umt webinar presentation

8/3/2019 UMT Webinar Presentation

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in Your SAP BusinessObjects Environment

Presenters:

Murali Pabbisetty, Partner Saama TechnologiesTony Thorpe, BI Solutions Architect MincomTim Beaver, Process Architect ACS, Xerox Company


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Agenda

Saama Universe Management Tool (10 min.)

o Introduction

o Product Features

o Use Cases

o Roles Mapping

MINCOM and ACS Case Studies (15 min.)

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o Universe Merge Process The Challenges

o Merge Process prior to UMT

o Merge Process with UMT

o Benefits of the UMT

Demonstration (30 min.)

Q&A (5 min.)


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About Saama

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Founded 1997 Focused, pure-play BI provider Services, software & unique, innovative

IP-based solutions Experienced leadership team and senior

Board of Advisors Strong strategic partners Blue-chip client list Head Quarters Campbell, CA Offshore Development Pune, India

Focused

Trusted

ExperiencedPassionate


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Process

Universe Change Management

RiskAssessment Improved

UMT Complements Designer and LCM

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Enablement &

Mitigation

Efficiency

Universe (Core Meta data for BOBJ)

EPM

EPM DeskI

DeskIWebI

WebICrystal

Crystal


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UMT Complements Designer and LCM

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Universe (Core Meta data for BOBJ)

RichClient

RichClient

DeskI

DeskIWebI

WebICrystal

Crystal


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Product Features

Report

Impact

Analysis

Compare

and

Merge

Universes

Universe

Moveand

Difference

Logs

Zero

Foot Print

Totally SDK Based

Flexible Equality

and

Move Rules

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Update

Properties

Switch

Universe

&

Report

Document

Universe

Version

ControlDB

Changes

Update

Comprehensive

Coverage

Optimal

Performance


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Automated Change ManagementAutomated Change ManagementUniverse and Report ConsolidatioUniverse and Report Consolidatio

Easy content upgradesEasy content upgradesFaster Adoption of the solutionFaster Adoption of the solution

UMT Business Benefits

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Difference & Change AuditDifference & Change AuditReportingReporting ImpactImpact AuditAudit

ImpactImpact AnalysisAnalysisVersionVersion ControlControl

BulkBulk Update PropertiesUpdate PropertiesParallelParallel DevelopmentDevelopment Risk

Mitigation


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Use Case #1

Accelerating Universe Enhancement Cycles

Challenge: Identifying, validating and moving newenhancements into production can be a timely, disjointed,and costly process.

Benefits: Users have a visual

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n er ace roug w c ey can: Identify the exact set of

changes and related impact

Track and manage changes

Manage version control


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Use Case #2

Parallel Universe Development

Challenge: Only one developer can work on a universe at atime.

Benefits: Multiple developers canwork in arallel enablin :

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Accelerated development time

Improved accuracy (cut-and-paste is error-prone)

Ability to manage work bydevelopment efforts byspecific skills and access levels


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Use Case #3

Universe Updates with DB Schema Changes

Challenge: Identifying and extracting physical schemachanges is a manual process.

Benefits: Developers can

automatically update a universe withdb schema changes, enabling the

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ability to:

Identify the exact changes to thephysical schema and their impactupon the existing infrastructure

Log additions, modifications and

deletions to the physical schema Visually update the universe with theabove changes

Generate use logs and manageversion control


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Roles Feature Mapping

Administrator Univ. Designer Report Dev Biz Analyst

Compare &Merge

Move & Diff Logs

Unv & Report

Documentation

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ers on on ro

DB ChangesImpact

Switch Universe

Bulk UpdateProperties

Report ImpactAnalysis

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Case Study 1 Mincom, Australia

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We go to the ends of the earthfor our customers.

Introduction to MincomA Saama UMT Case Study


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Universe Merge Process The Challenges

Mincoms Universeso Very large

o Must support customizationo Customers can receive between10-20 universe updates per year

Mincoms BO merge process

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o Unsupported

o Needed complete rewrite for BO XIo No visibility of changes risky

Reviewed Saama UMTo for internal universe development

o for customer mergingo suitable for both purposes


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Merge Process: Prior to UMT

Time consumingo Need to create separate

merge repositories

Black-box

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o No visibility of what will be changed

o High-risk

o Lack of trust

o Massive report regression testing effort


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Merge Process With UMT

Simple processo Just open the UMT tool, point

o to the old and new universes

o Run the compare process

Graphical User Interface

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o se e o en y an rev ew e erences

o Choose to selectively merge or AutoMerge the

changes

Users now have trust in the merge process and canmassively reduce the regression testing effort


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Benefits of the UMT

Simple quick processo Large time savings (several hours)

for customers when receivingupdated universes from Mincomo Savings realized with every universe

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up a e

Visibility provides risk mitigationo The detailed graphical visibility increases clarity, reduces

risko Large time savings in regression testing as a result

What could take few months now reduced to 2-3days


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Case Study 2 ACS, Xerox


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ACS Environment Overview

Split locally into 9 linked,

customized Universes

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-Universe

~4800 objects

~800 tables

~1,120 conditions

~200+ reports


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Challenges - Universe Updates

Universe (Metadata) Version control of Universes is manual, error prone

No means to compare versions

Confusion and delays due tomultiple environments andmulti le universe versions


No simple means ofdetermining effects of object changes

Compliance

Cannot readily identify changes to universes or reports

Major difficulty to rollback to previous versions ofuniverse and reports

Tracking is manual


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Challenges Report Development

Reporting No documentation of reports linked to universe objects

Manually created and maintained reference materials

No means of searching for specific calculations or objects

Integrated Data Dictionary


Not easily created or maintained

Lacks linkage

Needed for developers and inpreparation for client self-service


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Return on Investment

Universe Updates Estimated savings of $17, 280 per year

Troubleshooting and Analysis Reporting

Estimated $57,600 per year productivity gain


Monthly Scheduled Report Releases

7 new reports/30 reportmodifications per release

10% estimated productivity increase Yearly productivity gains $149, 760

Total estimated Annual productivity gains: $224,640


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UMT Evaluation Model

Evaluation Period: 10 Days - From the point of Install

Evaluation Key: Non-perpetual 10 days key expires after 10 days

Installation: Remote install to the client providing the application (.exe) file

Demo: On installation running 5 use cases with detail feature

demonstration

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Support: Complete Support/ Maintenance model for evaluation for directprospect

New Release: No new release/ Build or software upgrade will be provided

during the evaluation. Once the evaluation is completed a complete packageof UMT kit will be provided with access to new build/ support will be

provided.

Please contact [email protected] to procure the evaluation copy.


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Thank You

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Murali Pabbisetty

Partner

Saama Technologies, Inc408-688-0929

[email protected]

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