Key Challenges
- Encountered challenges related to the costly licensing, high maintenance, and support expenses associated with SAP BO.
- The client faced issues with limited data visualization capabilities and self-service abilities.
- Due to the substantial amount of data processed by our client, the loading time for their existing SAP BO reports was high and experienced significant delays.
- Business operations suffered when the team had to spend too much time waiting for reports to load.
Solution
- Assessed the existing landscape and gathered information about the existing SAP business objects and data landscape Using surveys, auditing, and consultation.
- Identified areas where technical enhancements and process efficiencies can be implemented.
- Analyzed the assets that are not only highly utilized but also in great demand within the business to draw up a migration plan from BusinessObjects to Power BI and prioritized the design and development phases of the migration based on the most valuable outputs during earlier stages of development.
- Establishing guidelines, policies, and standards for the brand-new business intelligence setting
- Designed and developed robust Power BI data models, reports, and dashboards that effectively meet the unique business requirements.
- Implemented a tabular model with Azure Analysis Services (AAS) in order to facilitate expedient and effective reporting within Power BI.
- After deployment, we monitored its usage and addressed any potential performance issues.
- Employed an eLearning program to train internal employees on the usage of Power BI.
Benefits
- 45% elevation in user experience with interactive UI, collaborative, and social BI is the solution.
- 25–30% savings on licensing costs
- Enhanced decision-making capabilities through the utilization of self-service analytics.
- Significant reduction of report run time by 90%
