Transcript The SearchSAP.com Conference

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The Extraprise Information
Factory - An architecture for
Collaborative Business
Applications
Naeem Hashmi
Founder
Information Frameworks
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Race to real time is On…
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Introduction
 Founder and CTO of Information Frameworks, an author,
thought leader, speaker and world-renowned expert on
emerging Information Architectures, Integration and
Business Intelligence Technologies.
• Author of the best selling book titled,
SAP Business Information Warehouse for SAP, 2000.
Naeem Hashmi
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Technical Editor
SAP BW Certification Guide, authored by Catherine Roze,2002
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Co-Author
SAP BW Handbook, 2002
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Member of Intelligent ERP magazine's board of editors
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25+ years of experience in emerging Information Technology
research, development, and management; Information
Architectures; Enterprise Application Integration e-business; ERP
applications; Data Warehousing; Data Mining; CRM; Internet, Object
and Client/Server Technologies and Strategic Consulting.
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Email- [email protected] url: http://infoframeworks.com
Tel: 603-432-4550
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 Business
Applications - Today and Tomorrow
Agenda
 Technical Information Architecture
• Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
 The SAP Technology Framework
• The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
 Framework for Successful Collaborative
Applications
 Q&A
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Agenda
 Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
 Technical Information Architecture
• Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
 The SAP Technology Framework
• The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
 Framework for Successful Collaborative
Applications
 Q&A
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Business, Internet, & Intelligence Convergence!
Internet & e-Business
Legacy
Applications
Intelligent Collaboration
Portals
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Technical Architectures
Dictionary/
Reference
Data
Collection
Left Side
Data
Access
Right Side
 TA1
 TA2
 VITAL
End User
Services
Business
Applications
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 …
Data
Warehouses
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(Corporate Information Factory)
*Virtually Integrated Technical Architecture Life
cycle
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Thank
The
eBusiness
@
Work
Today
You
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Today
Source: The Computer World, July 2000
… And Tomorrow
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Today
Let me check Banker’s giving History
Wow. Banker must be in a good mood today.
Donations were much higher than the past 3
years! Gee.. Thanks
I should i-fax charity Tax-credit info to
donor’s Tax Attorney
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BUT, First, Let me also check
banker’s Donations to others
compared to me!
Not Good. Donor has given more to
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the others sitting around the corner.
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Source: The Computer World, July 2000
Tomorrow
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THE Big Question? Why
What am I doing wrong here?
Am I not dress well? or
Am I not cute? or
My Business Services Provider is not sending
me right information to target right donors
at the right corner at the right time !
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A big cultural, business and technical challenge:
Providing intelligence services to the masses…Just like a Utility
An extremely complex task to implement Integrated and Business
Intelligence-aware Internet Centric Environment
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Collaborative Applications - Major
Challenges
 Intelligence
• Internal, External
• Structured, Unstructured
 Integration
• Applications, Data, and Functions
• Internal, external
 Infrastructure
• Portals, Security, Workflow
• Hardware/Software/Applications
• Operations and Management
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Evolving to new Information Architecture
New Architecture
TA2
Dictionary/
Reference
Data
Collection
Left Side
Data
Access
Right Side
Content
Intelligent
Analytics Infragistic
End User
Services
Information Flow
Strategic
CRM
Tactical
B2x
Integration
Collaboration
Portal
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Agenda
 Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
 Technical Information Architecture
• Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
 The SAP Technology Framework
• The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
 Framework for Successful Collaborative
Applications
 Q&A
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The Extraprise Information Factory
Definition
“The Extraprise Information Factory is a
Technical Architecture to construct and
deploy scalable, extendable, distributable
and integrated solutions needed to
support integrated critical applications.”
Under this architecture, the Strategic,
Tactical, eBusiness, Business Intelligence
and Operational applications are tightly
integrated under common infrastructure.
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The Extraprise Information Factory
 Defines four types of Information
Integration Layers to construct
collaborative business application
components
• Tightly Integrated
• Loosely Integrated
• File Based Integrated
• On-Demand Integrated
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The Extraprise Information Factory
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The Extraprise Information Factory
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The Extraprise Information Factory
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The Extraprise Information Factory
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Collaborative Applications - Major
Challenges
 Intelligence
• Internal, External
• Structured, Unstructured
 Integration
• Applications, Data, and Functions
• Internal, external
 Infrastructure
• Portals, Security, Workflow
• Hardware/Software/Applications
• Operations and Management
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Agenda
 Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
 Technical Information Architecture
•
Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
 The SAP Technology Framework
•
The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
 Framework for Successful Collaborative
Applications
 Q&A
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SAP Technology Framework
Portal
Infrastructure
Exchange
External ...
Business
Intelligenc
e
Framewor
k
Non-SAP Applications
SAP R/3 Enterprise
PLM
J2EE and ABAP
SCM
Web Services
CRM
Web
Application Server
E-Procurement
User Centred Collaboration
Process C Collaboration
SAP Technology Stack
Source: SAP
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS
Business Intelligence is a process to monitor key indicators about
What in Business Intelligence?
business environment, customers, partners, suppliers, regulations,
competitors, industry trends and their impact on the business strategy
and help define/improve profitable business model
Traditional Business Intelligence
Applications
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Executive Information Systems
Decision Support Systems
Enterprise Information Systems
Management Support Systems
OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing)
as well as technologies such as:
• Data Mining
• Data Visualization
• Geographic Information Systems
Today, Business Intelligence goes
beyond traditional definition that
includes:
• Balanced Score Cards
• Click-Stream Analysis
• CRM Analytics
• SCM Analytics
• Closed-Loop Analytic
• Full-Circle Analytics
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Business Intelligence Process
Industry Trends, Regulations, Economic Climate
Competitors, Financial Drivers, Research
Partners
Suppliers
Customers
EXTERNAL
RESOURCES
Customers
Partners
Suppliers
Sales/Marketing
Services
COLLABORATION
TIMELY
KNOWLEDGE MGMT
ACCURATE
BUSINESS PROCESSE
INTEGRATION
Business Units
R&D
Employee
Business Intelligence
RIGHT PLACE
SECURE
INTERNAL
RESOURCES
Business Applications, Data Warehouses, Research
Expertise, Knowledge Repositories, Libraries
Users
Systems
Integration
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Business
Intelligence
SAPSAP
Business
Intelligence
consists of the following
four solutions:
1. SAP Business Information Warehouse
• Data Warehousing Solution
+420
+1700
InfoCubes
2. Business Analytics
• Business Content
3. Knowledge Warehouse
• Knowledge Management
4. Enterprise Portal
• Information Integration and Delivery
Queries
+90 ODS
Objects
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SAP Business Information Warehouse
Reporting and Analysis
Reports
A complete Data Warehouse Solution.
Analytical Applications Platform
Integrated with SAP Business Applications
Data Access
Data Warehouse
Data
Extraction
Transformation
Source: SAP
Data Sources
Source: SAP
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SAP BI Integrated Framework & EIF
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Information
Consumers
 Personalization
Information
Management
SAP Enterprise Portal
 Categorization/Taxonomy/Search
Portal client
 Customization
 Presentation an Navigation
 Collaboration
 Workflow
Portal Builder
iViewServer
BI
Unification
KM
Y!
User/Role Mgmt
 Unification
Portal Content Dir
 Aggregation
Enterprise Portal Solution
Information
Sources
 Administration& Single Sign-on
 Integration
 Business Intelligence
SAP
Business Groupw
Web CRM
Application are
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Information sources
Source: SAP
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SAP Enterprise Portal - Unifier
Portal client
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Consolidation of
structures/unstructured content
 Not an EAI Tool
 On-Demand Integration
• Very important for Collaborative
solutions
Portal Builder
User/Role Mgmt
an Integrated
Information view across
applications
Portal Content Dir
 Unification
• Ideal for providing
iViewServer
Unifica-
BIUNIFIER
tion KM
Y!
Enterprise Portal
Solution
Business Group
Web CRM
SAP
Applicationware
Information
sources
....
Source: SAP
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SAP Exchange
 Technology for Collaborative applications
 Based on XML messaging model for business
process driven information exchange across
applications
 Integration Mode:
• Loosely Coupled applications
• Not for true real-time application Integration
• Scalability
• Ideal for Event centric applications – not for large data
oriented applications
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Execute Collaborative
Ensure
SAP Exchange
Infrastructure
Business Processes
Collaboration
Share Collaboration
Knowledge
Reliability
to 3rd
party or SAP
components
Integration Server
Integration
Repository
Integration
Directory
configured
knowledge
Integration
Engine
to business
partners
Additional
Integration
Services
to other public
or private
exchanges
Integration
Monitor
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Agenda
 Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
 Technical Information Architecture
•
Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
 The SAP Technology Framework
•
The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
 Framework for Successful Collaborative
Applications
 Q&A
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Recipe for Successful cBusiness
 Tight Integration with Business Intelligence
 Supports Integration modes
• Tightly Integrated
• Loosely Integrated
• File Based Integrated
• On-Demand Integrated
 Business Process Driven
 Flexibility
 EIF helps identify information Integration classes
to construct right collaborative applications
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Web AS
Collaborative Solutions - SAP xApps
SAP xApps
Web AS
People (Enterprise Portal)
Information (Business Intelligence)
Web AS
R/3
Lotus
Notes
mySAP
CRM
Peoplesoft
Oracle
11i
Documentum
Microsoft
Project
Web AS
Processes (Exchange Infrastructure)
Source: SAP
New paradigm to develop new webbased application on top of existing
business and applications.
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SAP xApps
 BENEFITS
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Extend the value of existing systems
Business Intelligence Driven
Can adapt to changing business drivers
Quick design and implementation life cycle
ISSUES
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Latency
Security
Performance
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Closing Remarks
 If you want your information supply-chain to
adapt to the changing business drivers, the
Business Intelligence has to be at the center of
your cBusiness universe and infrastucture supports
solid integration capabilities to drive information
flow across the enterprise.
 The EIF offers a good Information Architecture to
formulate future cBusiness applications.
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Agenda
 Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
 Technical Information Architecture
•
Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
 The SAP Technology Framework
•
The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
 Framework for Successful Collaborative
Applications
 Q&A