Making Better Informed Channel Decisions with Enterprise Business Intelligence

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Channel Focus Webinar Making Better Informed Channel Decisions with Enterprise Business Intelligence Jeff Staley Director, Industry Solutions Group SAP Americas, Inc.

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As organizations seek additional ways to increase brand awareness and generate demand, vendors increasingly view channel marketing funds as an effective means to leverage the budgets of their channel partners. This session addresses implementation best practices that ensure effectiveness of the funded activities, the efficiency of the funds and claims process, as well as legal compliance ramifications.

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Channel Focus WebinarMaking Better Informed Channel Decisions with Enterprise Business Intelligence

Jeff StaleyDirector, Industry Solutions GroupSAP Americas, Inc.

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The evolution of Enterprise Business Intelligence

Best practices for making better informed decisions

Summary and future trends

Agenda

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EnterpriseFocused

2000’s

IT

Biz

BICOE

DepartmentFocused

IT

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SystemFocused

1990’s

IT

Biz

Shadow IT

Business Standards

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UserInvolvement

Time

Past: information push by IT IT responsible for information delivery

IT centric, static processes only Months to years to implement IT spend 90% on mundane tasks

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Shadow IT

EnterpriseFocused

2000’s

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DepartmentFocused

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Biz

SystemFocused

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eNow: information pull by business IT focus on managing services levels

User centric, in context of processes Agility, faster time of value Strategic IT, lower cost

Process- & User Focused(Intra- / Inter Enterprise)

2005+

Biz

IT

BPX

EIMCOE

EIM Infrastructure

“Process of Me”

Performance Optimization Apps

Processing

Access

Business Standards

UserInvolvement

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Benefits of Enterprise Business Intelligence for Channel Management

Allocate go-to-market partner investments based on the ability to generate revenue and new customers

Enhance sales execution and allocation of resources through visibility into partner pipelines

Measure effectiveness of collaborative marketing to maximize revenue

Enhance channel partner effectiveness through product and offer recommendations

Understand end customers, buying patterns and segments

Maximize customer satisfaction by measure and managing partner service delivery

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The evolution of Enterprise Business Intelligence

Best practices for making better informed decisions Organizing your data into a single version of the truth Cleansing the various silos of information into usable constructs Building effective dashboards Developing role-based analytics for every level of decision maker Incorporating flexible real-time and ad-hoc reporting capabilities

Summary and future trends

Agenda

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Key Channel Management Processes

MarketingFunds

Management

MarketingFunds

Management

Order Mgmt& ChannelCommerce

Order Mgmt& ChannelCommerce

Complaints& Returns

Management

Complaints& Returns

Management

CustomerService

Management

CustomerService

Management

Channel Inventory Tracking

Channel Inventory Tracking

Lead / OpptyManagementLead / OpptyManagement

PriceProtection

PriceProtection

Revenue, Incentives &

Compensation

Revenue, Incentives &

Compensation

Customer

Partner Channel Manager

Partner Employee

POS/ResaleTracking &Reporting

POS/ResaleTracking &Reporting

PartnerManagement& Contracts

PartnerManagement& Contracts

Information &Training

Information &Training

Marketing &Programs

Marketing &ProgramsPartner

& ChannelAnalytics

Partner& ChannelAnalytics

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Data Owners of Key Channel Management Processes

MarketingFunds

Management

MarketingFunds

Management

Order Mgmt& ChannelCommerce

Order Mgmt& ChannelCommerce

Complaints& Returns

Management

Complaints& Returns

Management

CustomerService

Management

CustomerService

Management

Channel Inventory Tracking

Channel Inventory Tracking

Lead / OpptyManagementLead / OpptyManagement

PriceProtection

PriceProtection

Revenue, Incentives &

Compensation

Revenue, Incentives &

Compensation

Customer

Partner Employee

POS/ResaleTracking &Reporting

POS/ResaleTracking &Reporting

PartnerRegistration& Contracts

PartnerRegistration& Contracts

Information &Training

Information &Training

Marketing &CampaignsMarketing &CampaignsPartner

& ChannelAnalytics

Partner& ChannelAnalytics

Marketing

Sales

Finance

Legal

Service

MarketingLegal

MarketingSales

Marketing Marketing

MarketingFinance

SalesMarketing

SalesFinance

SalesFinance

MarketingSales

FinanceSales

Finance

FinanceService

Service

SalesFinance

PROFILE

JOINT BIZ PLAN

CONTACTS

CONTRACTS

CERTIFICATIONS

SEGMENTATION

REGISTRATION

Partner Database

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Today’s Technology CapabilitiesConsolidate, harmonize and centrally manage master data

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Today’s Technology Eases Data ManagementConsolidate, harmonize and centrally manage master data

Consolidation data from multiple source systems

Direct database access, extract flat files, 3rd party application data, XML sources, many more..

Single pass data transformation, Auto-mapping, Validation Rules, Exception handling

Business Users can define matching rules, complex matching strategies, conduct data profiling, enrich data

Data Enrichment using vendor solutions like Trillium, D & B and other partners for address completion, company validation and enriching data

Search and compare records, identify sub-attributes for consolidation in sub-second response times

Merge Records seamlessly, tracking source systems with built in key mappings

Leverage standard data models for consolidated data

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Today’s Technology Eases Data ManagementConsolidate, harmonize and centrally manage master data

Leverage built in workflow to manage compliance process, ensure administrators can validate imported records

Enforce data governance through user roles, security, workflow, audits to prevent future data problem

Syndicate master data to all enterprise applications

Refer new entries to central master data system

Leverage validation rules to enforce data integrity

Manage rich content set and relationships associated with master data record

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Best Practice: Ongoing Process for Maintaining Superior Data Quality

Key MappingProvide cross-system identification to ensure enterprise-wide data quality

Clean Master DataClean Master Data

Clean Master Data

Mapping & ConversionNormalize and

standardize information

Validations & Assignments

Ensure compliance according to defined

criteria

Enrichment Architecture

Achieve more complete and meaningful master data

Matching & Merging

De-duplicate recordsfor unambiguous and consistent

master data

WorkflowsLeverage built in

workflows to manage compliance process

Ensuring Data Quality is the First step to Enterprise SOA and Web 2.0

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The foundation of dashboard buildingVisualization and Reporting

Interactive data visualization

Seamless MS Office integration

Enterprise class formatted reporting

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Dashboards – The ROI is Real

50% of companies have ROI of $500K - $1M+

Half of all companies achieve positive ROI in less than one year by implementing dashboards

Dashboards represent 25% - 50% of analytics budgets

Decision making and visualization represent the highest value and they are key drivers for dashboards

Source: Hurwitz Research

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Role-based Analytics and Dashboards

C-Level Executive

Channel Manager

Partner Sales Rep

SVP of Channels

Account / Territory Performance

Partner Team Performance

Channel Organization Performance

Corporate Performance

Place the right information into the hands of decision makers at every level of the value chain

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Flexible Ad-hoc Reporting

Easy-to-use interface for casual end user

reporting

Powerful query features

Leverage business friendly ‘semantic layer’

to hide complexity

Self-service reporting and analysis,

autonomy from IT

Simple user interface, designed for the

masses

Combine data from multiple data sources in

a single report

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Enterprise Query, Reporting and Analysis

Analysis and Sharing of OLAP

Data – designed for business analysts

Enterprise Query and Reporting via

the Web

Finding relevant information fast

with Search

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The evolution of Enterprise Business Intelligence

Best practices for making better informed decisions Organizing your data into a single version of the truth Cleansing the various silos of information into usable constructs Building effective dashboards Developing role-based analytics for every level of decision maker Incorporating flexible real-time and ad-hoc reporting capabilities

Summary and future trends

Agenda

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Understand your most profitable products, best customers and best performing partners

Gain insights by integrating transactional data from heterogeneous systems with master data for analysis

Benefit: Improved Business IntelligenceDeliver unique insights with an integrated platform

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TRANSACTIONAL DATA =MASTER

DATA

BUSINESS INSIGHT

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All Information

Unified View

Trusted decision quality

One Platform

Complete integrated data and BI services

Adaptive and extensible services

Choice of delivery model

All People

Full-spectrum BI

Next generation user experience

Alignment of teams & business networks

Business Intelligence DeliversFor the Channel

Cloud DataUnstructured Data

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Predictive AnalysisDeploy anywhere…

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Thank you!

Jeff Staley

SAP America, Inc.3410 Hillview AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94304 USA

T: +1 510 396 0156F: +1 650 847 2824

[email protected]