This document provides guidance on building a business case for implementing SAP HANA. It outlines steps to identify critical business processes, understand HANA use cases, create a value wheel to quantify benefits, and conduct a proof-of-concept to reduce risk. Conducting interviews, prioritizing processes, and mapping them to value drivers allows for estimating return on investment. A proof-of-concept can validate assumptions and increase the likelihood of realizing benefits to support the case.
Finit solutions - The Benefits of a Rolling Forecastfinitsolutions
In today's highly competitive economic environment, successful companies must rapidly adapt to fluctuations in operational and economic strategies. Having a rolling forecast allows companies to:
Anticipate change and promptly respond to immediate needs
Proactively address long term financial consequences to the business that are not realized through traditional annual forecasting and planning methods.
Extend forecasting cycles further out
Standardize the forecast process
Create forecasts rapidly
Emphasize key drivers
Join Bryan Hogan and Justin Cooper both from Finit's Hyperion Planning team as they discuss the functional benefits of Rolling Forecasts:
What are the key areas of focus for a Rolling Forecast?
How can a Rolling Forecast benefit my company, my division, my Cost Center?
Will a Rolling Forecast create more work for my analysts? Or will it actually reduce work over time?
Why are many companies using rolling forecasts now? And....
How to implement a Rolling Forecast in Hyperion Planning "out of the box" or by utilizing a more customized solution.
Presenter: Bryan Hogan & Justin Cooper
Delivering Value with Financial Performance: Leading FP&A Practices of High-G...Proformative, Inc.
The FP&A organization along with the rest of finance is undergoing a transformation, with increasing responsibilities and their accompanying challenges, all of which have to be undertaken with limited resources. FP&A leaders, like their peers in other finance groups, are being asked to elevate their focus and extend their reach across the organization, while still delivering on traditional blocking and tackling activities. Hear from FP&A leaders who have created significant company value while navigating high growth business environments. Learn how best practices – on KPIs, planning cycles, rolling forecasts, and other techniques – have enabled high performance, both for their functions and for their overall business.
Speakers: Eileen Tobias, Sr. Director of FP&A, NetSuite
Eric Zimmerman, Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis, Infusionsoft
Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Operational Advantage | Session: 4
This session provides the opportunity for partners to understand the IBM & Aline Performance Management & Analytics Workshop for clients. This third-party offering has provided excellent results around performance management & analytics. CFOs love this event, and Business Partners across all industries should be driving these opportunities for their clients.
Learn a best practice methodology where financial plans incorporate assumptions about business activities which are modeled to drive financial data such as revenue projections, headcount, spending and capital requirements.
Finit solutions - The Benefits of a Rolling Forecastfinitsolutions
In today's highly competitive economic environment, successful companies must rapidly adapt to fluctuations in operational and economic strategies. Having a rolling forecast allows companies to:
Anticipate change and promptly respond to immediate needs
Proactively address long term financial consequences to the business that are not realized through traditional annual forecasting and planning methods.
Extend forecasting cycles further out
Standardize the forecast process
Create forecasts rapidly
Emphasize key drivers
Join Bryan Hogan and Justin Cooper both from Finit's Hyperion Planning team as they discuss the functional benefits of Rolling Forecasts:
What are the key areas of focus for a Rolling Forecast?
How can a Rolling Forecast benefit my company, my division, my Cost Center?
Will a Rolling Forecast create more work for my analysts? Or will it actually reduce work over time?
Why are many companies using rolling forecasts now? And....
How to implement a Rolling Forecast in Hyperion Planning "out of the box" or by utilizing a more customized solution.
Presenter: Bryan Hogan & Justin Cooper
Delivering Value with Financial Performance: Leading FP&A Practices of High-G...Proformative, Inc.
The FP&A organization along with the rest of finance is undergoing a transformation, with increasing responsibilities and their accompanying challenges, all of which have to be undertaken with limited resources. FP&A leaders, like their peers in other finance groups, are being asked to elevate their focus and extend their reach across the organization, while still delivering on traditional blocking and tackling activities. Hear from FP&A leaders who have created significant company value while navigating high growth business environments. Learn how best practices – on KPIs, planning cycles, rolling forecasts, and other techniques – have enabled high performance, both for their functions and for their overall business.
Speakers: Eileen Tobias, Sr. Director of FP&A, NetSuite
Eric Zimmerman, Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis, Infusionsoft
Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Operational Advantage | Session: 4
This session provides the opportunity for partners to understand the IBM & Aline Performance Management & Analytics Workshop for clients. This third-party offering has provided excellent results around performance management & analytics. CFOs love this event, and Business Partners across all industries should be driving these opportunities for their clients.
Learn a best practice methodology where financial plans incorporate assumptions about business activities which are modeled to drive financial data such as revenue projections, headcount, spending and capital requirements.
Mapping the Value Stream in Lean MarketingBusiness901
This part of my Lean Sales and Marketing Workshop is going through a significant change. In the upcoming months, you will see my latest thoughts on how I approach this area for Lean Sales and Marketing. My most current thinking was posted in the blog post; Value Stream Mapping should be left on the Shop Floor. The Presentation can be viewed in the Training Content section Business901.com
Making driver-based planning and budgeting workAnaplan
For Finance departments to best navigate through the twists and turns of today’s fast moving marketplace, a haphazard, once-a-year budgeting process just doesn’t cut it. To survive and thrive in this environment, this process needs to change to be more agile, align around a consistent set of resources, and attain a trusted level of accuracy.
One reliable way to transform your budgeting process is to integrate the modeling that budget contributors typically do on spreadsheets to deliver driver-based planning and budgeting. With benefits such as being able to rapidly reforecast with minimal effort, having operational capacity always aligned, and better decision making that comes from having a deeper insight into variances, it has obvious appeal. So why is it not more widely used?
View these slides from our webinar with Forrester Research and Proformative and watch the full webinar here: https://www.anaplan.com/webinars/driver-based-budgeting/
The ROI of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) MaturitySteelwedge
How far is your company on its Sales and Operations Planning maturity journey? Have you hit a brick wall? According to Gartner, nearly 70% of manufacturers are getting "stuck" at Stage 2 maturity: balancing supply and demand.
The vast majority of companies use Excel to power their S&OP. While no one ever abandons Excel, those who try to power through maturity with only Excel or a collection of disparate, unconnected solutions, usually hit a brick wall when it comes time to driving collaboration and scale in their plans.
Download the ROI of S&OP Maturity presentation to see how well your company is performing and learn how you can break through to S&OP maturity value.
For even more information, or to contact us, please visit http://www.steelwedge.com/
COLLABORATE 18 Presentation: Demand Planning in Cloud R13Jade Global
Understanding Demand Planning in Cloud R13 Through an Early Adaptor Case Study
Session Abstract:
Oracle has released Demand Planning in Cloud with Release 13. We will share the experiences of an early adaptor customer with their demand management and SNOP processes in cloud. We will also compare the cloud offering with that of Demantra and provide a guidance on its readiness for different industries. In the end we will explore the coexistence possibilities and prerequisites for Demand Management Cloud.
OKRs and driver based plans by lamorte - aug 2014 san franciscoBen Lamorte
Presented at Business Forecasting 2014 in San Francisco, August 2014. Includes 5 best practices for making driver-based plans work and focuses on Objectives and Key Results.
Proven Techniques for Optimizing Your Financial Planning & Analysis ProcessProformative, Inc.
In this session, you will learn best practices for optimizing the planning process including how to adopt a driver-based model, efficiently manage rolling forecasts, embrace “what if” scenario modeling and provide more meaningful reporting and analysis to impact decision making. You will gain insights from comprehensive industry research recently conducted with hundreds of financial professionals around the world in order to understand key industry trends and best practices that are working for leading edge organizations today. In addition to the research, subject matter experts will share numerous practical steps for improving performance management processes in your organization. You will come away with real-world methodologies to help you improve and shorten your budgeting process and will also enable better decision making and organizational alignment that will help you to optimize performance.
Speaker: Tony Ard, Director of Solutions Engineering, Axiom EPM
Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Operational Advantage | Session: 5
Balanced Scorecard for Strategic Planning and MeasurementKenny Ong
ABF Advanced Balanced Scorecard Conference
April 2009
* How BSC can link and facilitate strategy planning
* Performance management measurement through Balanced Scorecard
* BSC as business intelligence to help organisation build strategic direction and measure the progress of strategic execution
From annual budget to rolling forecast - Karine CochetKarine Cochet
On April 18 & 19, 2013, I participated as a speaker at the FP&A Innovation Summit in Hong Kong,
Organized by IE. (Innovation Enterprise), the Financial Forecasting & Planning Innovation Summit brought together CFO and FP&A Directors from all around Asia.
During 2 days, we, Finance executives, were able to share our experience and discuss around the 2013 Summit Topic: “Today companies rely on a solid FP&A process, this requires the ability to access, collect and analyze both financial data and forward-looking non-financial measures such as trends in customer demand or commodity prices”
In my presentation, I focused on Driver-based forecasting and rolling forecast.
“Traditional annual budget process is often seen as a time-consuming exercise, with limited value, whose underlying assumptions are quickly outdated. In a time of increasing competition and fast changing environment, there is a need for a more agile way to predict the future. In the presentation, we will discuss the opportunity to introduce a more flexible approach based on driver-based forecasting and rolling forecast. We will consider the impacts of such a move on the organizations.”
Genpact helps leaders of some of the largest enterprises
transform and run their processes and operations, including
the very complex and industry-specific. We help enterprises to be more competitive by becoming more intelligent: adaptive, innovative, globally effective and connected by enabling tighter management of costs, risks, regulations, and supporting growth.
AVATA is adding to their express solutions suite with “IBP express”, a hosted service offering that provides the framework for conducting the S&OP/IBP process with supported dashboard reports and KPI’s. IBP express will allow for a rapid deployment enabling your first S&OP/IBP cycle within 90-days.
IBP express is both a technology tool and service offering that supports advancing your current S&OP process or implementing S&OP/IBP for the first time. IBP express includes the required Education, Workshops, Coaching & Technology that will deliver a rapid ROI.
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is the process of forecasting a company's future financial performance and managing its financial resources to meet those forecasts. FP&A professionals are responsible for creating accurate financial models, developing budget proposals, and analyzing past financial performance in order to identify trends and recommend improvements.
An outline of the differing role of KPIs at startups vs mature businesses, drawing out the implications for the approach and methodology to their development.
Best Practices in Financial Planning and Analysis | 2013 Business Analytics S...Cartegraph
Loras College is proud to present our annual Business Analytics Symposium on March 27, 2014 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, IA. Industry experts will share their insights about the evolving field of business analytics opportunities. Learn about everything from best practices when analyzing data to the importance and benefits of building a culture of analytics within your organization.
To learn more, secure your seat or to take advantage of group discounts visit www.loras.edu/bigdata.
Today, the IT companies and organizations are facing increasingly complex challenges. To successfully tackle these challenges, a culture of multidisciplinary collaboration, continuous business re-invention and human centricity is required. Design Thinking is a renowned holistic approach which brings these aspects together.
In this talk, a pragmatic guide to applying Design Thinking principles and methods will be presented. Matthias Langholz will share his valuable real life case studies of IT projects with enterprise customers. Attendees of the talk will be provided with practical advice on how to take the first steps towards a design centric way of working.
This talk has been given at the IT Arena 2015 conference in Lviv, Ukraine.
Mapping the Value Stream in Lean MarketingBusiness901
This part of my Lean Sales and Marketing Workshop is going through a significant change. In the upcoming months, you will see my latest thoughts on how I approach this area for Lean Sales and Marketing. My most current thinking was posted in the blog post; Value Stream Mapping should be left on the Shop Floor. The Presentation can be viewed in the Training Content section Business901.com
Making driver-based planning and budgeting workAnaplan
For Finance departments to best navigate through the twists and turns of today’s fast moving marketplace, a haphazard, once-a-year budgeting process just doesn’t cut it. To survive and thrive in this environment, this process needs to change to be more agile, align around a consistent set of resources, and attain a trusted level of accuracy.
One reliable way to transform your budgeting process is to integrate the modeling that budget contributors typically do on spreadsheets to deliver driver-based planning and budgeting. With benefits such as being able to rapidly reforecast with minimal effort, having operational capacity always aligned, and better decision making that comes from having a deeper insight into variances, it has obvious appeal. So why is it not more widely used?
View these slides from our webinar with Forrester Research and Proformative and watch the full webinar here: https://www.anaplan.com/webinars/driver-based-budgeting/
The ROI of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) MaturitySteelwedge
How far is your company on its Sales and Operations Planning maturity journey? Have you hit a brick wall? According to Gartner, nearly 70% of manufacturers are getting "stuck" at Stage 2 maturity: balancing supply and demand.
The vast majority of companies use Excel to power their S&OP. While no one ever abandons Excel, those who try to power through maturity with only Excel or a collection of disparate, unconnected solutions, usually hit a brick wall when it comes time to driving collaboration and scale in their plans.
Download the ROI of S&OP Maturity presentation to see how well your company is performing and learn how you can break through to S&OP maturity value.
For even more information, or to contact us, please visit http://www.steelwedge.com/
COLLABORATE 18 Presentation: Demand Planning in Cloud R13Jade Global
Understanding Demand Planning in Cloud R13 Through an Early Adaptor Case Study
Session Abstract:
Oracle has released Demand Planning in Cloud with Release 13. We will share the experiences of an early adaptor customer with their demand management and SNOP processes in cloud. We will also compare the cloud offering with that of Demantra and provide a guidance on its readiness for different industries. In the end we will explore the coexistence possibilities and prerequisites for Demand Management Cloud.
OKRs and driver based plans by lamorte - aug 2014 san franciscoBen Lamorte
Presented at Business Forecasting 2014 in San Francisco, August 2014. Includes 5 best practices for making driver-based plans work and focuses on Objectives and Key Results.
Proven Techniques for Optimizing Your Financial Planning & Analysis ProcessProformative, Inc.
In this session, you will learn best practices for optimizing the planning process including how to adopt a driver-based model, efficiently manage rolling forecasts, embrace “what if” scenario modeling and provide more meaningful reporting and analysis to impact decision making. You will gain insights from comprehensive industry research recently conducted with hundreds of financial professionals around the world in order to understand key industry trends and best practices that are working for leading edge organizations today. In addition to the research, subject matter experts will share numerous practical steps for improving performance management processes in your organization. You will come away with real-world methodologies to help you improve and shorten your budgeting process and will also enable better decision making and organizational alignment that will help you to optimize performance.
Speaker: Tony Ard, Director of Solutions Engineering, Axiom EPM
Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Operational Advantage | Session: 5
Balanced Scorecard for Strategic Planning and MeasurementKenny Ong
ABF Advanced Balanced Scorecard Conference
April 2009
* How BSC can link and facilitate strategy planning
* Performance management measurement through Balanced Scorecard
* BSC as business intelligence to help organisation build strategic direction and measure the progress of strategic execution
From annual budget to rolling forecast - Karine CochetKarine Cochet
On April 18 & 19, 2013, I participated as a speaker at the FP&A Innovation Summit in Hong Kong,
Organized by IE. (Innovation Enterprise), the Financial Forecasting & Planning Innovation Summit brought together CFO and FP&A Directors from all around Asia.
During 2 days, we, Finance executives, were able to share our experience and discuss around the 2013 Summit Topic: “Today companies rely on a solid FP&A process, this requires the ability to access, collect and analyze both financial data and forward-looking non-financial measures such as trends in customer demand or commodity prices”
In my presentation, I focused on Driver-based forecasting and rolling forecast.
“Traditional annual budget process is often seen as a time-consuming exercise, with limited value, whose underlying assumptions are quickly outdated. In a time of increasing competition and fast changing environment, there is a need for a more agile way to predict the future. In the presentation, we will discuss the opportunity to introduce a more flexible approach based on driver-based forecasting and rolling forecast. We will consider the impacts of such a move on the organizations.”
Genpact helps leaders of some of the largest enterprises
transform and run their processes and operations, including
the very complex and industry-specific. We help enterprises to be more competitive by becoming more intelligent: adaptive, innovative, globally effective and connected by enabling tighter management of costs, risks, regulations, and supporting growth.
AVATA is adding to their express solutions suite with “IBP express”, a hosted service offering that provides the framework for conducting the S&OP/IBP process with supported dashboard reports and KPI’s. IBP express will allow for a rapid deployment enabling your first S&OP/IBP cycle within 90-days.
IBP express is both a technology tool and service offering that supports advancing your current S&OP process or implementing S&OP/IBP for the first time. IBP express includes the required Education, Workshops, Coaching & Technology that will deliver a rapid ROI.
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is the process of forecasting a company's future financial performance and managing its financial resources to meet those forecasts. FP&A professionals are responsible for creating accurate financial models, developing budget proposals, and analyzing past financial performance in order to identify trends and recommend improvements.
An outline of the differing role of KPIs at startups vs mature businesses, drawing out the implications for the approach and methodology to their development.
Best Practices in Financial Planning and Analysis | 2013 Business Analytics S...Cartegraph
Loras College is proud to present our annual Business Analytics Symposium on March 27, 2014 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, IA. Industry experts will share their insights about the evolving field of business analytics opportunities. Learn about everything from best practices when analyzing data to the importance and benefits of building a culture of analytics within your organization.
To learn more, secure your seat or to take advantage of group discounts visit www.loras.edu/bigdata.
Today, the IT companies and organizations are facing increasingly complex challenges. To successfully tackle these challenges, a culture of multidisciplinary collaboration, continuous business re-invention and human centricity is required. Design Thinking is a renowned holistic approach which brings these aspects together.
In this talk, a pragmatic guide to applying Design Thinking principles and methods will be presented. Matthias Langholz will share his valuable real life case studies of IT projects with enterprise customers. Attendees of the talk will be provided with practical advice on how to take the first steps towards a design centric way of working.
This talk has been given at the IT Arena 2015 conference in Lviv, Ukraine.
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In-Memory Analytics - SAP Big Data - Analytics Tools Selection - SAP HANA & ...Jothi Periasamy
Objective
Review SAP In-Memory Analytics Solutions
Understand SAP In-Memory Analytics Technologies
Learn Which SAP In-Memory Analytics Technology Best Fits Your Business
Tool Capabilities
Support For Big Data
Use Cases
_____________________________
Executive View
SAP In-Memory Analytics Solutions
SAP In-Memory Analytics Technologies
Key Capabilities
Deployment and Delivery Options
Use Cases
Key Takeaways
Contact Experts
Appendix
Business Value Proposition
Technical Landscape
SAP's Road to Innovation - Design Thinking and Lean Develompent in PracticeTobias Schimmer
SAP as standard software vendor for large corporations started a long journey five years ago: lean management and agile software development were supposed to make the development organization faster and deliveries more predictable. In addition the SAP needed a way to innovate more reliably. The session highlights the major insights gained on this journey so far and provides some background on the methods and approach applied in practice.
How SAP HANA can provide value for Pharma R&DMarc Maurer
This presentation describes how the in-memory data platform SAP HANA can provide value for different use cases found in research & deveopment of big pharma companies.
Design Thinking and Business Model Innovation at SAP - From Efficiency to Inn...Tobias Schimmer
How Design Thinking and Business Model Innovation approaches changed the way new business models around new products and services are designed, tested and implemented at SAP including the roots in the company's DNA, Lean and Agile.
Best Practices to Administer, Operate, and Monitor an SAP HANA SystemSAPinsider Events
Review this session from HANA 2015 in Las Vegas. Coming to Europe! www.HANA2015.com
Best Practices to Administer, Operate, and Monitor an SAP HANA System by Kurt Hollis, Deloitte
This session provides easy to understand, step-by-step instruction for operation and administration of SAP HANA post go-live. Through live demo and detailed instruction, attendees will:
· Learn how to use the SAP HANA studio for security, user management, credential management, high availability administration, system maintenance, and performance optimization
· Gain a comprehensive understanding of available SAP HANA platform lifecycle management tools, deployment options, and system relocation
· Get an introduction to SAP HANA HA/DR capabilities, and learn best practices for backup and recovery of the SAP HANA system
SAP HANA is an in-memory computing appliance that combines SAP database software with pre-tuned server, storage, and networking hardware to deliver - allowing actionable insight and decision making on Big Data.
Your Digital Finance Transformation JourneyWorkday, Inc.
When it comes to navigating digital transformation within finance, no two organizations or industries are alike.
View this slide deck to learn how Workday and Deloitte are partnering to provide customers across industries with a perfect path forward, and can help you set a clear strategy for your journey.
Case Study: Lessons from Newell Rubbermaid's SAP HANA Proof of ConceptSAPinsider Events
View this session from Reporting & Analytics 2014. Coming to Las Vegas in November! www.reporting2015.com
In this session, Newell Rubbermaid guides you through the key elements that comprised its SAP HANA business case and proof of concept, including an emphasis on process improvement. Learn firsthand how Newell Rubbermaid:
· Identified which business processes were most likely to realize significant improvement as a result of utilizing SAP HANA
· Established a “current state” baseline and demonstrated a “projected state” that could be realized through the use of SAP HANA
· Determined which SAP BI tools to use based on specific reporting scenarios and end user requirements
Creating Value Through Digital Enterprise Transformation
Originally presented to XPX, CT Chapter. We look at what it takes to create value and reduce risk using digital enterprise transformation to improve your business processes, technology, and talent foundations.
Topics covered include building a roadmap, process improvement, systems improvement including ERP, CRM, BI/Analytics, and eCommerce, how to build a global organization, and how to build a professional management team.
Delivering a Strategic and Delightful User ExperienceWilliam Newman
SAP’s UX strategy was unveiled nearly two years ago. How are customers moving forward with the embracing this strategy, making it their own, and demonstrating results? Based on hands-on planning with business and IT teams, learn the key drivers and best practice approaches to use when planning your UX strategy program. Case studies and examples of early adopters, along with pitfalls to avoid and key points to consider will prepare your team and position for success in your UX program. Testimonials and examples from Shell, Valero, Unilever and others
AVATA Webinar: Solutions to Common Demantra & ASCP ChallengesAVATA
As a leading provider of SCP solutions and a 15 year focus with Oracle Supply Chain Solutions, join AVATA as we examine the most common challenges when implementing and configuring Oracle’s Demantra and ASCP planning solutions.
9 steps to help beverage companies improve their demand forecasting processHalo BI
Demand forecasting can be a daunting task in the beverage industry. Use these9 steps to help you develop an action plan to conquer the demand planning challenge.
SAP recently started to bundle software solutions with pre-packaged consulting. The result is called RDS, or Rapid Deployment Solutions. There are currently close to one hundred offerings available. In this webcast, you will first get a better understanding of how the RDS methodology can save customers time and money and minimize risk. Then, we will navigate through the RDS portal and learn more specific RDS packages. Last, we will dive into some of the RDS projects recommended for the SAP Controlling community.
Building the Business Case for SAP HANAJohn Appleby
This presentation discusses an approach to building the business case for SAP HANA, including practical advice on getting a project live, fast.
This was first presented at the SAP Insider HANA 2015 conference in Las Vegas
This presentation discusses an approach to building the business case for SAP HANA, including practical advice on getting a project live, fast.
This was first presented at the SAP Insider HANA 2015 conference in Las Vegas
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Oracle & USJade Power Breakfast Presentations: Sales & Operations PlanningJade Global
In a live event hosted by Oracle and USJade, these presentations were provided by special guest speakers and subject matter experts Mel Nelson of APICS, and Stephen Zadig from the ClariPhy Advisory Board. In an interactive meeting with manufacturing professionals they explored the benefits, challenges, tips and best practices of next generation Sales & Operations Planning.
Similar to Digging into HANA ROI and Biz Case Analysis - Discussed by Jon Reed and Tony from TekLink (20)
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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In This Session
• Understand elements and approaches of a strong business case
• Learn the critical inputs that must be defined and quantified to
build a financial model for your business case
• Learn specific methodologies for identifying, evaluating, and
prioritizing the most critical business processes
• Understand the various use cases and applications of SAP HANA
and which business processes they support
• See examples of how a Proof-of-Concept (POC) can greatly
reduce risk and increase probability of a successful project
• Acquire knowledge of how to set up an NPV calculator to evaluate
the value and ROI of your business case
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What We’ll Cover
• Defining a strong business case
• Identifying and Evaluating critical processes
• Understanding various uses and benefits of SAP HANA
• Creating a HANA Value Wheel™
• Predicting the future with a POC
• Putting the numbers together
• Wrap-up
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Fundamentals of Building a Business Case
• Business case evaluates whether value/benefit will exceed the
costs to implement project
If benefits > cost, then business case exists
If benefits < cost, there is no business case
• Best approach for evaluating investment is to use project finance
models
Traditionally used for industrial projects, but principles can
apply to IT projects as well
Asks whether capital investment provides net positive returns
over life of asset
NPV (Net Present Value)
ROI (Return on Investment)
Payback Period
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Inputs for Building a Business Case
• Solid financial model to build a business case requires knowing Net
Present Value (NPV):
NPV = -C0 + C1/(1+r) + C2/(1+r)2
+ … + CT/(1+r)T
Benefit/Value = CN
Initial benefit and value solution will provide
Long-term ongoing value provided
Cost = C0
Initial hardware, software, and resource costs to deploy
solution
Ongoing costs to support and maintain solution
Time = T
Expected lifespan of solution
Risk = r
Likelihood of deploying solution successfully within budget
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Common Challenges of SAP HANA Business Cases
• Many of the required inputs are very difficult to quantify
Benefit and Value
What are the business benefits of implementing SAP HANA?
How to put a $ amount on efficiency, speed, or improved processes?
Costs
Hard Costs – hardware, software, and labor required based on type of
HANA deployment
Soft Costs – intangible costs such as downtime during a migration or
drop in productivity as users learn new application
Time
Expected lifespan for new technology is uncertain
Depreciation schedule for software is typically 3-5 years
Critical legacy systems can live on for 10+ years
Risk
How to put a number on probability of realizing expected benefits?
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Addressing the Challenges of SAP HANA
Business Cases
• Proven steps and methodologies to determine numbers for inputs
Benefit and Value
Identify and evaluate critical business processes
Build a “Value Wheel” to understand value contributions by
area and process into total business case
Map critical processes to HANA uses cases and applications
Costs
Understand different HANA applications and use cases
Scope project for both immediate deployment and longer-
term rollouts and enhancements
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Addressing the Challenges of SAP HANA
Business Cases (cont.)
• Proven steps and methodologies to determine numbers for inputs
(cont.)
Time
Start with traditional lifespan based on software depreciation
schedule; ~ 5 years
Adjust based on scope of deployment, criticality of system
Risk
Start with WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital) as initial
discount rate
Conduct a proof-of-concept to better understand likelihood of
success and ability to fully realize expected benefits
Successful POC will greatly reduce risk, allow for lower
discount rate
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What We’ll Cover
• Defining a strong business case
• Identifying and Evaluating critical processes
• Understanding various uses and benefits of SAP HANA
• Creating a HANA Value Wheel™
• Predicting the future with a POC
• Putting the numbers together
• Wrap-up
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Identifying Critical Business Processes
• Start by conducting interviews with process area owners
Executive interviews
Understand strategic vision
Business team interviews
Collect critical processes and understand pain points
• Sample interview map:
Sales
• John Doe (EVP Sales)
• Jane Doe (CCOE Sales)
• John Doe, Sr. (SVP Sales
National Accts)
• Jim Doe, Jr. (SVP Regional
Sales)
Transportation
• Bob Doe (VP
Transportation)
• Jack Doe (Inbound Freight
Manager
• Jessie Doe (CCOE Ops)
Operations
• Bob Jay (EVP Operations)
• Sam A. Paul, Sr. (SVP
Operations)
• Jessie Doe (CCOE Ops)
• John Doe, Jr. (CCOE PP)
• Janet Doe (GM Plant Ops)
HR
• James Doe (EVP HR)
• Joan Doe (CCOE HR)
• John A. Doe (Comp/Benefits
Manager)
Finance
• John Doe (CFO)
• Bill Smith (Controller)
• Sam A. Paul (AP Manager)
• Mary Christmas (Budget
Manager)
• Jim Doe (CCOE FI)
• Jane Doe (Financial Analysis
Manager)
Promotional Accounting
• Jane Doe (Promotional
Accounting Manager)
• Bill Smith (Controller)
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Interviewing Business Process Owners
• Ask open-ended questions framed by capabilities HANA can
provide
How would your department improve or operate better if you
could …
See and report on data in (near) real-time?
Speed up transactions, interfaces, and reports?
Bring in external “Big Data” sources such as POS or social
media to join with internal data?
Quickly make changes to existing models and
reports with minimum turn-around time?
Accelerate complex and cumbersome business
processes?
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Capturing Results of Interviews
• Capture answers provided during interviews to identify:
Business drivers
Critical processes
KPIs and Metrics
Pain points
Existing gaps and shortcomings
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Evaluating Results of Interviews
• Capture business drivers and evaluate each critical process or
pain point against drivers
Use “Harvey Ball” methodology to evaluate degree to which
each meets a criteria
Very Low
Low
Medium
High
Very High
Revenue Generation
Cost Reduction
Operational Efficiency
New Capabilities
Customer Satisfaction
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Evaluating Results of Interviews – Example
• Capture business drivers and evaluate each critical process or
pain point against drivers
Use “Harvey Ball” methodology to evaluate degree in which
each meets a criteria
Pain Point Drivers Benefits Realized Impact
Difficult to analyze pricing by region,
leading to potential lost opportunities
to optimize pricing regionally
Increase Customer Loyalty
Increase Brand Awareness & Perceptions
Improve Productivity
Improve Service Efficiency
Reduce Customer Support Dependency
Increase Revenue
Improve Purchasing Decisions
Increase Profitability
Improve Operational Efficiencies
Increase Operating Profits
Timeliness of Reporting
Minimize Unprofitable Customers
Optimize Customer Incentives
Enable Product Line Analysis
Improve Reporting
Inability to look at granular-level detail
due to the sheer volume of data (i.e.,
an account for a month with drill-down
capability)
Cross New Products and Services
Increase Customer Satisfaction
Improve Service Efficiency
Improve Operational Efficiencies
Increase Accessibility to Information
Facilitate Closing Processes
Timeliness of Reporting
Reduce Errors
Improve Reporting
Inventory write-offs common due to
not having real-time visibility to current
stock levels of perishable raw
materials
Reduce cost
Eliminate waste
Improve inventory turnover
Reduce working capital
One of the largest challenges for
finance is getting the books closed
due to lengthy ETL jobs between FI
systems
Improve Service Efficiency
Increase Accessibility to Information
Facilitate Closing Processes
Timeliness of Reporting
Enable Exception Processes
Improve Reporting
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What We’ll Cover
• Defining a strong business case
• Identifying and Evaluating critical processes
• Understanding various uses and benefits of SAP HANA
• Creating a HANA Value Wheel™
• Predicting the future with a POC
• Putting the numbers together
• Wrap-up
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Different “Flavors” of HANA
• SAP HANA has multiple uses; SAP is continuing to roll out new
capabilities and applications rapidly
Go to SAP Marketplace and SAPHANA.com for more
information on new use cases and HANA solutions
• To build a business case, one must first understand different uses
of HANA and how they map to critical processes
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Understanding HANA Use Cases
• Most common current HANA solutions and use cases based on
client experience
Enterprise HANA as ECC “side-car”
Replicates data from ECC in real-time
Accelerates ECC reports & transactions
Can be used to host and integrate non-SAP data as well
BW on HANA
Accelerates entire BW system
Enables virtualization of data mart layers to eliminate
redundancy and improve speed to reporting
Allows easier integration of large “Big Data” data sets into
existing enterprise data warehouse
BW is not “dead.” Many new innovations to change data
modeling paradigms with BW on HANA.
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Understanding HANA Use Cases (cont.)
• Most common current HANA solutions and use cases based on client
experience (cont.)
EPM/BPC 10 on HANA
Accelerates financial planning and consolidation processes
Significantly improves speed of plan data uploads and allocation
processing
Accelerated TPM (Trade Promotion Management) on HANA
Speeds up reporting and plan uploads for trade promotions
Enables near-real-time integration of trade and event data with
sales to more accurately track marketing effectiveness
SAP Predictive Analysis powered by SAP HANA
Build predictive models on real-time data coming from SAP HANA
Increase forecast accuracy and identify trends before they impact
operations
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Mapping HANA Applications to Value Drivers
SAP HANA Application
Enterprise HANA (ECC side-car)
BW on HANA
EPM/BPC 10 on HANA
Accelerated TPM
Predictive Analysis on HANA
Value Drivers
Improved Service
Cost Reductions
Operational Efficiency
Revenue Generation
Innovation & New Capabilities
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What We’ll Cover
• Defining a strong business case
• Identifying and Evaluating critical processes
• Understanding various uses and benefits of SAP HANA
• Creating a HANA Value Wheel™
• Predicting the future with a POC
• Putting the numbers together
• Wrap-up
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Building a HANA Value Wheel™
• With our HANA Value Wheel™, you
can learn how to build business cases
for SAP HANA
• Take identified business drivers
Map to HANA Capabilities to
determine possible values
Give $ values to both savings and
new capabilities wherever possible
Assign discount rate to each
account for probability of achieving
forecasted $
Document assumptions and
success criteria
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Examples of Mapping Processes to Value Wheel
Current State/Limitation SAP HANA
Capability
Opportunity
Investment in Enterprise data
warehouse not leveraged for
operational reporting
Strategic, Analytical, Tactical, & Operational
reporting from varied sources from a single
reporting platform
Only “canned” reports/
dashboards built by IT
Co-creation of reports using Agile
methodology; more end users empowered for
self-service and ad hoc reporting
SAP application/s-centric (ECC,
CRM, BPC) reporting
Prototype flexible reporting scenarios using
Enterprise AND Local/Offline/External data on
the reporting platform itself
Static Reports/Dashboards Predictive analysis and “what if” scenarios
Predominantly desktop-based
solutions
Mobile Analytical solution can be a reality with
fast response times
Data Explorer/Ad hoc
analysis
Near real-time,
Transaction level data
Predictive Analytics *
BW Workspaces
Fast Response Times
Innovation
& New
Capabilities
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Details of Calculations for Value Wheel
• Use below template to capture each identified critical process by
department and value driver for SAP HANA
• Estimate ROI based on highest possible “best guess” value
Expected
Project
Lifespan: 5 Years
Business
Driver
Process
Area Description
Estimated
ROI
Prob-
ability
Discount
Rate
Recurre-
nce
Net Present
Value
IT Cost
Savings
IT
Eliminate
Oracle DB
Maintenance
Costs $20,000.00 95% 5%Annually $86,589.53
Enter the probability that the estimated
ROI can be fully achieved. This will
drive the discount rate.
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• Each critical process or identified value area
Description
Estimated
ROI
Probability
Discount
Rate
Recurrence
Net Present
Value (5 Yrs)
Eliminate Oracle DB Maintenance Costs – 3 Env. $XXX,000 95% 5% Annually $XXX,XXX
Eliminate Oracle DB Hardware Maintenance Costs
– 3 Env.
$15,000 95% 5% Annually $76,135
Eliminate BWA Maintenance Costs $XXX,000 95% 5% Annually $XXX,XXX
Eliminate BWA Hardware Maintenance Costs – 3
Env.
$XX,000 95% 5% Annually $25,378
Reduce time to market of new BI Development – 5 Active
Developers, 25% time reduction, $600/day rate
$187,500 50% 50% Annually $342,078
BW 7.3 Upgrade Cost savings with Side-by-Side
BW-on-HANA Implementation *
$250,000 100% 0% One-Time $250,000
Lower occurrences SLA breaches $25,000 80% 20% Annually $83,138
Total $ X,XXX,028
Examples of Calculations for Value Wheel
Cost
Reduction
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Value Wheel to Show Priority and Share
• Value Wheel used to prioritize departments that will receive most
value
Share of value can also be used for allocating cost of
investment
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Technical Roadmap Evaluation
• Future BI-State Vision to be evaluated against factors of:
Technical feasibility and complexity
Ability to achieve objectives and value drivers identified in Value Wheel
Compatibility with current landscape
New technologies, innovations, and updates from SAP and other providers
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Plotting Projects for Future Deployment
• In conjunction with business case, projects and initiatives plotted against future timeline
• Prioritization of projects driven by:
IRR and NPV delivered (identified in Business Case)
Cost and complexity to implement
Dependencies on other projects or technologies required
• Roadmap to include timelines, resource estimates, and hardware / licensing requirements and
cost estimates
• Roadmap will provide recommendations of best approaches and platforms for deploying the
projects and proposed funding sources (identified in Value Wheel)
2015 2016
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Install BW on HANA instance
Technical validation and go-
live of BW on HANA
Harmonize
Master Data
Migrate SPM
Migrate MTI
Migrate PTC
Migrate Sales & Trade
Migrate
Transportation Migrate STP
Migrate RTR
Migrate Remaining Areas
New enhancements and development on HANA
Retire Legacy
BW
IT Funded Business Funded
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What We’ll Cover
• Defining a strong business case
• Identifying and Evaluating critical processes
• Understanding various uses and benefits of SAP HANA
• Creating a HANA Value Wheel™
• Predicting the future with a POC
• Putting the numbers together
• Wrap-up
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How to Address Risk
• Most scrutiny for business case will focus on the probability of
achieving estimated value benefits
• If probability is too uncertain, it will lead to higher discount rate
Higher discount rate will lower total NPV of project
Puts entire business case at risk
• Simplest way to reduce uncertainty and raise probability of
success is to conduct a Proof of Concept (POC)
Allows testing of solution before full deployment
Requires minimal initial investment before making larger
commitment
Develops early learnings and experience of resource to ensure
less issues during full deployment
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Options for Conducting a POC
• Proof-of-Concept can be conducted multiple ways
Partner with technology services firm to host solution within
internal labs
Requires no hardware purchase or asset commitment
Enables rapid deployment of POC working directly with
partner
Purchase SAP HANA in Cloud to deploy small POC
Cloud hosting requires no hardware or asset commitment
Option to convert POC into production system if cloud
hosting is permanent approach
Purchase HANA “sandbox” for POC and prototyping
Allows for additional POCs and testing after initial use case
is proven out
Requires larger initial investment
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Examples of HANA Proof of Concept – Case
Study
• Background
Client uses BPC 7.5 NW primarily for Financial Planning and
Reporting for P&L and Balance Sheet
• Objective of POC
Client is looking to upgrade the current BPC applications to
BPC v10
Performance boost is a key consideration for the upgrade
A Performance Analysis of 7.5 versus 10.0 (with and without
HANA) is required as part of a Proof of Concept (POC) to
analyze the potential performance gains
Due to the unavailability of the required infrastructure in-house,
client utilizing separate environment to conduct the POC
off site
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Examples of HANA Proof of Concept – Case
Study (cont.)
• Scope of POC
In order to gain clear understanding of performance gain, a
series of tests was performed on 3 different systems
System 1 – BPC NW 7.5 on Oracle
System 2 – BPC NW 10.0 on Oracle
System 3 – BPC NW 10.0 on HANA
We tested
Data Loads
Ad Hoc Reporting (various sizes)
Formatted Reporting
Data Input
Book of Reports
Logic Calculations
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Examples of HANA Proof of Concept – Case
Study (cont.)
• Results of the POC
Performance Gain vs. 7.5
Activity BPC v10 BPC v10 HANA
Ad Hoc Reporting 65% 85%
Report Refresh 46% 72%
Data Input 64% 82%
Book Publishing 68% 92%
Calculation Logic 52% 74%
Data Loads 63% 92%
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What We’ll Cover
• Defining a strong business case
• Identifying and Evaluating critical processes
• Understanding various uses and benefits of SAP HANA
• Creating a HANA Value Wheel™
• Predicting the future with a POC
• Putting the numbers together
• Wrap-up
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Finalizing the Business Case
• Numbers now collected for each of the variables required for
building the case:
Benefit/Value = Net total of values identified during interviews
Cost = Hardware, software, and resources based on chosen
HANA application(s)
Time = Expected lifespan of solution – typically 5 years
Risk = Probability of achieving the full value expected
This value can be adjusted and reduced through a POC
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Putting Numbers into NPV “Calculator”
Project: BPC 10 on HANA Deployment
Timeframe: 5 Years
Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total
Investment $ (1,000,000) $ (1,000,000)
POC Costs $ (150,000) $ (150,000)
Operational Efficiencies $ 50,000 $ 75,000 $ 100,000 $ 100,000 $ 100,000 $ 425,000
Innovation and New Capabilities $ 100,000 $ 250,000 $ 250,000 $ 250,000 $ 250,000 $ 1,100,000
Improved Service $ 50,000 $ 75,000 $ 75,000 $ 75,000 $ 75,000 $ 350,000
Cost Savings $ 150,000 $ 150,000 $ 100,000 $ 75,000 $ 50,000 $ 525,000
$ -
Total: $ (1,150,000) $ 350,000 $ 550,000 $ 525,000 $ 500,000 $ 475,000 $ 1,250,000
Risk Level
Low Moderate High
Discount Factor (WACC + Risk Factor): 5.0% 10.0% 15.0%- Note, low is WACC from treasury
Net Present Value (NPV): $875,467 $594,193 $380,399
Return on Investment (ROI): 209%
Payback in months 29
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What We’ll Cover
• Defining a strong business case
• Identifying and Evaluating critical processes
• Understanding various uses and benefits of SAP HANA
• Creating a HANA Value Wheel™
• Predicting the future with a POC
• Putting the numbers together
• Wrap-up
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Where to Find More Information
• www.saphana.com
SAP’s Web site which outlines all HANA solutions and use
cases
• www.financeformulas.net/Net_Present_Value.html
Web site providing financial formulas and explanations for NPV,
IRR, WACC, and other financial terms
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7 Key Points to Take Home
• Building a solid business case requires building a financial model
to determine NPV, ROI, and payback period
• Four critical inputs for financial model that must be quantified are
Benefit, Cost, Time, and Risk
• Conduct interviews with department heads and process owners to
identify and evaluate value drivers and critical business
processes
• Learn and understand the different uses and applications of SAP
HANA to know which capabilities can map to the critical business
processes
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7 Key Points to Take Home (cont.)
• Build a HANA Value Wheel™ by grouping processes by value
driver and department then assigning $ values to them
• Define “risk” by assessing probability of realizing expected values
• Mitigate risk and improve probability of success by conducting a
POC
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Your Turn!
How to contact me:
Tony Guetersloh
Tony.guetersloh@tli-usa.com
Please remember to complete your session evaluation
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