savings.
That's why they partnered with HSO and Microsoft. This services organization, specializing in RF technology, has enhanced its operations by integrating their SAP core with Power BI. This connection supports quick and easy access to key business insights and reports through a self-service, mobile-friendly business intelligence environment. As an added benefit, this solution also significantly reduced the need for SAP ABAP consultants and saved on licensing costs.
Lots of valuable data, but no way to harness insights?
When HSO got involved with this organization, the SAP implementation was already in full swing. The client was confronted with the realization that after their SAP go-live, their business insights would be limited to the standard SAP reports. After investigating options with their SAP partner for additional custom reports, the company chose to work with HSO and Microsoft to create best practice reports in Power BI so they could control costs and realize value quickly.
New dashboards built on a tight deadline, with cost savings
We accepted the challenge... We created custom SAP HANA Studio views for all tables required for the Power BI reports. Through a simple gateway connection, we could access the data from an on-premise SAP server, which Power BI ran on. After one month, all best practice reports in Power BI based on the SAP data were delivered.
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Going beyond the standard
After the SAP core and standard reports were live, HSO worked with the organization to tailor the new best practice reports to the company's exact requirements. HSO experts listened closely to the needs of the business while also offering suggestions based on our decades of industry and domain expertise. In the end, the joint team established clearly-defined scope documents that exactly met the company's expectations.
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Quick, clear reports for global insights
In addition to the rapid availability of clear insights and reports, this high-tech services company also gains other advantages from Power BI and HSO's support. Mobile BI keeps the management team up-to-date worldwide, which is especially which is especially helpful for precise and efficient meeting preparations in foreign factories.
A future-proof data architecture
Now that the standard reports in SAP and the best practice reports in Power BI are both running, the company can rely on quick insights thanks to their comprehensive, accurate reports and dashboards leveraging their SAP data.
Looking down the road, this high-tech services organization looks to invest further in their data architecture in order to gain insights into trends, from historical data, and more. Fortunately, HSO has worked with them to develop a plan to continue their data platform maturity journey with minimal disruption to the business or the newly-built best practices reports.
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