E-book / Control & Simplify an SAP BO platform with {openAudit}
Introduction A Short History of SAP BO Business Intelligence has been around for 30-40 years. Business Objects just celebrated its 35th anniversary (1990). Practically right back to the beginning! The inventors' brilliant idea: to make the data intelligible and put it within reach of the professional. Initially, each company implementing SAP BO has a small number of users, but the platforms are quickly overwhelmed by their success. Business analysts are added to the interface. Complexity, even hypercomplexity, becomes the norm. And trust wanes. The versions (BO 3.0…. 6, XI, XI R3, 4.0,1,2,3…) followed one another over almost 40 years without really changing the initial concept. SAP BO vs. “Market Trends” Businesses want autonomy, want to be able to exploit immense "sandboxes" of data, and obtain instant and reliable answers. We have entered the era of data visualization, self-service BI, and so on. For some time now,...