NOAD EQM4 is a software solution that provides enterprise change management, compliance, and collaboration capabilities. It automates and streamlines the business intelligence application development process, providing visibility and control. Key features include integrated version control, automated deployment workflows, role-based security, and activity logging. Over 250 global customers across industries such as financial services, technology, and government use NOAD EQM4 to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and risks, and ensure compliance.

1. NOAD EQM4 Overview

2. Change. Control. Collaborate. Comply.

3. Dedicated to bring controlled change to the
enterprise
• Privately held company, founded in
the Netherlands in 2000
• Dual HQ’s in New York, US and the
Netherlands, sold in 19 countries
• NOAD EQM4
– SAP BusinessObjects IDD
– QlikView
• Over 250 global blue chip customers
• Awarded, Proven technology provider
– QlikTech Technology Partner
– SAP Software Solution Partner (prev.
2nd performing BOBJ Tech Partner)
– Deloitte Technology Fast 50 winner
2004, 2005
– Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA
winner 2005

4. 1
Enterprise Change Management and Compliance
• Without change controls companies experience
– Unplanned work and delayed delivery resulting in unauthorized
and undocumented changes
• Increased risk and lack of assurance surrounding system
security and data integrity
• Poor audit performance, increased audit scope and cost
• Embracing Change Management
– Improve operational efficiency
• Less than 15% of time spent in unplanned work
– Drive down risk of costly disruptions by 75%
• Less outages or episodes of unplanned work following change
implementation
– Reduce compliancy cost by at least 30%
• Proactively manage and enforce compliance policies
continuously and automatically
1. Institute Of Internal Auditors

5. Today’s casual approach of BI deployment
• Unstructured management of (geographically distributed)
development teams
– Lack of visibility causing failure of rollouts and excessive
cost
• No adequate enterprise deployment control mechanisms
– Lack of segregation of duties, workflows and monitoring
• High development and support cost
– No clear understanding of BI applications process, no
administrative visibility
• More tightly demand for regulatory compliance
– Align BI with business needs that are often driven by
governance and regulatory compliance

6. Consistently enforce compliance across your enterprise
BI deployment, while simultaneously reducing IT costs
and improving operational efficiency
NOAD EQM4

7. Enterprise Change Management with NOAD EQM4
• One Single Repository
• Integrated with QlikView and
SAP BusinessObjects
• Version Control with Support for
Multiple Releases
• Improve Software Quality and
Reduce Cost
• Flexible Outsourcing, Off shoring
• Automatic Deployment and
Integrated Distribution
• Team members everywhere
• Enforce Compliance Requirements
• Complete Visibility for Management

8. Automates and streamlines the entire BI application
development process, providing visibility and control
required in an enterprise environment
NOAD EQM4 CHANGE MANAGER

9. NOAD EQM4 Change Manager
• Integrated Version Control
• Single Click Edit
• Point-and-Click process, no
scripting necessary
• Difference, build & relation analysis
• Table and Object Impact analysis2
• Geographically distributed
development
• Off shoring / Outsourcing
• Role-based security
• Activity logging
2. For SAP BusinessObjects only

10. Automated distribution of QWV, Universes, Webi, Deski,
Excel or other files to designated target locations at each
stage of the lifecycle
NOAD EQM4 DEPLOYMENT MANAGER

11. NOAD EQM4 Deployment Manager
• Automated Enterprise Deployment
• Single Click Promotion
• Customizable enforced workflows
• Activity logging and status reporting
• Scheduling of deployment jobs
• Easy redeploy, rollback and rollout
• Role-based security

12. Providing secure, enforceable, traceable change control
processes from the moment an initial version is
developed to its release into production
NOAD EQM4 COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT

13. NOAD EQM4 Compliance Management
• Fully integrated, no bypass
• Role-based security
• Separated environments
• Segregation of duties
• Workflows enforcing IT policy
• Tracking of all activities, including
end users*
• Online, real time audit trail
* User activity monitoring only with NOAD EQM4 Performance Manager for SAP BusinessObjects

14. JPMorgan Chase
A leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.1 trillion
and operations in more than 60 countries
Challenges
• Investment banking unit needed to manage development of over
40,000 documents
• Distributed development with more than 150 developers,
including offshore
• Highly regulated environment
Solution
Implemented NOAD EQM4 to:
• Manage and monitor multiple teams, including offshore /
outsourced
• Automate the development process
• Provide comprehensive difference and build analysis
Benefits
• Automated track of changes
• Streamline compliance requirements without burden
• Increased quality level of applications

15. Cisco Systems
is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet
Challenges
• Managing a global deployment with over 15,000 end users
• Distributed development, including offshore with limited
accessibility
• Sarbanes-Oxley regulated environment
Solution
Implemented NOAD EQM4 to:
• Automate distribution, secure and consistently
• Manage distributed environments with geographically
distributed promotion teams
• Automate monitoring and tracking of changes and releases
Benefits
• Eliminated errors and track distributed applications
• Customizable workflows enforcing IT policy, role-based security
• Comprehensive audit trail, review distribution history

16. US Dept. of Treasury
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
OCC charters, regulates, and supervises all national banks and
supervises the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks
Challenges
• Needed a phased development lifecycle
• Aligned with business needs driven by governance and
regulatory compliance
Solution
Implemented NOAD EQM4 to:
• Enable separated environments and segregation of duties
• Setup workflows enforcing the IT policy to comply with
regulations
Benefits
• Ensure continuous compliance with policy-based operations
• Comprehensive visibility into overall compliance health
• Role-based access control

17. NOAD EQM4 Demonstration
• NOAD EQM4 Change Manager
– Development Life Cycle
• NOAD EQM4 Deployment Manager
– Workflow Enforced Automated Distribution
• NOAD EQM4 Administrator
– Creating Environments
– Creating Workflows
– Role-based Security

18. NOAD EQM4 Change Manager
• Geographical distributed development
• Single Click-Edit
• Difference, Build, Relation and Impact Analysis Version
• Role based security, activity logging Control
Production Development
• Customizable Workflows Enforcing IT Policy
• Automated, Secure and Consistent Deployment
• Management of Distributed Environments
Acceptance
• Automatic Monitoring and Tracking
• Comprehensive Audit Trail
• Easy Rollout, Re-deployment and Rollback
NOAD EQM4 Deployment Manager

19. Summary
• Faster return on BI investment by improved user
adoption, controlled rollout to the enterprise
• Increased predictability of deployment, maintenance, and
support cost
• Adhere to standard development and change
management processes improving quality of information
• Align internal governance and support external
regulatory and standards compliance
• Greater administrative visibility by process and activity
monitoring

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