Introduction to Digital Boardroom ASUG Webcast
This was an ASUG webcast last week. Below are my notes as I heard them.
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Future looking statements may not happen – and apply to these notes
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During SAP Board meeting, Dr. Plattner, why board presentation materials were in static PowerPoint while data from PowerPoints are coming from SAP systems. SAP CIO Helen Arnold took an action to have an actual live system during the board meeting to show data. The proof of concept was successful; this was a common issue with other companies
“Reimagine board room for the digital economy”
Three values are shown above
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- With total transparency – see company situation in real time
- Align executive decisions on one source of the truth
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On the webcast, SAP said you get a complete picture in real time – get 360 degree reporting without duplication
Using Cloud for Analytics – new capabilities – a Cloud BI application, acquire data and store in Cloud- data duplication
In Cloud for Analytics – hybrid mode – online connectivity to backend system such as HANA or BW – in these scenarios you can connect to live system and get real time information. Using HANA you can have one reporting environment
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Maximize impact on audience
It is not just about the software but how it is presented
Idea is in the boardroom, you have 3 large 65 inch screens, side-by-side
Screens are touch-enabled, similar to your tablet, phone, pinch, swipe
Left is the overview
Middle – main and exploratory screen
Right is the context screen
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Content is from different business areas aligned on a single semantic model
Directly connected to local SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA and SAP BW platform content, or Other Data Sources through Smart Data Integration
Align decisions to one source of the truth across business areas
From data sources in real time so everyone sees the same information
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“Instant data-driven insights” include “simulations, what-if analysis – what impact to your decisions are”
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Answer ad-hoc questions on the fly
Data exploration – have screens and visualizations — visualizations are not static, they can be interacted with and perform what-if analysis scenarios through data exploration and find root causes
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Intuitive and powerful analytical exploration capabilities with simple user interface
Drill down to lowest line item level in system of records
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Planned for this year is the value driver tree to perform what-if analysis scenarios through data exploration and simulations based on planning models
Create financial formulas to model business and model how company derives revenue, profit, and see impact on KPI’s by changing one of the influence drivers defined
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Simplified boardroom process – reduce preparation, effort, and includes a touch experience
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This is a photo of the solution with the 3 screens that are touch-enabled
Reusable content
Built in design best practices
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Reduce boardroom prep and effort, with an interactive agenda, created through an agenda builder, define agenda, and hyperlinks to overview dashboards and contextual information
Present based on agenda
Not just show predefined stories, free to answer ad-hoc questions
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SAP Digital Boardroom is part of the SAP Cloud for Analytics suite, delivering “ visibility for the executive management team”
It is for the top floor to the shop floor
You can use this as a status cockpit
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- End to end predefined content from transactions to visualizations
- Optional Services offering to kick-start deployment
Planned innovation – connect to S4/HANA – connect to CDS views to model data and able to leverage those models in Cloud for Analytics
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Uses Cloud for Analytics modeling capabilities, planning, BI
Planned predictive, GRC
Ability to connect to cloud and on-premise
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Online connectivity allows you to leave data “in place” or in HCP
Can query on premise; the browser connects to C4A and data sources
If your browser is behind firewall, then when query data then the data doesn’t have to go up to cloud to browser
It is using the INa protocol with a reverse proxy which sits in your firewall
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Online mode without replication
On the right with data acquisition mode – good for data preparation
Implementation Strategy
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Prepare, plan, maybe do a design thinking workshop
SAP offers services
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You can do a value prototyping exercise based on best practices and load your data into that scenario
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SAP Runs SAP
SAP CFO Luca Mucic uses
It is cloud app, do not need expensive IT department, access data in real-time
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No notes on this one, but a recap
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Example from SAP with what if was shown during a live demo
Agenda screen, first order of business
Cloud application, in hybrid, and going against on premise data, live in real time, against 750M rows of data
Question & Answer
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Is it only available in S/4 HANA ? |
No this is not limited to S/4 HANA. Multiple connections are supported |
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are you able to filter from that main “Agenda” screen? |
not from agenda builder but yes on the next story pages |
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What is the relationship between digital boardroom and Lumira or design studio? |
Ty Millers’ webcast in this series has a great overview that will help answer this question – comparing Cloud for Analytics, Lumira and Design Studio. The webcast recording in on line at ASUG.comhttps://www.asug.com/discussions/docs/DOC-43265 |
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Is this SAP’s tool to compete against QlikView, Tableau, Spotfire? some of the visualizations seem similar to those tools |
sure Agile Visualization. The others are primary desktop on premise |
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yes in the 3 screen display, can you filter across all visualizations simultaneously? |
will follow but don’t think so. Filtering within a single screen |
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I don’t want my data to go to the cloud, can boardroom read from my BW on HANA DB? |
Yes |
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It seems that the boardroom content has to be planned, built, tested, moved to Prod. How would this work for ad-hoc content? Our leadership will want different measures and market data right off the press, with ppts put together hours before the meeting |
yes is agile |
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Does Digital Boardroom security framework integrate with Cloud for Analytics? or HANA? |
Digital Boardroom is Cloud for Analytics and can leverage HANA security |
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