Transforming Planning Processes with SAP EPM Unwired Mobile Application
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Agenda
The Changing Needs of Business Today
Introduction of EPM Unwired
Technical Highlights
Architecture Overview
Hybrid Application (Web Container)
SAP Fiori based UX Design
Customization and Extension
Roadmap
Demo
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The changing needs of business today
Technology Will Further Revolutionize The World of Finance
2012 40 Years of
Finance 1972
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The Decision Making Revolution Is Now The Opportunity with Mobile Finance
Enable Real-Time Decisions
Strategic
Mobilize Enterprise Information
Operational
Increase Enterprise Productivity
Collaborative
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Key Requirements to Mobilize Enterprise Performance Management
Secure Seamless Personalized
Real-Time Collaborative
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SAP EPM Mobile Solutions: The Right Choice
Secure Allow enterprises to control data and access on any device based on role and user
Seamless Extend enterprise financial processes to mobile devices for faster responsiveness and real-time information
Personalized Visualize, explore and analyze relevant information in the context of your role
Real-Time Respond to risks and opportunities and immediately deploy operational and strategic changes
Collaborative Share information and interact with your team and business network around critical topics
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Engaging beyond Finance for Better Results and Greater Accountability
“The new devices that are coming on the market, like the tablets and iPhones, will enable us to build a system in the future that will more easily take advantage of the input from every employee.”
— Anders Pehrsson, Vice President and Group Controller,
Atlas Copco “This should not be only the finance department; people sometimes believe that budgets or rolling forecasts are only done by finance. It should be done by [all] the people involved.”
— Troy Parwata, Finance Director of Tigaraksa Satria
Source: CFO Research Services, 2011
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The Use of Mobile BI in Enterprises Will Grow in 2013-2014
Mobility will be this year’s top trend
Source Trend Rank
IDC #1
Gartner #5
Saugatuck #1
Forrester #1
Deloitte #1
Analytics will see an increase to 54% of users actively using mobile BI in 2013, compared to 20% in 2012
Source: SAP 2013 IT Market Trends and Predictions http://blogs.sap.com/innovation/industries/2013-it-market-trends-and-predictions-026226
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Introduction of EPM Unwired
How Can Mobile Transform Enterprise Performance Management?
Get valuable financial insights anytime, anywhere
Accelerate key process cycle times in planning and forecasting
Provide intuitive access to information and analysis
Collaborate and respond in real time for better results
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SAP Mobile Enterprise Performance Management
Leverage mobility solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects Mobile and Sybase Unwired Platform
SAP EPM Unwired mobile interface as entry point into SAP solutions for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications:
Support for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 Support for SAP Strategy Management 7.5/10.0/10.1
Supports combined BI and EPM scenarios that are seamless to the end-user
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SAP EPM Unwired - What’s Included
• Interface for multiple EPM Apps • Business Planning and Consolidation Reports • Enterprise Insight
• Financial Results Insight
• Re-use of BI Mobile framework• Re-using the BI Mobile framework to provide access to a lot of pre-existing infrastructure and full BI Content
support
• “Ready to Try” Demo Content• Pre-configured demo connections will be bundled as part of the download. Users can download the
application and run through the tutorials.
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Technical Highlights
EPM Unwired 3.0 Architecture Overview
http(s)
SAP EPM Unwired
…
SAP Afaria
Tablet Device
http(s)
Reverse Proxy
External
Firewall
http(s)
Relay Server
Internal
Firewall
TCP
TCP
http(s)
Afaria Server http(s)
SUP Server http(s)
Application Server
Legend
BPC
SSM
BI
Optional
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EPM Unwired 3.0 Architecture Overview
Enterprise Insight
Web App Server running HTML and JSON files
SSM 7.5 SP12 HF4 or higher
SSM 10 SP5 or higher
SSM 10.1 SP0 or higher
Business Planning and Consolidation Reports
Web App Server running HTML, JSON, JavaScript and SAPUI5 libraries
BPC 10.0 NW SP06 or higher (SCN)
BPC 10.1 SP0 or higher
Financial Results Insight
BI Mobile 4.0 Server
BI 4.0 SP 4 or higher is required for access to BI content on EPM data
Customer Content
Customer Web App Server
SAP or non-SAP products
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A Hybrid Application (Web Container)
Native Application
Mobile Application
Native Code
Device APIs
Web Application
Mobile Browser
Web Code
Hybrid Application
Web Container
Web Code
Native Code
Device APIs
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Benefits of Hybrid Application
Benefits from Native Application Benefits from Web Application
Full Device Access Less Client Upgrades
Online/Offline Access tomization & Extension
Data Security orm/Device Support
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SAP Fiori based UX Design
Blue Crystal Theme SAPUI5 Controls for Mobile
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Customization & Extension
BI Server
SAP EPM Unwired SSM Server
BPC Server
SAP Delivered Content R Content
List
Customer Content
Discovery Service
Service R Customer
Content System Data
Service
Optional
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Partners Opportunities
• Services Partners: Adding value to existing EPM SAP Enterprise Insight
Implementations
• Leverage the existing Mobi Framework to create and publish BI Reports with EPM content
• SAP Financials Result Insight - Delivered by SAP
• Customize the SSM Content for other Industry Use Cases • SAP CitizenInsight - Delivered by SAP
• SAP Enterprise Insight - Delivered by SAP• SAP Store Insight - Prototype
• Value Added Resellers
• Promote mobility content and value proposition as part of the sales cycles for core apps for new customers
• Reposition innovations - mobility for existing customers
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Roadmap of EPM Unwired
Short-term
BPC Live Report
BPC Data Input
Enterprise Insight
Financial Results Insight
Annotation
Email & StreamWork Integration
BPC Live Charts
BPC Comments
*Planned but subject to change
Mid-term
Disaggregation (top-down planning)
Business Process Flow
Offline BPC reports
Single-Sign-On
Disclosure Management Report
BPC Books
Report send as attachment
Long-term
KPI/Workflow Notification
Graphical Driver Based Planning
Variance Analysis
Android Support
Windows 8 Support
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