With more and more companies worldwide turning into ‘truly global' business organizations, disseminating the right information, to the right person, in the right format, and within the right timeframe, is critical to managing the business effectively.
In addition to streamlining the operations and enhancing productivity, business information is an integral part of all sales, marketing, and technology initiatives that will decide the future direction of the organization.
The technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis and presentation of such business information constitute what is called “Business Intelligence” (BI).

Sparta Consulting is one of the technology leaders who have been consistently adding value to clients in the domain of Business Intelligence.
Our Business Intelligence practice provides Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions in the area of reporting, planning and consolidation, to our clients worldwide.


Our practice is built on three core strengths:

• Comprehensive methodware built on our proprietary tool ‘Sparta workbench' which include methodology tools and accelerators, networking and project management.


• Expertise on tools and services using SAP BW, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and GRC solutions


• World-class practitioners with a perfect blend of business acumen and technical expertise, and who can provide customized, ‘premium' solutions using these tools.

Sparta's unique service offerings span from Strategic Partnership with our clients to Assessments and Roadmaps, implementation of strategic and Business Intelligence solutions, and comprehensive support and management of the Business Intelligence environment.

Advisory Services

Sparta's Advisory Services hand hold clients who are considering setting-up a Business Intelligence environment. Assessing the organization's preparedness for a strategic BI solution is the first step to implementing such a solution.

Sparta's SAP BI workshops and assessments help design BI solutions for organizations that need to convert data - both from within enterprise systems, and external data, to information which will drive significant business value.

Sparta's SAP BI Advisory Services help clients with Strategic Business Intelligence Roadmap and future directions, development of BI front-end Reporting strategy and developing Implementation plan for BI Tools based on the strategies/roadmaps developed. Sparta also offers several customized assessments and workshops, to suit the client's unique requirements.

SAP BI Assessments

• Assessments for organizations having multiple BI solutions
• How to grow from Data Warehousing to Business Intelligence
• SAP BI environment Assessment
• SAP Business Object Implementation Health-check
• SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects Reporting and Data Integration environment Assessment
• Business Intelligence Assessment with roadmaps (4 - 6 weeks)

Implementation Services

Once the organization's preparedness is evaluated, Sparta Consulting's Business Intelligence practice will provide a complete business solution. Our expertise in this area includes:

• Enterprise wide implementations of SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects Suite that includes tools for Enterprise Reporting, Query and Analysis and Enterprise Dashboard solutions
• Data Visualization solutions for all consumers, from operational to executive management using best practice implementation
• Turn Key Implementations
• Proof of Concept or Pilot
• Phased or Full Blown Implementation
• BW as Enterprise Data Warehouse
• Global Implementations and Roll Outs
• Version upgrade [Including DW to BI conversions]
• Integrating SAP BW with BusinessObject tools for enhanced user experience
• Upgrade Services / Performance assessment
• Production support / BAU (On Site, Off Site, Off Shore)
• Staff augmentation with experienced SAP BI consultant/Leads
• Sparta's SAP BPC workshops and assessments that help organizations design planning and/or consolidation solutions for their organizations, which ensures Improved decision making, Reduced cycle time, Minimized business and compliance risk, Streamlined collaboration and Increased user productivity
• Implementation of planning and consolidation solution using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidations
• Enterprise wide Performance Management implementation of Business Objects EPM tools

SAP BPC is a robust planning and consolidation application that can meet all of your budgeting, planning, consolidation, and reporting requirements. Sparta Consulting has been pioneering the implementation of BPC both in Microsoft and Netweaver platforms. Our consultants have several years of functional experience in planning and consolidation complemented with in-depth knowledge of BPC.
Our expertise in reporting adds additional value in the planning and consolidation part of the implementation. Please contact us at sapbi@spartaconsulting.com for details.

Education Services

Effective use of a Business Intelligence environment doesn't end with implementing the right solution. Empowering the end-users of the solution, with the relevant skills required to use it, is what ensures optimum use of the solution.

The key to any successful Business Intelligence implementation is to select the right implementation partner and train their IT and Business users in the tool well. With the depth of training, well defined education methodology and hands-on implementation experience that Sparta has, we feel that Sparta Consulting is the right choice as the training partner for you.

Our value-add:

• BI Strategy & roadmap sessions to educate management
• Maximize return of your IT investment with right training
• Facilitate BI adoption and use among your business users
• Customized training to suite your business needs
• Conducted by consultants with hands on integration experience
• Course material to be customized as per client needs
• Managed by Sparta leadership to ensure quality in each delivery

Sparta believes in providing quality-training and materials that help the participants prepare themselves on SAP reporting tools. Backed by a team of strong technical and academic professionals we offer value based training in terms of enriching the training experience. Our dedicated professionals ensure the most appropriate and cost-effective solution delivered in the given timeframe.

We work closely with our clients to

• Define needs and schedules
• Implement training plans and customized training with customer data and screens
• Reduce the time taken to create course content
• Introduce adult training methodology
• Maximize returns on training budgets
• Ensure the highest quality of instruction

Some of the more popular education series offered include:

Strategic Education Series

• Introduction to Business Intelligence
• SAP BI strategy and roadmaps
• Maximize your current BI investments
• Dashboard to Success
• Introduction to Business Reporting

Tactical Education Series

• Web Intelligence Reports - Basic
• Web Intelligence Reports - Advanced
• Crystal Reports - Basic
• Crystal Reports - Advanced
• Xcelsius Dashboards - Basic
• Xcelsius Dashboards - Advanced
• Administration and Universe Design

Support Services

Once the end-users of the BI solution are trained, what is required for a long-term and sustainable solution is efficient maintenance and support. Sparta Consulting is known for its support services as well, helping complete the loop from assessment, to implementation, to training, and then support, making us an end-to-end, one-stop Business Intelligence Partner.

Depending on your needs, we can offer flexible, SLA-based, shared pool, dedicated resource, and On-Demand options for BI support. Our delivery model is customized to suit BI needs. Our proven ticket management, along with our combination of offshore and onshore services provides you with a cost effective means of supporting your BI application anytime after your go-live date. Our strong competency in all areas of SAP BI and BPC and our robust support methodology embedded in the Sparta BI Methodology Framework tools and templates accelerate the support transition process.

Sparta's Support Offering:

• Functional and Technical BI Production Support
• 24x7 Monitoring Services (BI)
• Proactive ETL support
• Data support with client reporting support
• Help Desk

Key Elements of Sparta's SAP BI Support Services:

• Dedicated SAP BI Support Practice
• Flexible approach: SLA-based, shared pool, dedicated resources & On-Demand
• Flexible model: onsite/offsite/offshore
• Support both Enhancements Projects and Production Support
• Consultants with BI project experience involved in proactive support
• Competency in all areas of SAP BI, BusinessObjects, BPC
• Robust Support/Transition Methodology for setting up production support
• In house tools & templates to accelerate the support/transition process

Sparta BI Methodology Framework is the foundation for our Intellectual Property and tooling. This tool is our guide to success and our consultants use it in collaboration with client-specific methodology to bring maximum benefit to clients. It is a method authoring and configuration environment that facilitates the authoring and customizing of specific methods and the instantiation of a process for a particular engagement. We leverage standard SAP methodologies such as ASAP and RunSAP and add value add through our implementation experience. BI Workbench provides our consultants a single reference point for all client specific customizations to the baselines process.


Sparta BI Methodology Framework extends the process definition by providing an interactive library of guidance and templates to facilitate best practices based, repeatable, high quality, delivery. Baseline project plans, specification documents, checklists are all available to the client team. These templates can be customized to the particular needs of the project combining our experience from many implementations with intimate knowledge of the business.

Sparta BI Methodology Framework also provides a central repository for project artifacts, deliverables, and other work products. Sparta BI Methodology Framework includes a collection of tools that accelerate delivery. Complexity can be visually expressed using SBIMF. Tools such as this assist in the expression of system complexity, accelerate the documentation of the target system, and provide a common framework for analyzing the TO BE system.

Sparta's BI team has been routinely speaking at SAP conferences (Insider, ASUG, TechEd, Sapphire) on BI Trends, Best Practices and Customer case studies.

Sparta also conducts BI related webinars. Please send an email to sapbi@spartaconsulting.com to be added to the next webinar on BI/BPC/GRC

Sparta SAP BI Team has led and delivered numerous projects from Assessment and implementations to Upgrade and SLA based AMS contracts. Here are few examples:

• Currently engaged with multiple customers on SAP BW – BusinessObject integrations
• Delivered a complete BI roadmap for a major utility company in North America
• Delivered many Planning and Legal and Managerial consolidation projects across North America and Europe
• Many data visualization projects using Xcelsius
• Currently engaged with a Media Company to implement a global footprint of SAP BW, BusinessObjects, BPC & GRC
• Recently delivered a successful SAP BI implementation for a Utility company involving the following:
• SAP BI workshop and Assessment – including helping client to develop reporting strategy
• SAP BI based analytics for HCM and EAM Data
• SAP BusinessObject based data visualizations and reporting
• SAP IP based planning applications
• Legacy data migrations
• KPI development and implementations
• Recently delivered a successful SAP BI implementation for a Semiconductor company involving the following:
• SAP BW and BusinessObject integration including data level security and single sign ons
• SAP BusinessObject based data visualizations and reporting
• Onsite/Offshore model team for BI implementation resulting in shorter implementation time
• KPI development and implementation of Dashboards
• Developed a market data analytics for a major US Utility company
• Large volume of market data analysis to help the company make business decisions
• HCM Dash boarding including portal deployment
• Delivered successful BI with BW Accelerator
• SAP BW Accelerator implementation with benchmarked performance improvements of more than 28 times.