Many companies choose to use Qlik Sense integrated with SAP BusinessOne to easily turn data into information. The most common usage scenarios of Qlik Sense integrated with SAP BusinessOne are customers that have grown significantly in recent years and for which standard ERP business analytics capabilities are no longer sufficient. These are companies that have reached a level of operational complexity (very large volume of products sold, a large number of transactions, groups of legal entities, etc.) and want to obtain additional value from the data recorded in the ERP system.
Unlike ERP systems, which include reporting capabilities but are essentially designed for general business management, Qlik Sense is an associative business intelligence platform created specifically for data analysis. When launched, Qlik significantly changed the way business information is used and viewed.
Why integrate Qlik Sense with SAP BusinessOne?
SAP BusinessOne has a powerful reporting module focusing more on current data, real-time situations, and less on historical and comparative analyses. On the other hand, Qlik Sense uses the same data recorded in SAP BusinessOne, but offers superior data aggregation capabilities (including from multiple sources) and, in particular, a much easier and more intuitive way to analyze and view. In Qlik Sense, data is much easier to gather, correlate, and assemble into a report, while granularity is high. The reports are dynamic thanks to the drill-down features allowing you to scroll through the data and investigate in detail a certain situation. You can go step by step to understand exactly the analyzed situation and you can view from multiple perspectives: sales, customers, agents, products, trade margins, percentage indicators or gross values, etc. Everything is much easier to get than if you only worked in ERP, where you need to run more reports, compile different data sets, which takes longer and involves more work.
Why do we recommend integrating Qlik Sense with SAP Business One? Because getting the data needed to support business decisions puts a lot of pressure on financial departments, even if there are people dedicated in those roles. The role of people in financial management is to consume information, not to waste time collecting data and creating reports. The raw data exists in the ERP system, but Qlik Sense processes it more intelligently and gives it value more easily, and the activity of the people who deal with report generation and managerial analyzes will be considerably simplified. Also, the time required for the delivery of the required management documents will be significantly shorter. Moreover, decision makers will have direct access to the platform to analyze the data themselves (self-service BI) and draw the necessary conclusions.
Other benefits
Another important reason for using Qlik Sense is the easy aggregation of data for groups of companies. SAP Business One provides the multi-company work platform, but it is much easier in Qlik to process information both in a merged manner and separately so that you can compare the situation of each legal entity in the group, without losing the big picture. Moreover, Qlik Sense can consolidate data from multiple sources, not just the ERP system. Aggregation and correlation of data from ERP, CRM, WMS using Qlik obviously create a much more solid basis for analysis.
Qlik also offers a major advantage to companies that change the ERP system and choose SAP BusinessOne, but also want to use historical data stored in the previous system. Qlik Sense facilitates the easy merging of the two databases and the creation of large-scale reports over extended historical periods. The action is simple, without manual processing, and the results are consistent.
Qlik Sense deployment
We advise customers interested in the implementation and use of Qlik Sense to first ensure that the ERP system has reached its maturity, that is the processes are stable and the accumulated data is consistent. If they have reached this stage, the implementation of a dedicated Business Intelligence system is the next step, and the results will be surprising. It is not the turnover that is relevant, but rather the operational complexity.
We have more than 10 years of experience in implementing Qlik products integrated with SAP Business One, but also with other ERP systems, and the results have always been satisfactory. Qlik Sense is the new generation of the Qlik View business analytics platform, with a new architecture and multiple functionalities based on Artificial Intelligence and which has become, over time, the main choice of the interested parties. Qlik Sense is usually available as a monthly subscription only, both in the cloud and on-premise for customers who want 100% control or flexibility.
If you are interested in using Qlik Sense, independently or integrated with SAP Business One or another ERP system, please contact us on any of our communication channels.