transforming your business: achieving dramatic productivity gains
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Transforming Your
Business:
Achieving Dramatic
Productivity Gains
with a Modern EDW
, Silver Application Development Partner
SAP wants their customers to believe that HANA is the ONLY solution The Truth is: Microsoft and Simplement are the BEST solution
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Simplement Data Liberator provides real-time analytics
Use case
Continuous real-time data streaming (once
initialized).
Useful for large volumes of reporting data.
Replication of security context and
hierarchies with data.
Suitable replacement of SAP BW with SQL
Server technologies.
Smart Models provides SAP HANA Live!
views for SQL Server without SAP HANA.
SQL Server
data warehouse SAP ERP Analytics
Example of data moving in real time into Power BI dashboard without SAP BW
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Pre-built Analytic Content – “Smart Starts” Rich, interactive visualizations and self-serve data sets built on
Power BI for every part of your business
Profitability Analysis
Sales & Distribution
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
Capital Assets/Equipment
General Ledger
Overhead
Purchasing
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SAP
(R/3 or ECC)
PSFT, BAAN
Loaded PowerPivot
/ Tabular / Cubes
Slice & Dice,
Explore
Self-Serve Data Sets
SSIS (to load
PowerPivot / Tab Cubes)
SSRS (Dashboards &
Real -Time reports)
Data Source Get Data / Prep Data
Find / Get / Explore / Secure/
Organize for Reporting Use
Business Logic Fact Views
Visualize Deploy
Reporting
Services
Excel
Workbooks
SharePoint Search
& Dashboards
SharePoint
Scorecards
Reporting
Services
Integrate without Intrusion – in Real-Time
Database
(SQL, ORA, or
DB2)
100% Real-Time
Data Liberator Engine running in
SQL Server
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Simplement Architecture – Data Flow
SAP Front-
End
BI S
ystem
s
Persistence
LayerReplicated
Tables
SA
P
So
urc
e
Logs
SAP Application
Buena
Vistas
Projected
Security and
Hierarchies
Reporting
Views and
Procedures
Analytic
Models and
Cubes
Report
Definitions
PresentationSharePoint
Dictionary
Enhanced
Views
Helper
Views/
Tables
Business
Logic
Encapsulation
Real-Time
Replication
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Data Liberator – Integrating Multiple Data Sources
Other
Business
Systems
RTP Server
(Simplement Real-Time Provider)
SQL Instance
Real-Time
SAP Data
Real-Time
Non-SAP Data
Extracted
Data
Bu
siness Lo
gic Layer
Liberator
Transform
and Tools
SAP Sources
Non-SAP Sources
Other
Sources
Analytic
Systems
Real-Time
Reports
ETL
Replication
Replication
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Key Wins with Simplement
Live Data with Business
Logic
For any SAP ECC data
you want – no
exceptions!
Security +
Self-Serve
Immediate. Stop waiting
for IT development.
Results
Modern Data = No
ABAP anywhere in the
report development
process.
Flexible. Speedy.
Pays for Itself
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Before Simplement - Native SAP Data
Basic SD View – Over 800 Columns without Simplement
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With Simplement - From SAP Base Table – to Buena Vista –
to Business Logic Fact View
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The Key – Simplement Delivers
Business Logic Fact Views
Works with multiple source systems
Common Target
Business View of the Data
Logic applied in Real Time
In Memory – Row or Column
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Simplement Real Time SAP Analytics
Real Time Data Analysis
Deployed in under 60 days
Zero impact on your SAP infrastructure
Operates alongside or in lieu of BW / SAP BI
implementations
Minimal IT involvement required
Azure + SQL Server Enterprise +
Simplement + Power BI = Real Time SAP BI
• New, in-depth visibility into the
profitability of many of the
organization’s products worldwide.
• Replaced manual Excel activities with
automated Excel updates
• Used Data Liberator to replace SAP
BPC (Business Planning and
Consolidation) –(Had considered an
expensive purchase of Hyperion)
• Reduce demand for ABAP, extractors,
and other SAP intensive code
Dawne Wimbrow, Vice President and CIO, Albany International
• By using SQL Server 2012 and
the Simplement Data Liberator,
CMW has been able to give
more employees faster access to
SAP data and, as a result,
improve how it runs its business.
• Employees more self-sufficient in
reporting,
• Turned more users into power
users and helped more
employees learn how to get the
most value from their SAP data.
Chris Simon, Data Warehouse Analyst, The Charles Machine
Works
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Simplement Customers – from SAP R/3 3.1h to ECC 6
Finance and Controlling
MSCE SQL Server
SAP
OS/DB Migration
Production Planning