1. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 1 / 20 www.hilti.com BIA @ Hilti BI Accelerator Project ( BI Upgrade pre Project ) Buchs, September 2006

2. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 2 / 20 www.hilti.com Objectives Why did HILTI a Evaluation Project Top Down Project Approach Present the results of the BIA Test

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4. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 4 / 20 www.hilti.com Continuous Support and Improvement Q1Q2Q3Q4 2005 JFMAMJJASOND Q1Q2Q3Q4 2006 JFMAMJJASOND Q1Q2Q3Q4 2007 JFMAMJJASOND Q1Q2Q3Q4 2008 JFMAMJJASOND Q1Q2Q3Q4 2009 JFMAMJJASOND ICS = Intensive Care Support H2.6H2.7 H2.8 H2.10 H2.9 H2.11ERP Upgrade SAP NetWeaver Upgrade Cent. Comp. SCM Upgrade EP / Global Intranet PI BI Upgrade HR Upgrade CRM Upgrade ERP Upgrade NWDI Milestones are confirmed Global Intranet Rollout EDX, BC migration to PI

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7. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 7 / 20 www.hilti.com BI Accelerator for SAP NetWeaver BI (SAP) ● Performance speedup factor between 10 and 100 ● No additional User experience required ● Stable query response times ● High scalability ● Low maintenance ● Reduces TCO ● …

8. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 8 / 20 www.hilti.com Decision finding We need to verify the Facts before approving investment for the new Release SAP Demo Systems do not reflect our Data Models BIA is not running on our System Landscape with BW 3.x  Setup a Demo System with BI 7.0 & BIA using own Data Models and Data Own Experience Prototype for BI Upgrade Project learning's for Future Netweaver Project ROI

9. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 9 / 20 www.hilti.com How Can we Test BIA with our Cubes Define scope for Test Use Technical Content to identify the Usage of BW Queries Choose some Application areas which can represent the behavior of production system Get the Hardware / Software

10. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 10 / 20 www.hilti.com Analysis X99 + BIA X99 ( BI 7.0 ) BW 3.0 Timeline BIA Test BW HP / CTC BW/GBRCC Delivery Integration Setup 29-08 30-08 31-08 7-09 11-09 21-09 22-09 25-09 Connection E02  X99 Data Model transport Data load Test Reporting Evaluation Shutdown HP test system

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12. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 12 / 20 www.hilti.com Setup for the test ● 34 Queries based on 6 Different Areas DSR = Daily Sales Reporting CCH = Customer Complaint Handling NSP = NetSellingPrice Change CP 0 = Customer Plattform Level 0 APO = Auto Price Overwrites

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15. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 15 / 20 www.hilti.com Test results ● Reporting using Key Figures with Exception aggregation is not working properly ● Behavior of BIA when using non Cumulative Key Figures is still open ● BIA is not a “Black Box”  Knowledge and Support Required from own Basis team ● Different Results depending on Data Model Complexity and Data Volume

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17. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 17 / 20 www.hilti.com Additional advantage (Navigational Attributes) ● Use of Navigation Attributes is possible without high performance impact

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19. Business Intelligence Accelerator – Test Results, Samsa Ali 19 / 20 www.hilti.com Summary -With BIA Overall performance improvement for Standard Queries is factor 6-7 -Data Transfer / Data Migration can be done as planed for NW-Upgrade -Data clean-up of Master Data can be done during migration -Transport of BW 3.x objects are possible nearly for all objects -Data Load runtimes / DB writes and updates are much faster ( >5 ) with new Hardware/Software ( comparison Current HILTI BW System with future BI System )  Hilti will use BIA starting July 2007.

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