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September 10-13, 2012 Orlando, Florida

Instant insight - business user self-service with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Indrajit Chaudhuri - SAP BI Solutions Architect Jeffrey W. Robinson – Global BI Manager Manikandan Srinivasan– Solution Management – BusinessObjects Explorer

Learning Points • What is self-service BI ? • How self-Service BI will help you to empower your users? • How do you shift from past (traditional BI) to the future (Self Service BI) ? • Learn how 3M is benefiting from self-service BI.

Agenda:1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

About 3M 3M BI landscape Our Journey to self-Service BI Real Business Cases delivering solid ROI IT role in self-service BI Our vision of the future

About 3M 3M is a global technology company delivering innovative solutions. 3M has over 80,000 employees and they produce more than 55,000 products from health care and highway safety to office products and abrasives and adhesives and products sold in nearly 200 countries. 3M has businesses in more than 60 countries .

3M BI Landscape ( Dedicated mobile and Phased upgrade)

Mobile Environment • Explorer • Exploration View • Web Intelligence on iPad

Our Journey to Self –Service BI • Size of the reporting environment made us think about self service BI • Bridge the gap between business requirement and IT offerings • Building momentum within Business • Creating self service BI Tsunami • Taking self service BI to next level ( BI 4x:-exploration view, SAP Visualization etc)

Business Use Case #1

Business Use Case #2

Interactive self-service Exploration View Dashboard

Business Use Case #3

Key steps for Self Service BI • Determine User needs for Self Service BI and Analytics • Implement In-Memory Computing for Self Service BI • Help user to understand power of Self-service Dashboard and Visual Analysis • Importance of collaboration in Self-Service BI • Give the user power to perform deep analysis with tool like explorer, SAP Visualization etc • Look for new insights in geographical data and un-structured data • Understand that Self-Service BI and mobility goes side by side • Allow BYOD to increase user's personal productively in Enterprise BI and mobility • Unified information access and self service BI

IT role in self service BI • • • • •

Is self- Service BI really self service ? Identify the right analytic tool for business Understand what information to surface for Self-Service BI How do you overcome security challenges? How do you make correct decision for MDM, MAM, BYOD?

Best Practice in self service BI • Allow user to personalize data exploration and Dashboard • Select the tool which could be used with big data. For example explorer on HANA • IT should manage data governance in Self Service BI • Any POC for any new self- Service BI tool should be done with real data with the help of business

An exciting future ahead • What is the real self service BI • How SAP Visualization brings next generation of self service dashboard • Need for acceleration (HANA) in self service BI • SAP predictive analysis and mobility • Social media and self service BI • Partner with SAP analytics team

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