Welcome Clients, Industry Professionals and Friends!
Thank you for your continued support of Data Management Group. We hope this newsletter finds you having a successful 2006. In this edition of the SAP Report, we take a look at Investing in Efficiency. We've found that many times clients have concerns about the cost of implementing a business intelligence solution while struggling with the knowledge that the solution will most likely save money three-fold. By decreasing man hours creating reports, streamlining business processes, and allowing strategic business decisions to be made faster and with more accuracy based on up-to-date information, companies are able to realize ROI on their SAP investment. Please enjoy the newsletter and as always, don't hesitate to contact us with questions or comments.

Keith Boyer, Founder/COO, Data Management Group



Don't Shoot the Report Writer
For the past 10 to 15 years or so, the BI industry has been conceived and built around one basic premise: to empower business users by reducing or eliminating their dependence upon IT resources to access the information necessary to understand and operate their business. In short, to help make end users self-sufficient and self-servicing. One of the primary solutions to spring out of this was of course the whole concept of the data warehouse/data mart.
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The ABC's of BEX
SAP's Business Explorer (BEx), is the front end reporting agent for its SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW). BEx provides an organized interface where users may build reports of data that lies in the BW. Users may leverage several interfaces to get to their data, among them are the Web or Microsoft Excel. Further, the BEx reporting tool allows different views of data in an array of combinations; hierarchies, calculations, restrictions, conditions, and exceptions.
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