What is a Rapid Mart and How is It Different

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What Is a Rapid Mart and

How Is It Different?



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Key Learning and Takeaways

Learn the value of Rapid Marts for the business, IT, and project management

Learn how Rapid Marts are different from Enterprise Data Warehouses

Learn the 2 types of Rapid Marts that we offer




Business Unit Report ingChallenges for Business Users

Finance & Controlling Frustration at late reporting due to long closing periods Reports from finance and operating units differ How to combine data from multiple systems for analysis? Inability to perform interactive ad-hoc reporting in real-time

Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable Why has a customer’s payment pattern changed? What will cash receipts / cash flow look like next month? Next

quarter? Next year? How do discounts impact customer payments? How do I anticipate payment problems with a customer?

Human Resources How to track current employee costs with prior year and budget

at the job level for all organizational units? How to integrate salary & benefits by role for benchmarking?




Business Unit Report ingChallenges for IT

Consolidating Data from mult iple sources Combining data from multiple modules (Financials and HCM) Dealing with multiple ERP instances from the same vendor Dealing with multiple ERP vendors (SAP, J D Edwards,

PeopleSoft, Oracle)

ERP is not optimized for analysis and discovery Performance is a function of data volume when doing analysis

directly on an un-accelerated ERP system

Data archiving, migration, and sunset Accessing valuable data in legacy systems. Cost of maintaining legacy systems.




BI Solutions for Business ApplicationsRapid Marts

SAPBusiness

Applications

SAPBusinessObjects

BI

Rapid Marts

SAPRapid Mart

Oracle J D EdwardsPeopleSoft

RapidDecisionRapid Mart

Typical SME/Indirect Customer




SAP Rapid Marts Take a First Step Towards an Enterprise Data Warehouse

R e s o u r c e s

Time

Extension andCustomization

Start here withRapid Mart

Start here withoutRapid Mart

EngageSpecialized SAP

Skills

Financial

General Ledger

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Payable

Cost Center

Fixed Assets

Operational

Sales

Inventory

Purchasing

Manufacturing

Plant Maintenance

Production Planning

Project Systems

Human Capital

Management

Human Resources

Financial

General Ledger

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Payable

Cost Center

Fixed Assets

Operational

Sales

Inventory

Purchasing

Manufacturing

Plant Maintenance

Production Planning

Project Systems

Human Capital

Management

Human Resources

What Is a Rapid Mart? What Subject Areas?

What Is a Rapid Mart?

Prepackaged subject-area specific datawarehouse. Includes schemas, ETLscripts, and BI content

What Is The Value?

For the Business

Key reports to optimize and execute

Self-service data discovery andanalysis

More insight in less time

For IT

Create single point of truth Exit the report creation business

Accelerate the sunset of legacysystems

Solid platform for analysis, datadiscovery, and mobility

Support for SAP HANA and traditionaldatabases

For Project Management

Accelerated implementation

Less specialized SAP skills

Best practices embedded in thecontent

For the Business


Self-service data discovery andanalysis


For IT

Create single point of truth Exit the report creation business

Accelerate the sunset of legacysystems

Solid platform for analysis, datadiscovery, and mobility



Accelerated implementation

Less specialized SAP skills

Best practices embedded in thecontent




High-Level Architecture3 functional and technology layers supporting best practices

ETL Mappings

Subject matter experts haveconfiguredsource- to-target

mappings and datatransformations for relevantsource tables

ETL jobs are coded and

optimized to perform initial andincremental data movements

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Data Marts

Set of target RDBMS objects andschemas

Based on best practices fordimensional data modeling

Support for SAP HANA,Microsoft SQL Server, andOracle as target database

2





BI Content

Pre-configured universes

based on best practices toensure optimized ad-hocbusiness intelligence querygeneration and re-use

Comprehensive suite of fullycustomizable reports showingthe wealth of data available

and best practice report design

3




Metadata Management within BI Launchpad Trusted Information: Where does it come from AND how good is it?




Metadata Management within BI Launchpad Trusted Information: Where does it come from AND how good is it?




What Types of Rapid Marts Are There?

Source Systems

SAP ECC 5 SAP ECC 6

Vendor

SAP

Model

Direct or indirect via partner

Software Required

SAP Data Services SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

Supported Databases

SAP HANA Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

Source Systems

SAP ECC 5 SAP ECC 6

Vendor

SAP

Model

Direct or indirect via partner

Software Required


Supported Databases

SAP HANA Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

SAP Rapid Marts

Source Systems

J D Edwards Oracle E-Business Suite Peoplesoft

Vendor

Andrews Consulting

Model Endorsed Business Solution SAP or SAP partner sells the licenses required SAP resells the RapidDecision content SAP partner performs customizations

Software Required


Supported Databases

SAP HANA Oracle, IBM DB2/400, Microsoft SQL Server

Source Systems

J D Edwards Oracle E-Business Suite Peoplesoft

Vendor

Andrews Consulting

Model Endorsed Business Solution SAP or SAP partner sells the licenses required SAP resells the RapidDecision content SAP partner performs customizations

Software Required


Supported Databases

SAP HANA Oracle, IBM DB2/400, Microsoft SQL Server

RapidDecision by Andrews Consulting




Customers Drive Value with SAP Rapid Marts

In 6 months we installed the Rapid Marts for Account Receivable / Payable, Cost Center, and

Plant Maintenance. We did dramatically reduce the amount of headcount it would require.”

Leading computer hardware company

Rapid Marts for SAP solutions

Reduced deployment time by 85%

Reduced staffing needs by 80%

Gained cost savings of ~$780,000

“

“… the team installed a set of SAP Rapid Marts® packages and used them to set up sales and

cost center analysis functionality based on financials data from SAP ERP. “That was important

because it gave us confidence that the inform ation we were using accurately tied back to

the general ledger ,”

“OraSure has many plans to take further advantage of its SAP software investment. The firm will

shortly deploy other SAP Rapid Marts packages because of the value derived from the

initial set. The new packages will cover production planning, allowing manufacturing to better

analyze production data and use the lessons learned to improve the manufacturing factory’sefficiency.”

“




Summary

What Is The Value?

For the Business


Self-service data discovery and analysis


For IT

Create single point of truth

Get out of the report creation business

Accelerate the sunset of legacy systems



Content accelerates implementation

Less need for specialized SAP skills

Best practices embedded in the content

For the Business


Self-service data discovery and analysis


For IT

Create single point of truth

Get out of the report creation business

Accelerate the sunset of legacy systems



Content accelerates implementation

Less need for specialized SAP skills

Best practices embedded in the content

Differences from DataWarehouse?

Data Scope

Rapid Marts are limited tocertain subject areas

Rapid Marts typically havefewer data sources than an

Enterprise DataWarehouse

Scale

Tend to focus initially onthe needs of a department.

Best for smallerorganizations making thefirst step towards an

Enterprise DataWarehouse.

Data Scope

Rapid Marts are limited tocertain subject areas

Rapid Marts typically havefewer data sources than an

Enterprise DataWarehouse

Scale

Tend to focus initially onthe needs of a department.

Best for smallerorganizations making thefirst step towards an

Enterprise DataWarehouse.

Types of Rapid Marts

SAP Rapid Marts

Sourced from SAP ECC 5and 6

RapidDecision from

Andrews Consult ing

Sourced from Oracle E-Business Suite,PeopleSoft, JD Edwards

SAP Rapid Marts

Sourced from SAP ECC 5and 6

RapidDecision from

Andrews Consult ing

Sourced from Oracle E-Business Suite,PeopleSoft, JD Edwards




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