SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts 4.0

INTRODUCTION

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BUSINESS CHALLENGES

FEATURES OF RAPID MARTS

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

DWH USING SAP RAPID MARTS

BENEFITS TO BUSINESS USERS

BUSINESS CHALLENGES

A restrictive user interface

No Customized Reporting capability

Limited cross-module reporting

No Graphical Views of the Reports

Custom ETL development takes too long to implement

High dependency on IT resources

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SOLUTION OVERVIEW

• Prepackaged and flexible Data Mart solution (Readymade solution) on ERPs

• All Rapid Marts are ERP specific and Application specific

• Can be implemented in weeks instead of months and quarters

• Accelerates Data Warehouse implementation process with low cost

• Rapid Mart packages are available for ERPs – SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Seibel

• Rapid Marts Versions – XI R2, XI 3.0, XI 3.2 & XI 4.0

Rapid Marts

FEATURES OF RAPID MARTS

• A Simple Solution to your Business Analytics Challenges are SAP Rapid Marts

• SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts packages are modular blueprints for building data marts with SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and SAP BusinessObjects BI

• Each Rapid Mart is designed to address the reporting needs of a specific business area (or department) like accounting, sales, or purchasing.

• Rapid Marts provide your business with an accelerated time to value through rapid BI deployments

• Preconfigured ETL mappings and data transformation logic reduces implementation time

• Pre-built universes are configured to allow ad-hoc BI queries and re-use

• Rapid Marts are flexible templates that you can adjust to account for these unique situations.

• You can implement Rapid Marts quickly and easily customize them to meet specific analytic requirements.

FEATURES OF RAPID MARTS

• SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts are Robust, Modular, Mature

• Deliver rapid insight

• Increase flexibility

• Reduce costs

• SAP ERP Sources

Financial Operational Manufacturing Human Capital Mgmt

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SAP Solutions

Rapid Marts

SAP BusinessObjects BI

Universes,

Initial reports + Dashboards

DB schema + Data Models

SAP BusinessObjects

Data Services

Business Users

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

Following are the 12 Rapid Mart packages available for SAP ERP SolutionRapid Marts for SAP Solution

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Accounts Receivable (AR)

Accounts Payable (AP)

Cost Center (CC)

General Ledger (GL)*

Human Resource (HR)

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Fixed Assets (FA)

Inventory (IN)

Purchasing (PR)

Production Planning (PP)

Plant Maintenance (PM)

Project Systems (PS)

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

• Data Model (SQL Script Files)*

• DDL for Schema creation

• Recommended Joins and Indexes

• ETL workflows for initial and incremental data (ATL File)

• Job Recovery framework

• Sample Universes, SQL and Reports (BIAR File)

• Technical and Business Analysis Documentation

Rapid Mart package contains the following content:

Rapid Marts Content

Steps in Typical Analytical Project …

Gather Business Requirements (Business Analyst)

Define Data Content/Data Model (Data Modeler)

Define Data Sources (ERP Expert)

Define Source to Target Mappings (ETL Expert/Biz Analyst)

Design Data Validation (ETL Expert)

Design Error Recovery (ETL Expert)

Write the relevant code (ETL Expert)

Implement and Test (Project Manager)

Gather Feedback

Extend, Customize and Adopt

Deploy

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Years!

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

Steps in Typical Analytical Project with Rapid MartsNo need to start from scratch thanks to Rapid Marts

Takes Weeks!

Gather Business Requirements (Business Analyst)

Define Data Content/Data Model (Data Modeler)

Define Data Sources (ERP Expert)

Define Source to Target Mappings (ETL Expert/Biz Analyst)

Design Data Validation (ETL Expert)

Design Error Recovery (ETL Expert)

Write the relevant code (ETL Expert)

Implement and Test (Project Manager)

Gather Feedback

Extend, Customize and Adopt

Deploy

Prebuilt

DWH USING SAP RAPID MARTS

Time for Data Warehouse implementation using SAP BOBJ products, involved in putting efforts and risks in each function of a Data Warehouse i.e. data modeling, ETL design, Schema designing and reports development.

We can reduce the risk, efforts, cost and time by using Rapid Mart packages in DWH implementation, this is because availability of

• Ready made Data Model script files

• Ready made ETL Transformations

• Ready made schema (Universe)

• Ready made Reports & Dashboards

No SMEs and Architects required for implementation and takes less time to Go-Live

DWH Implementation Time = t(Deployment of RM content) + t(Customization of RM)

BENEFITS TO BUSINESS USERS

Accelerates Data Warehouse implementation process with low cost

Time for Data Warehouse implementation using SAP BOBJ Rapid Marts is much more faster than traditional approach

A fully customizable set of reports and dashboards

Preconfigured ETL mappings and data transformation logic reduce implementation time

Easily customizable components that reduce initial time-to-deploy and enable self-service analytics for users

Reduction of IT resources involvement

Reduce on-going maintenance costs.

Benefits