Expert SAP BI Consulting services driven by GrayMatter’s Competency Center
Expert SAP BI Consulting services driven by GrayMatter’s Competency Center

GrayMatter’s SAP BI Consulting Services Journey
GrayMatter’s SAP BI Consulting Services have been successfully delivered in several global engagements to customers across verticals including Retail, Electronics, Manufacturing, IT, Airports & Infrastructure. These projects include SAP BI Consulting Services work done across data integration, data warehousing, dashboarding, reporting, self-service analytics, predictive analytics, migration and more, with the entire range of tools namely SAP BW, SAP BODS, SAP HANA, SAP Design Studio, Lumira, SAP Dashboards, WebI, Crystal Reports and SAP PA. GrayMatter’s excellent capabilities in SAP BI tools coupled with deep industry-specific domain knowledge, makes us the vendor of choice for SAP BI Consulting Services & Implementation.
SAP Analytics Cloud Capabilities
Make better and faster decisions in your enterprise with SAP Analytics Cloud. We bring in the following capabilities using SAC:
- Integration with SAP and non-SAP transactional and analytical systems including SAP BW, SAP HANA, SQL Server, OData, Salesforce, Google drive, Excel and many more
- Enhanced planning and predictive capabilities
- SAC Stories – Enabling business users without programming knowledge to create Self Service Dashboards (SAC Stories)
- Enterprise Dashboards with advanced features using Analytics Designer
- Customized Boardroom solutions for your business OR for your key clients
- Enterprise-wide Collaboration enabling democratization of business insights
Snapshot from a recent Multi-Country SAC rollout
GrayMatter has implemented complex multi-country SAC engagements successfully. Following is a snapshot from a recent engagement:
- Reporting and analysis needed to be done on data merged from two business lines, with transactional data residing in 2 separate SAP ECC instances
- As-is reporting and analysis was being done using SAP BW and Bex queries for one system and using IBM Cognos for the other
- GrayMatter’s team of experts integrated the data from the 2 ECC systems on to a single platform using SAP BODS for data integration and SQL for the data warehouse
- Subsequently data is pushed from this unified platform on to SAC for analytics, multiple cubes have been built in SAC
- The unified platform provides a single source of truth with consistent reporting ensured by data governance and master data management
- The business users are currently using the system to generate insightful, mobile responsive, self-service SAC stories. Enterprise dashboards are planned for forthcoming releases
- The system is replete with role based access and authorization
Our SAP BI Consulting Services

Consulting
- Tool & technology selection advisory e.g., WebI V/s Crystal, BW v/s BW on HANA
- Optimal sizing for SAP BI system to ensure high performance at low TCO
- System health check in terms of gaps in architecture, development, deployment and also whether adoption is in line with SAP BI roadmap
- Performance tuning including changes in data model, environment config settings, optimizing queries, using alternative toolsets, using load balancers

Implementation
- Data warehousing services using SAP BW, SAP BW on HANA
Data integration including Big data and unstructured data
Dashboarding with the help of SAP Business Objects BI 4.2 including SAP Design Studio, SAP Dashboards
- Reporting with the help of SAP Business Objects BI 4.2 including WebI, Crystal Reports, Analysis for Office

Production Support
- 24*7 production support
- SLA based response and resolution
- Remote teams that can be ramped up/down based on needs
- Upgrade BO patches, deployment of minor and major releases, enhancements
- Monitor system & data loads
- Publish daily , weekly , monthly ticket metrics , SLA compliance reports and incident reports

Upgrade & Migration
- Migration from other platforms to SAP BI
- Migration of SAP Design Studio 1.x applications to SAP Lumira 2.0
- Migration of SAP Dashboards to SAP Design Studio
- Upgrade from lower versions to SAP BI 4.2

Embedded SAP BO Services
- Custom components for SAP Design Studio
- Address visualization enhancement needs like KPI indicators, metrics comparison, enriched slice & dice
- Extensions to elevate collaboration features in dashboards

Training
- Structured training program with hands-on assignments
- Coverage includes Crystal Reports, WebI, Analysis for Office, SAP Design Studio, SAP Dashboards, SAP Lumira 2.0, SAP PA
End To End Coverage
SAP BW Offerings
SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) provides a BI platform equipped with a suite of tools to deliver data warehousing, analysis, and reporting to empower management decision making.
GrayMatter provides end-to-end services covering
- Greenfield implementation of SAP BW, Upgrade & Migration to 7.4
- Integration with SAP HANA in various configurations
- Realization of Real-Time, Mobile, Agile and Self-Service BI
SAP HANA Offerings
As an evangelist of In-Memory Computing and the latest trends in BI, GrayMatter has adopted a market-leading approach in helping enterprises assess, plan and integrate HANA into their BI architecture.
We bring prior hands-on and in-depth expertise in this space, and can guide your HANA initiatives end-to-end covering strategy, consulting, licensing, implementation, reporting, performance optimization and support.
SAP BusinessObjects
GrayMatter’s expertise in SAP BusinessObjects is truly end-to-end, covering installation, administration, Universe design, reporting & visualizations. Specific capabilities include
- Toolsets: Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Analysis for Office, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Lumira
- Integration: With SAP BW, SAP ECC, SAP HANA, SAP BusinessObjects Cloud
- Business Imperatives: Mobile BI, Self-Service & Real-Time BI
SAP Lumira 2.2 Offerings
SAP Lumira Designer Services
With SAP Lumira Designer dashboards becoming mainstream, executives now have access to an enterprise-class, scalable, and high-performance platform that renders rich and powerful visualizations.
SAP Lumira Discovery Services
Among the tools in the SAP BI portfolio, SAP Lumira Discovery is the only tool that can handle all the five aspects of Self Service BI – covering data acquisition, preparation, visualization, exploration & collaboration.
Solution Snapshots
GrayMatter’s SAP journey has evolved over the past decade and spans the entire gamut of SAP BI technologies & tools. Being an SAP partner, we are cognizant of the constant innovation that the product roadmap involves and strive to provide compelling business value from incremental or new features e.g., the latest SAP Lumira 2.0. GrayMatter believes in delivering true ROI to each of its customers with the help of cutting-edge SAP BI solutions
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