With mobile solutions becoming more requested in the IT world, Business Intelligence is no different. This thesis examines and tests the mobile solutions for Microsoft BI, QlikView and SAP Business Objects to see if it can be used by the Sandvik Group. The tests have consisted of creating standard simple reports for the different platforms, evaluate them and then compare their functions and looks on iPad and computers. During this work it has been stated that all platforms supports mobility quite well and the recommendation is to start using it as soon as possible.

Master’s thesis proposes a solution of data and communication model in the ŽOS Trnava, a.s. and GOŠA FŠV. Thesis proposes model for customer, which generates reports for individual management areas.

Business Intelligence platforms contain many detailed tools with overlapping functionality. The primary aim of this thesis is to compare two BI platforms from leaders in the market - IBM Cognos BI (version 10) and SAP Business Objects (version 3.1). This comparison emphasises their practical usefulness in both ad hoc and standard reporting. In the first theoretical chapter there is a definition of basic terms and a brief description of the BI solution. In the following two chapters there are detailed descriptions of IBM Cognos BI and SAP Business Objects platforms including the most important tools. The theoretical part of this thesis is based mostly on documentation. The practical part of this thesis defines criteria for the evaluation of BI platforms. Following this chapter is the main comparison based mostly on my practical experience with each tool and experience from a migration project from IBM Cognos to SAP BO. Workarounds are described in some cases to compensate for missing functionality. The results this thesis are evaluation criteria as well as a description and comparison of both platforms. The merit of this thesis is an identification of problematic functionality present in BI solutions from the points of view of new development, implementation and migration.

Diploma thesis deals with comparison of commercial and Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools. The main aim of the thesis is to provide a list of BI reporting tools and their further comparison. Evaluation is based on a set of criteria. Every criterium has its assigned value that represents the importance of the criterium in a given group. The same procedure is applied on the groups. The final evaluation is based on defined values of these groups. The output of the thesis is a table structured into five parts according to defined groups of criteria. The second part of the thesis walks the reader through the practical showcase of implementation one of the selected tools that is SAP Business Objects Enterprise 4.0. At the beginning, there is a description of report proposal that contains graphical design and functionality requirements. Next part shows the whole process in detail.

The diploma thesis is focused on dashboards analysis and distribution and theirs implementation afterwards in SAP Dashboards and Web Intelligence tools. The main goal of this thesis is an analysis of dashboards for different area of company management according to chosen of architecture solution. Another goal of diploma thesis is to take into account the principles of dashboards within the company and it deals with indicator comparison as well. The author further defines data life cycle within Business Intelligence and deals with the decomposition of particular dashboard types in theoretical part. At the end of theory, it is included an important chapter from point of view data quality, data quality process and data quality improvement and an using of SAP Best Practices and KBA as well for BI tools published by SAP. The implementation of dashboards should be back up theoretical part. Implementation is divided into 3 chapters according to selected architecture, using multisource systems, SAP Infosets/Query and using Data Warehouse or Data Mart as an architecture solution for reporting purposes. The deep implementing section should be help reader to make his own opinion to different architecture, but especially difference in used BI tools within SAP Business Objects. At the end of each section regarding architecture and its solution, there are defined pros and cons.