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With Business Intelligence (BI) emerging as an all-pervading success factor for strategic, tactical and operational information users, access to information alone is no longer enough to separate the winners from the others.

With Business Intelligence (BI) emerging as a critical success factor for business users, access to information alone is no longer enough. Organizations have been using BI for many years to monitor, report on, analyze, and improve the performance of their business operations. The focus of strategic technology leaders is to create solutions that can be integrated seamlessly across the IT landscape making them globally visible. In the flattening world, it is critical for companies to maximize application usage, better assimilate operational data, leverage real time data analytics for enhanced operational efficiency, and extract value from information for competitive advantage.

SAP’s NetWeaver BI suite helps enable organizations to create and operate a data warehouse in an enterprise-wide environment. Facilitating the integration of heterogeneous systems, it supports various system topologies and enables both strategic analysis and operational reporting.
In the past, SAP-BI implementations have often taken a module-centric approach with underlying challenges due to project-driven solutions, heterogeneous architectures, unmanaged business rule redundancies, uncontrolled data flow, and bottom-up/top-down approaches. The result was high development and maintenance costs. This created a compelling need for an integrated enterprise-wide data warehouse to ensure a ‘single version of the truth’ with assured scalability and efficient query response.

Current business demands require processing very large amounts of data to generate relevant analytical reports. Usually OLAP cache, RDBMS aggregates and pre-calculated queries are used to improve query performance. When data volumes increase and query navigation becomes sophisticated, it becomes challenging to provide consistently good query performance. Businesses are challenged by the need for large volumes of data, response time service level agreements and unpredictable query navigation.

The BIA Appliance can benefit businesses that have high volumes of data. The read performance of queries can be greatly improved using the BIA Appliance. This new tool helps enable quick access to any data with a low amount of administrative effort and is especially useful for sophisticated scenarios with unpredictable query types, high data volumes and high frequency of queries. BIA is also useful when aggregates or database indexes are not sufficient, or when these methods become too costly to maintain.

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SAP’s unique integration of information, technology, and services provides comprehensive support for business processes—at substantial savings. 

SAP for EAM offers the lowest Total Cost of Ownership:

• No interfaces are required to SAP components resulting in significant cost savings and speed to value
• Only SAP delivers out-of the box integration with other enterprise systems such as financials, inventory, procurement,  HR, analytics,  EH&S, among others

Integration Cost

The cost integrating the application can be huge if not deliverd as aprt of one solution. Apart from capital investment on building the integration platform , one has to ensure continuty and uptime of integration all the time.

Benefits of integrated SAP EAM solution

Benchmarks from SAP Value Engineering

Acknowledgement: SAP

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Continuing with the assessment factors; most important consideration for a successful process delivery is a joint consideration of technology and process execution framework. Whether clients outsource or execute the process through a shared service center; it is critical to align technology with business process execution. High levels of operational excellence require technology and process led innovation, and both go hand in hand. This approach allows for the creation of a process design which leverages technology for automation, workflow and integration leading to higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness.

 

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The value proposition of a managed services model can emerge only through a holistic evaluation. This requires involving all relevant stakeholders addressing all solution elements. The evaluation of managed services needs to focus on process and technology at the same time.

 

 

Assessment Factors
-The solution should provide for a holistic approach to business process outsourcing and should involved process as well as technology considerations.
-The service providers approach should facilitate ongoing value creation through service delivery excellence by innovation and technology leverage.
-Service provider should be able to covert fixed costs structures to variable cost structures.
-Outsourcing arrangement should consider all possible exit costs related technology, headcount, others.
-The arrangement should consider an appropriate time frame from the customer and service provider perspective.
-Ample scope for reduction in TCO through process standardization and economies of scale.
-The solution should provide for scalability and agility required to cope up with fluctuation in business cycles.
-The solution implementation should consider all levers to minimize change management issues.
-The assessment should consider all risk elements related to the outsourcing program and the corresponding mitigation strategies incorporated in the solution.

 

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