Customer case study - HANA and SAP BusinessObjects July 24, 2014 Presenter: Andrew Abdalla / i telligence ASUG Illinois-Chicago Chapter Meeting

Agenda  Who we are  Understand the business challenges  Review the solution  Show the results

Agenda  Who we are  Understand the business challenges  Review the solution  Show the results

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 reluctant to 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  Understand the business challenges  Review the solution  Show the results

 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

Agenda  Who we are  Understand the business challenges  Review the solution  Show the results

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 ServicesHANAWebi# Seconds InitialLight Heavy50 IntermediateLightModerateLight15 FinalModerate Light6

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

Agenda  Who we are  Understand the business challenges  Review the solution  Show the results

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