Transcript Performance Analytics Consulting

Predictive Analytics
Consulting
SAP Performance and Insight Optimization
April 2012
SAP in a Nutshell
Largest
SAP
German software company with 55,700+ employees
helps 183,000 customers worldwide run better
Sales
and development locations in more than 50 countries
Total
revenue in 2011: €12.4 billion
R&D
investment: €1.7 billion
Profit after tax (billions)
4.45
3.44
2.51
1.75
2009
2.4
1.81
2010
EUR
2011
USD
SAP is the world market leader in enterprise application software
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IT Trends 2012
Major
analysts agree on the following three directions in 2012
 Cloud computing
 Mobile
 Big Data Analytics
Analytics
market is estimated between $15 - $21 billion
BI Analytics
Big
and Performance Management will grow 12.4% in 2012
companies are using analytics:
Big Data Analytics is a hot topic
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Advanced Analytics as a Competitive Differentiator
Optimization
Competitive Advantage
„Advanced Analytics“
Modelling
Data Mining
Ad-hoc Analysis
Standard Reporting
Analytical Maturity
SAP provides products and services that cover all stages of analytical
maturity
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PIO Portfolio
 Optimization and Decision Making for Retail
 Load Management and Pricing Optimization for Utilities
 Advanced Analytics and Forecasting for Banking
 Forecasting, Strategy and Planning for Discrete Manufacturing
 Cross industry solutions
PIO portfolio covers a large number of industries
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Market Basket Analysis
Affinity Analysis 2.0 is a tool for sales
analysis on market basket level
Ad-hoc calculation of many different market basket
KPIs
Maximum flexibility for analysis in product and store
hierarchies
Intuitive user interface
High performance computations powered by SAP Inmemory technology
Affinity Insight 2.0 allows flexible computations on market basket level
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Zone Optimization
Demand
Modelling
Price
Optimization
Distance
Calculation
Hierarchical
Clustering
Zone Optimization helps retailers gain
insights on the shopping habits of their
customers relative to their location
Scientific algorithms take into account
historical sales data as well as
demographic and census data
profit
Large retail chains can find the optimum
number of price zones in order to
maximize profit
overhead
national
store-level
Retailers make better decisions related to store chain strategic planning.
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The PIO Team
Globally distributed team of professionals
Science and technology teams in Romania, Germany and the US
 Industry expert teams in the US, UK, Germany, France
 Performance analytics consultants in the US, UK and Argentina
 57 people in total, 5 in Bucharest
Customers
worldwide
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PIO Jobs
Software Research Scientist
 Strong in mathematics and statistics
 Strong software development experience
 Experience in mathematical modeling and optimization
Performance Analytics Consultant
 Experience with Business Intelligence tools
 Data Warehousing, ETL
 Building Management dashboards
 Business Communication and workshop facilitation

Industry specific experience is a plus !
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Thank You!
Contact information:
Marius Ion
Research Scientist
[email protected]
+40/758235565