Powering Real-Time Insights and Modern Analytics by Integrating SAP BW with SAP Analytics Cloud

Challenges

IT Companies always do better work for customers, but their own system always has an issue.

This is the common case in all IT companies, like here too we have many cross-family application like SAP Salesforce for Sales, Microsoft MSD365 for Finance & Operation, Adrenaline to handle Payroll, in-house HR application, budget maintained at excel level, ITSM for ticketing management and business location across the globe.

Expecting a centralized insights was a nightmare.

Implementing SAP is inherently challenging, involving a lengthy process and substantial investments. Activities such as SAP Data Warehousing implementation and ensuring Live Reporting availability need to be carefully planned and executed within specified timeframes.

Introducing SAP BW/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) in a manufacturing setting introduces challenges encompassing data migration, customization, user training, performance optimization, master data management, security, change management, system integration, cost control, and continuous upgrades. Successfully tackling these challenges demands thorough planning, active engagement of stakeholders, and adherence to established best practices for SAP solutions.

Integrating different entities and standardizing CXO dashboard and ensuring Live Reporting availability need to be carefully planned and executed within specified timeframes.

Implementing SAP BW is inherently challenging, involving a lengthy process across multiple entity and business functions.

Challenges encompassing data migration, customization, user training, performance optimization, master data management, security, change management, system. integration, cost control, and continuous upgrades. Successfully tackling these challenges demands thorough planning, active engagement of stakeholders, and adherence to established best practices for Solutions.

Solutions

To Integrate cross family applications and providing live dashboard, we did MDM, implemented integration methodology, used MS one drive for budgeting data, ETL on Azure using synapse.

Discussed and worked on centralized architecture, defined process, identified and solved gaps, validated data, tested ETE flow and finalized.

Post data availability, implemented dashboard referring user understanding and requirements.

Effectively implementing SAP BW/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) in a manufacturing company involves meticulous planning, stakeholder engagement, robust data migration, customization adhering to best practices, comprehensive user training, continuous performance optimization, stringent master data governance, robust security measures, proactive change management, seamless system integration, cost control, and regular upgrades.

We planned and engaged respective stakeholders to accomplish the task within defined timeframe of 1 year.

Successfully implementing SAP BW involves detailed planning, engaging stakeholders effectively, integrating in-house applications, third-party rating data such as BARC, social sites, and migrating legacy data onto the AWS Cloud. The process also includes standardizing CXO Dashboards through meticulous data migration, customization following best practices, thorough user training, ongoing performance optimization, stringent master data governance, robust security measures, proactive change management, seamless system integration, cost control, and regular upgrades.

Internally, we have devised and initiated plans with the respective stakeholders to achieve these objectives within the defined timeframe.

Outcomes

Management have live information and business insights.

Business user can take prompt decision referring data in-line and reduce unwanted cost.

Customers contract renewal, collection, billing information is available at fingertips.

Employees incentive, bonus, recruitment can be easily planned.

Manufacturing process tightly integrated and business keep an eye on process stakeholder and align production cost.

Budget allocation, Sales, Production Cost and Profit can be easily forecasted.

Management possesses live information and business insights, empowering business users to make prompt decisions by referring to inline data.

Thereby minimizing unnecessary costs through the migration of data to the Cloud.

The media business is intricately integrated. enabling stakeholders to vigilantly oversee processes and align production costs efficiently.

Managing sales, budget allocation, marketing, production costs, and profit is streamlined, facilitating easy management and forecasting.

Download