EMPOWER THE BUSINESS WITH BIMODAL BI - Every Angle · the SAP data structure, SAP dictionary and...
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Governed Data Discovery & Self-Service Analytics on your SAP data - in just 3 days!
Cross-process analytics
Real business self-service
Understands SAP configuration
Plug-and-Play implementation
SAP certified(ECC & HANA)
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EMPOWER THE BUSINESS WITH BIMODAL BI
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Governed Data Discovery and Business User Self-Service Analytical power on SAP!Every Angle provides ‘real’ business user self-service and governed data discovery capabilities
Your bimodal BI challenge solved in less than a week!Plug-and-Play installation and implementation
So what does Every Angle offer that other BI tools do not?Actionable Insight vs Hindsight
1. Simplification of SAP dataSimplified SAP data that’s easy to understand
2: Built-in intelligenceAnalyze processes horizontally across the whole value chain
3: End user focused GUIFind answers to ad-hoc questions without IT assistance
Every Angle PlatformThe Every Angle platform consists of three components: Extractor, in-memory modelserver and self-service GUI.
Benefits of Every Angle for IT over other BI and self-service solutionsReduce Maintenance Effort, Free IT resources, Reduce Risk and Reduce the time to value. IT stays in control of the SAP-data usage.
SAP HANA and Every AngleBig data + Big insights
The Future of Every Angle: Constantly Innovating...• Three major areas of improvement that will be rolled-out in our
forthcoming software releases• Every Angle is excited by the development of S/4 HANA
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While most self-service solutions do allow business users to create their own reports and dashboards, it still requires a significant amount of IT time to design, curate, stage, test and maintain the data set. Plus, the business users are constrained to that pre-defined dataset.
This provides little benefit to the users over and above the visualization and drill down capabilities. The data being analyzed by the business is often just that – data. It brings no extra intelligence or understanding, resulting in these ad-hoc, critical business questions still remaining unanswered, and the users frustrated.
Not anymore.
Every Angle provides ‘real’ business user self-service and governed data discovery capabilities for SAP.
Why ‘real’? Because rather than just report, it actually understands the SAP data and the customizing behind it. Understands the connections between processes. Understands the master and transactional data setup.
Real because it allows business users to create their own analysis without:
Specialized help from data analysts or IT Significant implementation effort A new dataset to be developed Data curation or staging Constant IT support and maintenance.
Every Angle empowers business users with easy, engaging and empowering analytical tools that provide new insights, cross-process intelligence and added pre-calculated fields designed to provide answers to critical business questions, highlight exceptions, identify root causes and generally provide insights on open items that can be acted on immediately.
As the pace of change quickens in businesses, so does the pressure on IT to provide more than just reports. Businesses need more than big data; they need big answers.
There is a plethora of SAP reporting tools to currently choose from, both delivered by SAP and from a wide selection of 3rd party BI vendors, all offering advanced reporting and visualization capabilities on ECC, HANA or other databases.
Governed Data Discovery and Business User Self-Service Analytical power on SAP!
The trouble is, 90 per cent of all critical business questions that need answers are ad-hoc, arising from unpredictable events that occur daily throughout the business, resulting in IT being swamped with requests for easier access to key decision-making information.
This obviously costs IT departments big in terms of time, resources and money. The development of self-service analytics was supposed to provide the answer to this – but it hasn’t.
03IMPROVE OUTCOMES!CONTROL PROCESSES!UNDERSTAND ISSUES!
Easy to install! Every Angle is a SAP certified add-on, with approved integration with ECC and SAP HANA. It only requires 2-3 hours of IT support to setup, and follows a standard SAP installation procedure (DEV > QA > PROD) and is usually technically live with your actual data in 2 or 3 days.
Customizing aware!Every Angle is unique because of its built-in understanding of the SAP data structure, SAP dictionary and SAP customizing. Every Angle interprets these three, out-of-the-box, including being able to easily understand and include bespoke Z-Tables.
Easily integrates with 3rd Party BI ToolsAlready invested in data visualization tools like Tableau or Qlikview? Business users still frustrated with the lack of insight, and IT frustrated with the need to continually manage the dataset? No worries. Every Angle can feed into these BI systems seamlessly, resolving SAP data extraction and insight creation issues in one go.
Start adding value immediately! Every Angle doesn’t require extracted datasets to be developed and maintained by IT. Doesn’t require constant maintenance. Doesn’t require curating, manipulation or staging. This allows Every Angle to be plug-and-play without the need for extensive data source analysis.
Your bimodal BI challenge solved in less than a week!Every Angle’s built-in knowledge of SAP enables it to extract data from productive SAP databases automatically, enabling it to interpret your company’s SAP customizing settings, SAP application logic and SAP data. This ability enables a plug-and-play installation procedure, enabling Every Angle’s governed, self-service analytical power to be live in 3 days and immediately ready-to-use.
Compare this to the BI competition, all of which still require IT specialists to undertake the time consuming and error prone process of requirements analysis, dataset design, data selection, extraction, transfer and publishing.
Plug-and-Play installation and implementation
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Every Angle provides clear advantages over normal data visualization and reporting tools, distinguishing itself both in the solution itself, and in its implementation and ongoing maintenance. Every Angle solves the SAP self-service challenge through three clear and unique value propositions that empower business users to:
So what does Every Angle offer that other BI tools do not?
ACTIONABLE INSIGHT BEAUTIFUL HINDSIGHT
Solution characteristics
Implementation
Designed and built for the business end user / information consumers
• Built-in cross-process intelligence for supply chain and finance (order status, critical order analysis, root cause)
• End user self-service supporting GUI that enables business users to rapidly create their own analysis based on templates/diagrams
• Great and powerful GUI, but often for IT-savvy business people and data scientists
• Plug-and-Play 3 day implementation, due to the built-in knowledge of SAP’s application logic, data structure and customizing
Designed and built for IT-people or for IT-savvy business people/data scientists
• No additional business logic is available
• Lengthy and time consuming project that includes requirements analysis, dataset design, build, test, implementation and management
Every Angle Other Reporting tools
The Every Angle advantage: Actionable Insight vs Hindsight
1: Simplification of SAP data Enabling end users to understand and analyze complex business scenarios
2: Built-in intelligence Additional analytical fields that
provide new insights
3. End user, self-service GUIReleasing the business from needing IT
to build reports
KNOW MORE AND ACT FASTER:
• Simplification of access to ALL relevant transactional data through the Every Angle Objectmodel
• Slicing / Dicing / Dashboarding on an aggregated subset of the data within the constraints of the Data prepared by IT
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This is a translation of the complex SAP data into an end user-oriented terminology we call ‘Objects’. An Object is the digital representation of something which exists in reality (e.g. a material, a sales document, a customer, or a stock batch).
Each Object contains all relevant registered SAP fields (from all the connected SAP tables) and relationship to other objects (e.g. from purchase document item to PD header, material, info-record and vendor) as well as new fields that have been created as the result of calculations with algorithms (see ‘built-in intelligence’).
This model is then used to create the new cross-process calculations, fields and insight that you cannot get from SAP or any other reporting tool – such as highlighting which components on a late purchase order will directly customer service by delaying the production and delivery of a finished product that is in short supply.
Finally, we further simplify the data by creating an Activity Diagram for each process area, allowing users to easily select process control, data management or business performance insights for their area of the business.
This fundamental concept enables end users to perform their own data discovery, freeing them from their dependency on IT resources having to do this work – which allows these IT resources to focus on other priorities.
Every Angle provides real business user self-service through its ability to take complex SAP data, held in separate tables within SAP, and simplify it so that it can be understood by business users, not just SAP specialists.
To achieve this, Every Angle takes over 1,000 SAP tables - including customizing tables - and all of their related fields and domains, and converts them and their core inter-relationships into around 100 easy-to-understand ‘Objects’ contained in a unique Every Angle Object model.
1. Simplification of SAP data
P2P Activity Diagram
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1. Simplification of SAP data
This algorithm works cross-module (MM/SD/PP/QM) and cross-process, providing the capability to analyze the end-to-end supply chain processes within one single SAP system (across all plants, and all levels in the Bill-of-Material).
This enables business users to analyze stock, demand and planned receipts in order to identify and resolve:
Every Angle contains ‘Google style’ search functionality, allowing users to quickly find information by simply searching for key words.
Every Angle has also used its experience and knowledge of complex business scenarios to pre-build hundreds of ‘out-of-the-box’ analyses (which we call ‘templates’). These can easily be transformed into ‘Actionable insights’ or cross-process ‘Control Tower’ dashboards in minutes. This freedom to perform their own analytics unleashes business users investigative capabilities, providing them with immediate visibility of issues and their impact on the customer, empowering them with real insights that they can act upon and resolve issues before orders are shipped.
This enables them to maximize customer service, eliminate unnecessary costs, reduce waste, optimize inventory, manage risks and control data.
One of Every Angle’s primary differentiators is the fact that it is loaded with unique built-in cross-process supply chain intelligence. This added intelligence enables business users to analyze their processes horizontally across the whole value chain - from purchasing via production and warehousing and sales down to Fi/Co (dynamic approach).
The Every Angle Supply/Demand matching algorithm enables users to detect bottlenecks, understand backorders, highlight order pollution, spot delays, identify excess inventories or potential shortages and much more.
2. Built-in intelligence
Delays
Critical orders
Shortfalls
Polluted data
Risks
Bottlenecks
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Stock shortages
Unnecessary purchases
Orders at risk
Supply Chain bottlenecks
Excess inventories
Data and process exceptions
Firstly, users can create their own Angles and displays using predefined templates, found either by direct search or via Diagrams, which in turn can be executed immediately or automatically at pre-determined time intervals.
They can also easily create Angles with different displays in the form of lists, pivots and charts to their own liking.
Finally, Every Angle allows users to combine displays from different process areas into a personalized dashboard simply by clicking a button.
The combination of these 3 factors differentiates Every Angle from the competition that simply displays and reports on data, and means that Every Angle is the only solution that provides real bimodal business user self-service.
In business, every day is different and the issues that arise are often not known upfront. This means that different users want different insights at different times.
Instead of presenting your business team with a series of pre-defined reports produced by IT-literate people, Every Angle’s self-service GUI actually empowers business users to find the answers to these ad-hoc questions, without IT assistance.
Every Angle empowers business users to answer questions as they arise in the following ways:
3. End user, self-service GUI
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3. End user, self-service GUIThe Every Angle platform consists of three components, as the picture
highlights below, namely:
Every Angle Platform
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3rd party applications
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Frequently refreshed, data store with all
details
FEED TO BI
Certified SAP function module
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Extract data
Any SAP database / HANA
Browser / tablet
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This extraction process can be done multiple times per day, this has no impact on the SAP system performance and does not interfere with other processing that takes place. The general rule/estimate is that the Every Angle extractor is between 3 and 5% of the size of the SAP database.
Every Angle GUI / Output Alternatives
Every Angle offers a browser-based GUI that can be run on tablets and desktops. It also has a SAP Certified transaction code (ZEA03) that allows for the execution of Angles in SAP itself. Finally, it can also easily export its enhanced data to 3rd party BI or data visualization tools.
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Every Angle (in-memory) Model Server
Upon receiving the newly extracted data, Every Angle rebuilds the model (‘Refresh’). Every Angle uses configuration files outside the source code to build this model, which allows for a very rapid addition of Z-tables or Z-fields.
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Every Angle Extractor
The Every Angle Extractor takes either a full or delta (configurable) extraction from the relevant SAP tables. The content of the extraction is based on the business applications that the customer has licensed as well as the modules that have been activated. The extractor automatically interprets the master and transaction data, the SAP data dictionary and takes into account the customizing settings.
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Reduce Maintenance Effort Every Angle’s operational analytics adapts automatically to any changes in SAP configuration, and updates data accordingly.
Control master and transactional data and highlight inconsistencies.
Minimizes the maintenance overhead - no need for IT to keep having to ‘add’ fields, create calculations, amend reports – real self-service.
Free IT resources No more responding to numerous requests, writing technical specs and managing off-shore development for simple reports.
No need for IT to prepare, curate or manage a separate reporting data set.
Minimal ongoing IT assistance and support required, freeing.
Reduce Risk, Retain Control Dramatically reduce the number of off-SAP downloads and ABAP queries, removing the risk of having multiple versions of the truth in circulation.
Users don’t have direct access to data, ensuring data integrity.
Compliant to IT regulations - process is both configurable and controlled.
Reduce the time to value Immediately start delivering value – not after an expensive implementation project.
Find out if you have the right information in one day – not after weeks or months of development.
Simplify data warehouse and BI system designs, reducing the effort, risk and cost of long BI implementation projects.
Benefits of Every Angle over other BI and self-service solutions
Companies that use Every Angle experience a dramatic reduction in the amount of off-SAP downloads to tools like Excel, reducing business risks caused by users creating multiple versions of the truth. Better still, companies that use Every Angle report a significant improvement in user satisfaction in SAP – which translates to a better perception of the value IT delivers.
Reduce off-SAP downloads
Reducebusiness risks
Increase SAP user satisfaction
IncreaseIT value perception
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Every Angle is able to enhance HANA data in the same way that it enhances SAP data on other databases: 1| By simplifying the complexity of SAP data, enabling end users to have access to real analytical self-service capabilities.2| Through its Plug-and-Play installation, removing the need for extensive data transformation, modelling, curation, staging and testing.3| Through its proprietary and unique levels of built-in intelligence, extensive added analytics and actionable insight.4| Through the sheer ease of use, which reinforces the usability and value of end user self-service.
One question that potential customers ask again and again is ‘is Every Angle compatible with SAP HANA?’ The answer is an emphatic ‘yes’. Every Angle is a HANA value amplifier, not a bottleneck.
1 Superfast Extraction of ERP data from ‘ECC on HANA’
Every Angle is able to perform accelerated data extracts from ECC on HANA systems, either a full download or as a delta. Live case studies show a dramatic reduction in data download speeds from HANA, enabling users to access Every Angle’s insights quicker. This enables Every Angle to rapidly build its model and then enhance it with the extensive amounts of new fields, added intelligence and insights, before publishing the HANA sourced data to the business users in a ‘near real-time’ format.
2 Data extraction from HANA / execution and publication of HANA views in the Every Angle GUI
In addition to the added insight and intelligence that is provided out-of-the-box, Every Angle can execute HANA views in real-time and present the data to the business user in the Every Angle GUI. We can also extract data directly from HANA into Every Angle.
3 Publication of Every Angle content to a HANA data lake
Every Angle is able to export its value adding insight and added intelligence content directly to HANA. This can be done either (a) by exporting a dataset that is then imported into HANA, or (b) through a pull mechanism created via an ODBC connection directly into HANA.
Every Angle can work with the power of SAP ECC on HANA in three ways:
SAP HANA and Every AngleBig data + Big insights
If an upgrade to SAP ECC on HANA is on your current roadmap, then Every Angle is still something you really need in your organization. HANA may provide data faster, but it doesn’t make it any smarter. That’s where Every Angle comes in.
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Superfast extraction of ERP-data as with other DBMSs
Direct execution and publication of HANA-views in the Every Angle GUI
Direct data extract
HANA (sidecar)ECC on HANA
HANA as ‘Datalake’ZEA03 3rd party BI
Pull insights from EA into HANA
Export insights to HANA (‘push’)
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Constantly Innovating...
The Future of Every Angle
Advance the Architecture
To ensure Every Angle stays relevant to your needs, we will be enhancing its multi-source capability to include non-SAP data.We are also embedding our analytics into S/4 HANA, removing the need for a data
extract and making the analysis real-time.
Enhance the User Experience
We will be striving to simplify the whole user experience, making it as easy as
possible for non-technical people to use Every Angle. We will also ensure that
exporting our insight to other BI tools is fully supported.
Increase Insight and Intelligence
We will put more analytical power at the fingertips of business users by improving the
quality and quantity of our unique, out-of-the-box content, creating more insight,
more cross process visibility and answering even more critical business questions.
Here at Every Angle we are constantly looking at ways to improve and innovate in order to meet the needs of our customers. Our Every Angle 2018 product development plan contains three major areas of improvement that will be rolled-out in our forthcoming software releases:
1. EA Extractor for S/4 HANAThe table structure of S/4 HANA is significantly simplified compared to ECC. This means that Every Angle can execute a much faster and simplified data extraction process, resulting in more time being available to add even greater levels of business insight and intelligence to the data, resulting in the availability of even greater analytics to the end user with less latency.
2. Real-time execution of Angles in S/4 HANAS/4 HANA’s simplified table structure, in combination with the speed of execution provided by its in-memory technology, allows Every Angle to develop Angles directly on the S/4 HANA source data as well. This means that some of the value-added analytical power of Every Angle can be delivered in near real-time. For the more extensive calculations, such as the unique (and complicated) demand-supply matching algorithms that provide Every Angle with cross-process supply chain insight, the Every Angle Model Server will still be necessary.
We currently have two approaches to S/4 in development:
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