1. Harness Your SAP Data
with User-Driven Dashboards
User-Driven Innovation Is Impossible with Big BI Systems
Trapped Data Leads
to Buyer’s Remorse
It isn’t unusual for SAP ERP owners Information describing the
to feel pangs of buyer’s remorse state of the enterprise is
distributed through many
when they attempt to extract data separate applications with ERP SCM CRM HR PLM
overlapping data
from their applications. The first
problem is getting the data out of
many applications, like SAP R/3 The extraction, transformation,
or ERP, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, into and loading process collects this
Data
data periodically and puts it in a
one unified, non-duplicated form. consolidated data warehouse Warehouse
The second is combining that data
with other sources to enrich it, add
context, and make it useful for Complicated technologies for OLAP,
reporting, and creating dashboards are
analyzing business performance. used to analyze and distribute that data
to people in the community. IT controls
SAP customers have often been the entire process and must make all
frustrated by the time and expense adjustments
involved to get answers to urgent Big BI serves a useful purpose in most companies, consolidating data to
questions. create a single version of the truth
But with Big BI, creating reports, dashboards, and other visualizations of
data is too di cult for users without help from IT
The Problems with Big BI
Big BI Prevents Business intelligence was developed to solve the
corresponding problem of creating one version of the
User-Driven truth from many overlapping sources. When it comes
Innovation time to mine the data for insights and deliver discoveries
to users, Big BI often breaks down completely.
When data is stored inside Big
Problems include:
BI, it is trapped. Only those with
advanced knowledge of how to Î Unacceptable delays
create SQL queries can get the Î Inability to incorporate new data sources
information out. Î Cost of development
Users cannot control the means of Î Lack of direct business-user control
analysis. User-driven innovation is
impossible.
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2. User Control of Dashboards
Unlocks the Value of Your SAP Data
The Sticky Knowledge Challenge Power to the People:
When you do something yourself because you do not want to explain The Right Data, Right Now
it to someone else, you are facing the sticky knowledge problem. But
The point of user-driven innovation,
what happens when you can’t do something for yourself, like creating a
with respect to dashboards or any
dashboard based on complicated technology? You must explain what you
other realm, is that projects make
want, which isn’t so easy. The more people can do for themselves, the
progress. When the power to control
less sticky knowledge must be transferred and the more work gets done.
and evolve a dashboard rests with the
user, the speed of analytical activity in
a company increases. People are not
waiting for help to get the answers
they need. They are getting those
answers themselves and taking
action. The business value comes from
Expert Product faster, better-informed decisions and
Development
In most product development a culture of analysis and innovation.
and innovation processes, the
User IT business expert must explain
what he or she wants to the
technologists who do the
construction. The problem is
that the transfer of knowledge QlikView: Helping You
is incomplete
Unlock the Power of Big BI
QlikView is a new kind of business
intelligence application built around
associative in-memory architecture.
Because QlikView allows users to control
how data is analyzed, the benefits of
user-driven innovation can be applied to
Big BI. QlikView aims to increase your
User-Driven Innovation chances of making genuine discoveries
In the user-driven innovation and eliminates much of the grind of Big
paradigm, the user is given the
ability to construct the BI:
solution. The sticky User
knowledge does not have to Î No SQL queries, no middleman
be transferred but is fully
available to the person Î Matching and non-matching data
constructing the solution
As a result the product are displayed
development or innovation is
based on a more complete Î No waiting: the answers are right
body of knowledge
The sticky knowledge problem in front of you
explains why so much BI is
done badly
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