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Leveraging SAP BW with SAS for creating business value at ElectrabelPaul Bruynseels, Project Manager, Electrabel

Patrick Xhonneux, Head of Bus. Development, SAS Belgium & Luxembourg

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Agenda! Why and how accessing SAP BW with SAS

! SAP BW business coverage! Technology that works! Main benefits

! Electrabel‘s experience! An answer to clearly identified business needs! A global architecture with proven results! Project “do‘s and don‘t„

! Q&A

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The New Role of SAP BW

SAP AG 1999

m ySAP.com Business A pplications

Corporate Finance

M anagem ent

Business-to-BusinessProcurem ent

M obile Service

Business Inform ationW arehouse

Know ledge M anagem ent

AdvancedPlanner & O ptim izer

LogisticsExecution System

StrategicEnterprise

M anagem ent

M obile Sales

M anagem entCockpit

SAP BusinessTo Business

SAP Service

SAPBusiness

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Know ledgeW arehouse

SAPAdvancedPlanner&O ptim izer

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SAP LogisticsExecution

System

SAPStrategic

EnterpriseM anagem ent

SAP Business Intelligence Initiative

SAP Business Intelligence Initiative

SAP M arketing

SAP Custom er Relationship M anagem ent In itiative

SAP Custom er Relationship M anagem ent In itiative

SAP Sales

SAP Supply Chain M anagem ent In itiative

SAP Supply Chain M anagem ent In itiative

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Why would you need to implement SAP BW?

! Because… BW is now recommended by SAP as THE tool for reporting on operational data contained in SAP R/3

! Because… BW is more and more often positionned (by SAP) as THE « necessary » interface to true information delivery

! Because… You’ve been told you should first use what’s available in house

! Because… You *must* implement SAP BW

SAS can help as well !

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Why do we offer access to SAP BW? ! Leverage your SAP data with SAS solutions for

real business advantage (CRM, Strategic Performance Management, Risk Dimensions,…)

! Include BW data in a specialized SAS data mart! Merge BW data with non-SAP data sources! SAS OLAP tools! SAS Enterprise Miner! Analytical tools, like SAS/ETS, SAS/OR, etc.

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How to access BW?With a specialized engine !

! Uses SAS/ACCESS to R/3 technology underneath! Accesses Infocubes, ODS and InfoAreas, not

QueryCubes! Works on non-Windows platforms! High performance -> good for mass extraction! Wizard to load BW metadata into SAS! Wizard to read BW InfoCubes into SAS! Wizard to export OLAP metadata to SAS/EIS

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! BW stores InfoCubes in! Snowflake Schema:

! 1Fact table! n Dimension tables! n SID tables! n Text tables! n Master tables

Structure of InfoCube in SAP BWMT

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Extraction of InfoCubeSnowflake to Star Schema

SAS Formats

SAS Views to BWSnowflake Schema Tables

SAS Data SetsStar Schema Tables

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Benefits! Builds on previously made investment! Harnesses the power of SAS! Complements BW functionality! Metadata driven extraction without programming! Offloads analytical processing to specially tuned

analytical SAS data mart! Only product on the market to surface InfoCube data! Not limited to Windows platforms -> scalable! Prerequisite for data mining

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Head-Quarter in Brussels

(Belgium) : daugther of

TRACTEBEL & SUEZ

physical and financial

transactions in electricity and

natural gas

active on all European energy

exchanges

Revenue (2001) : 12.7 billion €

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! we generate electricity,

! we build, manage and service networks used for the transmission of electricity and the distribution of electricity and natural gas,

! we sell electricity, natural gas and derived energy products and services that meet customer needs,

! in Belgium and in Europe.

! To support this core business we also develop other major activities: cable TV, distribution of water and steam, cogeneration (combined heat and power)...

Who’s Electrabel?

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Business background! Electrabel’s trading and risk management

department (« Middle Office ») needs to better and more timely follow-up its expanding tradingactivities.

! Electrabel selected SAS Risk Dimensions to fulfill Middle Office department’s business need

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Technical background! Electrabel has chosen SAP R/3 as operational

system to support all its business processes. ! SAP BW is therefore the de facto software for

storing data and reporting.! Data to be taken into account for Risk

Management and Analysis comes from multiple data source, to be stored in SAP BW in order to feed Risk Dimensions

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IS-U / CCS

TradingSales

ET db

PRIBILLICContract Management

Credit Management

Image

Foreign Offices

Generation

B.O.

MSR MSI

TradingMO (Risk Control & Analysis)

Contract ManagementCredit Management

Procurement

Reports

Functional Architecture

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BW

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SAS/Access

To BW

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SAS

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Technical Architecture

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SAP BWForeignOffices

Generation

B.O.

MSR MSI

ProcurementTrading

SASRisk

ManagementTool

Reports

Detailed Architecture

AccessingSAP BW

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Project characteristics ! Quick Decision and implementation

! Proof of concept started November 2001, decision was taken December 2001

! First report produced for end of May 2002

! Resources! IT Project leader → ½ time (implementation study,

process definition, coordination,…)! Business Project Leader! 3 SAS consultants (Inflow and Risk Analysis)

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Project Characteristics (II)! ++ Accessing SAP BW was successful from the

first attempt! ++ Project architecture integrates in Electrabel ’s

vision of IT infrastructure! -- Time pressure! - Little business definitions exist! - Pre-study wasn’t really extensive! - Limited knowledge of data/subject available

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Current status of the project

! Infrastructure is complete! Inflow of data is organized and automated

(Trading, Back Office and Pricing data)! Pricing methodology is being tested! Reports are being developed

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