Rapid Views Overview · 2021. 5. 6. · Rapid Views Rapid Views : software company expert in SAP Business Intelligence issues o Founded by experts and BI enthusiasts (over 20 years

Rapid Views OverviewApril, 2021

Rapid Views

Rapid Views : software company expert in SAP Business Intelligence issues

o Founded by experts and BI enthusiasts (over 20 years of experience)

o Comes from the spin-off of the DeciVision R&D entity which invested

for more than 2 years in SAP HANA technology

o Strong partnership with SAP

o 100% Customer Satisfaction

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Overview

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RapidViews

Foundation

Smart Repository

Requirements Designer

Custom Integrator

References

ROI

S/4HANA Compatibility

Conclusion

RapidViews Platform

=> One single platform:

30% : CustomerSpecific70% : Foundation

70% 100%

BI Project

0%

Custom Integrator

RAPIDVIEWS Foundation

BI Governance

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Requirements Designer: to generate customerspecifications “on the fly”.

Requirements DesignerSmart Repository : to navigate dynamicallybetween reports, datamarts, views and SAP tables.

Smart Repository

BI Governance : set of Functionalities to governand maintain your BI system

Custom Integrator: to integrate all your specifications into the repository

RapidViews Foundation: Pre-packaged Datamarts+ Semantics layers + Reports.

SAP Landscape Compatability

Transactional

Reporting

BI

ReportingReal

Time

SEMANTIC LAYER(Universe / Calculation Views / CDS Views)

Reporting

Data

Warehouse

ECC ECC on HANA S/4HANA

Embedded

Analytics

CDS

Views

Calculation

Views

Calculation

Views

RAPID

VIEWS

RAPID

VIEWS

RAPID

VIEWS

RAPID

VIEWS

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Overview

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RapidViews

Foundation

Smart Repository


Custom Integrator

References

ROI


Conclusion

SAP Tables

SAP FI-CO SAP SD SAP MM SAP PP

Rapid Views : Foundation

Set of Analytics

SAP HANA Virtual Datamarts

Dimension and Fact tables

Semantic Layers

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Finance AP, AR, AA GL, BL, CA

Controling CCA, PCA, PCC

CEA, CO

Finance and Controlling

(FI-CO) RapidViews

Sales and Distribu

(SD) RapidViewDeliveries (Shipping)

Material Manage

(MM) RapidView

tion

sOrders Billing

ment

sPurchase

orderInventory

Production Planning

(PP) RapidViews Demand Management

Sales & Operational Planning

Material & Capacity Requirement

Planning

> 70 datamarts> 260 views

> 100’s SAP tables

RapidViews Datamarts Overview

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Example: RapidViews FI-CO

FINANCEAP, AR, AAGL, BL, CA

CONTROLING CCA, PCA, PCC

CEA, CO

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Debit, Credit,Balance

Remaining Delay

Required Budget…

Semantic layers

150 KPIs

30 Datamarts

SAP Tables

Company Customer Supplier Cost Center General Ledger…

Fixed Qty

Total Qty

Credit / Debit Values…

25 Reports

Cost Analysis Balance sheet Fixed Assets Cash by company Payments pending

Example: RapidViews FI-CO Semantic Layer

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Example: Analytics : Finance

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Overview

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RapidViews

Foundation Smart Repository

Smart Repository


Custom Integrator

References

ROI


Conclusion

Smart Repository

30% : Customer Specific70% : Foundation

70% 100%

BI Project

0%

between reports, datamarts, views and SAP tables

BI Governance

Custom Integrator


Smart Repository : to navigate dynamically

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Smart Repository


Smart Repository

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Smart Repository

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Smart Repository

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Smart Repository

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Smart Repository

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Smart Repository

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Smart Repository

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Overview

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RapidViews


Smart Repository


Custom Integrator

References

ROI


Conclusion

Generate customer specifications : reconcile IT & Functional


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RapidViews


Smart Repository


Custom Integrator

References

ROI


Conclusion


70% 100%

BI Project

0%

Customer Specifications

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Custom Integrator

Custom Integrator: to integrate all your specifications into the repository

Custom IntegratorRequirements Designer: to generatecustomer specifications “on the fly”

Smart Repository : to navigate dynamicallybetween reports, datamarts, views and SAPtables

RapidViews Foundation: Pre-packagedDatamarts + Semantics layers + Reports.



70% 100%

BI Project

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0%

Integration of customer specificationsStep 1 : Integrating HANA Views

Exporting views and

tables in XML

format from HANA

Studio (Export

« developer mode », only

meta data).

Uploading &

treatment of XML

files

Pre-integration of

parsing result in the

data base

Parsing resume and

key user validationFinal integration in

the data base

Displaying

imported objects in

the

Smart Repository

Upload File

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Rapidviews(Custom Integrator)

(Customer Environment)

Integration of customer specificationsStep 2 : Integration of reports

Rapidviews(Custom Integrator)

Extracting meta Creation of a CSV Upload & Pre-integration of Key User Final Displayingdata analytics from file of reports (title, parsing of CSV file parsing resultat Validation Integration of data in the

BI platform with a fields, data source, the meta Smart

specially query… data from Repository

developped BI tool reports in the

data base

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Upload File

Reporting Platform(Customer environment)

Integration of specifications

Lab Preview

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Lab Preview

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Lab Preview

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Lab Preview

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Lab Preview

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New

Views

Standard

Views

Lab Preview

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New

Reports

Standard

Reports

Lab Preview

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Custom Integrator

Custom Reports Custom KPI Custom Datamarts

Reports KPI Datamarts

INTEGRATION

Customer Specific

RapidViews Repository

Capacity

Stock

Debit

Amount

Turnover

Orders

Capacity

Stock

Debit

Amount

Turnover

Orders

CDS Views

Excel

Calculation Views

Summary

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RapidViews

Foundation

Smart Repository


Custom Integrator

References

ROI


Conclusion

Pierre Fabre

Business Pain : Long and expensive CDS Views development

RapidViews ROI:

4 months implementation vs 18 months fall short project with CDS Views

Real BI semantic layers and real time on S/4HANA

FI-CO , SD, MM & PP

Reporting Tool:

Technical Environment

o S/4HANA

o Calculation Views

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DRT

FI-CO , SD, MM, PP

Reporting tool:

Technical Environment:o S/4HANA

o CDS Views

Business Pain : Classic DW approach too long and expensive

RapidViews ROI:

3 months total implementation vs 12 months with a classic solution

Real BI structured and real time on S/4HANA

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Safran

FI-CO , SD, MM, PP

Reporting Tool:

Technical Environment:

o ECC / Oracleo Hana Full Use

o ETL Data Services

o Calculation Views

Business Pain : SAP BW developments long and expensive

RapidViews ROI:

6 months total implementation time vs 12 months with SAP BW

Implementation cost divided by 3

BI available on SAP HANA, without waiting the S/4HANA migration

RapidViews compatible with their future S/4HANA migration

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Schmidt

Reporting Tool:

Technical Environment:o ECC on HANA

o Hana Full Use

o Réplication SLT

o Calculation Views

FI-CO

Business Pain : Financial reports not accurate

RapidViews ROI:

Strategic Financial reports Implementation within 2 months(balance sheet, income statement)

Considerable timesaving

Financial Data easily accessible for Financials users

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Saint-Gobain

Reporting Tool:


o Hana Full Use

o Replication SLT

o Calculation Views

SD, MM

Business Pain : strong Reporting need and the solution had to be compatible with the next

S/4HANA implementation

RapidViews ROI:

Fast implementation

Standard and proven RapidViews data model based on the SAP tables

Implementation Cost divided by 3

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Ascometal

Reporting Tool:

Technical Environment:o ECC

o Hana Full Use

o Data Services Replication

o Calculation Views

FI-CO, SD

Business Pain : Aging BI system

RapidViews ROI:

Accelerator for the implementation of the new BI system

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Lindt

Reporting Tool:


FI-CO , SD

Business Pain : Very slow SAP BW reports

RapidViews ROI:

Performance gain + better response time

Only 20 days of implementation

Easy to take the ownership of the RapidViews by the IT team

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ADISSEO

Reporting Tool:

Technical Environment:o HANA Cloud Platform

FI-CO, SD, MM

Business Pain:o Lack of autonomy and responsiveness with BW

o Implementation of a BI data lake compatible with the future S/4HANA migration

RapidViews ROI:

HCP: savings on BW On Prem infrastructure

Fast implementation

Compatibility with S/4HANA

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Summary

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RapidViews

Foundation

Smart Repository

References

ROI


Conclusion

Make or Buy Decision

40%DW REALISATION30% › Development of universes and› ETL developments› VABF / VSR / ETL

documents

DW CONCEPTION

› Technical & functional study

› Modelisation

› ETL flow specification

› Specification of error handling

DW FINAL AND DELIVERY

› Personnalisation

› Validation phase

› Training

30%

Start right here thanks to Rapid Views

Time saving of 70%

MAKE OR BUY

DECISION !

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Benefits of RapidViews®

How to accelerate the Reporting deployment on SAP ECC and S / 4HANA? -> Rapid Views !

Continuity over timeECC and S/4HANA Compatibility

Costs and implementation speedCost divided by 3 – 10 days of implementation

FlexibilityA real toolbox for BI on HANA

OpenCompatible with all BI tools on the market

ECC

…

S/4HANA

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Summary

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RapidViews

Foundation Smart

Repository


Custom Integrator

References

ROI

S4HANA Compatibility

Conclusion

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S/4HANA Compatability

CALCULATION VIEWS

SEMANTIC LAYER

(UNIVERS / CDS Views)

ECC S/4HANA

CDS VIEWS (ABAP)

Database

Layer

ECC TABLES S/4HANA TABLES

Application

Layer

Database

Layer

VIRTUAL DATAMARTS

Direct

Access

CALCULATION VIEWSApplication

Layer

Summary

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RapidViews

Foundation

Smart Repository

Requirements Designerr

Custom Integrator

References

Make or Buy Decision


Conclusion

How we see our strategic partnership :

Offer a real toolbox for BI on HANA

Offer customers a well structured foundation (70%)

Offer customers a cost & time efficient Solution

Concentrate efforts on customers’ specifications (30%)

Offer a valuable Business Intelligence Governance Platform

Driven by success = Happy customers

Strong SAP QualifiedPartners

A WIN-WIN PARTNERSHIP

A Win – Win Partnership for Customers

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Rapid Views Overview · 2021. 5. 6. · Rapid Views Rapid Views : software company expert in SAP Business Intelligence issues o Founded by experts and BI enthusiasts (over 20 years