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This year (2014) was an amazing year for German football fans as their national team won the World Cup 2014 title. A few days later, I received a subscription e-mail from SAP with the title How SAP helped Germany win the World Cup. It was very interesting for me to know how. As SAP is one of the leading IT companies in the world, it was not clear to me how IT can help a sports team or even a football team to win a title or a medal. You can have a look at the e-mail body in the following screenshot:

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So it is all about Business Intelligence (BI). Now, we can see BI participating in almost every single aspect of our life, even in sports. SAP ...

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