Business Intelligence Solutions

You've made a strategic decision to run your business on SAP. Now, you need to gain insight from your data to make timely, accurate decisions and to securely share and collaborate on that data. How do you get a holistic view of your business when your data resides in multiple places on SAP and non-SAP sources? And how do your teams get access to the information they need when the tools provided are difficult to use?

Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) provides easy-to-use, certified access to SAP data to help you make better, more informed decisions. With Microsoft BI, you can use the familiar tools in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and the 2007 Microsoft Office system environment to create, analyze, and share your own reports and BI dashboards from all sources.

Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, teams across your organization can collaborate on information coming from both the SAP and Microsoft environments to ensure everyone is on the same page when it comes to analyzing results and making critical business decisions.

And if you're coming to SAP from Business Objects, you'll have confidence in extending your work against SQL Server 2005, as well as Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, to ensure that your employees can get the most out of both environments in an integrated fashion.

Finally, our strategic relationship with SAP has gone commercial with the launch of Duet, our jointly developed product that allows you to easily and quickly interact with your SAP and Microsoft Office environments. For more information on Duet, visit the Duet for Microsoft Office and SAP page.

For more information on our relationship with SAP, visit the Microsoft | SAP Customer Information Center.

• Webcast: SQL Server 2008 for SAP Customers
  Thursday, June 12, 2008—9:30 AM Pacific Time
  
  Find out what will be delivered to SAP customers in Microsoft SQL Server 2008, including compression, minimal logging, parallelism improvements, and query-handling enhancements. Join us to learn how upgrading or migrating to SQL Server 2008 can result in multiple improvements for your SAP implementations.
• White paper: Integrating Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SAP
  Learn about the innovations in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that make interoperability with SAP easier than ever.
• White paper: Integrating the SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog and SAP Enterprise for Search
  Find out how you can use the innovations in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to make searching with SAP Enterprise easier than ever.
• White paper: Integrating the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog with SAP NetWeaver
  Learn how to use the innovations in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to interoperate with SAP NetWeaver smoothly.
• White paper: Configure Office SharePoint Server for SAP iView Web Parts
  Learn how to use the integration between SAP and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using SAP iView Web Parts to display SAP data in SharePoint sites.
• TDWI Research Report: Business Intelligence Solutions for SAP
  This report is designed for technical executives who wish to understand the many options that are available today for building or buying a BI solution for an SAP-centric organization. The report includes a summary of vendors and products that enable BI for SAP applications and data.
• Reporting on SAP Business Information Warehouse
  Gain business insight and report on data within your SAP Business Information Warehouse through Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, the first XMLA-based reporting platform to be certified by SAP.
• Using Reporting Services with SAP NetWeaver BI
  Learn tips and tricks that can help you make the most of the integration between these two products.

• Koehler Paper
  German paper manufacturer supports ad hoc queries against information centralized from Microsoft Access applications.
• Linklaters
  Linklaters wanted all its partners and managers to be able to analyze business performance faster and more effectively. With Microsoft BI, employees can now view reports of the rich data contained within the company's SAP system.