2016 - Advancing and Survival Tips to SAP BI Consultants!

Breaking into the SAP Business Intelligence and Analytics Career is a pretty big deal and surviving to evolve successfully in this career is not a joke. Over the years, SAP BI has become one of the prominent and widely used business suits for various business intelligence and analytics purposes. Whereas the tremendous advancement in the database technology and other innovations in the industry left you with no option but to become smart enough to adapt these changes. In this blog, we’re gonna discuss the noteworthy changes in the database technology and effective tips to survive BI career in the year of 2016.

Increased Possibilities with S/4

The widespread reach and demand for business Suites powered by SAP HANA has given rise to SAP BW HANA (Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA). This hybrid is smartly integrated with analytics by SAP S/4 HANA. This attempt to combine analytics and transactional processes resulted in a drastic increase in new possibilities.

 There is no doubt about the need for SAP BI consultant to achieve fluency on using this advanced-breed analytics and business suite in order to meet the business challenges with real-time analytics, historical data analysis and aggregated reports with SAP HANA S/4

 Smart and Simplified tools

Being an SAP professional, you must’ve probably witnessed the existence and proposals on the simplification of tools, SAP BI professionals got to be ready to expect more reduction in tools and consolidated investments that save time and tide.

Are there any chances for an erosion of the demand for SAP BI Suites?

There could prophesy and rumors on the extinction of SAP BW and data warehouses. But according to experts, the demand and need for SAP business suites and data warehouses cannot be brought down as the need for integrating data from different sources and process huge volumes of historical data is on the rise every minute in this world.

Expertise with Hadoop, SAP HANA Vora, SAP HANA Data Warehouse Foundations

 Considering two facts that SAP has officially confirmed the deliverance of cloud-based solutions and the increase in the demand by the big businesses to integrate Big Data and Business Intelligence solutions, time has come for SAP BI Consultants to learn how to dig deep into concepts like ‘Hadoop Integrations’, ‘SAP HANA Vora’ and ‘Data Warehouse Foundations of SAP HANA’. In order to survive in the field of SAP Business Intelligence, the experts have advised the professionals to take these advice as important measures to advance in career.

Explore the tools that fit BI Architecture now and in the future.

There is an alarming need for BI consultants to hold on to some effective self-exploratory tools like SAP Lumira. The business intelligence world would definitely consider a BI consultant an outdated professional, in terms of inadequate expertise on SAP Lumira or any other equivalent. With the help of using such self-exploratory tools, an SAP BI consultant can offer a productive and effective advice to customers in terms of incorporating new solutions, trends, and tools.

Focus and Technology Perseverance

One can be assured of new technology advancements and changes in the IT industry. SAP BI can’t be the bolt from the blue to escape this fact. Thus, being persistent to technology changes and adapting to more efficient advancements will remain one of the crucial tips to survive BI career now and in future!