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Facing Today’s DataWarehouse Challenges

W H InmonFather of Data Warehousing

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ERP

Non-ERP

BW

ERP BWBW with an ERP source

BW with a heterogeneoussource

One of the issues of today

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What the end user gets outof a data warehouse….

New requirementsQuick analysisReconcilabilityInexpensive analysisSingle source of dataHistorical dataIntegrated dataEasy to access data

Frustration!

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Characteristics of the best implementations

Data at the finest level of granularity

Data coming from a wide varietyof sources

Ability to handle large volumes of data

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Characteristics of the best implementations

Dataquality

Editing, cleansing of data

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SAP’s infrastructure: - Complete - Proven - Not in release 1.0 - Continuing to improve

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Management and organizational buy inbecause SAP presents a solution

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Benefits of Implementation

The granular data that is at theheart of the DW

Extreme flexibility!

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Benefits of Implementation

The cost of information is lowered dramaticallyby having a data warehouse…..

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Benefits of Implementation

Traceability of data which leads to greater accountability

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Achieving The Implementation

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day n

Iterative development

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Achieving The Implementation

An infrastructure and architectural roadmap

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Where The Industry Is Headed

Much greater volumes of data

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Where The Industry Is Headed

Analytics – direct business payoff

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Where The Industry Is Headed

Into the public sector

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Final Word

At long last, real business advantage is a reality

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Churn analysis

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Final Word

FO R S ALE

SALE

To Or der .....

S e vende

A u vendre

Inqu ire w ith inB y ow ner

A s isW hite Sa le

W ash ington ’sB irthday 20% O ff

B uy oneget one free

O ut o f B usiness

Elasticity analysis

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Final Word

Profitability analysis

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Final Word

Global inventory management

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Final Word

The 360-degree view of the customer

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SAP BW

Non-SAPdata warehouse

What happens whenthere are two datawarehouses?

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SAP BW

Non-SAPdata warehouse

It all depends on theextent of the businessoverlap