IBM and SAP – Business Analytics and Infrastructure for SAP

Information may be power—but if it's wrong or you have too much, it can leave you powerless. Let IBM and SAP help you quickly turn data into insights you can use.

Data overload. Disjointed sources. Limited analysis tools. When you have to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, these challenges can inhibit success. If your corporation is facing these issues, the key to success is strengthening your information infrastructure to support better business analytics.

IBM Consulting Services for SAP Analytics
IBM can integrate and optimize the required software, servers, storage and networks to help strengthen your information infrastructure so you can deliver timely, security-rich and trusted information throughout your organization—and to your customers and partners. In addition, IBM can help you build an information infrastructure that is geared around the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio:

Information management—improve information accuracy from all sources through enhanced data integration, data quality, master data management, and data warehousing.
Business intelligence—enhance your ability to explore, identify and analyze opportunities and trends through advanced queries, reporting and analysis using navigation tools, dashboards and visualization.
Enterprise performance management—monitor your business performance to improve decision-making through better strategy management; budget planning and consolidation; forecasting; profitability and cash management; and spend and supply chain management.
Governance, risk and compliance—create enterprise-wide processes and internal controls to effectively govern your organization, manage risks and achieve regulatory compliance objectives in a cost-effective manner.

IBM Global Business Services (GBS) provides leading consulting services for Business Analytics with SAP, such as Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC), Cash Management, Integrated Risk Management, and Ready-to-Launch solutions.

Business Analytics Infrastructure for SAP
IBM can help you optimize your information infrastructure to support your SAP applications by focusing on:

Compliance—define and implement policies and processes to help ensure information is accurate, reliable, complete, traceable and retrievable by authorized users.
Availability—build systems for easy access to critical information when and where it’s needed to improve employee productivity, increase client satisfaction and boost your bottom line.
Retention—establish a clear policy that defines which information should be retained, for how long and how it should be protected.
Security—enable security-rich business collaboration with anytime, anywhere access, while also protecting confidentiality and privacy.

IBM offers a wide range of solutions to help strengthen your business analytics infrastructure:

Assessing where you stand

IBM offers a unique combination of experience and proven methodologies to help strengthen your information infrastructure, but where do you start?
Business Analytics Quickstart for SAP (PDF, 464KB)

This offering provides an in-depth analysis of your current capabilities, and helps you identify areas for improvement, build a plan for moving forward and prepare for organizational change.