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September 22nd, 2010

SAP Crystal Solutions

Optimize Decisions with BI

Solutions

Takin Babaei

Product Marketing Manager

SAP

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1. The Need for Business Intelligence

2. Introducing SAP Crystal Solutions

3. Real-time and self-serve data access for business users

3.1. SAP Crystal Dashboard Design (formerly known as Xcelsius)

3.2. SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis

4. Q&A

Agenda

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Despite Massive IT Investment…

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…Information is Not Reaching Decision

Makers

Base: 675 US and European business executives and managersSource: BusinessWeek Research

Services

Gut Feel Decisions

All of the time

75% of the time

50% of the time

25% of the time

Never

Aware of bad

decisions

managers have

made due to

insufficient

information

“Gut Feel” used by

>60% of people,

>50% of the time

Information available for important business decisions

Always just the

right amount (rare)

Usually too much

41% 22%

38%

Usually

too little 77% 23%

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Why? The Information Bottleneck

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Solutions that anyone can use

Tools to meet any individual’s needs—from developers, to analysts, to executives

Solutions that are easy to afford and easy to buy

Flexible licensing and product choices to meet your needs

Solutions that can grow as your organization grows

Easily add more tools or move to more complex solutions as your needs grow

Quick Facts The most widely used BI solutions

40,000+ customers, millions of users

2,000+ channel partners

1,000+ consulting/training professionals worldwide

Broad industry presence

Enabling people in any size organization to discover and share

insight for optimal performance

Introducing SAP Crystal Solutions

Simple, Affordable, Open

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SAP Crystal Solutions

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Automation of gathering, aggregating, and presenting information.

Visualization of information leading to quicker assimilation.

Connectivity to the most recent data from a live data source: one version of

the truth.

Navigation and filtering of information using intuitive, interactive controls.

User Adoption by end users who previously did not interface directly with BI

tools.

What-if analysis or calculators.

How Does SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

Help?

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How it Works?

SLIDE 9

Development Time Run Time

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Editions

SLIDE 10

SAP Crystal

Presentation

Design

SAP Crystal

Dashboard

Design

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

Starter package

SAP Crystal

Dashboard Design

Dashboard

Viewing option

Basic data presentation components

Export to Adobe PDF and Microsoft

Office

Dashboard creation components and

export to Web and Adobe Flash, AIR

Live data connections to external

sources0 2 Unlimited

Connectivity to Adobe LiveCycle

Data Services

IBM WebSphere, MSFT SharePoint

and Reporting Services integration

Crystal Reports Server connectivity

and platform integration

Viewing rights for dashboards

connected to live data sources

Free till

Dec 31

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Real-time data access with SAP

Crystal Dashboard Design

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1. The Need for Business Intelligence

2. Introducing SAP Crystal Solutions

3. Real-time and self-serve data access for business users

3.1. SAP Crystal Dashboard Design (formerly known as Xcelsius)

3.2. SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis

4. Q&A

Agenda

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Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Week 36 Sum:

CANADA $6,520 $0 $7,177 ($215) $13,482

USA $0 $925 ($325) $0 $600

Sum: $6,520 $925 $6,853 ($215) $14,082

Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Week 36 Sum:

AUSTRIA $7,977 $5,020 $14,154 $135,819 $162,970

BELGIUM $37,400 $3,268 $652 $67,649 $108,970

FINLAND $26,900 ($942) $82,496 $927 $109,382

FRANCE $348,578 $103,584 $82,865 $604,564 $1,139,592

GERMANY $101,928 $15,808 $27,717 $62,801 $208,254

GREECE $4,016 $0 $0 $13,906 $17,922

IRELAND ($15,440) ($18,086) ($25,773) $13,383 ($45,916)

ITALY $241,768 $35,360 $55,314 $234,039 $566,481

Netherlands $772,809 $1,327,823 $615,374 $2,218,805 $4,934,812

SCANDANAVIA $73,834 $20,494 $0 $161,329 $255,657

SPAIN $125,537 $27,367 $10,897 $24,471 $188,272

SWITZERLAND $51,780 $470 $6,342 $13,558 $72,151

Sum: $1,777,089 $1,520,167 $870,039 $3,551,252 $7,718,547

Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Week 36 Sum:

AUSTRALIA $67,868 $157,804 $293,777 $21,426 $540,876

CHINA $183,640 $411,200 $247,081 $192,843 $1,034,764

INDIA $49,952 $65,933 $362,804 $209,715 $688,404

INDONESIA ($1,421) $0 $58,659 $9,069 $66,307

JAPAN $3,106,291 $1,681,869 $1,999,174 $3,192,541 $9,979,875

PHILIPPINES $0 $0 $16,653 $28,875 $45,528

THAILAND $2,246 $7,329 $25,929 $18,539 $54,042

Sum: $3,408,576 $2,324,136 $3,004,077 $3,673,008 $12,409,797

Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Week 36 Sum:

ARGENTINA $4,720 $1,964 $3,489 ($3,489) $6,684

Americas

Overall Product Sales through Week 36

North America

Europe

ASIAPAC

$39

$40

$169

$0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120 $140 $160 $180

Millions

Widgets

Thingamabobs

Doohickees

The Need for Self-service Information

“How can I visualize the

regional sales over each week?”

“How do products compare against

each other in my region?”

“What are the top 5 Europe

countries in terms of Widget

sales?”

“I just want to highlight above average

sales before I print”

“I want to get rid of the noise

of other regions and just

show Europe.”

“I want to compare Europe

versus other regions”

FROM ONE DAY TO THE NEXT, USERS MAY NEED TO ANSWER

ANY OF A DOZEN BASIC BUSINESS QUESTIONS HIDDEN

INSIDE ANY GIVEN REPORT

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Introducing SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis,

Desktop Edition

Business user -friendly data access

Analyze any data, anywhere

Frame your own view of the

business

Interactive analysis, online or offline

Manipulate data in an almost

unlimited number of ways

Trust your data

Key benefits

Answer any business questions,

anytime

Simple, Fast, Self-Service Data

Access

Advance your knowledge of your

business.

Powerful, Multiple Data Source

Analysis

Guide your organization to

success.

Trusted, Sharable Insight

Solution highlights

SAP Crystal Interactive Analysis, desktop edition, is a simple, powerful

ad hoc query and analysis tool that delivers trusted answers to

spontaneous and iterative business questions

495USD/479EUR/680AUD

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How it Works?

Metadata layer

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Self-serve data access with SAP

Crystal Interactive Analysis

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