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Manufacturing Case Study

BW on HANA Upgrade and Migration Journey

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS/CHALLENGES

The customer’s SAP user community faced a variety of challenges when working with SAP’s Business Warehouse system and the corresponding Business Objects and Microsoft PowerBI reporting solutions.

This included:

  • Untimely data availability due to prolonged data extraction and transformation affecting business performance.
  • Report performance degradation as data volume increased as more entities went live on SAP ECC and BW.
  • Challenges with month end reporting and the need for more real time reporting.
SOLUTION

SAP BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA 2.0

RESULTS

Four months of dedicated IT and business efforts to resolve technical issues, testing, validation, and performance analysis paid off when the client realized the following:

  • Performance improvement in all areas of the business.
  • Data Extraction and Transformation timeframe reduced resulting in speeding up the month end process.
  • Increased user adoption in the Finance and Manufacturing areas due to improved report performance.
  • Business Objects and PowerBI Dashboard could be rendered much quicker enhancing the user experience.
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