SAP Lumira Brightens Business Intelligence & Analytics

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May 132013
 

SAP Visual Intelligence has been renamed to SAP Lumira.

What is nice to know is that there was a purpose to the change. SAP’s BI guru Tim Elliot explains the purpose of the change in a blog post and captures what everyone is thinking, SAP Lumira: Why Did We Change Yet Another Perfectly Good BI Product Name?

What could have been missed in the re-branding announcement is that SAP Visual Intelligence (now SAP Lumiar) is now in the cloud, SAP Lumira Cloud.

Here is more information about SAP Lumira:

 

 

SAP HANA Q&A via Twitter

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Apr 192013
 

Mark your calendars for a live SAP HANA Q&A on Twitter.  EVP for Database & Technology Steve Lucas (@nstevenlucas ) and SAP Mentor and blogger Jon Reed (@jonerp) will spend an hour answering all questions about SAP HANA.

DATE: Thursday, April 25

TIME: 9am PT / 12pm ET

TWITTER HANDLE: #SAPCHAT

 

Booan Limited Differentiates with SAP HANA

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Oct 052012
 

 Booan Limited in China is an agency of many furniture brands. In this competitive market they decided to implement SAP HANA to differentiate themselves. With SAP HANA they were able to solve their inventory, receivables and financial management issues. They now know more about their customer buying behaviors and can make decisions based on their customer needs. 

SAP HANA Passes 100TB Performance Test

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Oct 042012
 

SAP HANA efficiency and scalability has been tested and proven through a 100TB performance test.  A 100T #_ftn1data set was generated in a format as would be extracted from an SAP ERP system (e.g., data records with multiple fields) for analysis in an SAP NetWeaver BW system#_ftn2.

Read the results

New SAP Mobile Apps to Help Keep Track of Budgets

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Sep 182012
 

SAP recently announce the availability of the SAP RealSpend and SAP Sanctioned-Party List mobile apps.

SAP RealSpend delivers real-time budget and spend information anywhere, anytime via a self-service mobile app that is powerful and simple to use. It delivers meaningful, actionable insights into spend data, which helps managers manage budget more effectively, spend strategically and identify expense issues quickly. Managers can:

  • Connect with employees to resolve spending issues, review and approve project requests and request follow-up information on proposals.
  • Analyze and benchmark detailed spending data by department, project or expense type over any time period.
  • Receive alerts to identify spending issues and communicate quickly with team members to resolve them

SAP Sanctioned-Party List is designed to provide compliance managers instant mobile access to details of high-priority compliance exceptions. The mobile app provides on-the-go access to details of high-priority compliance exceptions, in order to allow compliance managers to remediate these issues and prevent business impact anytime, anywhere. It also extends sanctioned-party list beyond the desktop to security guards and visitor sign-in kiosks.

Both mobile apps are available for download to iOS devices.

Register for the webcast: “Best Practices for Mobilizing Finance with SAP and Deloitte,” being held October 3, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

Everything SAP Analytics with Peaboy

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Jul 232012
 

This week Keith Bowles the director of business intelligence from Peabody Energy gave a presentation to over 500 attendees during an SAP virtual event focused on business analytics. 

Keith spent the majority of his time showing the audience their BI portal that you could call Peabody’s source of truth.  Really cool stuff!

BI at Peabody has been successful due to executive adoption, which was accomplished by providing reports and dashboards on mobile devices.  Easy access to data has helped executives make decisions anywhere. Having the ability to tap into the status of Peabody’s business, executives can always align with the organizational objectives.  

If you don’t have time to watch the entire presentation below is a summary of the topics Keith addressed

0:00-4:35 — Keith sets the scene with what SAP BI solutions Peabody is using (FP4, BI4, Explorer and much, much more).  He also provided very compelling reasons why Peabody needed a BI solution. And he finished with their overall BI platform map, which included the connection of data to mobile devices

4:35 — Not even five minutes into the presentation Keith shows the audience Peabody’s BI portal. One key element of this portal is for Peabody to use this to push BI self-service out to the organization. All employees in various functions can use BI to generate reports

13:45 — Keith spends a few minutes showing the value SAP BI widgets have given executives to better see reports directly on their desktops. Keith’s team set-up the widgets based on what are the most important reports executives need regularly

16:07 — In a day Peabody was running SAP mobile analytics. With someone else it would have taken them five weeks!! 

22:43 — Keith leaves the demos to share a long list of benefits Peabody has experienced with their BI project

23:08 — If you are thinking about a BI platform Keith gives advice on how to successfully run a BI project

 

Cisco Innovating on SAP HANA

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Jun 192012
 

SAP HANA has helped Cisco to significantly reduce the amount of time to do predictive analytics. With SAP HANA Cisco can sort through millions of customer records to quickly generate reports. SAP HANA provides Cisco the first opportunity to provide performance insights on a daily basis to help them approach the market in an innovative way.

In addition, Cisco and SAP have built a sales management solution using SAP HANA to provide over 4,000 users in sales management to better provide them with consolidated views of sales booking, KPIs and funnel and forecasts. With SAP HANA Cisco has taken 700 million rows of data; which most of it was from non-SAP system to push-out high value of information to business decision makers.

Resources:

 

SAP HANA Turns One Year Old! Join Celebration Event on June 18th

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Jun 152012
 

June 20th marks the anniversary of the availability of SAP HANA.  Within this year over 350 companies have implementated SAP HANA and over 64,000 people are using SAP HANA.

Vishal Sikka (@vsikka), head of technology & innovation of SAP is very proud of “our little baby HANA” and will be sharing his pride with SAP employees, customers, partners, startups and everyone who has contributed to the success of SAP HANA at the SAP HANA One-Year Anniversay Celebration.

You can join Vishal virtually on Monday, June 18 from 10:00-11:00am PDT / 1:00 – 2:00pm EDT / 7:00 -8:00pm CET.

 

SAP Broadens Industry Reach With New Analytic Application for Aerospace and Defense

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May 312012
 
WALLDORF — Extending the industry reach of its analytics portfolio, SAP today announced a new analytic application for aerospace and defense (A&D). The SAP Program Performance Analysis for A&D analytic application lets A&D program managers and business executives quickly uncover deep insights into their portfolio of programs, including the development of new commercial aircraft, weapon systems, spacecraft and ships. The announcement was made at the EVM World 2012 conference, being held May 30 – June 1 in Naples, Florida. In the highly competitive A&D industry, program managers must identify the relevant issues of projects throughout their lifecycle by analyzing data collected from many diverse sources. They must gain visibility into key performance indicators (KPIs) such as requirements stability, production quality, or supplier risks, and be able to take quick corrective actions to keep programs on track. The analytic application provides program managers a scorecard view of the performance of multiple programs at once. Additionally, it enables users to drill down through layers of increasing detail to root causes without the delays and manual efforts that plague today’s program assessment efforts. Enabling organizations and individuals to gain real-time, actionable insights, analytic applications from SAP are tailored for specific industries and lines of business to help users overcome the challenges of their unique business climates. SAP Program Performance Analysis for A&D enables program managers to work proactively and avoid commonly experienced setbacks such as cost overruns and schedule delays that cause organizations to lose millions of dollars to annually. It also enables them to clearly visualize all relevant data to help stakeholders improve overall decision-making and ensure program goals are achieved. Since the analytic application is powered by the SAP HANA platform, it can process large volumes of data – from any data source – in memory, meaning the results of complex analyses and transactions are produced immediately. With this information, program managers can base reports and tactics on comprehensive business intelligence (BI) from the entire value chain. They can also easily determine the status of tasks and run ad-hoc queries to drill down on granular metrics. To learn more, watch a product demo: “SAP Program Performance Analysis for Aerospace & Defense – Sharpening Operational Insight and Boosting Program Performance.” For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews and @businessobjects.

SAP Helps Finance Leaders Run Best-in-Class Close and Reporting Processes

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May 222012
 

WALLDORF — SAP today announced new innovations to its line-of-business finance offerings that aim to improve processes used to conduct the financial close and external reporting. Enhancements to the SAP Disclosure Management application and SAP Financial Closing cockpit are intended to deliver increased process efficiency, greater accuracy as well as savings in cost and time.

Increased scrutiny from stakeholders, including regulatory organizations and shareholders, has put more pressure on companies to produce fast and efficient financial closings, with accurate and reliable statements and reports. Many companies still rely on manual processes to conduct the financial close and collect, consolidate, edit and generate statements and reports. These manual processes increase the risk of inconsistencies.

According to Mike Willis, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, “The ability to fully realize reporting benefits depends on how comprehensively professionals consider the tool’s implications for their process and control enhancements.”

New enhancements to SAP Disclosure Management address critical capabilities such as EDGAR HTML, which U.S. companies must file with the SEC. The application helps companies reduce the time, risk and cost of regulatory disclosures by managing the production, filing and publication of financial statements and reports. It also enables finance departments to manage XBRL submissions, to help ensure a comprehensive audit trail and ensuring the consistency of data across reports.

The latest release of SAP Financial Closing cockpit aims to deliver stronger governance, increased efficiency, better insight and faster execution of the financial close process. SAP Financial Closing is a graphical application that helps accelerate the entity financial closing cycle by standardizing and automating the process. It also gives finance professionals greater ability to monitor, control and analyze the financial closing cycle. Additionally, it aims to help companies record closing tasks for full audit support.

“SAP gives CFOs the visibility to lead with a 360-degree view of their organizations so they can drive financial excellence,” said Martin Naraschewski, vice president, Finance Solutions, SAP. “Increasingly stringent compliance regulations and the expanding adoption of financial reporting standards are driving greater financial accountability and internal controls. SAP provides finance professional better insight so that they can develop strategies for increasing total shareholder value, maintaining external and internal confidence by improving finance efficiency.”

The new enhancements to SAP Disclosure Management are generally available. The latest version of SAP Financial Closing cockpit is currently available via the SAP® Ramp-Up program with general availability expected in October 2012.

Examine how current manual report assembly and review processes can be enhanced through effective implementation of disclosure management applications by reading the whitepaper “Disclosure Management: Streamlining the Last Mile.”

For more information on SAP solutions for finance and to learn how SAP helps CFOs and finance professionals transform their businesses, visit www.sapcfo.com and the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

Media Contacts:
Susan Miller, SAP, +1 (610) 661-9225, susan.miller@sap.com, EDT
Jeff Shadid, Burson-Marsteller, +1 (214) 224-8419, jeff.shadid@bm.com, CDT

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