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analytic factory Cloud Platform “Evolution from Simple Reporting to the Modern Analytic Factory“
Whitepaper
analytic factory Cloud Platform Evolution from Simple Reporting to the Modern Analytic Factory
January 2020
Executive Summary
The AF Cloud Platform is simplifying the way how companies are implementing their reporting and data
analytics tasks. The AF Cloud Platform is an entire cloud-based software service. Customers of the AF Cloud
Platform can intuitively load their various data / content into the AF Cloud Platform.
By means of turn-key reporting templates the AF Cloud Platform turns quickly data into analysis. After the
initialization of the reporting process of a customer, the AF Cloud Platform comes with zero maintenance
for the customer. There is no need to employ special reporting / Business Intelligence (BI) specialists. New
customer data will be continuously uploaded to the customers Data Warehouse. All the customer data will
be stored long-term in its own, private and highly secured Data Warehouse Storage.
The AF Cloud Platform is build-up of a proven technology stack und is using state of the art data loading,
transformation and reporting technology.
All technical details are fully transparent for our customers. So, our customers do not need to worry about
their reporting process anymore. The AF Cloud Platform is doing this task for them. Our customers can
focus on their business growth.
Customers of the AF Cloud Platform will base their business decision process on highly integrated and
harmonized KPIs.
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Confidentiality Agreement
These documents and technical information are the intellectual property of AF - analytic factory. (IG)
This information must be kept strictly confidential and may not be disclosed to third parties. A transfer / copy
in paper or electronic form is explicitly not permitted.
Table of Content
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Confidentiality Agreement ................................................................................................................................................... 2
Table of Content ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Our Customers Reporting “Challenges” ........................................................................................................................... 3
The analytic factory AF Cloud Platform ............................................................................................................................ 4
The AF Cloud Platform Added Value ............................................................................................................................... 5
AF Reporting – Example Turn-Key Reports .................................................................................................................... 6
AF Cloud Platform Architecture ......................................................................................................................................... 9
The AF Cloud Architecture .................................................................................................................................................. 11
AF Data Security ..................................................................................................................................................................... 11
AF Service Offerings ............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Contact Details ....................................................................................................................................................................... 13
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Our Customers Reporting “Challenges”
Many companies are facing serious issues with their reporting process. Very often there are inconsistent
reports, mainly created within Excel, stored on various places, and distributed all-over the company. These
“Excel” reports are not showing harmonised business data. None are these KPI’s consistently defined over
the company, sometimes not even the basic KPI’s, like number of real customers, or number of customer
orders are clearly defined. The various source systems of a company are not integrated into a single point
of truth. Very often companies are struggling with a shortage of reporting / Business Intelligence (BI)
knowledge and resources. These specialized BI resources are a very rare “species” and costly.
The reporting creation process is also very time consuming. It is not unusual that companies are investing
a couple of man days every reporting period (mainly monthly) to create these “Excel” based reports. This
could be even more critical if the company must obey regulatory duties. This task is holding valuable
analyst resources, from focusing an analysing the data, and make good business decisions.
Very often companies are not sufficiently sharing these reports to all management levels. These reports
could not be easily consumed. Sometimes these reports are only available as printed version. Other
medias as Tablet or Phone are very rarely used. But sharing business knowledge is one of the key
success factories of any company.
That is the reason why many Management and/or operational business decision are mainly based on “best
guess” rather than on precise “data-driven” reports.
Figure 1: Reporting Challenges of many companies.
In case of SME (Small and Medium Sized Enterprise) this shortage of reporting / Business Intelligence
capabilities could be business critical.
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The analytic factory AF Cloud Platform
By means of the AF Cloud Platform our customers can overcome the reporting “challenges” mentioned
before.
The AF Cloud Platform can be imagined as a “black box” for the customer reporting and analytics. Our
customers upload their various data into the AF Cloud Platform and the one end and on the other end
they consume state of the art reports / dashboards and business insights.
The necessary initialization process of the AF Cloud Platform will be supported by the AF consulting
team.
All the data integration, data storage and reporting creation is conducted by the AF Cloud Platform.
Reports can be consumed via Desktop | Tablet or Phone. There are various turn-key reports by industry
available. These turn-key reports can be immediately out-of-the-box used to turn the customer data into
first analysis.
▪ We turn your data quickly into “Insights”
▪ Reliable - highly secure Data Storage
▪ Dashboard on Desktop or Mobile device
based on reporting templates
▪ Combine data from any sources (internal or
external)
▪ Consume your analysis anywhere at any-time
on any-device
▪ Easy to implement – “barrier-free” start into
KPI-Reporting
▪ Zero maintenance Focus on your business
▪ Free Trial, Dashboard, Initial Setup Workshop
▪ Leverage your data potential by digitalization
your Reporting Processes.
Figure 2: AF Cloud Platform – Solution Offering.
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The AF Cloud Platform Added Value
▪ We turn your data quickly into analysis.
▪ There is no maintenance for your customers.
▪ We overcome the need of building up in-house reporting knowledge. Our customers can focus
on their business!
▪ Reliable highly secure data storage - industry standards
▪ Use Turn-key reporting templates
▪ Modern – state of the art reporting
▪ Automated reporting process after initialization of the process (one time) – continuous data
upload
▪ Consume your analysis anywhere at any time on any device
▪ Cloud solution – fully fulfilling your performance and storage needs
Figure 3: The basic AF Cloud Platform Workflow. Quickly turning data into analysis.
The AF Cloud Platform is supporting customers to improve significantly their reporting process.
Reports | Dashboards can be consumed independently of workplace and device. Reports are available
24x7 on any device.
By means of the AF Cloud Platform all KPIs will be harmonized.
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Figure 4: The core added values of the AF Cloud Platform.
AF Reporting – Example Turn-Key Reports
One of the added-values of the AF Cloud Platform are the ready to use - turn-key reports. There are
several turn-key reports available.
Figure 5: AF Turn-key Report. Retail Industry
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Figure 6: AF Turn-key Report. Retail Industry
The above figures describe management reports (Dashboards) of typical retail industry data. One of the
core concepts of the reporting templates is to keep it simple. Based on best practice, less information on
a report is more easily understandable by the report consumers. This should help not to end up with
overloaded reports.
Figure 7: AF Turn-key Report. Waterfall diagram.
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The above figure shows a classical waterfall diagram – finance management report. The colour coding
can be customized.
Figure 8: AF Turn-Key Report. Showing integration of external weather data.
Figure 9: AF Turn-Key Report. Integration of geographical (maps) information.
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AF Cloud Platform Architecture
The following sub-section provides a brief introduction to the technical architecture of the AF Cloud
Platform. The following figure is highlighting the basic design concepts of the AF Cloud Platform. The AF
Cloud Platform covering the entire value-added chain.
Figure 10: Design Concept AF Cloud Platform
The AF Cloud Platform is built up by four main components:
AF Console – A Web based management Console for configuration. This is mainly designed for admin
use only.
AF Drive – The “Landing Area” of the customer data. Could be imagined as customers data “DropBox”.
Any new customer data uploaded to the AF Drive will be automatically synchronized and instantaneously
uploaded into the AF Core.
AF Core – The “Long Term Memory” Single Point of Truth. Long term storage of the customers
integrated and harmonized data.
AF Reporting – Reporting and analytics area. Consumers and business analysts are accessing this module
and retrieve their information.
The following figure is describing the technical details of the AF Cloud Platform.
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Figure 11: Technical architecture of the AF Cloud Platform.
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The AF Cloud Architecture
The following figure describes the AF Cloud Architecture.
Figure 12: The AF Cloud Architecture.
All AF modules can be configured in a way of separate dedicated Cloud environments.
The AF Console can run separately of the AF Core or the AF Reporting.
AF Data Security
Data Security is from highest concerns within the AF Cloud Platform.
All data communication is encrypted. Common industry standards are used, therefore. E.g. HTTPS | SSL.
Every AF customer gets his own dedicated AF Cloud Storage, where only the customer has access to. All
data within the AF Core (customer Data Warehouse) is encrypted, so that not even admins could access
the raw data.
All accesses to the AF Core data will be traced and logged.
The AF Cloud Platform is continuously monitoring data and access security.
The AF Console will include a two-way factor authentication process.
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AF Service Offerings
Based on the Basic Module the customers can choose either the Standard or the Advanced option.
Figure 13: AF Service Offerings - Building blocks on top of base module
The AF Cloud Platform service offering always includes an initialization workshop. This should enable any
company and their employees to get the most out of the AF Cloud Platform.
There is also a 30-days free trial offer. New customers can explore the capabilities of the AF Cloud Platform.
This free trial also includes an initialization workshop.
If the customers are satisfied after the end of the free trial period, the entire customer configuration can
be reused within a Standard or Advanced subscription of the AF Cloud Platform. Standard or Advanced
subscriptions will be per 12 months.
There is an extra fee for the AF Cloud Basic Modules. The fee is depending on the data volume (necessary
cloud storage) and the number of report users and reporting functionality.
These initialization workshops are covering:
AF Cloud Service Initialization Workshop (Customer and AF)
Requirements Gathering
▪ Industry
▪ Customer data
▪ Reporting needs
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Mapping customer data
▪ Customer Data
▪ Map → sDWH
▪ Data Historization
Initialize AF DRIVE
▪ Synchronization
▪ Schedule (Time / Event)
AF REPORT
▪ Select Turn-Key reporting templates
▪ Customization (logo | colour scheme)
▪ Choose report functionality
▪ Consumption (Web | Tablet | Phone)
▪ Export options
Manage users
▪ Define user / user groups
▪ Define customer AF Admin
Define data security
▪ Define User Access Rights
External data
▪ Include external data (e.g. weather data)
Contact Details
In case of interest or further questions please contact us
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