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SAP Web Intelligence Overview

   Web Intelligence is part of SAP Business Objects product suite and is used for analytical and ad hoc reporting to meet an organization’s business requirements. Web Intelligence is a Business Intelligence reporting tool for business users to analyze data in Data Warehouse. It assists business managers in the decision-making process for building future strategies.
   Using Web Intelligence, business users can create basic, medium, and complex reports from transactional data in database and by creating Universes using Information Design Tool IDT/UDT.         Various SAP and non-SAP data sources can be used to create reports in Web Intelligence. SAP Business Warehouse (BW) system doesn’t require a Universe to connect to Web Intelligence tool.
   Web Intelligence tool can work as a client tool of BusinessObjects platform and also as a standalone tool for reporting.

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