Every Angle in the SAP landscape

Every Angle is a solution for Operational Business Intelligence on top of SAP. It is virtually always used in combination with SAP BI (BW). It clearly has its own place in the SAP-landscape between the SAP ERP and de Reporting and Analytics functions from SAP BI (BW).

SAP BI (BW) and Every Angle

SAP BI (BW) and Every Angle complement each other perfectly. If you look at the SAP landscape within your company, from top till bottom, SAP BI (BW) contains management information with aggregated (condensed) data on the history.  But this data is often (according to SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka) “so summary and so aggregate, that you can’t dive into the details”.

Every Angle is in the SAP-landscape placed just under SAP BI (BW). It’s a software solution for operations management which requires detailed information on what is happening here and now. Every Angle is for instance within customer companies like DSM, Heineken and Coats used by employees on the execution side (for improving actions), by process experts (for analyzing), by managers (for operational KPI’s) and the top management (for strategic KPI’s).

ABAP, SE16, Excel and Z-report replaced by Every Angle

Typically within companies there are many types of ‘self made’ Operational BI solutions in use. People need the information to do their jobs properly, so they combine Excel, SE16 and a lot of Z-reporst to find answers to their business questions. It’s questionable if these self made BI-solutions are manageable, maintainable, secure, reliable and scalable. Not to mention the question if you want to be dependent on just a few persons in your organization who are very experienced with those kinds of software tools.

Powerful analyses out of SAP makes Operational BI easy Its speed and flexibility makes Every Angle an excellent solution to create powerful analyses and create instant answers to a wide range of ad-hoc questions. Every Angle also enables you to create business content overviews and analyses which are difficult or impossible to generate within business intelligence systems such as SAP BI (BW). Every Angle can be used to provide this type of business content to a business intelligence system. And as a final step, this BI-system can convert information such as historic trend information on bottlenecks in the processes into standard management reports.

Every Angle focuses on Performance Management execution The SAP transaction system (R/3 or ECC), we like to say the best transaction system in the world, often forms the backbone of automation and corporate processes. Additional systems, some of which use NetWeaver technology and philosophy, can be used on top of that. Every Angle focuses on the central link of the preparation, execution and evaluation chain: execution. And because of this focus, it takes up a very useful, complementary position within several company processes, like the one of planning, transaction and evaluation.