SAP BW/BI Strategy

Hi All,
My company uses Webi & Bex Analyzer. We have known integration issues i.e not being able to merge Universe. Our BW was partially built and we also have agile customer where requirements are keeping changing.
Now we want to access/recommend on what BI reporting/tool we should be doing/built and also assess whether our architecture/ data model for BW is adequate.
Can anyone please give me some insights/strategy on this, like what all things we need to do and how to proceed.
Thanks for your help & time here
Sonya

Hi,
you mentioned that you have issues like merging Universe. Could you elaborate as there is no functionality like merging Universes.
If you are trying to evaluate what the right tool is I would suggest you start with understanding what the requirements of your consumers are.
regards
Ingo Hilgefort

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