fast and low cost analytics solutions for the sap erp application

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SAP Solution Brief

SAP Solutions for EIM

SAP Rapid Marts

Fast and Low-Cost Analytics

Solutions for the SAP ERP

Application

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Objectives

Rapidly access key business data tosupport decision makingSAP Rapid Marts packages provide access to transactional data in the

SAP ERP application quickly and cost-eectively. With the latest release of

the packages, which support the powerful in-memory SAP HANA platform,

you can make smarter decisions more quickly to improve revenue, margins,

and liquidity management and run your business like never before.

Making good decisions requires access to

transactional data stored in your SAP ERP

application. The data helps you to determine

which products, markets, and channels

provide the best opportunities for growth and

how to reduce operational complexity and

streamline processes. All stakeholders want

to know which capital investments have the

greatest potential.

Your solutions must deliver business value

quickly while incurring low maintenance

costs and reduced complexity. Yet, data

may be used ineectively, and accessing

the right information quickly can be dicult.

Business users may not know where the

data they need is located, and even if they

do, they may lack the technical skills to get it.

Your analytics solutions must incorporate

transactional data from SAP ERP, oer data

warehousing views of SAP ERP data in a way

that business can readily understand it, andprovide business intelligence functionality

that supports your organizations diverse

information consumption needs.

Rapidly access key business data to support

decision making

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Increase visibility, gain insightsSAP Rapid Marts packages help companies of

all sizes overcome impediments to eective

decision making. By increasing visibility into

trends and variances, the packages help you

gain insights into causes behind variances,

so you can solve problems and capitalize on

opportunities.

SAP Rapid Marts packages support a number

of target databases, including SAP HANA a

platform for innovative, real-time analytics

and applications as well as Microsoft SQL

Server and Oracle databases. The packages

take advantage of the data repository in

SAP HANA and other databases for faster

analysis and reporting. Accelerators and

analytic content provide powerful analysis

and reporting on large data sets.

The precongured packages combine domain

knowledge and best practices, shortening

implementation times. Business users can

take advantage of self-service features, which

reduce IT workloads and costs.

The modular design of the packages means

you can extend and add functionality asrequirements change. SAP Rapid Marts

packages are available for the following types

of SAP ERP application data:

Financial General ledger, accounts

receivable, accounts payable, cost center,

and xed assets

Operational Sales, inventory, and

purchasing

Manufacturing Plant maintenance,

production planning, and project systems Human capital management Human

resources

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Increase visibility, gain insights

Enable self-service query and

analysis

Manage accounts receivables,

optimize sales and procurement

Cut IT costs, simplify integration,

and speed deployment

Improve training and rate of

adoption

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Enable self-service query andanalysisBusiness users typically dont have time to

wait for IT to run reports, so they wind up

relying on instinct and guesswork based

on incomplete, unreliable information. SAP

Rapid Marts packages eliminate the need to

wait for IT. The packages provide a semantic

layer, so you can use business-friendly terms

to create your own reports, perform yourown queries, and generate your own analysis.

The self-service, iterative question-and-answer

process helps improve insights throughout

your organization. Built-in data lineage func-

tionality lets everyone see where the data

came from and how the numbers are calcu-

lated, increasing trust in the information.

Additionally, the packages provide prebuilt

reports and dashboards, which containbest practices for analyzing dierent

business domains such as nance, sales,

and manufacturing.

Rapid implementation means you can address

your companys most critical needs frst and

realize a quick return on investment.

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Manage accounts receivables,optimize sales and procurementSAP Rapid Marts packages improve accounts

receivables processes by helping you identify

trends and variances in cash receipts, examine

factors such as days sales outstanding, review

invoice disputes and credits, and track aging

receivables.

Designed for ease of use, the preconguredpackages facilitate the lead-to-close process.

You can slice and dice pipeline data to analyze

opportunities by sales cycle stage, product,

region, deal size, channel, and any other

parameter. SAP Rapid Marts packages allow

your sales representatives and managers to

proactively address issues such as opportunity

aging and gaps in pipeline distribution.

Poor control of procurement can reduce

margins and cash ow and increase expendi-

tures. Self-service functionality helps optimize

procurement management by enabling

business users to analyze purchasing, stock,and vendor performance. SAP Rapid Marts

packages improve the cost structure, quality,

and performance of your supply chain by

providing accurate information on what is

being purchased, from whom, at what price,

and in what volume.

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Self-service queries enable a better understandingof the causes behind trends and variances and

their impact on cash ow and working capital.


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and speed deploymentLean IT stas and budgets mean companies

must control IT operating costs. SAP Rapid

Marts packages enable you to address the

need for fast, low-cost implementation with

precongured extraction, transformation, and

load (ETL) functionality; database schemas;

semantic layers; reports; and dashboards.

Integrating typical data mart solutions can

be costly and time consuming. The SAP ERP

application contains transactional systems

with complex data schemas that span multiple

functional modules and use thousands of

relational tables. Names used for tables and

columns in your transactional systems can be

cryptic, making it dicult to understand the

data. Vendors have proprietary application

programming interfaces (API) for accessing

transactional system security and business

logic. To meet these challenges and reduce

costs and development and deployment time,

SAP Rapid Marts packages provide precong-

ured data, pretested data, metadata, and

security integration functionality.

Unlike custom-developed solutions, SAP

Rapid Marts packages provide prebuilt

semantic layers, reports, and dashboards

that incorporate best practices for business

analysis. With the packages, you can reduce

the cost of developing reports and dash-

boards, enable ad hoc queries, speed

deployment, and increase business-user

satisfaction.

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adoptionBusiness-user training and support are

critical for managing data mart costs and

adoption rates. SAP Rapid Marts packages

provide intuitive and interactive interfaces to

help reduce the cost of training and support,

accelerate business-user adoption, and

increase user satisfaction.

Graphs, charts, maps, and conditional high-

lighting help business users identify problems

and opportunities faster. Interactive sorting,

ltering, and formatting of data, as well as

the ability to drill down and across reports,

provide clear insight into the causes of current

business conditions. The ability to model

scenarios visually by adjusting graphicalcontrols helps business users understand

how to best resolve problems and capitalize

on opportunities.

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Why start from scratch? Use SAP Rapid Marts

packages to eliminate several steps from the

typical analytics implementation project.


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Realizing business and IT beneftsSAP Rapid Marts packages accelerate access

to your companys SAP ERP data and yield

a wide range of business and IT benets.

Realize fast time to value with prepackaged

solutions that get you up and running in

weeks rather than months. Deliver accurate,

complete, and current subject-matter data

to the lines of business. Enable usabilitywith the semantic layer, which adds a level of

simplicity, allowing you to create your own

queries and analysis with familiar terms and

keywords.

The packages reduce development costs

with precongured ETL, database models,

semantic layers, and reports that help reduce

the load on your IT team and speed deploy-

ment. Cut training and support costs with

semantic layers and intuitive interfaces that

simplify the end-user experience, speeding

business user adoption, increasing self-service,and improving satisfaction. Reduce risk by

implementing multiple data marts in any

combination to adapt to changing business

needs, with the component-based framework

that makes it easier to extend the packages.

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Realizing business and IT benefts

BeneftsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts

By making it easier to access your data,

SAP Rapid Marts packages increase business

value from transactional applications and

boost your ROI.


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Summary

SAP Rapid Marts packages enable youto access and use transactional data stored

in the SAP ERP application for better, faster

decision making. The latest release of the

packages supports the SAP HANA platform,

provide fast and powerful analysis and

reporting, and can be deployed quickly to

suit your business demands.

Objectives

Provide business users the data they needwithout requiring technical skills or help

from IT

Decrease implementation times and the

diculty with requirements denition,

building, testing, and deployment that

frustrates end users

Reduce the high cost of IT workloads

and time-consuming eorts to integrate

business intelligence (BI) with SAP ERP,

develop reports, and train users

Solution

Precongured solutions to enable integration Best practices for report and dashboard

development

Rich BI functionality that increases visibility,

insights, and accountability

User interfaces that reduce training and

speed user adoption

Benefts

Increased visibility and business insight

through enriched BI reporting Improved strategic alignment and account-

ability through stronger analysis

Higher productivity through intuitive and

interactive interfaces

Faster ROI with best practices for business

analysis

Reduced costs with precongured solution

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