Accenture and SAP: Delivering Visual Data Discovery Solutions for Agility and Trust at Scale

Accenture and SAP: Delivering Visual Data Discovery Solutions for Agility and Trust at Scale

2 Today s data-driven enterprises are ramping up demands on their business intelligence (BI) teams for agility and flexibility in addressing continually evolving business analytics needs. The increasing demands on BI teams are further compounded by the advent of big data and the need to quickly interpret and extrapolate meaningful and insightful patterns from both structured and unstructured data.

Accenture helps clients advance along their analytics journeys to achieve high performance by addressing their businessspecific analytics needs in a number of ways, which include delivering visual data discovery solutions based on industryleading technologies. SAP is a world leader in enterprise software and software-related services. Accenture and SAP have an established history of innovating together and are teaming to deliver self-service visual data discovery solutions with SAP Lumira software for data visualization as the core enabling technology. Visual data discovery solutions delivered based on SAP Lumira are designed to empower business users with greater agility while addressing enterprise data governance and integration standards and scalability needs. The SAP Lumira software enables data integration from multiple sources, data visualization, analysis of trends, and sharing of analytics insights on both server and cloud platforms in addition to providing Web browser and mobile experiences. Expanding BI capabilities begins with a strategic shift in focus The BI evolution is trending toward increased autonomy in addition to advanced data visualization. Business users across industry-leading, data-driven enterprises are seeking BI capabilities that empower them to independently and quickly explore, create and analyze content to produce and share meaningful analytics insights. A greater focus for organizations today is on developing a modern data supply chain that delivers meaningful, actionable analytics insights and enables advanced analytics with predictive capabilities (see figure 1). To this end, Accenture can help provide clients with a roadmap to guide the development of self-service BI capabilities with visual data discovery solutions based on SAP Lumira. Figure 1: Insights gained = Better and more timely decision making* Advanced analytics Analysis and insights Advanced analytics tools and solutions Information and analytics organization design and operating model Talent sourcing and delivery model Advanced analytics Issue-driven insights and measures Data virtualization/centralized data access layer Business intelligence and data visualization toolkit Analysis and insights Reporting and data collection Report rationalization and automation Key performance indicator alignment Reporting and data collection * Percentage of time 3

Trusted data discovery a solid foundation for actionable analytics insights A key to successfully advancing along the analytics journey to value realization and moving from business issues to outcomes is trusted data discovery. The concept of trusted data discovery is about providing a solid foundation for enabling actionable analytics insights based on data that adheres to enterprise IT governance and integration standards. The data discovery process is designed to generate answers to questions in rapid succession, leading to even better questions and more meaningful, insightful answers. The iterative process can be repeated indefinitely with little or no lead time requirements. Visual data discovery solutions delivered by Accenture based on SAP Lumira help empower business users with a combination of trusted data, self-service mechanisms and visualization tools. The SAP HANA platform integrated with SAP Lumira provides the essential technology backbone for trusted data discovery. Data science and predictive analytics services can also be delivered with these solutions to address needs for trusted data ranging, for instance, from fraud detection and health management to insurance adjudication and predictive maintenance. A strategic, diagnostic approach for enabling trusted data discovery To enable trusted data discovery, IT must address a dual challenge: to deliver contextual layer content that satisfies business user data consumption needs while helping to adhere to enterprise data warehouse standards. IT s approach to date has managed generally to meet the high norms of enterprise IT data governance and integration standards. This traditional approach, however, is increasingly falling short in satisfying the agility and flexibility demands by business users for meeting growing and ever-changing data needs in the business reporting and analytics space. Accenture s strategic and diagnostic approach to delivering visual data discovery solutions with SAP technology is based on a holistic perspective that encompasses: People Equipping business users with training to help drive quality content generation and design and build analytics solutions that effectively translate issues into business outcomes. Process Uniting the efforts of the business and IT with the development of an agile operational framework that also adheres to enterprise data governance and integration standards. Technology Providing a flexible and scalable technology platform and components to support both data governance and integration standards and continually evolving visual data discovery needs. SAP Lumira software for self-service data visualization combined with the big data capabilities of SAP HANA offers a comprehensive and scalable solution with a robust set of features for helping to address the dual challenge of satisfying IT and business user needs. The visualization capabilities enabled with SAP Lumira serve to establish relationships among data entities and help combine and explore variable data parameters. These capabilities empower business users to ask more thoughtful questions while encouraging an analytics mindset throughout the organization. 4

Technology solution platform key differentiators for enabling trusted data discovery Delivering visual data discovery solutions for agility and trust at scale based on SAP technology, Accenture can help clients develop the ability to distinguish signals from noise with big data analytics. The SAP Lumira visual data discovery technology solution facilitates the seamless integration of large volumes of structured and unstructured data from multiple, disparate sources and allows for data segmentation and cataloging as well as ultra-wide dataset handling. IT needs Leverages existing enterprise infrastructure assets. Efficiently scales to support big data analytics. Empowers business users with self-service analytics capabilities for creating queries, reports and dashboards, helping to free up limited IT resources. Applies an existing security model to data components and existing IT processes and standards for SAP HANA Lifecycle Management tools, including monitoring and auditing. The SAP technology solution platform enables automated analytics for crawling through data along with industrialized frameworks for automated advanced analytics on backend operational systems. Scheduling and monitoring capabilities help to ensure desired outcomes are achieved. At a more granular level, the SAP HANA platform is designed to address: Business user needs Provides agility, flexibility and a high degree of autonomy with the ability to integrate data from multiple sources. Maintains data source connections online and offline. Leverages existing IT-modeled data sources, including SAP Business Warehouse information sources, SAP BusinessObjects BI universes, SAP HANA views and SAP queries. Inspires actions through compelling data visualizations with links to stories and infographics. Helps predict business outcomes and prescribe appropriate actions. Facilitates communication and sharing of analytics results across the enterprise network and through mobile user devices. 5

Technology solution platform components deployed SAP provides an integrated hybrid technology solution platform comprising big data and visual analytics tools that are designed to work together in seamless fashion to accelerate the discovery of actionable insights and realization of business outcomes. Poly-structured data from various sources can be rapidly amalgamated and mobilized onto one platform with SAP, unleashing tremendous analytical capabilities. Rapid response times delivered by the in-memory SAP HANA platform are aided by a powerful modelling layer and supporting components for ingesting data from multiple data sources in the form of data services (see figure 2). The SAP Lumira software for self-service data visualization comes equipped with its own data ingestion capability. Predictive capabilities are delivered with the SAP InfiniteInsight solution, while the SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio tool provides powerful visual aids from a data consumption perspective. Figure 2. Reference architecture for SAP solutions that support visual discovery Consume Analytics Predictive Analysis Dashboard Visual Exploration Real-Time Applications Big Data Visualization SAP InfiniteInsight (KXEN) SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio SAP Lumira Real-Time Analytics Consumer Engagement Sense & Respond Planning & Optimization Operational Analytics Big Data Analytics Predictive Spatial & Text Analytics SAP HANA PLATFORM Real-Time Transactions & End-to-End Analytics Extended Application Services Process and Storage Database Services Processing Engine SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering Application Function Library & Data Models Integration Services Ingest SAP ASE SAP ESP SAP Replication Server SAP SQL Anywhere SAP Data Services 6

Accenture and SAP deliver analytics value Fueled by a more than 30-year alliance with SAP and the Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP, Accenture combines its strategic and diagnostic approach, deep industry and functional business experience, and extensive global delivery capabilities with SAP s sophisticated BI product solutions and tools. Through the combined resources and innovation of the alliance, Accenture and SAP clients can envision previously unseen opportunities, implement advanced analytics solutions and realize an investment return never before imagined. Analytics solutions delivered by Accenture based on SAP Lumira can empower business users with the agility to quickly tap into data and the trust and scale organizations require with a visual data discovery application that runs on the SAP HANA platform. To learn more about how Accenture can help your organization transform data into meaningful, actionable insights with SAP Lumira software, including the opportunity to schedule a workshop for your organization, contact: Eric Renouard Managing Director Accenture Digital, SAP Lead eric.s.renouard@accenture.com 7

About Accenture Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 319,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page is www.accenture.com. About SAP As a market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 263,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com. Accenture Analytics, part of Accenture Digital, delivers insight-driven outcomes at scale to help organizations improve their performance. With deep industry, functional, business process and technical experience, Accenture Analytics develops innovative consulting and outsourcing services for clients to help ensure they receive returns on their analytics investments. For more information, follow us @ISpeakAnalytics and visit http://www.accenture.com/analytics. Copyright 2015 Accenture All rights reserved. Accenture, its logo, and High Performance Delivered are trademarks of Accenture. Any third-party names, trademarks or copyrights contained in this document are the property of their respective owners.