Ananth Technologies

Forging innovative results through technologies

SAP Business Intelligence (BI)

With fluctuating global market demands, varying costs, competition, etc enterprises are compelled to
find business solutions quickly in order to survive and thrive. BI is the set of technologies and practices
used to help an organization acquire a better analysis and understanding of the overall business and
market state through in depth analysis of corporate data. BI through its multi dimensional
representation of relevant organizational data presents the appropriate context for management to aid
in their critical decision making.

Ananth offers BI services to integrate both structured and unstructured and heterogeneous data and
support decision making by ensuring that this collated data is delivered at the right time, to the right
person in the right format. Developed applications support reporting, OLAP, analytics, data mining,
business performance management, benchmarks, text mining, and predictive analytics.

BI Competencies

BI Strategic Assessment SAP BI Implementation Services

Ananth investigates and analyses the
enterprise’s business intelligence needs,
performs a gap analysis, reviews the options
available and ultimately makes a
recommendation on the optimum roadmap to
deliver your BI requirements.
SAP BI Technology Assessment
Utilizing Ananth's broad knowledge of SAP BI
and the general BI market the service enables
enterprises to determine the best-fit SAP BI
solution for their enterprise needs.
Ananth provides full life-cycle services capability
from scope definition, to architecture, design,
development, go-live and application support.
SAP BI User Adoption Services
Low end-user adoption of Business Intelligence
solutions constrains the enterprise’s ability to
gain the maximum benefit from investment. The
deliverable is a tailored program that provides
training, knowledge and support to enable
increased competency and understanding in the
end-user community. Typical benefits include
reduced IT support costs and increased
productivity of information consumers.

BI Implementation Services

Ananth’s SAP BI practice provides data warehousing solutions that allow your enterprise to instantly
create and deploy graphical, interactive reports and applications for all user types at every
organizational level. Ananth’s BI implementation services portfolio include:

 Data Modeling, Extraction and Reporting  Crystal Reporting

 Performance Management  Xcelsius for Dashboards
 SAP Integrated Planning  BI integrations with BO, Oracle BI (OBIEE),
 SAP Analytics - Modeling with Visual Composer Microsoft BI (MSBI), SharePoint.

Key Engagements
SAP BI implementation for a Pharma Major
The enterprise challenges included:
 Tracking over-head costs for financial
managers
 Need to facilitate management and
production departments by analyzing shop
floor activities with forecasts,
 Setting up ability to track variances and
overheads in production and manufacturing,
 Designing additional reporting to help
managers interpret quality and performance
with forecasts using rich analytic capabilities.
Ananth implemented a comprehensive SAP BI
solution for production planning and overhead
cost controlling. Data extraction was sourced
from SAP R/3 PP and FI/CO modules and
reported for variance analysis and overhead cost
controlling as well as ETL objects and process
chains to extract data (daily/ weekly).
Ananth SAP Offerings
Implementation
End to end Implementation. Competencies in
HCM, FI/CO, Logistics, BI and CRM
 Rollouts
 System and Data Migration
 Testing
 System Integration (using SAP Net Weaver)
Upgrade Services
 Upgrade Assessment and Deployment
Sustenance Services
 Functional and Technical Support
 Maintenance
 Independent SAP Audit & Validation Services
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Other Services
 Custom Application Development
 Testing
 Performance Engineering
Ananth Technologies
Forging innovative results through technologies
Implementation of SAP BI for an MNC
In order to gain economies of scale from its
operations, the MNC established a global supply
chain organization to look at its strategic
planning process and embarked on an
information strategy to provide end-to-end
“visibility” into its supply chain as it related to
the strategic capacity planning process.
Ananth SAP BI solution provided an enterprise-
wide set of robust Extract, Transformation and
Load (ETL) as well as data quality capabilities in
order to standardize, consolidate and align the
data from both the numerous non-SAP data
sources as well as the SAP data sources.
In addition, the BusinssObjects Metadata
management capabilities allow data lineage
analysis to be performed.
About Ananth
Ananth Technologies, an AS 9100B & ISO
9001:2000 certified firm has been serving the
IT business and technical needs of its Global
1000 clientele since 1992. Ananth is a
certified SAP Channel Partner.
Based both in US and India, Ananth has a
global presence with a workforce of over 750.
Our varied clientele are leaders in the areas of
Aerospace, Mining, Pharma, Higher Education,
Public Sector, Manufacturing and Health care.
Ananth is the global technology partner with
a single-minded passion: dedicating its
systems expertise to transform your business.
US HQ India HQ
4340 Stevens Creek Blvd Ananth Info Park
Suite 185 HITEC City,
San Jose, CA 95129 Hyderabad, India
www.ananthtech.com