transforming your business: achieving dramatic productivity gains

Transforming Your

Business:

Achieving Dramatic

Productivity Gains

with a Modern EDW

, Silver Application Development Partner

SAP wants their customers to believe that HANA is the ONLY solution The Truth is: Microsoft and Simplement are the BEST solution

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Simplement Data Liberator provides real-time analytics

Use case

Continuous real-time data streaming (once

initialized).

Useful for large volumes of reporting data.

Replication of security context and

hierarchies with data.

Suitable replacement of SAP BW with SQL

Server technologies.

Smart Models provides SAP HANA Live!

views for SQL Server without SAP HANA.

SQL Server

data warehouse SAP ERP Analytics

Example of data moving in real time into Power BI dashboard without SAP BW

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Pre-built Analytic Content – “Smart Starts” Rich, interactive visualizations and self-serve data sets built on

Power BI for every part of your business

Profitability Analysis

Sales & Distribution

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Payable

Capital Assets/Equipment

General Ledger

Overhead

Purchasing

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SAP

(R/3 or ECC)

PSFT, BAAN

Loaded PowerPivot

/ Tabular / Cubes

Slice & Dice,

Explore

Self-Serve Data Sets

SSIS (to load

PowerPivot / Tab Cubes)

SSRS (Dashboards &

Real -Time reports)

Data Source Get Data / Prep Data

Find / Get / Explore / Secure/

Organize for Reporting Use

Business Logic Fact Views

Visualize Deploy

Reporting

Services

Excel

Workbooks

SharePoint Search

& Dashboards

SharePoint

Scorecards

Reporting

Services

Integrate without Intrusion – in Real-Time

Database

(SQL, ORA, or

DB2)

100% Real-Time

Data Liberator Engine running in

SQL Server

2

1

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Simplement Architecture – Data Flow

SAP Front-

End

BI S

ystem

s

Persistence

LayerReplicated

Tables

SA

P

So

urc

e

Logs

SAP Application

Buena

Vistas

Projected

Security and

Hierarchies

Reporting

Views and

Procedures

Analytic

Models and

Cubes

Report

Definitions

PresentationSharePoint

Dictionary

Enhanced

Views

Helper

Views/

Tables

Business

Logic

Encapsulation

Real-Time

Replication

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Data Liberator – Integrating Multiple Data Sources

Other

Business

Systems

RTP Server

(Simplement Real-Time Provider)

SQL Instance

Real-Time

SAP Data

Real-Time

Non-SAP Data

Extracted

Data

Bu

siness Lo

gic Layer

Liberator

Transform

and Tools

SAP Sources

Non-SAP Sources

Other

Sources

Analytic

Systems

Real-Time

Reports

ETL

Replication

Replication

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Key Wins with Simplement

Live Data with Business

Logic

For any SAP ECC data

you want – no

exceptions!

Security +

Self-Serve

Immediate. Stop waiting

for IT development.

Results

Modern Data = No

ABAP anywhere in the

report development

process.

Flexible. Speedy.

Pays for Itself

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Before Simplement - Native SAP Data

Basic SD View – Over 800 Columns without Simplement

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With Simplement - From SAP Base Table – to Buena Vista –

to Business Logic Fact View

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The Key – Simplement Delivers

Business Logic Fact Views

Works with multiple source systems

Common Target

Business View of the Data

Logic applied in Real Time

In Memory – Row or Column

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Simplement Real Time SAP Analytics

Real Time Data Analysis

Deployed in under 60 days

Zero impact on your SAP infrastructure

Operates alongside or in lieu of BW / SAP BI

implementations

Minimal IT involvement required

Azure + SQL Server Enterprise +

Simplement + Power BI = Real Time SAP BI

• New, in-depth visibility into the

profitability of many of the

organization’s products worldwide.

• Replaced manual Excel activities with

automated Excel updates

• Used Data Liberator to replace SAP

BPC (Business Planning and

Consolidation) –(Had considered an

expensive purchase of Hyperion)

• Reduce demand for ABAP, extractors,

and other SAP intensive code

Dawne Wimbrow, Vice President and CIO, Albany International

• By using SQL Server 2012 and

the Simplement Data Liberator,

CMW has been able to give

more employees faster access to

SAP data and, as a result,

improve how it runs its business.

• Employees more self-sufficient in

reporting,

• Turned more users into power

users and helped more

employees learn how to get the

most value from their SAP data.

Chris Simon, Data Warehouse Analyst, The Charles Machine

Works

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Simplement Customers – from SAP R/3 3.1h to ECC 6

Finance and Controlling

MSCE SQL Server

SAP

OS/DB Migration

Production Planning