ERP & Business

Intelligence

Presented by:-
Neeraj Upadhyay &
Neha
 ERP – General Concepts

What is ERP?
Why ERP?
 Definition
 Expectations
 What ?
• ERP is a solution, which

• Facilitates company-wide integrated information

systems, covering all functional areas

• Performs core Corporate activities and increases

customer service augmenting Corporate Image
 Why ?
• For Management – to know what is happening in the
company
• One solution for better Management
• For cycle time reduction
• To achieve cost control & low working capital
• To cope with latest technologies
• To shun the geographical gaps
• To satisfy the customers with high expectations
• To be Competitive & for survival
 Definition

“ Software solution that addresses the Enterprise

needs, taking a process view of the overall
organization to meet the goals, by tightly
integrating all functions and under a common
software platform”
 ERP – Expectations

• Integrating all the functions

• Integrating the systems running in all the locations

• Transparency of information using a single data source

across the organization

• Software must be responsive

• Modular
• Flexible
• Easy to add functionalities
• Provide growth path
Business Intelligence
 What ?
• Business Intelligence (BI) is about getting the
right information, to the right decision makers, at
the right time.
• BI is an enterprise-wide platform that supports
reporting, analysis and decision making.
• BI leads to:
• fact-based decision making
• “single version of the truth”
• BI includes reporting and analytics.
 Why BI?
The Five Questions…

• What happened? Past

• What is happening?
• Why did it happen? Present
• What will happen?
• What do I want to happen?
Future

Data
ERP CRM SCM

9
 Common Pain Points...
• Data everywhere, information no where
• Different users have different needs
• Excel versus PDF
• Pull versus push
• On demand – on schedule
• Your format – my format
• Takes too long – wasted resources/efforts
• Security
• Technical “mumbo jumbo” … Why I just can’t
get it to you when you want it.
 Definition

“skills, technologies, applications and

practices used to help a business acquire a
better understanding of its commercial
context.”

“Business intelligence may also refer to the

collected information itself.”
Common functions of business intelligence
technologies are:

• Reporting,
• OLAP,
• Data mining,
• Business performance management,
• Benchmarking,
• Text mining, and
• Predictive analytics
Relationship
 Introduction
“It is said that the power of ERP can be enhanced
to provide even grater value through the addition
of powerful business intelligence system”
Together they help in:-
• Demand forecasting
• Production planning
• Product design
• Retailing
• CRM etc…
 Relations are,
Coming together of ERP and BI is similar to bringing two
critical sides of an important business coin together i.e.

1. Getting data in is as important as getting data out

2. Because the resulting information of streamlined business

processes needs to be leveraged to drive competitive
differentiation, operational efficiency, and improved
profitability

3. The crux is to deliver ERP and BI in tandem to help and

fulfill the end vision to encourage user acceptance
 Conclusion

So maybe the best way to start an ERP

conversation is with a consolidated dashboard
that visualizes an organizations key
metrics……