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in Your SAP BusinessObjects Environment
Presenters:
Murali Pabbisetty, Partner Saama TechnologiesTony Thorpe, BI Solutions Architect MincomTim Beaver, Process Architect ACS, Xerox Company
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Agenda
Saama Universe Management Tool (10 min.)
o Introduction
o Product Features
o Use Cases
o Roles Mapping
MINCOM and ACS Case Studies (15 min.)
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o Universe Merge Process The Challenges
o Merge Process prior to UMT
o Merge Process with UMT
o Benefits of the UMT
Demonstration (30 min.)
Q&A (5 min.)
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About Saama
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Founded 1997 Focused, pure-play BI provider Services, software & unique, innovative
IP-based solutions Experienced leadership team and senior
Board of Advisors Strong strategic partners Blue-chip client list Head Quarters Campbell, CA Offshore Development Pune, India
Focused
Trusted
ExperiencedPassionate
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Process
Universe Change Management
RiskAssessment Improved
UMT Complements Designer and LCM
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Enablement &
Mitigation
Efficiency
Universe (Core Meta data for BOBJ)
EPM
EPM DeskI
DeskIWebI
WebICrystal
Crystal
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UMT Complements Designer and LCM
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Universe (Core Meta data for BOBJ)
RichClient
RichClient
DeskI
DeskIWebI
WebICrystal
Crystal
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Product Features
Report
Impact
Analysis
Compare
and
Merge
Universes
Universe
Moveand
Difference
Logs
Zero
Foot Print
Totally SDK Based
Flexible Equality
and
Move Rules
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Update
Properties
Switch
Universe
&
Report
Document
Universe
Version
ControlDB
Changes
Update
Comprehensive
Coverage
Optimal
Performance
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Automated Change ManagementAutomated Change ManagementUniverse and Report ConsolidatioUniverse and Report Consolidatio
Easy content upgradesEasy content upgradesFaster Adoption of the solutionFaster Adoption of the solution
UMT Business Benefits
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Difference & Change AuditDifference & Change AuditReportingReporting ImpactImpact AuditAudit
ImpactImpact AnalysisAnalysisVersionVersion ControlControl
BulkBulk Update PropertiesUpdate PropertiesParallelParallel DevelopmentDevelopment Risk
Mitigation
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Use Case #1
Accelerating Universe Enhancement Cycles
Challenge: Identifying, validating and moving newenhancements into production can be a timely, disjointed,and costly process.
Benefits: Users have a visual
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n er ace roug w c ey can: Identify the exact set of
changes and related impact
Track and manage changes
Manage version control
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Use Case #2
Parallel Universe Development
Challenge: Only one developer can work on a universe at atime.
Benefits: Multiple developers canwork in arallel enablin :
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Accelerated development time
Improved accuracy (cut-and-paste is error-prone)
Ability to manage work bydevelopment efforts byspecific skills and access levels
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Use Case #3
Universe Updates with DB Schema Changes
Challenge: Identifying and extracting physical schemachanges is a manual process.
Benefits: Developers can
automatically update a universe withdb schema changes, enabling the
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ability to:
Identify the exact changes to thephysical schema and their impactupon the existing infrastructure
Log additions, modifications and
deletions to the physical schema Visually update the universe with theabove changes
Generate use logs and manageversion control
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Roles Feature Mapping
Administrator Univ. Designer Report Dev Biz Analyst
Compare &Merge
Move & Diff Logs
Unv & Report
Documentation
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DB ChangesImpact
Switch Universe
Bulk UpdateProperties
Report ImpactAnalysis
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Case Study 1 Mincom, Australia
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We go to the ends of the earthfor our customers.
Introduction to MincomA Saama UMT Case Study
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Universe Merge Process The Challenges
Mincoms Universeso Very large
o Must support customizationo Customers can receive between10-20 universe updates per year
Mincoms BO merge process
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o Unsupported
o Needed complete rewrite for BO XIo No visibility of changes risky
Reviewed Saama UMTo for internal universe development
o for customer mergingo suitable for both purposes
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Merge Process: Prior to UMT
Time consumingo Need to create separate
merge repositories
Black-box
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o No visibility of what will be changed
o High-risk
o Lack of trust
o Massive report regression testing effort
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Merge Process With UMT
Simple processo Just open the UMT tool, point
o to the old and new universes
o Run the compare process
Graphical User Interface
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o se e o en y an rev ew e erences
o Choose to selectively merge or AutoMerge the
changes
Users now have trust in the merge process and canmassively reduce the regression testing effort
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Benefits of the UMT
Simple quick processo Large time savings (several hours)
for customers when receivingupdated universes from Mincomo Savings realized with every universe
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up a e
Visibility provides risk mitigationo The detailed graphical visibility increases clarity, reduces
risko Large time savings in regression testing as a result
What could take few months now reduced to 2-3days
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Case Study 2 ACS, Xerox
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ACS Environment Overview
Split locally into 9 linked,
customized Universes
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-Universe
~4800 objects
~800 tables
~1,120 conditions
~200+ reports
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Challenges - Universe Updates
Universe (Metadata) Version control of Universes is manual, error prone
No means to compare versions
Confusion and delays due tomultiple environments andmulti le universe versions
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No simple means ofdetermining effects of object changes
Compliance
Cannot readily identify changes to universes or reports
Major difficulty to rollback to previous versions ofuniverse and reports
Tracking is manual
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Challenges Report Development
Reporting No documentation of reports linked to universe objects
Manually created and maintained reference materials
No means of searching for specific calculations or objects
Integrated Data Dictionary
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Not easily created or maintained
Lacks linkage
Needed for developers and inpreparation for client self-service
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Return on Investment
Universe Updates Estimated savings of $17, 280 per year
Troubleshooting and Analysis Reporting
Estimated $57,600 per year productivity gain
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Monthly Scheduled Report Releases
7 new reports/30 reportmodifications per release
10% estimated productivity increase Yearly productivity gains $149, 760
Total estimated Annual productivity gains: $224,640
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UMT Evaluation Model
Evaluation Period: 10 Days - From the point of Install
Evaluation Key: Non-perpetual 10 days key expires after 10 days
Installation: Remote install to the client providing the application (.exe) file
Demo: On installation running 5 use cases with detail feature
demonstration
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Support: Complete Support/ Maintenance model for evaluation for directprospect
New Release: No new release/ Build or software upgrade will be provided
during the evaluation. Once the evaluation is completed a complete packageof UMT kit will be provided with access to new build/ support will be
provided.
Please contact [email protected] to procure the evaluation copy.
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Thank You
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Murali Pabbisetty
Partner
Saama Technologies, Inc408-688-0929