Executive SummaryDriving value through data

SDN Corporate Vision

Data is one of the most crucial elements of a company.

However, it is just data. In this day and age, your company should be able to access it easily.

Simply Data Now was founded by data people, not marketing. As of recent, most new tools that have been developed to extract data, create data warehouses and handle reporting have continued to get more complicated, costly and IT resource intensive. At the same time business analyst dependency on IT resources still remains high as ongoing data needs change.

At Simply Data Now, our goal is simple. Provide the lowest cost, most flexible, easiest to implement, easiest to use SAP Table to External Database workflow in existence.

What can you do with that data? Anything you want!

Driving Factors

Data

• Data is at the core of the company. We want to empower companies to be more responsive with their data needs.

• Our solution is extremely dynamic and allows companies to get all the talented business analysts across the enterprise back into the game.

• We give them the ability to be equally as responsive to the “question of the day” as they are to the questions that are asked daily.

• We want to help you run better with the talent you already have in house, through data.

Value

• Although data is in our blood, the bottom line is in our heart.

• We can drive millions of dollars of savings annually to mid - large sized companies. We accomplish this through taking better advantage of the many business analysts across your organization.

• When the business analysts can answer many of the questions daily, the number of reporting requests on all reporting platforms drops.

• This directly results in your ability to reduce spending in this area, especially if consulting services are in play.

Typical Reporting Nightmare

Bob needs a report to do his job. Here is his next 3-6 months.

Bob explains the need to his boss hoping for approval.

Approved! Hooray!!

Not Approved. Oh well, don’t forget to recycle!

Bob now starts his detailed spec and much time later he is done and he can finally…

The request then shows up on a list for the PMO to review, approve, rank and prioritize.

Not Approved. Oh well, don’t forget to recycle!

Approved! Hooray!! Your order number is 58.

The request is then assigned to the developer who reviews the spec.

Questions

Draft of the report is created in DEV with test data Bob and the

developer review.

Report Correct based on DEV Data?

No Spec wrong

Spec right

Yes

The developer now releases the report code to be imported to the QA system by Basis

Bob and the developer review with QA data.Report

Correct based on QA Data?

YesNo

The developer now releases the report code to be imported to the PROD system by Basis

The new report is added to the list for scheduled import to production based on release schedule.Report Correct

based on PROD Data?

We are done and hopefully what Bob needed the report for is still an issue that he hasn’t learned to work around yet!

Yes

No

With SDN

Bob needs a report to do his job.Here is his next 1-2 days (or hours depending on the company).

Bob analyzes his data and creates his report

Bob opens his SDN profile, adds content and requests activation

SDN Admin Activates the new content and executes revised profile

Raw data to valuable information in hours or days. Not months.

Report Development Cost Comparison

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$900

Cost Per Report

Current Process SDN Process

By simplifying the process, the cost of reports can drop by up to 95%.

This across 100 report requests can produce cost savings of close to $2 million.

We can model expected savings based on benchmarks provided by your company.

(or more)

Challenge! Check internally to see what percentage of your existing global SAP reports haven’t been run in the last year.

Cost Savings – Human Capital

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IT Requests VolumeBusiness Analyst Capability

As the capability of business analysts increases across your organization, the volume of IT requests will drop.

This will allow you to reduce headcount in the IT area which can make a significant impact to the bottom line when you start with consulting resources.

Cost Savings – Process Improvement Opportunities

While harder to estimate and peg to a specific dollar amount, there are other benefits to this approach. When you consider all of these areas and the business impacts that are associated, the savings can be enormous.

IT Gains

• Reduction in IT project portfolio.

• Reduction in the number of technical objects that need to be tested when SAP is upgraded.

• Increase analytical capability for SAP support team.

• Reduce time and system load on manual extract.

• Over time eliminate your dependency on ETL solutions that in many cases actually charge you based on the record counts.

Business Gains

• Increase agility.

• Better decision making and execution capability.

• Get what you need, when you need it.

• Reduce meetings at all levels including executive that could have been better spent on topics that generate revenue.

• Run better.

Implementation – Getting data doesn’t have to be complicated

• Shortest implementation cycle in the industry

• Our solution can be implemented in as little as a day depending on your company’s release management practices.

• Smallest team required in the industry

• We need a Project Champion, a DBA, a System Admin, a SAP Basis Admin and a person who needs SAP data.

• Lowest hardware requirements in the industry

• We need your SAP system, a File Server and a Database. Hopefully you have open capacity that can be leveraged in these areas already.

Our Impact to Your Current Ecosystem

• Most companies have at least one reporting/data solution deployed.

• We are not proposing that you need to replace your current solutions to allow ours to work.

• We are stating that those solutions do not address all data requirements that companies face in a timely manner.

• When you understand the capability we provide and you see the cost that it can be delivered at, you may just look at some of the other tools a little bit differently.

SAP

BI / BW / BODS

Informatica

ABAP ReportsDatastage

SDN

Data On Premises and/or In The Cloud

SAP Data Stored In Your Network SAP Data Stored in the Cloud

Mobility

Workflows KPI Monitoring Sales Tools

Procurement Tools

Real timeAlerts

SaaS Integration

Business Analysis

InterfacesData

Conversion

SAP Support Analysis

SAP System Consolidation

Where

What

Who

Mini Data Warehouses

(tailored content)

SDN provides the low cost foundation and then we have numerous partners that can help you realize your ending goals, internally or on the cloud. Because the foundation is in place, the cost for cloud initiatives

drops significantly.

These include Consulting, Business Analyst Training, Integration, Mobile App Development and Cloud Hosting.

Conclusion

• The savings that can be delivered from these areas can easily reach into the millions annually depending on your current spending.

• Every dollar that is saved can be reallocated to initiatives that generate revenue, which adds a multiplier.

• Your internal users will be happier.

• Your divisional leaders will not only be empowered, but also appeased.

• IT satisfaction rates increase and in general, the company runs better than before.

• The cost savings will more than offset the expense in the first year.

• Less spec writing and waiting enables your company to fire on all cylinders like a well-oiled machine.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you!

We look forward to the opportunity to transform your data and your bottom line.

You can contact us directly by:

• Visiting our website at simplydatanow.com and filling out the Contact Us form

• Emailing us at info@simplydatanow.com

• Calling us @ 817-500-4201