To learn more about SAP NetWeaver support for business information management, check out the following information:

IT Practice of Business Information Management

• "Business Activity Monitoring" (PDF, 220 KB) -- Examine how SAP NetWeaver helps you make the right decisions through business-activity monitoring of process integration and business events of non-SAP sources -- and a secure portal unifying enterprise applications, information, and processes from SAP and other sources.
• "Business Information Management with SAP NetWeaver" (PDF, 350 KB) -- Discover how the SAP NetWeaver platform supports business information management, enabling you to turn raw data into actionable intelligence that can help reduce costs, promote innovation, and increase revenue.
• "Creating Applications Easily with Visual Composer Tool" (PDF, 223 KB) -- Read about SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, an affordable, model-driven tool that lets you build applications quickly to streamline business processes and cut development costs.
• "Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysis with SAP NetWeaver" (PDF, 160 KB) -- Learn how SAP NetWeaver, with its complete infrastructure for information management, lets you provide timely and relevant information to all business users -- from executive to operational users, both inside and outside your organization.

Business Intelligence

• "Enhancing Performance for Real-Time Business Intelligence" (PDF, 186 KB) -- Learn more about SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator, a tool that "snaps in" to the SAP NetWeaver platform. Developed in conjunction with Intel, this easy-to-use appliance lets you sort through volumes of information quickly while maintaining high performance levels.
• "Enterprise Business Intelligence ROI" (PDF, 340 KB) -- Examine why the life-time costs of business intelligence can be inordinately high in best-of-breed implementations -- and why a single architecture, from a single vendor, is a very real alternative.
• "Increase Your Business Agility with Open Hub Services" (PDF, 256 KB) -- Examine the open hub services functionality that SAP NetWeaver offers -- a world-class solution for propagating accurate and timely data across an entire enterprise system landscape, increasing flexibility and lowering total cost of ownership.
• "SAP Business Intelligence" (PDF, 191 KB) -- Read how the business intelligence component of SAP NetWeaver offers rich data analyses from diverse sources in formats for target constituents to monitor key success factors and react quickly to market changes.
• "IBM Systems Solution for BI Accelerator from SAP" (PDF, 1.33 MB) -- Examine how SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator helps the SAP NetWeaver BI component deliver faster query processing, along with in-memory processing, smart compression, and search engine-based parallel processing for increased speed, flexibility, and productivity.
• "The HP Solution for the BI Accelerator" (PDF, 281 KB) -- Learn how SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator leverages industry-leading technology specifically designed to boost performance for SAP NetWeaver BI. This capability can be deployed like an appliance to work seamlessly with traditional SAP NetWeaver BI installations.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "Analytic Business Processes: The Third Generation" (PDF, 199 KB) -- Explore emerging analytic business processes that go beyond gathering and analyzing data. Next-generation business processes turn the results of an analysis directly into business decisions via organized procedures. Monash Information Services (2004)
• "BI Applications Benefit From In-Memory Technology Improvements" (PDF, 152 KB) -- Read the complimentary Gartner report on the increasing relevance of in-memory technology for business intelligence. Gartner (2006)
• "Bridging the Planning and Business Performance Gap" (PDF, 303 KB) -- Learn why companies fail to execute their business strategies. You can also see how SAP NetWeaver enables business planning and strategic enterprise management. BI Research (November 2005)
• "Business Intelligence with SAP NetWeaver: Not Just for SAP Shops" (PDF, 379) -- Discover why SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence is a very interesting proposition for any organization, whether it is running SAP applications or not. billinmon.com (July 2005)
• "SAP Business Intelligence Accelerator: A High-Performance Analytic Engine for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence" (PDF, 155 KB) -- Read IDC's evaluation of the role SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator can play in promoting the use of SAP NetWeaver as a platform for business analytics solutions. IDC (October 2005)
• "SAP NetWeaver: A Complete Platform for Large-Scale Business Intelligence" (PDF, 860 KB) -- Review the architectural features of SAP NetWeaver for large-scale data warehousing -- and why the platform can keep pace with the growth in data volumes and the push toward a single version of the truth. Winter Corporation (May 2005)
• "The SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator: Transforming Business Intelligence" (PDF, 1.4 MB) -- Explore how SAP has developed a cost-effective product with integrated hardware and software that offers performance improvements and additional query flexibility for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence. Winter Corporation (2006)