Hosted by Facing Today’s Data Warehouse Challenges W H Inmon Father of Data Warehousing
Hosted by ERP Non- ERP BW ERP BW BW with an ERP source BW with a heterogeneous source One of the issues of today
Hosted by What the end user gets out of a data warehouse…. New requirements Quick analysis Reconcilability Inexpensive analysis Single source of data Historical data Integrated data Easy to access data Frustration!
Hosted by Characteristics of the best implementations Data at the finest level of granularity Data coming from a wide variety of sources Ability to handle large volumes of data
Hosted by Characteristics of the best implementations Data quality Editing, cleansing of data
Hosted by SAP’s infrastructure: - Complete - Proven - Not in release Continuing to improve
Hosted by Management and organizational buy in because SAP presents a solution
Hosted by Benefits of Implementation The granular data that is at the heart of the DW Extreme flexibility!
Hosted by Benefits of Implementation The cost of information is lowered dramatically by having a data warehouse…..
Hosted by Benefits of Implementation Traceability of data which leads to greater accountability
Hosted by Achieving The Implementation Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day n Iterative development
Hosted by Achieving The Implementation An infrastructure and architectural roadmap
Hosted by Where The Industry Is Headed Much greater volumes of data
Hosted by Where The Industry Is Headed Analytics – direct business payoff
Hosted by Where The Industry Is Headed Into the public sector
Hosted by Final Word At long last, real business advantage is a reality
Hosted by Final Word Churn analysis
Hosted by Final Word Elasticity analysis
Hosted by Final Word Profitability analysis
Hosted by Final Word Global inventory management
Hosted by Final Word The 360-degree view of the customer
Hosted by SAP BW Non-SAP data warehouse What happens when there are two data warehouses?
Hosted by SAP BW Non-SAP data warehouse It all depends on the extent of the business overlap