SBN Analytics Function Day
June 15th, 09:00-15:30
Monthly Reports, Ad-Hoc Reports and Deviation Reports have always been part of the delivery of the Finance Function. In addition, there are other parts of the organization which need data for different purposes, like KPI's or Budgetreports.
Previously, it was often very cumbersome or nearly impossible to extract and put together data in an easy way, often with huge and comprehensive data warehouse solutions and the use of technical and software experts or the IT-department and usually it took a lot of time to meet the requirements of the business as a whole.
Today, we see the makings of a whole new world, where Finance and Analytics are merging through Embedded Analytics and a whole new set of ways to access the data for the business user through the technology (Fiori and Dashboards) .
New frontends like SAC or Analysis for Office directly accessing the tabels in SAP like the ACDOCA opens up completely new possibilities and perspectives.
We learn about the new role of the CFO of the Finance Function to become a value architech and business partner to provide data for the whole organization with the aim to give relevant and real-time data for decision purposes to many subscribers or receivers.
We learn that the time for 100-page PowerPoint analog monthly reports might be a thing of the past and potentially being replaced by Self Service Reporting, where the users themselves can pull data or in others ways make sure to get all they need to manage their responsibilities in a role-based dashboard.
This is what we have in our minds when we are planning the content of this day. We still have some interesting cases and solutions on BW or BW/4Hana as part of the play book, but increasingly the foucs is on Analytics from SAP, like SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (SDWC), Embedded Analytics, Augmented Analytics and Planning in SAC.
We are on a roller coaster of change especially in Analytics and to keep up with the pace of change and adapt quickly to changes in technology and the business environment, we recommend you to join in and listen to experience from other companies also using the SAP solutions.
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Didrik Arstad
Head of Innovation Team Finance
SBN - SAP Brukerforening i Norge
+47 90562921
da@adfahrer.com
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Tags: cognizant, finance, analytics, sap, sap knowledge
Agenda
08:45-09:00
Coffee and networking
09:00-09:10
Welcome
09:10-09:55
Recording:
[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]
Tanker rundt SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (SDWC) i Norsk Hydro
(Presentation in Norwegian)
Hydro’s SAP analytics concept is based around the use of S/4HANA, BW/4HANA and the analytical front-end tools SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and Analysis for Office (AO). This is the backbone for SAP enterprise analytics and highly governed by IT (CDS views in S/4 and calculations views in BW/4). The front-end tools SAC and AO enable business users with flexibility in terms for self-service visualization and light weight “modelling” functions.
But we also have some more advanced users (not IT) that are skilled in SQL and general data modelling. Today we do not have an environment for these users to do their own modelling, prototyping and data science tasks. The process today is mainly based on data dumps and local processing which is not optimal.
We would like to investigate and validate if SAP Data Warehouse Cloud could be an agile business user data warehouse for our advanced business users. S/4HANA Analytics and BW/4HANA as enterprise solutions and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud as an agile addon to our on-prem analytical capabilities.
Erik Fosser
Lead BTP & Analytics architect SAP Architecture and Strategy Global Business Services at Hydro Aluminium AS
09:55-10:40
Recording:
[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]
Self Service for End Users at leading manufacturing customer in biomaterial sector using SAC and BW/4Hana
(Presentation in English)
- Full Scale Implementation and Utilization of SAP Analytics Cloud and BW/4HANA
- An end-to-end project of how to use BW/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud to build Standardized, Scalable, Flexible, and Trustworthy Solution Architecture for BI & Analytics with functionalities and features responding to self-service usage for End Users, secured access to data and environment, real-time insight generation, and addressing future roadmap requirements of advanced analytics & machine learning solutions.
Nitin Metri
Head of SAP Analytics Practice - Europe - Cognizant Technology Solutions at Cognizant
Albert Prados
SAP Analytics Sr. Manager en Cognizant at Cognizant
10:40-10:55
Break
10:55-11:40
Recording:
[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]
How can SAC and DWC support a new company strategy?
(Presentation in English)
We will present how a new strategy in the DOVISTA Group made a new demand to our BI-solutions and how this totally changed the BI-organization, the needed BI-systems and the data and decisions BI is expected to support. This is a journey from local reporting to global reporting in all functional areas. Before this strategic change, global reporting was purely financial consolidation at an aggregated level - now the requirement is detailed global reports in all business functions.
Bjørn Winther Nielsen
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at DOVISTA A/S at Dovista
Dan Møller Andersen
Business Intelligence Manager at Dovista
11:40-12:25
Lunch
12:25-13:10
Recording:
[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]
Roadmap and Pilot Project of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAC for a European Car Manufacturer
(Presentation in English)
This presentation will cover insights into the SAP Analytics landscape transformation process for the Finance function of one of Europe’s largest Car Manufacturers. It will also share learnings and viewpoints about the ongoing Pilot project covering SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud.
Boris Ahoyo
Program Manager at Cognizant at Independent
Nitin Metri
Head of SAP Analytics Practice - Europe - Cognizant Technology Solutions at Cognizant
13:10-13:55
Recording:
[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]
Live supply chain insights with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and Analytics Cloud
(Presentation in English)
In this session you will learn how SAP Analytics Cloud and Data Warehouse Cloud can support you in setting up real-time dashboards for your whole Supply Chain. Learn how to gain valuable insights in time to take immediate action.
13:55-14:10
Break
14:10-14:55
Recording:
[The PDF slides are found on this link if available]
From data-to-insight using the multi-faceted tool SAP Data Intelligence in combination with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud
(Presentation in English)
It is a norm that many organizations have a huge amount of data available scattered across multiple systems with multiple technologies. The challenge is to use this data for meaningful insight.
We want to present SAP Data Intelligence as a multi-facet tool it is to be used as a single tool for gather, augment and consume data so it can give valuable insight.
Furthermore, we will briefly present Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud to show how we can persist and visualize the insights to end users.
14:55-15:00
Wrap up + Survey
Number of participants: 50
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Didrik Arstad
SBN-Adfahrer -
Bente Eisold
ABB AS
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Joakim Löves
SBN-Adfahrer
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Thomas Vogt
ABB AS
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Håvard Nilssen
Statkraft AS
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Arvind Kumar
Bouvet
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Sveinar Urstad
Equinor
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Madhur Ahuja
Statkraft AS
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Erik Fosser
Norsk Hydro
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Mathias Bondevik Westlie
Cognizant
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Arman Muzaffar
Deloitte
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Ajay Kumar
Deloitte
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Priyanka Chatterjee
Capgemini
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Stein Rynning Moshuus
Aibel AS
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Rajeswari Misra
Deloitte
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Ilya Amosov
S5 Consulting -
Per Sylte
Pipelife Norge AS
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Stig Skoglund
Equinor
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Gro Merete Ulstad
Statkraft AS
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Tilde Brunnberg
Equinor
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Silje Jondahl Bonnez
Equinor
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Christian Mong
Equinor
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Holger Lämmel
Hydro Aluminium AS
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Suraj Jaiswal
Statkraft AS
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Mudiaga Innocent Oke
Capgemini
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Doreen Hütten
Kverneland AS
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Steinar Ellingsen
Equinor
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Sveinar Urstad
Equinor
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Helge Torsøy
AkerBP
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Roger Pettersen
Helse Midt-Norge
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Marianne Eggers Høie
Gassco
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David Wills
Merck Group
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Andreas Bargon
Merck Group
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Rense Varughese
Cognizant
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Egil Magne Hansen
Gassco
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Eivind Mikkelsen
Statkraft AS
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Liv Oddbjørg Sundfør
Helse Vest
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Albert Prados
Cognizant
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Inger Christine Skåret
Helse Vest
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Dan Møller Andersen
Dovista AS - Velux
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Bjørn Winther Nielsen
Dovista AS
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Mark Mrosek
Westernacher
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Russel Sadd
Westernacher
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Boris Ahoyo
Cognizant
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Jose Eximeno
Takeda AS
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Kevin Minh Nguyen
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS
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Ranjan Thakur
Capgemini
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Jon Anders Lundh
Statkraft AS
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Mette Enoksen
Equinor
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Nitin Metri
Cognizant