Leveraging BI and Predictive Analytics to deliver Real time forecasting
Business Intelligence
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SAP – Business Intelligence
Fierce competition is making enterprises think beyond squeezing more efficiencies and productivity
gains from operations. It is pushing business enablers to make informed and timely decisions. This
needs enterprises to transform the in-house data in intuitive dashboards, which can give greater
analytical insights to make well-informed decisions.
We at AGC, help our customers to gain the right BI quotient and transform volumes of data into
decision drivers. With a team of SAP BI/BO experts, having deep domain experience, we add
value to the decision making ability of the enterprises.
Solution Overview
Business Intelligence (BI) platform can be leveraged in multiple ways to enhance the performance
of an enterprise and make it agile improve throughput, uncover trends, discover variances and
predict business opportunities. The different dimensions in which BI platform can be used are:
1. Dashboards: Provide personalized views into key performance indicators (KPIs) across the
enterprise. These dynamic and interactive dashboards provide insights into real-time data
and can be used to keep the enterprise health in check.
2. Enterprise Reports: Provides detailed reports to key decision makers. The data produced
by these reports are consumed by the decision makers throughout the enterprise; e.g.
inventory and shelf life reports for retail operations across the outlets, operational efficiency
of a manufacturing operation etc.
3. Analytics: An analytics tool provides the option to slice and dice data. Business users can
view data about specific operation or department. It also provides the ability to uncover
trends prevailing in market.
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4. Actionable BI: Business strategies depend on metrics that make sense of data and
present it in ways that can trigger decisions. The ability to access in real time the data
stored in a business warehouse and interact with users on the move gives them the power
to take informed decisions. This makes the organization more agile and responsive leading
to faster results.
5. In-Memory BI (SAP-HANA): Enhances the performance standards of all the BI reports. It
increases the capacity of the system to respond to more users with larger data in less
turnaround time. This enhances the ability of business users to take decisions faster by
providing them quicker real time insights and the ability to carry out rapid analysis and
reporting.
6. Voluminous Data: Enterprises are now required to manage large volumes of complex data
effectively. Regardless of where it is stored, BI gives unified access to all sources. This
makes it easier to access and analyse data.
AGC Business Intelligence Offerings
The enterprises have digitized key business functions, but the biggest challenge they face is lack of
intelligence across these functions. This gap arises due to number of factors shown in the diagram.
A successful BI implementation weaves a ‘Web’ around these functions to provide actionable
intelligence to business users.
No complete
View of
Operations
No Real
Untraceable
Time
Data
Information
Lack of
Actionable
Intelligence
Data Quality Information
Issues Silos
AGC Business Intelligence covers the entire spectrum of SAP BI & BO (Business Objects) suite.
We consider information as an asset and leverage it to align business with the BI strategy. We offer
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a broad array of services from the concept to deployment phase of SAP Business Intelligence
suite.
Consulting
Analysis
BI Strategy &
Roadmap Design & Blueprint
IT Landscape
Architecture
Analysis Deployment
Business Process Data Architecture
Source System
Optimization Data Warehouse Testing
Analysis Configuration &
Design
Requirement Performance
Analysis Metadata Tuning Performance
Architecture Testing
Enhancements &
ETL Strategy Management Regression
Testing
Reports,
Dashboards, System
Scorecards Integration
Testing
Migration
User Acceptance
Testing
AGC Centre of Excellence (CoE)
Business Intelligence CoE, at AGC, invests in the depth and expertise across SAP BI/BO suite. We
have developed a cohesive solution approach which governs the complete life cycle from strategy
to implementation and stabilization state.
AGC follows best practices guidelines for the implementation of the suite in an enterprise
environment. This helps in ensuring seamless integration of functions and data movement to derive
insights into various operations. We perform critical design review sessions with our consultants to
address all the business challenges faced by our customers.
The CoE has been working on improving the performance of the BI systems in different
environments. We achieved the first success in 2011, when we were named the first in the industry
to complete a successful proof on concept on the SAP HANA platform. Our group company is the
first customer of SAP HANA. This gives us strong capability as far as these technology
implementations are concerned .
AGC, Delivering Value
All the engagements in AGC are focused on value creation and not just solution implementation.
Service capabilities range across technologies.
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Consultants possess diversified capabilities which help them to understand the business
pain area for our customers.
Deep expertise across various verticals like Steel, Oil & Gas, EPC, BFSI, Telecom, Shipping
& Logistics, Retail.
Strong focus on industry best practices and technology landscape alignment.
Industry standard template driven approach, which integrates the best practices for
BPR/BPM.
Robust and custom engineered Program management and Governance framework.
World-class knowledge management process.
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