fast and low cost analytics solutions for the sap erp application
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SAP Solution Brief
SAP Solutions for EIM
SAP Rapid Marts
Fast and Low-Cost Analytics
Solutions for the SAP ERP
Application
BenetsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
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Objectives
Rapidly access key business data tosupport decision makingSAP Rapid Marts packages provide access to transactional data in the
SAP ERP application quickly and cost-eectively. With the latest release of
the packages, which support the powerful in-memory SAP HANA platform,
you can make smarter decisions more quickly to improve revenue, margins,
and liquidity management and run your business like never before.
Making good decisions requires access to
transactional data stored in your SAP ERP
application. The data helps you to determine
which products, markets, and channels
provide the best opportunities for growth and
how to reduce operational complexity and
streamline processes. All stakeholders want
to know which capital investments have the
greatest potential.
Your solutions must deliver business value
quickly while incurring low maintenance
costs and reduced complexity. Yet, data
may be used ineectively, and accessing
the right information quickly can be dicult.
Business users may not know where the
data they need is located, and even if they
do, they may lack the technical skills to get it.
Your analytics solutions must incorporate
transactional data from SAP ERP, oer data
warehousing views of SAP ERP data in a way
that business can readily understand it, andprovide business intelligence functionality
that supports your organizations diverse
information consumption needs.
Rapidly access key business data to support
decision making
Benets Quick FactsSolution
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Increase visibility, gain insightsSAP Rapid Marts packages help companies of
all sizes overcome impediments to eective
decision making. By increasing visibility into
trends and variances, the packages help you
gain insights into causes behind variances,
so you can solve problems and capitalize on
opportunities.
SAP Rapid Marts packages support a number
of target databases, including SAP HANA a
platform for innovative, real-time analytics
and applications as well as Microsoft SQL
Server and Oracle databases. The packages
take advantage of the data repository in
SAP HANA and other databases for faster
analysis and reporting. Accelerators and
analytic content provide powerful analysis
and reporting on large data sets.
The precongured packages combine domain
knowledge and best practices, shortening
implementation times. Business users can
take advantage of self-service features, which
reduce IT workloads and costs.
The modular design of the packages means
you can extend and add functionality asrequirements change. SAP Rapid Marts
packages are available for the following types
of SAP ERP application data:
Financial General ledger, accounts
receivable, accounts payable, cost center,
and xed assets
Operational Sales, inventory, and
purchasing
Manufacturing Plant maintenance,
production planning, and project systems Human capital management Human
resources
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Increase visibility, gain insights
Enable self-service query and
analysis
Manage accounts receivables,
optimize sales and procurement
Cut IT costs, simplify integration,
and speed deployment
Improve training and rate of
adoption
Solution BenetsObjectives Quick Facts
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Enable self-service query andanalysisBusiness users typically dont have time to
wait for IT to run reports, so they wind up
relying on instinct and guesswork based
on incomplete, unreliable information. SAP
Rapid Marts packages eliminate the need to
wait for IT. The packages provide a semantic
layer, so you can use business-friendly terms
to create your own reports, perform yourown queries, and generate your own analysis.
The self-service, iterative question-and-answer
process helps improve insights throughout
your organization. Built-in data lineage func-
tionality lets everyone see where the data
came from and how the numbers are calcu-
lated, increasing trust in the information.
Additionally, the packages provide prebuilt
reports and dashboards, which containbest practices for analyzing dierent
business domains such as nance, sales,
and manufacturing.
Rapid implementation means you can address
your companys most critical needs frst and
realize a quick return on investment.
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BenetsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Increase visibility, gain insights
Enable self-service query and
analysis
Manage accounts receivables,
optimize sales and procurement
Cut IT costs, simplify integration,
and speed deployment
Improve training and rate of
adoption
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Manage accounts receivables,optimize sales and procurementSAP Rapid Marts packages improve accounts
receivables processes by helping you identify
trends and variances in cash receipts, examine
factors such as days sales outstanding, review
invoice disputes and credits, and track aging
receivables.
Designed for ease of use, the preconguredpackages facilitate the lead-to-close process.
You can slice and dice pipeline data to analyze
opportunities by sales cycle stage, product,
region, deal size, channel, and any other
parameter. SAP Rapid Marts packages allow
your sales representatives and managers to
proactively address issues such as opportunity
aging and gaps in pipeline distribution.
Poor control of procurement can reduce
margins and cash ow and increase expendi-
tures. Self-service functionality helps optimize
procurement management by enabling
business users to analyze purchasing, stock,and vendor performance. SAP Rapid Marts
packages improve the cost structure, quality,
and performance of your supply chain by
providing accurate information on what is
being purchased, from whom, at what price,
and in what volume.
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BenetsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Increase visibility, gain insights
Enable self-service query and
analysis
Manage accounts receivables,
optimize sales and procurement
Cut IT costs, simplify integration,
and speed deployment
Improve training and rate of
adoption
Self-service queries enable a better understandingof the causes behind trends and variances and
their impact on cash ow and working capital.
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Cut IT costs, simplify integration,
and speed deploymentLean IT stas and budgets mean companies
must control IT operating costs. SAP Rapid
Marts packages enable you to address the
need for fast, low-cost implementation with
precongured extraction, transformation, and
load (ETL) functionality; database schemas;
semantic layers; reports; and dashboards.
Integrating typical data mart solutions can
be costly and time consuming. The SAP ERP
application contains transactional systems
with complex data schemas that span multiple
functional modules and use thousands of
relational tables. Names used for tables and
columns in your transactional systems can be
cryptic, making it dicult to understand the
data. Vendors have proprietary application
programming interfaces (API) for accessing
transactional system security and business
logic. To meet these challenges and reduce
costs and development and deployment time,
SAP Rapid Marts packages provide precong-
ured data, pretested data, metadata, and
security integration functionality.
Unlike custom-developed solutions, SAP
Rapid Marts packages provide prebuilt
semantic layers, reports, and dashboards
that incorporate best practices for business
analysis. With the packages, you can reduce
the cost of developing reports and dash-
boards, enable ad hoc queries, speed
deployment, and increase business-user
satisfaction.
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BenetsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Increase visibility, gain insights
Enable self-service query and
analysis
Manage accounts receivables,
optimize sales and procurement
Cut IT costs, simplify integration,
and speed deployment
Improve training and rate of
adoption
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Improve training and rate of
adoptionBusiness-user training and support are
critical for managing data mart costs and
adoption rates. SAP Rapid Marts packages
provide intuitive and interactive interfaces to
help reduce the cost of training and support,
accelerate business-user adoption, and
increase user satisfaction.
Graphs, charts, maps, and conditional high-
lighting help business users identify problems
and opportunities faster. Interactive sorting,
ltering, and formatting of data, as well as
the ability to drill down and across reports,
provide clear insight into the causes of current
business conditions. The ability to model
scenarios visually by adjusting graphicalcontrols helps business users understand
how to best resolve problems and capitalize
on opportunities.
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BenetsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Increase visibility, gain insights
Enable self-service query and
analysis
Manage accounts receivables,
optimize sales and procurement
Cut IT costs, simplify integration,
and speed deployment
Improve training and rate of
adoption
Why start from scratch? Use SAP Rapid Marts
packages to eliminate several steps from the
typical analytics implementation project.
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Realizing business and IT beneftsSAP Rapid Marts packages accelerate access
to your companys SAP ERP data and yield
a wide range of business and IT benets.
Realize fast time to value with prepackaged
solutions that get you up and running in
weeks rather than months. Deliver accurate,
complete, and current subject-matter data
to the lines of business. Enable usabilitywith the semantic layer, which adds a level of
simplicity, allowing you to create your own
queries and analysis with familiar terms and
keywords.
The packages reduce development costs
with precongured ETL, database models,
semantic layers, and reports that help reduce
the load on your IT team and speed deploy-
ment. Cut training and support costs with
semantic layers and intuitive interfaces that
simplify the end-user experience, speeding
business user adoption, increasing self-service,and improving satisfaction. Reduce risk by
implementing multiple data marts in any
combination to adapt to changing business
needs, with the component-based framework
that makes it easier to extend the packages.
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Realizing business and IT benefts
BeneftsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
By making it easier to access your data,
SAP Rapid Marts packages increase business
value from transactional applications and
boost your ROI.
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Summary
SAP Rapid Marts packages enable youto access and use transactional data stored
in the SAP ERP application for better, faster
decision making. The latest release of the
packages supports the SAP HANA platform,
provide fast and powerful analysis and
reporting, and can be deployed quickly to
suit your business demands.
Objectives
Provide business users the data they needwithout requiring technical skills or help
from IT
Decrease implementation times and the
diculty with requirements denition,
building, testing, and deployment that
frustrates end users
Reduce the high cost of IT workloads
and time-consuming eorts to integrate
business intelligence (BI) with SAP ERP,
develop reports, and train users
Solution
Precongured solutions to enable integration Best practices for report and dashboard
development
Rich BI functionality that increases visibility,
insights, and accountability
User interfaces that reduce training and
speed user adoption
Benefts
Increased visibility and business insight
through enriched BI reporting Improved strategic alignment and account-
ability through stronger analysis
Higher productivity through intuitive and
interactive interfaces
Faster ROI with best practices for business
analysis
Reduced costs with precongured solution
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