Copyright © 2000 SAS EMEA

ERP StrategyWednesday 11:45

Patrick XhonneuxHead of Business Development

Agenda

IntroductionThe Power to KnowTM

Get more and faster knowledge out of your ERP System with SASKnowledge Solutions

Business CasesKnowledge Solutions in practice: what benefit can you expect?

Future DirectionsHow can SAS serve you even better in the future?

Conclusion

Introduction

Why a paper on ERP Strategy?SAS is now recognised as leader for developing Data Warehousesfor ERP systems*After the « HOW can you help with my ERP system?» question,customers are now asking « How FAST can you help me and howcan you help to not ‘reinvent the wheel’ (reduced cost, packagedbusiness applications,…)? »SAS has built extensive on-site business expertise and you shouldbenefit from itThe shift from ERP Implementation to ERP Information Exploitationis a top issue on most decision makers’ agenda and a proven ERPROI is most wanted

* Source: Hurwitz BalancedView BulletinArpil 18, 2000

Why this paper?

Recent independent studies* show that SAS leadsthe path of ERP data warehousing :

SAS understood that ERP (and especially SAP R/3)users need and prefer packaged solutions for datawarehousingSAS meets both principal requirements for ERP datawarehousing

Packaging RequirementsTechnical Requirements

* Source: Hurwitz BalancedView BulletinArpil 18, 2000

Why this Paper?

Packaging Requirements*Prebuilt data extraction and transformation routines specificallydeveloped for the ERP systemPredefined schema for populating a data warehouse or data martsfrom the ERP systemPackaged reports, analysis, and queries for the predefined schema

Technical Requirements*Built-in CDC specific for the ERP EnvironmentBuilt-in extraction and flattening of ERP hierarchies (SAP) to preparethem for OLAP and reportingAutomatic generation of ABAP code (SAP).

But SAS has a strategy to go further than just ERPdata warehousing

*Source: Hurwitz BalancedView BulletinArpil 18, 2000

In two years time…

ERP Implementation ERP Roll-Out ERP Production

Expectation Level

Frustration Level?

High

LowTime

Information Need

…the pain has grown…

While SAS’ Information Delivery focus hasevolved towards Business Applications

S

PC AStrategic Planning

ProductsAssetsCustomersSource: Frontline Decision-making -

The Forrester Report - June 1999

EVAROA

BudgetingBalanced scorecard

Churn C.R.M.

CampaignMgt

ClickstreamCustomer

Profitability

ConsolidationHR MgtA.B.C.

Risk MgtA.L.M.Fraud

Analysis

S.R.M.S.C.M.TotalQuality MgtChannelevaluationSLA & IT

Enterprise Analytic Applications

From tools to applications:A decisive market shift

Tools

Applications

PC A

Strategic Planning

ProductsAssetsCustomers

S

From Software Solutions to…

Business requirementSoftware solution

What about manageability ?What about efficiency ?

What about costs ?

Business requirementSoftware solution

From Software Solutions to…

Knowledge Solutions

Let’s look for clusters

What is a Knowledge Solution?

Intelligent Software Consulting Best Practices

…packaged to solve specific business problems

Knowledge Solutions for ERP

Financial Consolidation and Reporting

Supplier Relationship Management

Human Resources Analysis

Sales Order Analysis

Retail Industry Template

IT Service Delivery

Human Resources Analysis

A set of simple, integrated,processes

SAP /HRMaster DataPayroll data (cluster table)Time data (cluster table)…

Other sources

MS ExcelPC filesFlat Files

Get the Data

Turn it to Info

Produce theKnowledge

All in 1 !

Ready to use templates

Standard extraction routinesPredefined data transformation and cleaningroutinesPredefined subjects (e.g. HeadcountAnalysis, Absences Analysis,…)Standard, pre-defined Data Marts / DataWarehouse Processes

HR Templates 1 HR Knowlede Solution:Business Templates

Native Extraction Enginefor the ERP system (here

SAP)

Additional tools thatfasten implementation

Predefined Extractionroutines

Predefined informationcreation processes

Cleaning, Mapping,Joins to get a ready-to-use information subject

Predefined reports andsimple analysis

Financial Consolidation& Reporting

R/3 PerformanceManagement

Other Examples

Business Cases at SeUGI 18

…Check the Leveraging ERP stream for successful stories

A new process-based IT landscape for a German telco:SAS, SAP and a central internet portal (Wednesday 15:00)Magia: Global Management of accounting collections(Wednesday 17:45)Coal Coating quality on the web (Thursday 09:00 )A data mart on top of SAP HR, a practical Experience atElectrabel (Thursday 15:00)Purchasing budget and price evolution: two innovative ‘closeloop’ projects (Thursday 15:45)

Future Directions

Provide more and more knowledge solutionsContinue to enrich methodology through (e.g.)best practices documentation

Close the loop between Knowledge Solutionsand ERP SystemsAdd technical functionalities to existingextraction engines (BAAN, SAP R/3, SAPBW,…)

8e: an architecture to integrateback to operational systems (ERP)

Attend AllanRussell’s Plenary

Session !

Technology update

SAS/ACCESS to SAP R/3More platforms supported: ACCR3 GUI available on: Sun Solaris, AIX (RS/6000), HP-UX, Windows

95/98/NT (Intel), Tru64 UNIX Alpha, OpenVMS Alpha, OpenVMS VAX, OS/2,Intel ABI (NCR MP-RAS), SGI IRIX

ACCR3 RFC server available on: Sun Solaris, AIX (RS/6000), HP-UX,Windows NT (Intel), Tru64 UNIX Alpha, Windows NT (Alpha), RFC server onUNIX or NT accessing R/3 application server on AS/400

Several enhancements Dictionary Extraction Wizard Only relevant tables shown in attribute windows New utility to compare R/3 data dictionaries Add-in available for multiple extractions Experimental true batch support …

Technology update

SAS/ACCESS to SAP BW:

- Navigate the SAP BW architecture in a(very) easy way (InfoAreas, InfoCubes,…)- Load SAP BW Metadata with a ‘click’- Create an InfoCube with a ‘click’- Export InfoCube Metadata for multdimensional analysis in SAS/EIS

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ERP StrategyThank you for your attention

Patrick XhonneuxHead of Business Development