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Welcome to Session 110
Make Technology Work for You
in a Cost–Conscious Environment
Sponsored by: Presented by:
Mike Tatara
Manager, Product Marketing
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Agenda
• Challenges and problems
• ERP technology today
• Benefits of this technology
• Making it work
• Q&A
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Challenges & Problems
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Growing Partner Demands
• More service
• More knowledge
• More support
“Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” –Warren Buffet
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Inventory: What, Where, When, How
• Unpredictable demand
• Supply chain complexity
• Longer, more variable lead times
• Rising freight costs
• Growing number of trade-offs
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Globalization and Diversification
• Sourcing from new markets
• Selling into new markets
• New channel requirements
• New languages, regulations,
taxing structures
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The Growth Imperative
Despite:
• Shrinking budgets
• Less capital
spending
• Workforce
“stabilization”
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Technology Changes Rapidly
There will be a quiz
everyday!
IT Management
• Business process
• Software design
and development
• Hardware requirements
and infrastructure
• Project management
• Client and partner management
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ERP Technology Today
“Information technology and business are becoming
inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk
meaningfully about one without the talking about the
other.” –Bill Gates
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ERP is Expanding
Business
Management Embedded
Business Intelligence (BI)
& User-Centric Interface
Mobility & Cloud / SaaS
Best Practices &
Smart Deployment
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Service-Oriented Architecture
1. Individually
addressable
components
2. Customizable
3. Open standards (XML
& Web services)
4. Configurable BPM
5. Engines for global
operations
6. Distributed or local
data scenarios
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Data Replication Master Data Management
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Business Architecture: Choice
and Flexibility • Aligns ERP with the tools
and devices business
people use today
• Enhance and enforce agile business processes at the business level
• Fuses SOA and Web 2.0 to harness the power of collaboration
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• Small, reusable applications accessed through XML
• Allows applications and data to be communicated across the Internet or intranet
• Interact in a language and operating system independent manner
Web Services
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Industry Specific Functionality
“Today’s increasing complexity of business
processes requires solutions that are tailored to
respective industry challenges.
Vendors…must provide preconfigured best-
practice packages to unlock access to new
enhanced capabilities.”
Forrester Research, Inc. 2010
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Benefits Include:
• Rapid implementation and adoption of
application modules
• Greater efficiency through best practices
• Increased compliance – regulatory and
reporting
• Business and industry focused development
• Improved operational visibility and transparency
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Putting it all Together
Today’s
ERP
“The new information
technology... Internet
and e-mail... have
practically eliminated
the physical costs of
communications.”
– Peter Drucker
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Connected People, Processes, and Applications
Un-tethered Local
Enterprise Mobility Handheld, MES
“On-site applications for tasks on the move.”
Mobile Sales & Service
“Robust field applications for ruggedized devices.”
Wireless Remote
ERP Everywhere™
“Web access and updates on the go for any device.”
Internet Anywhere
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Benefits of Enterprise Mobility • Extends ERP – maximizes worker uptime
and flexibility
• Speeds information flow and decision
making
• Reduces operational and transactional
costs
• Provides access to a rapidly growing
online and m-Commerce generation
• Real-time mobile applications improve
customer service and satisfaction
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Where Does BI Really Make a
Difference?
In the context of what you are doing now,
based on your role within the business
and always in real time
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Actionable Analytics
• Utilizes Key Performance
Indicators
• Extends business activity
monitoring = Smarter BI stack
• View impact of daily
operational performance on
longer term goals
• Links BI / performance canvas
to the ERP ROI Calculator
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In-memory Analytics
• Loads and processes data in random
access memory (RAM)
• Accessing data becomes significantly
faster than from an on-disk database
• RAM and hardware costs are now making
this more viable
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Benefits of Business Intelligence
• Real-time information
• Role-based empowerment
• Improves operational efficiency
and predictability
• Establishes a culture of high
performance
• Implementation of BI enterprise
wide
• Drives smarter business decisions
through insight
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The User Experience is Changing
• Touch-sensitive displays everywhere (not just
tablets)
• More natural than a mouse
Disruptive technology
• Windows 8 is a game changer
• Everything people like about iPads
• Everything developers like
about .NET
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Outside of Work, People…
• Find what they need by searching iteratively
• Expect rich user experiences
• Use their favorite devices and applications
• Don’t need to coordinate with an IT department
Why should inside work be any different?
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Web 2.0
• Collaborative thinking over institutional thinking
• Coupling the Internet, peoples’ inherent IT skills,
and enterprise software
• Social curiosity and healthy competition
• Discovery and independence enable individuals
to be more innovative, which is key to business
agility – “Serendipitous Reuse”
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Benefits of UX and Web 2.0
• Lowers training / usage costs through simplified
user interface and greater search capabilities
• Lowers innovation costs through visibility to
ideas – fostering of collaboration and creativity
• Reduces response time to business matters
• Reduces the cost of knowledge and talent
acquisition and retention
• Leverages people and technology as a source of
sustainable competitive advantage
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SaaS – Software as a Service
Driven by:
• Broadband bandwidth
• Virtualization
• Evolution of product architecture
• Evolution of vendors
• Tough economy
• Culture (i.e., Web 2.0)
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SaaS – Benefits Financial
• Simple pricing /
predictable expense
• Smaller initial expense /
broader deployment of
capital / faster ROI
• Operational expense, not
capital expense
• Reduced long-term IT
costs
• Lower cost of ownership
Operational
• Quick implementation
• Simplified software
management
• Improved services levels
• Software and hardware
always up-to-date
• Better deployment of IT
resources
• Security and redundancy
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Infrastructure
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Virtualization
1 + 1 = 3
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Virtualization Key Features
Hardware Independence
Run a virtual machine on any
server without modification
Partitioning
Run multiple virtual machines
simultaneously on a single server
Isolation
Each virtual machine is isolated
from other virtual machines.
Encapsulation
Entire virtual machine is saved in
files and can be moved and copied
by moving and copying files
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Diagnostics and Tracking
• Solutions that analyze availability, performance and
configuration monitoring, and analysis
• Automated root cause analysis minimizes downtime,
avoids bottlenecks, reduces costs
• Solutions for the provisioning, management and
tracking of mobile devices
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Summary of Benefits
Adaptability Insight Productivity
Partnership Efficiency Execution
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Making it Work
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Okay…
So How Do We Get Started?
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1. What Do We Need to do and
How?
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2. Who Can Help Us?
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Aggravating Inevitable Okay
3. Change is…?
Difficult Exciting
Too much Fun
Overwhelming
Necessary
Scary
Impossible For the sake of change
Annoying Exhilarating
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4. It Takes Expertise
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5. Resources, Resources,
Resources!
• Time
• Money
• People
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Conclusion
“The underlying principles of strategy
are enduring, regardless of technology
or the pace of change.”
–Michael Porter
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