Analytics roadmap architecture workshop

What is an Analytics Roadmap? Why should I participate in the Analytics Roadmap with my department? I am in an S/4 transformation process: Should I bring in a dedicated analytics expert? What are the advantages of having an Analytics Roadmap? How much time do I save in the long term for myself and my employees if I have an analytics roadmap? These and other questions are answered here.

Positioning for Ihre Analytics & BI topics

As part of the use of SAP Analytics & BI products, there will be a need for adaptation over time. In the Analytics Roadmap Architecture Workshop, you will be prepared for the long-term adaptations of your individual solutions so that they can be taken into account in all the planning of your business areas.tions so that they can be taken into account in all the planning for your business areas.

Methodical

Provides a structured and standardised approach for positioning oneself within the company's analytics roadmap.

Scalable

Consideration of individual subject areas (e.g. HR, Financemarketing or sales) - all the way to a holistic view with the corresponding use of synergies.

Individual

Dhe specifics of your organisation's current situation are taken into account.

Well-founded

With s-peers you will be comprehensively on your short-, medium- and long-term road to Analytics supported and accompanied. This ensures a secure basis for decision guaranteed.

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What is the Analytics Roadmap Architecture Workshop?

Your individual requirements are worked out in the Analytics Roadmap Workshop. With s-peers you have found an SAP Analytics partner who will discuss your status quo, your requirements and individual possibilities with you at eye level.

We listen, question, analyse, check, structure, advise and plan together with you.

With s-peers, you also have a partner who knows the SAP Analytics solutions, the contexts and the portfolio. This puts us in a position to design the appropriate (architecture) solutions for you on a timeline that suits you.

From the strategy to the start of production, we work together with you in a precise - well-founded - uncomplicated manner - and are, of course, always at your side should your needs change and develop differently.

We use a standardised process - the s-peers SPARC process.

 

ANALYTICS ROADMAP WORKSHOP

What is the SPARC process?

Your contact for the Analytics Architecture Workshop

"The Analytics Roadmap Workshop provides an important contribution to the establishment a sound data culturewhich significantly supports the success of the company in the long term and incorporates technological developments at an early stage."

Daniel Moser
Daniel Moser
Senior account manager

MISSION

What do you use BI for in your company and what do you want to achieve with it?

PEOPLE AND PROCESSES

Who defines the BI strategy, implements it and how is it operated?

TOOLS AND ARCHITECTURE

What tools and architectures are needed for implementation?

What does the SPARC process stand for?

The Sparc process is at the beginning of the evaluation and provides the appropriate spark for the project kick-off. Here, Sparc stands for the following terms with the following sequence within the project cycle:

SPARC:
S - Situation
P - Problem
A - Analysis
R - Requirements
C - Compass

How does the workshop work?

For the preparation of the workshops, the following tasks are carried out by the project management and with the support of s-peers fulfilled:

  • Naming of the departments and their participants as well as their functions for the workshops 
  • Selection of general and/or specific questions as well as possible addition of customer-specific questions (optional) 
  • Determination of the evaluation (scoring) based on the definition of evaluation groups (general and/or specific) and their evaluation criteria (very good, good, middle, bad, very bad) as well as weighting of the evaluation criteria (score 0 to 10) 
  • Planning of the workshops (time and format) 

Proposal for a compact workshop per department for all participants using the example of general questions about the BI process: 

  • 09:00 Start 
  • Welcome (5min) 
  • Introduction of the participants (10min) 
  • Explanation SPARC process (15min) 
  • Part 1 - FAQ Business (2h)  
  • 12:00 Lunch Break (1h) 
  • Part 2 - FAQ Technology (2h) 
  • Part 3 - FAQ Organisation (2h)  
  • 17:00 End 

Follow-up tasks should be fulfilled by the project management and with the support of s-peers to follow-up the workshops: 

  • Carrying out the assessment (scoring) to determine the location 
  • Development of solution variants (BI Content, BI Data Models, BI Architecture) 
  • Documentation of the results (SAP Analytics Cloud Dashboard with presentation of results, optional White Paper with Management Summary) 
  • Cost and benefit analysis from the SPARC process 
  • Planning a possible roadmap 
  • Further decision-making aids 

Success depends on a common focus

This offers s-peers offers a mix of concepts from all categories. The categories are composed in chronological order of situational, problem, analyses-, Requirementand directionalquestions together.

Part 1: Defining focal points

Specific workshops are held with relevant departments or teams. The questions and focal points are agreed together in advance.

Part 2: Scoring

After answering and ranking the questions, scoring takes place on the answers. The scoring should ideally be a team task and consist of several representatives of the The scoring should ideally be a team task and consist of several representatives of the respective departments of an organisation, as heterogeneous as possible. This ensures that different viewpoints and perspectives are included in the assessment.

Part 3: Step-by-step plan

The scoring for SPARC is divided into several levels:

  • Definition of the assessment groups - general or thematic
  • Selection of evaluation criteria related to SPARC
  • Weighting of the evaluation criteria
  • Carrying out the evaluation
  • Evaluation

Part 4: Prioritisation

After scoring and on the basis of a possible scorecard, the requirements are prioritised. Based on these findings, s-peers submits proposals of solution variants with cost and benefit analysis.

 
The most favourable time for a migration to HANA, S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, DWC is also determined and hybrid scenarios or transformations from on prem to the cloud are evaluated. In addition, alternative or different possible scenarios are developed, the costs for the respective processes are calculated and the time required is estimated.

What you can prevent with the workshop

No technology backlog and delay in benefits:

Due to thehe non-introduction of new analytics technologies (e.g. moving to the Cloud), there is aThe benefits associated with these technologies are delayed.

No cost & planning uncertainties:

From Acquisition costs, personnel costs to technology costs. Uncertainties in the Total Cost of Ownership are more predictable with an analytics roadmap and can be can be avoided.

No waste of resources:

Without an analytics roadmap, there is often a lack of long-term focus. This creates the risk of duplication and unclear responsibilities.

No Analytics Single Point of Truth:

Without an analytics roadmap in the long term to ambiguities iin the analytics strategy & technologies between the individual departments.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Analytics Roadmap Architecture Workshop".

  • Standard reporting, ad-hoc reporting or self-service reporting
  • Dashboarding
  • Planning, forecasting, budgeting and/or consolidation
  • Enterprise Performance Management
  • Data Integration and/or Data Migratio

It doesn't matter if you work in marketing, sales, distribution, procurement, production or HR. This workshop is aimed at everyone who deals with the topic of data in their work - regardless of professional or technical focus.

The following system landscapes are most common:

  • In the SAP area: SAP Lumira Designer, SAP Design Studio, SAP Crystal Reports) or SAP Cloud (for example, SAC is already used, but the dashboards are not yet built in-house).
  • Other non-SAP Analytics products: Qliksense, Power BI, Tableau, Excel

No prerequisites are necessary.

Participation from CHF 4,800 (with one department)

The implementation process depends on various factors and usually takes 4 - 8 weeks. It consists of the following steps:

  • Requirements (SPARC -Process)
  • As-is analysis
  • Concept
  • Implementation
  • Coaching

Of course, we are available in the subsequent steps to keep your entire environment up to date and thus stable, reliable and performant.

s-peers provides all-round support - from conception, design, set-up, maintenance and monitoring to initiating improvements, adjustments and upgrades.

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You are welcome to ask for advice on a workshop and your individual topics without obligation.

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