Customer case study - HANA and SAP BusinessObjects July 24, 2014 Presenter: Andrew Abdalla / i...

Customer case study - HANA and SAP BusinessObjects

July 24, 2014

Presenter: Andrew Abdalla / itelligence

ASUG Illinois-Chicago Chapter Meeting

Agenda

Who we are

Understand the business challenges

Review the solution

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Who we are

Your presenter: Andrew Abdalla

23+ years in IT specializing in business application development

Data to decision

12+ years in business intelligence

Client trusted advisor

Analytic solutions architect

Regional manager analytic solutions

BI vision and strategy development

Technical expertise on all aspects of SAP Analytics Solutions

SAP HANA Certified Application Associate

Our business partner"We had a significant investment in QlikView and at first, I was reluctantto change. Working with itelligence, I now see that we have been able

to integrate all our data into one source and that is a major benefit to us.HANA has met and exceeded our expectations“

-Jim Ruch VP, Information Services

Agenda

Who we are


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Implementing SAP Business Suite

Replace QlikView Dashboards

Difficult to govern Duplicate business logic Data Silos

Small IT Department

COGNOS, SAP BW or Crystal Reports

Top 3 BI Priorities:

Speed Rapid Development Mobility

Retain historical data for past 3 years

Merge with SAP Business Suite data

Business Challenges

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Who we are


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The Solution!

Hosted Solution

HANA Sidecar Deployment

Created data model

Loaded historical data

Ongoing load of SAP data

Analytics project before ERP

HANA Views

Web Intelligence documents

Explorer views

Lumira / Predictive Analytics

The Solution!

SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SLT)

SAP HANA Direct Extractor Connection (DXC)

SAP Data Services (DS)

How do we load the data into HANA?

Which BOBJ tool? Why? Role of the universe?

Replace QlikView content “as is”

Web Intelligence!

Why not Explorer?

Sales Dashboard…

How do we visualize the data?

Performance Considerations…

IterationData

Services HANA Webi # Seconds

Initial Light Light Heavy 50

Intermediate Light Moderate Light 15

Final Moderate Moderate Light 6

Lessons Learned…

Webi vs QlikView

Power users prefer data discovery tools

Explorer Geography

SAP BW Extractors are worth it

HANA logs to disk instead

Agile methodology and user adoption

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Who we are


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Buyer Monthly Comparison

Supply Chain

Yield Summary

Market Basket Analysis - Heat Map

Bubble Chart

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