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Water Technologies

IBI/WebFocus

Pittsburgh Users Forum

Thursday Oct. 18, 2012

Presented by: Susan Swanger

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Siemens Water Technologies

Siemens Water Technologies (SWT)

Part of the Industrial Sector of Siemens AG - a 160 year old global electronic and engineering company with 336,000 employees worldwide.

SWT provides comprehensive, cost-effective and reliable water treatment products, systems and services ranging from water supply and conventional water treatment processes to wastewater reuse systems, membrane bioreactors, UV disinfection systems and RO cleaning contracts.

Our products and services are designed to help keep cities safe, or your company profitable.

SWT IT is Headquartered in Warrendale, PA

5400 Employees Worldwide, over 4500 in the US

120 Branch Offices

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SWT BI Team

Susan Swanger:

Graduated from University of Pittsburgh with a degree in MIS

Analyst/Programmer for 15 years

Employed by Siemens for over 12 years

A lead analyst on the Siemens BI Team

SWT BI Team:

1 Project Manager

1 Security Admin

2 ETL Developers

4 WebFocus Developers 2 WebFocus Developers double as the Server Admins

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SWT Business Challenge

Prior to 2007 SWT had 26 different ERP systems across SWT worldwide

Three year “Fusion” project consolidated all ERP systems to SAP

Limited flexibility of reporting in SAP drove the need for a reporting & BI tool

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Reasons for Choosing IBI/WebFocus

Ease of use

Quick turnaround for report creation

Ad hoc abilities Info Assist

Guided Ad Hoc

Ability to access multiple data sources

Dashboarding capabilities

Active report capabilities Excel like features

Create charts and graphs on the fly

Ability to email reports

Fully interactive offline

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Implemented WebFocus January 2010 – 7.7.02

Current Version – 7.7.03

Main Users Sales

Production Planning

Engineering Projects

Finance

Supply Chain Management

Currently 672 users

Only 64 reports

SWT Web Focus Implementation

Ability to add/remove columns, change the order of columns and change the aggregation level - allows one report to serve multiple Roles within the Organization

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Internal

External – Customers, Partners,

SWT WebFOCUS Technologies - WebFOCUS, DevStudio, Report Caster, MRE, Active Reports, Flex Enable, and InfoAssist

Email

Dashboard

Guided Ad Hoc

InfoAssist

PowerUsers - 17

PowerUsers - 17

BusinessUsers - 655Business

Users - 655

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SWT Reporting Architecture

Cost Center

WF Reports, KPIs, & Dashboards

ProjectsSales &

CRMInventory

Production Planning

Purchasing

Warrendale Data Warehouse

Source Systems

Nightly Data Extractions

WebFOCUS

ContractsProfitability & Finance

Service

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SWT WebFocus Data Sources

Data Warehouse SQL 2005 Database

Access 420+ SAP source tables

360+ DW target tables (Fact, Dimension and Staging tables)

384+ R3 Dataflows (SAP – ABAP and Business Objects ETL’s)

Size of Production Data Warehouse: 800+G

Other Data Sources Essbase Cubes – Essbase Version 11

CRM System – SQL 2000 Database

Remedy Help Desk System – SQL 2005 Database

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SWT Executive Finance DashboardBuilt with WebFocus Fexs, Flex Enable and FlashBuilder

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SWT Executive Finance Dashboard Drills down to more detailed data

Rollovers provide values for a specific chart area

Links in report allow for further drilling to more details

Filters dynamically change graphs with Flex animation

Clicking on a chart area passes parameters to a detailed drill down report

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SWT Supply Chain Management KPIsAllows our SCM Team to quickly drill down to areas needing attention.

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SWT WebFocus Future

Drive SWT to create more strategic and exception based reporting using dashboards

Go Mobile!

Upgrade to WebFocus 8.0

Upgrade Dashboard from Flex to HTML 5 Make it device agnostic

Change front end from Flex to HTML 5

Can still use all the same Fex files we have now!

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Siemens Water Technologies

Thank You!

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