I. Case Study Title & Introduction Case Study Title: US Army Project Manager Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS) Program Review Dashboard. Introduction: The purpose of this project is to develop a digital dashboard to provide all the needed transparency for Material Change Programs (MCP) currently executed within PM CAS utilizing an existing SAP landscape at Picatinny Arsenal. This landscape provides both the needed infrastructure and raw data required construct the visualization. II. Project Details: Project Background: This project will amalgamate existing SAP financial and project management data to provide an easy to use format to standardize and support program reviews within the PM and IPT execution. There are currently reports that provide detailed financial postings that include authority, obligations, disbursements, expenses, hours etc but do not provide a management style viewpoint. As a consequence, data is transcribed from these reports into MS PowerPoint presentations to conduct program reviews with various audiences. Project Goals: The project goals were to use a COTS product to provide needed visibility into the status of PM CAS executed programs and to deliver results within an existing portal context. In addition, explore emerging User Interface and modeling tools. In this particular instance, SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Enhancement Pack 2, Support Pack 5 was utilized. SAP AG 2006, SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer – Modelling Flexible Applications / Carsten Bönnen / 4 Dead Line: The application development and fielding to a production SAP NetWeaver portal has been completed within the deadline. III. Problem Analysis: Problems Faced: One of the challenges in producing the data visualization was the lack of referential metadata from the source financials data mart upon which the dashboard relies on for data. In order to solve the challenge, a Maintenance application was developed that allowed the business user to associate projects to programs, thus making the application self-sustaining from a data selection prospective.
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I. Case Study Title & Introduction
Case Study Title: US Army Project Manager Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS) Program Review Dashboard. Introduction: The purpose of this project is to develop a digital dashboard to provide all the needed transparency for Material Change Programs (MCP) currently executed within PM CAS utilizing an existing SAP landscape at Picatinny Arsenal. This landscape provides both the needed infrastructure and raw data required construct the visualization.
II. Project Details: Project Background: This project will amalgamate existing SAP financial and project management data to provide an easy to use format to standardize and support program reviews within the PM and IPT execution. There are currently reports that provide detailed financial postings that include authority, obligations, disbursements, expenses, hours etc but do not provide a management style viewpoint. As a consequence, data is transcribed from these reports into MS PowerPoint presentations to conduct program reviews with various audiences. Project Goals: The project goals were to use a COTS product to provide needed visibility into the status of PM CAS executed programs and to deliver results within an existing portal context. In addition, explore emerging User Interface and modeling tools. In this particular instance, SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Enhancement Pack 2, Support Pack 5 was utilized.
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Dead Line: The application development and fielding to a production SAP NetWeaver portal has been completed within the deadline.
III. Problem Analysis: Problems Faced: One of the challenges in producing the data visualization was the lack of referential metadata from the source financials data mart upon which the dashboard relies on for data. In order to solve the challenge, a Maintenance application was developed that allowed the business user to associate projects to programs, thus making the application self-sustaining from a data selection prospective.
IV. Recommended Solution Solutions Delivered: The complete application as it appears within the portal context:
The solution includes a self-sustaining SAP Visual Composer Dashboard that provides various data visualizations for overall program status and individual project summaries that contains funding document information, financial execution, and monthly monitor of planning versus actual with a visual indicator for utilization along with additional Maintenance functionality and Employee views.
V. Implementation Details: SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer User Interface visual modeling tool was chosen as it enables rapid code-free development of highly customizable portal applications.
Design, modeling environment of the solution that uses a zero footprint IE browser.
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From a technology prospective, VC runs completely on the J2EE Engine of the Web Application Server within the SAP NetWeaver environment thereby leveraging the environment to a greater extent. Some of the benefits of creating an application using this approach include:
• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by minimizing the effort to create applications and allowing reuse of already existing applications and reducing costs for maintenance.
• Visual Composer is a powerful design tool that facilitates the creation of content for SAP NetWeaver Portal, using modeling capabilities and a visual user interface rather than manually writing code.
• It provides sophisticated, yet simple-to-use tools for creating portal iViews that process data from back-end systems, including SAP and third-party enterprise systems.
• Visual Composer is a fully Web-based application allowing (virtual) teams to easily build or
customize pages and iViews as needed, accessing the software from virtually any machine worldwide.
• By means of NetWeaver Visual Composer, SAP offers a solution to enable business process experts to easily build applications.
• Furthermore, it allows rapid application development and prototyping. • Eventually Visual Composer optimizes the return on investment (ROI) by allowing optimizing the
use of human capital and simplifying processes and coordination.
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VI. Result Result Details: The Program Review dashboard was fully delivered to the Business Management Division within PM-CAS on 30 June 2010.
VII. Customer Feedback
The customer has been complimentary on the efforts delivered to date.
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