Customer gains and benefits implementing sap business intelligence 1

Johannes Le Roux

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Johannes Le Roux, Satreno North America (USA)

Customer Gains and Benefits Implementing SAP Business Intelligence

Main Message

• Risk

• Approach

• Customer Gains using Best Practices

• Key Points to Take Home

• Questions

…Key Risks to Successful Integration

• Under estimating BI project complexity• Implementations skills often left to Just In Time • Un-realistic Expectation setting with project teams as well as

with Clients • Historical integration issues may still be seen by client as a

roadblock• Rapid product updates/fixes require regular review/

adjustment of best practices • Not following Best Practices

Risk

Risk

…

Purchasing

Sales

Finance

Manufacturing

Service

Multiple Applications and Tools…

• Reduce visibility and insight

• Reduce alignment and accountability

• Increase IT workloads and costs

Companies Are Facing Significant Challenges

Integration Helps You…

• Streamline processes and workflow

• Share information across the business

• Implement standards and controls

• Total cost

Right tool for the right job

BEx AnalyzerWeb Intelligence (via OLAP Universes)

• Reporting & Analysis

• General interactive reporting

• BW in place

• Target audience: casual business user

• OLAP Cube navigation

• BW in place

• Target audience: analysts

XcelsiusCrystal Reports

• Operational or pixel-perfect reporting

• ERP (ECC)/Business Suite or BW as data source

• Target audience: IT for report authoring / most business users for report consumption

• Dashboards and visualization

• BW in place

• Architecture: Query as a Web universes and/or Live Office

• Target audience: most business users

Risk

Approach

• More formal project approach allows for better change management after impact analysis

• “Waterfall”-like approach reduces assumption of continuously required changes

• SAP’s ASAP Methodology follows “waterfall” and enables such a formal structure

• Incremental approach: assumes continuous changes during implementation

• Continuous refinement after review, continuously changing requirements

• Each change to back-end will invalidate previously built reports

Approach

Identify data elements needed for universe in BEx

Purpose-build the BEx query, bearing in mind BOE supported product features

Consider adding aggregation

Tune the query

If data for a query is not yet in the cube, change the cube to support the required query, universe and reports

Consider whether going directly against an InfoCube or MultiProvider is desirable

requirements gathering

end User interviews

vision, strategy and purpose

visual layout

mockups

navigation

folder structure

Access rights

identify subject areas

define required data elements

evaluate ad-hoc requirements

Prioritize ease-of-use/ maintenance or performance

Develop the BEx query

Test the BEx query

Generate the OLAP universe

Hide inappropriate objects

Test universe

Develop required reports

Develop required dashboards

Test reports

Test dashboards

ReportsDashboards

Universes BEx Queries InfoCubeBEx QueriesUniverses

ReportsDashboards

Universe Design

BEx Query Design

Customer Gains using Best Practices

Integration Helps You…

• Streamline processes and workflow

• Share information across the business

• Implement standards and controls

• Reduce total cost of ownership

• Decision making

• Real-time data on hand


Consider SAP Best Patrice solutions - Get a prototype that you can rapidly turn

into a productive solution

• We at Satreno build a Best Practices solution using SAP Best Practices

• We also defined a accelerated solution based on project we completed and

build our experiences in to our solution.

o This allowed us to have :

Pre-build documentation - Check lists, extended Base line solutions,

etc.

Report with more specific to client requirements

Pre-defined dashboards

QA’s through out project implementation cycle.

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Time Risk

Pragmatic

methodology

Proven

preconfiguration

Extensive

documentation

SAP

Best Practices

Cost

• SAP Best Practices are the

sound foundation for pre-packed ready-to-use business solutions

• SAP Best Practices cover well-proven business scenarios that

help to exploit the potentials of SAP ERP

• Flexible building block technology enables you to

implement and adapt your solution in a very flexible way

• SAP Best Practices packages

• Preconfigured customizing, content, documentation, and templates

SAP ERP

SAP CRMSAP SRM

SAP SCM

SAP PLMSAP …

SAPNetWeaver

BIGRC

SAP …

EPM

SAP BusinessSuite

SAP BusinessObjectssolutions

SAP CarbonImpact

OnDemand

…

On-demandsolutions…

Package

Foundational products

Bill of material:Solution briefScenario overviewBusiness process procedureTechnical content Implementation guide Preconfiguration Master data Forms and templates

Strategic initiatives:SAP Business

All-in-One fast start programSubscription-based hostingBusiness network integrationEmbedded analyticsUser experience

Tools:Lifecycle workbench Solution configurator Solution builder Demo assistant . . .

ASAP Focus methodologyServices


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SAP Best Practices are the foundation for the entire duration of your implementation project

Prototype

QAS

PROD

SAP Best Practices Add-On

Install all scenarios

DEVInstallselected scenarios

• Identify required pre-configuration

• Choose and pick building blocks

• Train the project team

• Knowledge Transfer


…

Work Center Analysis

Dashboard*

Production Analysis*

Production Cost Simulator*

Open Project Status

Dashboard*

Purchasing Group Analysis

Stock Overview

Vendor Comparison

Vendor Fact Sheet

Vendor Analysis

Purchasing Volume

Dashboard*

Vendor Evaluation

Dashboard*

Trade Dashboard *

Inventory Dashboard*

AP Open Items

Controlling Dashboard

Cost Analysis Cost Center

Actual Plan Variance

Cost Analysis Order by

Actual Plan Variance

Financial Statements

GL Statement

Profit/ Loss Analysis*

Credit Memo Analysis

Customer Fact Sheet

Customer Standard Analysis

List of Billing Documents

List of Sales Orders

Material Analysis

New Quotations and Orders

– Values and Numbers

Sales Organization Analysis

Sales Volume Analysis

Sales Dashboard

Sales Plan vs. Actual

Dashboard *

Services AnalysisPurchasing Manufacturing FinancialsServicesSales

List of Personnel Travel

Expense

Travel Behavior Dashboard*

Who is Where?

Projekt Dashboard*

CEO

CEO KPI Overview*

Discounts Lost

from Suppliers

Receivables overdue Order to Ship

Cycle Time

Days Sales Outstanding

Spend managed

strategically

Manufacturing Cycle

Times

Days in Inventory Invoices with unauthorized

Decuctions

SAP Best Practices For Business Intelligence Package Content

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SAP ERP

SBOP Edge Server

SAP BAiOBaseline

Operational DataData Warehouse

Persistency

SAP BP for BW

BO ExplorerWeb Intelligence

Crystal Report Dashboard

Report Instance

CR Report Dashboard

Universes

WebI Report InfoSpaces

Opt. 1: with Live Office

Opt. 2: with Query as a Web Service

EmbeddedDashboard

Dashboard

Opt.3: Web Service

Customer Gains using Best Practices SAP Business All-in-One Analytical Landscape

• A Starter Package with minimal effort for additional infrastructure

• An SME Fit Analytical Package

• SME ready ad-hoc Analytics

SAP BW

Starter KidsSolution Name Built On Availability Sol Type

Starter kit for IFRSSAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5 version for MS Available now

Starter KitSAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5 version for NW Available now

Starter kit for Capital Expenditure

PlanningSAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.0 version for MS Available now Starter Kit

Starter kit for Liquidity Planning SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5 version for NW Available now Starter Kit

Starter kit for Sales Volume

PlanningSAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5 version for NW Available now Starter Kit

SAP BusinessObjects Sales and

Operations Planning SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5 version for NW Available now

Rapid

Deployment

Solutions*

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and

Consolidation for Healthcare

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.0 version for MS Available now Analytic

ApplicationSAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5 version for MS Short Term


Consolidation for Financial Services

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.0 version for MS Available NowAnalytic



Consolidation for Government

Budgeting (UK)

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.0 version for MS Available nowAnalytic



Consolidation for LATAM Public

Sector

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5 version for MS Short TermAnalytic

Application


Consolidation for Insurance

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5 version for MS

and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5 version for

NW

Short TermAnalytic

Application


SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Application

Financial reporting and analysis• Ad hoc

• Production reporting (Balance Sheet, P&L, cash flow)

• Driver analysis

Forecasting and consensus building• Rolling forecasts

• Continuous planning

• Collaboration

Business planning• Budgeting

• Sales/revenue planning

• Capital expenditure planning

• Headcount/staffing

• Expense planning

• Cash flow planning

Consolidation• Intercompany matching/reconciliation

• Intercompany eliminations

• Management roll-ups

• Legal consolidation



The BI functionality in SAP helps you realize:• Increased visibility by providing access to information across all

business areas• Greater insight by analyzing the impact of different business

scenarios• Improved alignment and accountability by implementing

standards and controls across the business• Higher productivity by providing rich functionality through

intuitive and interactive Interfaces• Faster ROI by utilizing best practices for business analysis• Lower cost of ownership by implementing

Key take-aways

• Focus on total solution vs. single functionality

• Use Best Practices as a references

• Use Best Practices implementation and support tools

• Use Best Practices architecture as a references

• No need to reinvent the wheel…..

• Make sure you know you strategy and solution requirement in advance before you start your implementation

• Make sure you have a path to continue extending your software as your organization grows and matures.

• Provide comprehensive training allow a good user experience.

• Make sure you are confidence what software you buy from SAP will fit your solution

Questions

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Johannes Le Roux

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