The SearchSAP.com Conference Europe

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Facing Todays Data Warehouse Challenges
W H InmonFather of Data Warehousing
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BW with an ERP source
BW with a heterogeneous source
One of the issues of today
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What the end user gets out of a data warehouse.
New requirements Quick analysis Reconcilability In
expensive analysis Single source of
data Historical data Integrated data Easy to
access data
Frustration!
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Characteristics of the best implementations
Data at the finest level of granularity
Data coming from a wide variety of sources
Ability to handle large volumes of data
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Characteristics of the best implementations
Editing, cleansing of data
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SAPs infrastructure - Complete - Proven
- Not in release 1.0 - Continuing to improve

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Management and organizational buy in because SAP
presents a solution
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Benefits of Implementation
Extreme flexibility!
The granular data that is at the heart of the DW
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Benefits of Implementation
The cost of information is lowered
dramatically by having a data warehouse..
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Benefits of Implementation
Traceability of data which leads to greater
accountability
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Achieving The Implementation
Day 1
Day 2
Iterative development
Day 3
Day n
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Achieving The Implementation
An infrastructure and architectural roadmap
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Where The Industry Is Headed
Much greater volumes of data
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Where The Industry Is Headed
Analytics direct business payoff
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Where The Industry Is Headed
Into the public sector
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Final Word
At long last, real business advantage is a reality
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Final Word
Churn analysis
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Final Word
Elasticity analysis
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Final Word
Profitability analysis
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Final Word
Global inventory management
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Final Word
The 360-degree view of the customer
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Non-SAP data warehouse
What happens when there are two data warehouses?
SAP BW
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Non-SAP data warehouse
It all depends on the extent of the
business overlap
SAP BW