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Arteria mApprove Advantage: Power of Your SAP ERP
Extended with Approvals on your Mobile Device
July 2014
Agenda
Introduction to Arteria
Business Needs
Solution Overview
Customer Case Studies
Arteria Technologies
Introduction
• Arteria is a 7 year old organization and is located at the International Tech Park, Bangalore.
• The management team comprises of former employees of SAP Labs India with several years of development, implementation and consulting experience.
• Arteria is exclusively focused on developing products and solution extensions on SAP technology platform, helping customers leverage the potential of Cloud (HANA Platform), Mobility (Sybase/SMP), BI (Business Objects) & On-Premise (NetWeaver) components.
• Our products have been implemented at industry leaders and we have a rich experience in executing projects at >100 customers in multiple verticals.
Quality Certifications
• All SAP projects have ISO 9001:2008 certification.
• All SAP projects have ISO 27001:2005 certification.
• SEI CMMI DEV 1.2 Level 3 Certified.
• SAP AQM Program Member.
Partnership with SAP
• SAP PartnerEdge Application Development Partner.
• SAP Co-Innovation Labs (COIL) partner
• SAP Services Partner.
• SAP Channel Partner (VAR).
Arteria Innovation Journey
Source: Gartner, Inc., Cool Vendors in the SAP
Ecosystem, 2013, Authors: Derek Prior | Thomas
Otter | Gilbert van der Heiden | Sunil Padmanabh |
Christian Hestermann, 18 April 2013
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We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner, a confirmation of our
mission to enable customers to leverage the power of enterprise systems using mobility
and portal technologies, thereby improving business performance.
We continue to innovate with our product roadmap; the upcoming launch of cloud version
of our products will further enhance our market position. Our strength is our capabilities to
build solutions with quick ROI and help customers extend their SAP ERP processes to
business partners and employees, while staying invested on the SAP technology platform.
Sriram Kanuri,
CEO – Arteria Technologies
PartnerPortalAdvantage is SAP
Certified
Founder Member @ SAP Co-Innovation
Labs, Bangalore
Launch of Apps and Solution developed at Co-Innovation Labs
Arteria apps featured at the launch of SAP
EcoHub and SAP Store
Arteria’s co-innovation journey on enterprise mobility is
published
Invited to HANA Cloud Platform Early Adoption Program
Awards & Recognitions
• SAP Pinnacle Awards 2014: Application Development Partner of the Year
• Open Text Partner of the year 2014 & SAP Competence Select partner
• Best SAP NetWeaver Process Integration Partner in APJ
• CIO Choice Award 2014 for “Secondary Sales” product portfolio
• SAP ACE Award for Public Services for “Best Run in Procurement” at Airports Authority of India
• SAP APJ Regional Partner Excellence Award 2014 for Software Innovation
• SAP ACE Award 2013 with Luminous Power Technologies for using SAP Solutions in an
Innovative Way
• Mobility Recognition Award from SAP India
Customer Recognition and Validation
Continuous Innovation with SAP and Customers
Successful Partnerships
Arteria’s Product and Services
Portfolio
Stockist/
Distributor
Manual processes for
supplier & Sub
contractor
collaboration.
Stockist/
Distributor
Stockist/
Distributor
Typical business process automation covering supply chain &
distribution network
C&F
C&F
Manufacturing
Operations
CO Warehouse
C&F
Supplier
Internal Operations are
integrated & configured in
SAP ERP
Z transactions for
C&F to update
material movement
Manual interactions
with the distributors
for orders, dispatches
and outstanding.
Limited integration
to SAP ERP from
remote depots
Sub-Contractor
Delayed Workflow
approvals as
executives on the move
SAP
Regional sales team
usually has no access
to SAP ERP
No SAP system access
to field force to check
order status, inventory &
outstanding's
“Excel” based
secondary sales
capture & analysis
Arteria Products
Business Networks
• SupplierPortal Advantage
• CFA Advantage
• DealerConnect Advantage
• SecondarySales Advantage
Mobility
• mApprove Advantage
• mSalesForceAutomation Advantage
• mSecondarySales Advantage
• mDepot Advantage
• mInspection Advantage
• mPlantMaintenance Advantage
Business Analytics
•Dashboards Advantage“
During the course of the project and the interactions held with your team members, we
have found your team to be extremely professional and willing to take that extra effort for
understanding the customer requirement and even challenging us when our thought
process might have been unclear.
Arteria Products
Business Networks Mobility Analytics
Arteria Productized Services and Expert Consulting
Analytics & Reporting
• BW on HANA
• BI & Analytics Implementation
OpenText Extensions for SAP
• Extended Content Management (xECM)
• Portal Content Management (PCM)
• Data Archiving & Document Access
• Vendor Invoice Management (VIM)
Rapid Deployment Solutions
• Arteria RDS for Analytics
• Arteria RDS for Mobility
• Implementing standard SAP RDS
Cloud
• HANA Cloud Platform
• HANA Cloud Integration
• SAP Mobile Platform Cloud Edition
Business Process Management
• SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration & PI
• Financial Services Network / Bank Connectivity
User Productivity
• Screen Personas
• Fiori
• SAP NetWeaver Gateway & Mobile Platform
• SAP NetWeaver Portal
“
SAP congratulates Arteria
Technologies for excelling in
their partnership with SAP
and winning the Best SAP
NetWeaver Process
Integration Partner Award.
Arteria has extended the
value of SAP NetWeaver to
our customers and has
empowered them with tools
and methodologies for
achieving business
excellence.
We look forward to working
together further to continue to
drive co-innovation and
provide further value for our
customer base.
- SVP and CTO, SAP APJ
Arteria ILM Practice for OpenText Extensions
Data & Document Archiving
• >20+ Implementations for ERP, BW and CRM
• Integrating document / unstructured content for master data management and
business processes (order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, hire-to-retire)
• Industry specific document processes for Life Sciences and Process Industries
Content Management
• Implementations for xECM (Life Sciences) and PCM (Consumer Goods
Manufacturer)
Vendor Invoice Management
• Shared Services Scenario
• Integrated into Arteria SupplierPortal Advantage
As part of our service strategy to help Dr.Reddy’s manage and optimize their datagrowth, OpenText Archiving was a keycomponent because it ensured regulatorycompliance, SAP data consistency and zerodown time
Arteria AMS Services
Incidence Management
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Problem Management
Application Management
Support
Functional Support
• Monitoring
• R/3 Modules
• NDP (APO, CRM, SRM, SCM)
• Configuration
• Unit Testing, Integration testing
and Regression testing
• Documentation
• Training
Basis
• Monitoring
• Client Management
• System Tuning
• New Version installation
• New Client Creation
• Transportation
Management
• Patch Applications
Security &
Authorization
• Global roles
• Managing User profiles
• Business Roles
• Creating New Users
Archiving
• Set-up Archival Strategy
• Interface to 3rd party
Archival system
• Restore proceduresData Management
• Assist Master data uploads
DBA & OS
• Database Installation
• Preventive Maintenance
• Tuning
• Os installation
• System backups
Help Desk
• Centralized Helpdesk
• Level 1 Support
• Knowledge Repository
Development support
• ABAP
• BW
• EDI/EAI
• Portal
Arteria Customers
Automotive
(OEM and Auto
Components)
Consumer
Products and
Retail
Cement & Mill
Industries
Arteria Customers
Discrete
Manufacturing
Process
Industries
Financial
Services
Life Sciences
Diversified
Groups
Key Productized Services and Expert Consulting Implementations
• Leader in ILM for SAP-OpenText Data Archiving & Document Access, Vendor Invoice Management
and Portal Content Management
• >20+ implementations in various verticals
Process
Orchestration
• Large scale integration projects with SAP and non-SAP systems including EDI scenarios with large
retailers like Walmart
• Development & consulting partner for Bank Business Networks with 100+ implementations
• Transformation projects that help customers leverage their SAP technology investment with Arteria
products, industry knowledge and design approach
• Agro – Use of Mobility to enable procurement process in villages
• Media – SAP ERP Integrated Ad-sales booking agency portal
• Cement – Process automation for order, dispatch and batching in RMC
• Auto Industry focused packaged offering for Analytics
• Large media house implementation with BW, BO and HANA
AMS Models and Implementations
• Arteria Product Support & Enhancement for >40 customers (business hours support)
• Integration to SAP Support Channel
• Outsourced SAP and non-SAP AMS with a dedicated team, hotline and leased line to customer
data center
• 24*7 technical support and business hours for applications
• Technical monitoring for key SAP instances like Portal, Data Warehouse, and Mobility servers
• Ad-hoc BASIS services for performance tuning, upgrades and support packs.
• Ticket based expert consulting / projects / enhancements
• SAP Rollouts, technical enhancements, custom development projects
Applications
Key Greenfield SAP Implementations
SAP ERP implementation & support for Bhilwara Milk Union covering FI, CO, MM, Milk Procurement,
SD and Integration with Production Planning
SAP SRM Public Sector Procurement implementation & support at Airports Authority of India for 170
locations. The implementation was adjudged as “Best Run in Procurement” as part of SAP ACE Awards
for Public Services.
SAP ERP & Warehouse Management Implementation at Maharashtra State Warehousing Corporation.
The scope covers FI, CO, MM, HR, WM, Enterprise Portal, & Business Intelligence modules
SAP Loans, Collaterals, Treasury and SAP HR implementation at PTC Financial Services
SAP ERP Implementation at The Corps of EME, Indian Army. The scope covers plant maintenance
(PM) and human resources (HR) modules at New Delhi location.
Business Needs & Arteria-SAP
Co-Innovation Solutions for
mApprove
Business Problems
Business Problems
• Business Workflow Approvals are delayed as the actor of
the process are mobile
• Delay in approvals for key processes like PO Release can
have adverse impact on business
Business Problems
• No framework for mobilizing multiple business
workflow approval using single application
• Limited number of Enterprise Applications support all
Blackberry, Android and iOS Mobile Devices
Solution – mApprove Advantage
• Generic Approval Framework & UI for handhelds that
enables mobile user to do approvals in offline and on
demand mode
• Existing Investments Protected as solution integrates with
any existing workflow
• Rapid Go-Live with pre-delivered configuration for PO
Release, PR Release, Leave Request, Sales Order and
Travel Request Approval
• Extends SAP and non-SAP approval workflows to popular
Android & Blackberry and Windows devices
Technology
• SAP SUP Platform
• Device Applications on native device languages
Android – Android Development Toolkit
Blackberry – BB API/s based on J2ME
iPhone – .iOS SDK
• Compatible with SAP ERP (Any version) or SAP R/3
and can support non SAP backend as well using SUP
connectors
mApprove Advantage: Features
Functions
• The solution provides a generic framework that can mobilize
all SAP/Non SAP and Workflow and Non Workflow based
business processes
• As a part of the solution the following pre-delivered
configuration is provided:
• Leave Request
• Travel Request
• Purchase Requisition Release
• Purchase Order Release Request
• Sales Order Approval
• Material Price Approval
Features
• Works seamlessly on Blackberry, Android & iOS based
mobile devices
• Easy to use & consistent User Interface for all devices
• Works with your existing SAP ERP
• Secure, reliable, flexible & scalable for future
enhancements
Technical Architecture & Implementation Details
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Firewall
BES/Relay Server
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SAP SMPSAP R/3 orSAP ERP
RFC
Wireless Operator
Solution Implementation
• Easy to deploy (Rapid Go-Live) in 1 month
• Easy to enhance and add new workflows
• Can be extended to all Mobile Device platforms
Security
• Authorization framework – Adheres to SAP Authentication schemes
• Monitoring tools to track flow of data between the mobile device and
mobile server
• Transmission of data over secure channel
Customer Case Studies
Case Study: India’s leading business house and conglomerate
Description
Workflows are configured in SAP ERP but executives are
on the move & cannot connect to corporate network to
process the work items.
Existing Challenges
• Business Workflow approvals are usually carried out
by colleagues / assistants for executives on the
move.
• SAP and non-SAP system in the landscape.
Achievements
• 3 weeks go-live for key 50 executives including CMD.
• Integration to their DotNet based Leave scenario
• Custom UI as per requirements
Case Study: Leading Telecom Company
Description
Workforce is on the field and would like to enable multiple
channels of access to SAP ERP including mobile.
Existing Challenges
• Unable to leverage SAP implementation and provide
full benefits to their employees.
• No standardization: several types of mobile devices
are being used within the organization.
Case Study: Global Energy and Offshore Services Provider
Description
Workflows are configured in SAP ERP but
executives are on the move & cannot connect to
corporate network to process the work items.
Existing Challenges
• Mobilizing of the following SAP workflows
• Leave
• Travel
• Re-imbursement
• PO
• PR
• SAP NetWeaver Mobile platform can be used
to mobilize other shipping industry related
scenarios.
Case Study: Greatship Limitedhttp://us.blackberry.com/newsroom/success/greatship.jsp
mApprove Advantage: Benefits Summary
mApprove is a SAP SUP based Inbox for all your approval tasks like Leave Request, Travel, PO Release, etc. No need to
connect to your corporate network from your computer, approval tasks will be now be pushed to your mobile for immediate
action. The application is supported on the popular Android phones and smart phones from Blackberry and Apple.
Approvals on Mobile
• Mobile Approval Inbox: Get all approvals on your mobile
• Intuitive: The solution is designed to reflect the familiar look and feel of a mail box and use of icons for various tasks and statuses.
• Always On: Employees are now always connected to their backend systems
Secure and Feature Rich
• Inbuilt security features to protect data.
• Pre-delivered configuration for commonly used workflows.
• Key business context is available in the work item to enable users to take informed decisions.
Lower TCO
• Single Platform: Runs on SAP SUP
• Support for Blackberry, Android & iOS mobile devices.
• Rapid Go-Live of 1 month: Existing SAP ERP named users can start accessing workflows.
Thank youArteria Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Level 1, Innovator,
International Tech Park, Whitefield,
Bangalore – 560066
India.
Web: www.arteriatech.com
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +91 80 4242 3800