1. Getting synergies from rapid access to data
Jon Oluf Brodersen – CIO Nokas Group

2. About Nokas
North European cash management and guarding company – in all 10 different business areas
Founded in 1987 by two brothers (Wang) out of Tønsberg, Norway
Currently 100 shareholders and all of senior management among them
Currently 7500 employees and annual turnover of 4.3 billion NOK of witch 40% generated outside Norway
13 cash depots in Norway (6), Sweden (4) and Denmark (3)
300 cash/valuable transport routes
225 fixed mobile response unit routes
85 offices in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, 190,000 customers
We have conducted 73 acquisitions – the last 5 of them to be considered large (in total more that 2 billon NOK in revenue)
Significant growth through self financed M&As.
Focus now is towards organic growth, but further acquisitions are also to be expected

3. About BI Builders
BI Builders is a Norwegian software company founded in 2011, with a mission to
optimize the resources spent on Business Intelligence solutions as well as increasing data quality and reliability
Have developed the Extract- Load- and Transform- (ETL) system Xpert BI
The Xpert BI solution includes data warehouse architecture and methodologies as well as best practices right out-of-the-box

4. The Challenge
Merger of two large Norwegian manned guarding companies (Nokas Norway and former G4S Norway)
Numerous projects required, but synchronizing business processes and establishing a common ground for a single business culture was by far the largest one.
G4S Norway was utilizing a well developed SAP system tightly integrated with numerous other critical business systems
Nokas was running a highly customized AX3.0 in parallel with a number of other critical business systems.
A new consolidated ERP platform (AX12 R3) was chosen as the path to follow.
Extracting and migrating complex datasets from two old platforms into a single new posted a challenge in itself.
In addition we had to maintain full integrity of old data according to existing law. We wanted to be able to do this outside of the old platforms.

5. Solution
Quick deliveries were seen as pivotal due to the challenge of running two ERPs in parallel.
Using the BI Builders’ product Xpert BI to extract information from the SAP environment, and reshaping this rather non accessible information into useful data for migration and look-up purposes.
Using BI Builders tools to feed AX12 migration framework and hence obtaining a quality assurance on migrated data.
Creating a approachable solution for the SAP dataset that would allow for access to historical transactions without any connections to or use of the old SAP platform. The final solution must satisfy external auditors demand for tracing financial transactions.
Use of QlikView and Excel accessing the Xpert BI data warehouse which provides a structured and well formatted model. This makes this a strategic enterprise solution and not a tactical fix related to a merger.

6. The project in numbers
5 people involved in the execution of the project
5 days of actual delivery work
1 day:
Communication between SAP expert and data warehouse consultant in BI Builders to identify the source scope
4 days:
Definition of one integrated data model to store the data in MS SQL Server
Extraction of data from SAP
Quality Assurance of data stored in MS SQL Server
The source data in the SAP solution encompassed Finance Accounting, Asset Accounting, Human Resource & Payroll, Material Management, Plant Maintenance, Sales & Distribution
300 tables in the SAP source with more than 300 Gb of data, became ca 250 tables in a single integrated MS SQL model
NOKAS
1 Project manager,
1 database administrator,
1 external SAP consultant
BI Builders
1 Sr. ETL consultant
Project Execution

7. Example of the source SAP timesheet and related tables

8. The process and the environment
5 days

9. Example of result Using the same timesheet date

10. Experienced gained
Saving money and shifting culture towards common ground by turning of SAP
Fast implementation means low utilization of key internal resources
Building a data warehouse for the SAP data in such a short time is a first time for us.
The result was an understandable and open structure that allows us to use historical SAP data as permanent source for future analysis and prognosis.
The end result was easy to fit into our current MS SQL/QlikView environment
The Xpert BI product and the methodology utilized where metadata from source is transformed into a understandable model, was of great importance for us in order to take real ownership to SAP data and proved to be very efficient.
The BI expert software in combination with their expertise is a good value proposition

11. Our thinking moving forward Guiding principle: Biggest bang for the buck
Reporting across multiple data warehouses using QlikView
Different reporting tools for specialized reporting against a single data warehouse
Multiple specialized and integrated SQL data warehouses that reflect functional areas
Xpert BI feed
New M&As
LOB systems

12. Questions