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Mine your own business...!

The Extended SAPConfiguration Platform

SilverMineOctober 2007

L. Hgsted, Vice President, Configit Software


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Agenda

Where is the Silver?

What is the Mining Challenge?Extensions for the new SAP Platform

Facts and Examples From The SilverMine Early Adopter

Program

Live demo of a SilverMine application for Netstal (CH)

How to participate in SilverMine

Q&A


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Orders must be 100% correct across all touch points

Marcus Behrens, CWG 07



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Failure is not anoption



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PRODUCT MODELER

Here is the Silver


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PRODUCT MODELER

Product Managersneed to get product

knowledge andcapabilities to Sales

R&D and IT need toget productknowledge intoapplications

Marketing needs tocommunicate anddefine the offer to

the market

Customers andSales force need

Guidance and ToolsTo buy and sell

Who is mining the Silver?


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PRODUCT MODELER

Product Managers R&D & IT

Marketing Customers and Sales force

Silver is Mined by exchanging Information


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But

Information is NOT knowledge


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PRODUCT MODELER

R&D & IT

Marketing Customers and Sales force

Break Down The Information WallTo Get To The Silver

Product Managers


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SilverMine

Early AdopterProgram


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What is SilverMine?Collaboration between Configit, eSpline and SAP-VC users

Early Adopter Program for Extending the SAP platform tosupport new business scenarios

Test platform for discovering and evaluating the potential inyou SAP-VC data

A way to share and communicate the potential in SAP

A means to identify possible improvements on the modeling

side

Test, improve and mature VT Distiller suite, while providingvaluable feedback to you


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Why Join Silvermine?Explore and evaluate how to:

Use VC in non-SAP applications

Publish stand-alone configurators or webservices

Obtain performance improvements

Debug and enforce Quality Assurance

Automate proposal generation outside SAP but using the essence

of SAP-VC

Share your models with others


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What do you get out of SilverMine?

By contributing with models, you get:

XML-versions of your VC-models

Analysis reports of potential errors and problems

Visual Interactive Documentation of your models

Evaluation of graphical VC-modeling environment

Access to generated configurators


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The SilverMine Value RulesVALUE RULE #1

IF (Configurator defines Product) THEN

SILVER

ELSE

INFORMATION WALL

;

VALUE RULE #2

IF (Configurator defines Product) THEN

AMOUNT( SILVER) ~ #USERS

ELSESIZE( INFORMATION WALL) ~ #USERS

;


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Two simple step stones to value

Configurators

MUST

define your products

These Configurators

MUST

be used by as many users as possible

REJECTED


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SAP Closes The Gap With Composite Apps


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Composite Process: Guided Procedures

Modeling of user-centric processes

Invocation of diff. application types & services

Ready-to-use run-time framework

Composite Applications Creation

User Interface: Visual Composer, Web

Dynpro, Adobe FormsGraphical modeling of UI building blocks

Re-use of custom building blocks

Generation of multiple UI types

Business Objects and Services:

Import of Enterprise Services

Modeling business objects

Composition of application logic

Model Composite Views and Processes. ExtendModel Composite Views and Processes. ExtendModel Composite Views and Processes. ExtendModel Composite Views and Processes. Extendthrough the development of dedicatedthrough the development of dedicatedthrough the development of dedicatedthrough the development of dedicatedapplication logicapplication logicapplication logicapplication logic

Product ModelingServices

RuntimeConfiguration

Services

Enabling VT-Technology


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SAP-VC EXTRACT DISTILL

COMPILE

QUOTESHAREDELIVER

Distill and Publish User

Friendly

Configuratorsfrom SAP-VC


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SilverMine Districts

Austria

Belgium

SchweizDenmark

Italy

Gerrmany

France

USA


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Interactive Graphical Report for SAP-VC


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SilverMine for Netstal

SilverMine EvaluationFirst upload June 22Second upload Fourth of July (this is in Europe)Third August 8Fourth August 27

Decision to Evaluate A PreQuoteTool on top of SAP-VC

using VT-Distiller SuiteSeptember 10 start workshopSeptember 24 PreQuoteTool in evaluation version

completed


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SilverMine outcome for Netstal (CH)


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SAP-VC EXTRACT DISTILL

COMPILE

QUOTESHAREDELIVER

Distill and Publish User

Friendly

Configuratorsfrom SAP-VC


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Join SilverMine?

By contributing with models, you get:

XML-versions of your VC-models

Analysis reports of potential errors and problems

Visual Interactive Documentation of your models

Evaluation of graphical VC-modeling environment

Access to generated configurators


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