Open Information Warehouse: Intelligent

The SAP information systems assure intelligent, efficient monitoring and control of critical success factors at your company. They are all based on the SAP Open Information Warehouse.

The Open Information Warehouse collects data from both SAP applications and external systems and tailors the display to meet the specific requirements of production and controlling staff and of company management. This results in new opportunities for decentralized "self-controlling" at user department level. SAP has implemented this logical enhancement to core controlling functions in its Logistics Information System (LIS) for sales, purchasing, production, plant maintenance, and quality management; in the Financial Information System (FIS) for customers and vendors; and in the Human Resources Information System (HIS).

Retaining a clear central overview is not always easy when distributing controlling tasks to smaller areas of responsibility. SAP's Executive Information System (EIS) lets you easily link information about critical success factors from different organizational areas and from external sources (e.g. market data), even if this data originates from different systems in different locations (R/3, R/2, non-SAP applications, etc.).

Open Information Warehouse Highlights in 3.0
*	Flexible reporting and analysis tools
*	Uniformly automated information flow between the transaction, operative, and strategic information systems
*	Integration of data from external applications
*	Decentralized self-controlling integrated with centralized enterprise controlling
*	R/2 connection to the R/3 Open Information Warehouse