reportnet and sap-bw implementation at mold-masters val swift it manager
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ReportNet and SAP-BW Implementation at Mold-Masters
Val Swift
IT Manager
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Mold-Masters, SAP-BW and ReportNet
• Who is Mold-Masters • Mold-Masters and SAP• Our BI initiative• First Phases BW / ReportNet projects• What we’ve learned
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Who is Mold-Masters?
• Hot Runner industry leader– Headquartered in Georgetown, Canada– Offices worldwide and over 1000 employees. – customers in over 40 countries– manufacturing facilities in Germany, Japan, the United
States, Canada, Brazil and Singapore.– Products and technologies covered by more than 1,600
granted and pending international patents - double the number held by all competitors combined
• “Entrepreneur” evolved to “Corporate”
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Mold-Masters and SAP
• SAP R/3 since 1999– SD, FI, COPA, MM, PP, HR– Over past 5 years, implemented in US, Germany, UK,
implementing China
• Very successful SAP implementation– Business focused– Team of key resources from the business areas
• SAP reference site– Consider SAP solution first
• SAP BW since March 2004– Small, multi-roled team
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Mold-Masters and BI
• Existing Reporting / Business Intelligence SAP-centric
• Owned by SAP technical / business analysts– Finance– Sales & Distribution– Manufacturing
• Other additional data sources– Pivotal Relationship CRM (SQL)– Executive EIS (Access)– Other data sources too
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Goals for BI project
• Off load SAP/R3 processing• Turn our rich data into rich information• Cut out the middleman
• Off load SAP technical / business analyst staff– Decentralized reporting
• Easily get flexible, meaningful reporting into the users hands
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The BI Project so far• December 2003
– POC for SAP-BW
• January 2004– POC for ReportNet
• January through March 2004– SAP-BW implementation, EIS and Sales scoping
• March 2004– ReportNet EIS implemented
• April – July 2004– SAP-BW Sales implementation
• July – Sept 2004– ReportNet Sales implementation and rollout
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SAP-BW POC (Dec 2003)
Concept to be proven:
Is there a reason NOT to use SAP-BW?
Structure of the POC:2 SAP-BW consultants
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SAP-BW POC (Dec 2003)
What we found• SAP-BW is our best data warehouse solution• Areas requiring enhanced solution
– Reporting environment– Ad hoc query environment– Toolset for non-IT / non-power user– Integration of non-SAP data sources
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ReportNet POC (Jan 2004)
Why “Prove” the ReportNet “Concept”?• Looked at market leaders (Gartner etc)• Best commitment to SAP-BW support• Cognos eager and prepared with SAP-BW related
information • Licensing model scalable• Client – Truly web vs truly web• Usability and features – for IT and for end users
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ReportNet POC (Jan 2004)
Concept to be proven:• Does ReportNet do what it says it can?
Structure of the POC• 4 days• Connection to SAP-BW in 10 minutes• Consultants weren’t SAP-BW• In our experience, no other add-on to SAP has
ever been as painless
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ReportNet POC (Jan 2004)
What we found• SAP-BW integration
– Security, multi-language, hierarchies and data structures
• Multiple data sources in single report• Tools to empower non-IT users
• Value added– Enterprise reporting solution– Report distribution options
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BI in Production Project Phases
• Phase 1 – Executive Information System
• Phase 2– Sales Reporting
• Future phases– Finance, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Quality
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Phase 1 – EIS • Audience:
– Senior Management (Sales, HR, Finance, Manufacturing)
• Deliverables– Replace Access front end with ReportNet front end– Data combination of Access and SAP-BW– EIS to evolve with SAP-BW implementation
• Status– Completed March 2004
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Phase 2 – Sales Reporting• Audience
– 10 sales management and analysts– 20 US sales team– International agent and key customer network
• Deliverables– Eliminate report production time– Streamline distribution to mobile sales force– Flexible analysis – eliminate reliance on SAP IT group
• Status– Rolled out to sales management Aug 2004– Being rolled out to salespeople
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Data
Enhanced Model
Refined Data
Formatted Reports
Ad hoc Query
Priority People / Skills Tool
How we’ve learned to think about it
Different levels of a BI solutionDifferent priorities,
people/skills, tools
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Data integrity
Meaningful Data
Data augmentation
Pixel perfect functionality
Ease of useFlexibility
Data
Enhanced Model
Refined Data
Formatted Reports
Ad hoc Query
Sys Admins
Business savvy semi-techies
Data savvy techies
Creative
GUI Designers
Business Decision makers
SAP-BW Cube
Framework Manager
SAP-BW Bex
Report Studio
Query Studio
Priority People / Skills Tool
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Data integrity
Meaningful Data
Data augmentation
Pixel perfect functionality
Ease of useFlexibility
Sys Admins
Data savvy techies
Creative
GUI Designers
Business Decision makers
SAP-BW
Cognos ReportNet
Data
Enhanced Model
Refined Data
Formatted Reports
Ad hoc Query
Business savvy semi-techies
SAP-BW Cube
Framework Manager
SAP-BW Bex
Report Studio
Query Studio
Priority People / Skills Tool
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The Biggest Challenge
• SAP-BW / ReportNet expertise– 2 ‘new’ products– ‘Best Practices’ being developed
• The good news– Yet to come up with a showstopper– Knowledge by support organization of SAP-BW
environment growing– Cognos has responded quickly with hot fixes etc
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Our overall experience
• ReportNet preserves SAP-BW technical information, but shields the user from it
• Get more out of our investment in SAP-BW by getting the data directly into the hands of business users
• Allows the value of the SAP-BW data shine through the necessary technical requirements
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Our overall experience
• Our fiscal year starts Oct 1st
• Our sales team will start the year with all the sales information they need
• We would not have been able to do this without ReportNet
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• Questions?