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The Most Important Part of Your Business Intelligence Project:

The Data Warehouse

Business Intelligence

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JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Lawson Data:How to Handle the Complexity

Amount

REPORT

Level of Detail

Account

Business Unit Code

Company Name

How should you get it?Best Practice – For BI you must use a Data Warehouse

Other Data

Sources

Lawson

PeopleSoft

DATA WAREHOUSE

JD Edwards

2/3 of all software projects will fail this year.

STEVE MCCONNELL

Software Project Survival Guide

Microsoft Press

Data WarehouseWhy Doesn’t Everyone use this Approach?

Time

» No immediate report deliverables

» It is a significant IT project

» JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Lawson

» Business Intelligence

Requires a lot of knowledge

It’s complex to create

» TRANSFORM » RENAME

» CUSTOMIZATION

» RENUMBER» TRANSLATE

RapidDecision a Pre-Built Data Warehouse for JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Lawson

Other Data

Sources

Lawson

PeopleSoft

JD Edwards

Sales OrderReceipt

InvoiceGL Transaction

Voucher

Work Order

ItemPurchase OrderCustomer

SupplierShipment

RapidDecision Architecture

AR

INV

SO

HR

GL

Subject AreaData Marts

ETL / CDC

Data Movement Net Change or Refresh

SOURCE DATA

TRANSFORM

RENAME

CUSTOMIZATION

RENUMBER

TRANSLATE

REPOSITORY

Time To Value:

Months/Years

The Complete SolutionBuild vs. Buy

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Build vs. Buy

Data Warehouse Design

Build

Define & Create Content

Training/Rollout

Time To Value:

Months/Years


BUILD

Data Warehouse Design

Build


Training/Rollout

BUY

Days/Weeks

Time To Value:


Training/Rollout

Build vs. Buy


Fastest Time to Value

ERP Upgrade Protection

Lowest Risk

Fixed Price

BUY

Days/Weeks

Time To Value:


Training/Rollout


We estimate that RapidDecisionmoved us

ahead 13 months over our previous “best effort”

estimate for accomplishing an admittedly less

robust business intelligence solution. That time

equates to money saved, while the instant access

to relative management reports increases our

competitive advantage significantly.

– CLEM WIEKRYKAS

E-Business Program ManagerHamilton Sundstrand

BUY

Days/Weeks/

Time To Value:


Training/Rollout


Case Study: Major Cosmetics Company

Purchased Cognos

Attempted to Design and Build a DW…It failed

Discovered RapidDecision and were up and running in production in 30 days

Days/Weeks

Time To Value:

BUY


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Product Overview

Pre-built data warehouse/data mart solution for JDE, PeopleSoft & Lawson

Established in 1995 – 17 releases to date

Mature/proven solution

Over 250 customers

Real-time, business focus from Day 1

FASTEST time to Value

Consolidate multiple sources and archived data

Pre-built reports & analytics


Thousands of data transformations optimizing the User Interface

Transformation Examples

Julian dates are stored as “regular” dates as well as all of the components of a Date

» Year, Quarter, Month, Week, Day, Rolling periods, etc. » Example: 106365 converted to: 12/31/2006

Decimal conversion» Example 10000 = $100.00

User Defined Codes (UDC) descriptions are stored with the codes

Translation Values Descriptions from PS_XLAT_ITEM_VW are stored with the codes.

Level of Detail from the Chart of Accounts is stored

Levels of Customer are stored: Ship-to, Sold-to, Bill-To and Parent

Hierarchies built based on PeopleSoft trees

Balances are created and stored for quick retrieval based on your Automatic Accounting Instructions (AAI’s)

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DATA WAREHOUSE/ DATA MARTS

METADATA

Reporting & Publishing

Ad Hoc, Query, and Analysis

AnalyticApplications

MS Office & Outlook Integration

Supported Marts

GeneralLedger

Job CostFixed

AssetsAccountsPayable

AccountsReceivable

HomeBuilders

PropertyManagement

EquipmentManagement

Sales Inventory PurchasingWork Order

Manufacturing HR PayrollExpense

ManagementService Billing

Asset-Life Cycle

Management

Other ModulesUpon Request

RapidDecisionWhat you Get

Knowledge Transfer

Pre-builtQueries, Reports

and Analytics


Guaranteed implementation

success

50,000 plusTransformations

to Optimize BI and DB Performance

18 Subject Areas Supported

Metadata Layer Included for the

Leading BI Applications

Real TimeContinuous

Updates

RapidDecision Product Roadmap

Partnering with our Customer’s drive to product development

» Previous release Q2 - 2009

» Current Release End Q4 2009 Release

» PeopleSoft Enterprise and Lawson support

» Q2 ’10 Release

» New Financial Reporting Dimension

» Design phase, gathering customer requirements

» New ETL’s

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5.0VERSION

5.1VERSION

4.1.2

RapidDecision Product Roadmap

Partnering with our Customers drives product development

» Current Release End Q4 2009 Release

» PeopleSoft Enterprise and Lawson support

» Q2 ’10 Release

» New Financial Reporting Dimension and more

» Final QA in Process

» New and many improved ETL processes

» Q4 ’10 Release

» Oracle EBS support

» Design phase, gathering customer requirements

» 4 new Subject Data Marts

VERSION

5.1VERSION

5.2VERSION

5.0

What Makes RapidDecision Unique?

“Connects” your

BI tool to your

JD Edwards,

PeopleSoft, and

Lawson data

Organizes the data

for easy reporting,

analysis and

performance

managementConsolidates multiple

data sources and multiple

instances of JD Edwards,

PeopleSoft, and

Lawson data

Delivers data

in “right-time”

based on

your needs

Provides key

transformations

for each subject

area

Customers of RapidDecision

Installed at over 200 customers across North America

Alon USA Datascope IDEX Corporation Pharmavite

Alticor Decurion JAS Worldwide Phibro Animal Health

Anschutz DR Horton Johnson Diversey Pride International

Applied Industrial Elizabeth Arden Johnson Outdoors Ravago

Armtec ERCO Worldwide Kavlico Shiseido Cosmetics

Assa Abloy Exide Knife River Stryker Medical

Audiovox Farmer Brothers LaFarge Test America

Aviva USA Fonterra MDC Holdings Tiffany’s

AxleTech Graycor MDU Tuff Shed

Ball Corporation Gulf South Meritage Homes Turner Industries

CB Richard Ellis Hamilton Sundstrand MPW Industrial Services Warren Unilube

Chevron Heil Environmental News Corp Washington Corp.

Consolidated Container Corp Holiday Retirement NTN Bearing Waterworks

Covidien Homedics Opus Corporation Western Refining

CUNO Hunter Industries Otis Elevator XSE

Summary

A pre-built data warehouse/data mart solution

Pre-built reports and analytics

Real-time access to your data

Fastest time to value

Fixed PriceConsolidates and archives your data

is everything needed to make Business Intelligence Work Best.

The Bottom Line

Discover RapidDecision

Demonstration

Discover RapidDecisionAn innovative BI platform designed to be the foundation of your BI solution

Questions and

Answers

The Most Important Part of Your Business Intelligence Project:

The Data Warehouse

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