Business Intelligence at Avnet, Inc'

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Business Intelligence at Avnet, Inc.

• By Aura Cabrera

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Avnet, Inc.

• Avnet, Inc. is based in Phoenix, Arizona
• They operate several divisions and sells
  different products lines as a wholesale
  distributor of electronic components.
• Over the past 10 years, Avnet, Inc. has grown
  gravely.
• Developed an application called OLAP.

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OLAP

• The term stands for On-Line Analytical
  Processing.
• OLAP was developed to make possible financial
  managers to drill down into the financial data.
• OLAP application was too time consuming.

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• Then, the company decided to obtain the SAP
  product called Business Information Warehouse
  (SAP BW).

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Results

• Now, they can create a very rich reporting
  environment, and help users to drill down all
  types of underlying details.