customer case study - hana and sap businessobjects july 24, 2014 presenter: andrew abdalla / i...
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Customer case study - HANA and SAP BusinessObjects
July 24, 2014
Presenter: Andrew Abdalla / itelligence
ASUG Illinois-Chicago Chapter Meeting
Agenda
Who we are
Understand the business challenges
Review the solution
Show the results
Agenda
Who we are
Understand the business challenges
Review the solution
Show the results
Who we are
Your presenter: Andrew Abdalla
23+ years in IT specializing in business application development
Data to decision
12+ years in business intelligence
Client trusted advisor
Analytic solutions architect
Regional manager analytic solutions
BI vision and strategy development
Technical expertise on all aspects of SAP Analytics Solutions
SAP HANA Certified Application Associate
Our business partner"We had a significant investment in QlikView and at first, I was reluctantto change. Working with itelligence, I now see that we have been able
to integrate all our data into one source and that is a major benefit to us.HANA has met and exceeded our expectations“
-Jim Ruch VP, Information Services
Agenda
Who we are
Understand the business challenges
Review the solution
Show the results
Implementing SAP Business Suite
Replace QlikView Dashboards
Difficult to govern Duplicate business logic Data Silos
Small IT Department
COGNOS, SAP BW or Crystal Reports
Top 3 BI Priorities:
Speed Rapid Development Mobility
Retain historical data for past 3 years
Merge with SAP Business Suite data
Business Challenges
Agenda
Who we are
Understand the business challenges
Review the solution
Show the results
The Solution!
Hosted Solution
HANA Sidecar Deployment
Created data model
Loaded historical data
Ongoing load of SAP data
Analytics project before ERP
HANA Views
Web Intelligence documents
Explorer views
Lumira / Predictive Analytics
The Solution!
SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SLT)
SAP HANA Direct Extractor Connection (DXC)
SAP Data Services (DS)
How do we load the data into HANA?
Which BOBJ tool? Why? Role of the universe?
Replace QlikView content “as is”
Web Intelligence!
Why not Explorer?
Sales Dashboard…
How do we visualize the data?
Performance Considerations…
IterationData
Services HANA Webi # Seconds
Initial Light Light Heavy 50
Intermediate Light Moderate Light 15
Final Moderate Moderate Light 6
Lessons Learned…
Webi vs QlikView
Power users prefer data discovery tools
Explorer Geography
SAP BW Extractors are worth it
HANA logs to disk instead
Agile methodology and user adoption
Agenda
Who we are
Understand the business challenges
Review the solution
Show the results
Buyer Monthly Comparison
Supply Chain
Yield Summary
Market Basket Analysis - Heat Map
Bubble Chart
Tag Cloud
THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING
Regional Manager Analytic Solutions – Andrew Abdalla
Contact Info: [email protected] 404-704-7665
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