Smoothing the Road to BI 4!

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Coy Yonce!
Guide customers on best usage of Business Analytics from SAP! Implement and advise customers on usage of Sherlock! Previously with SAP for 11 years!
6 years in support! 3 years as a TAM! 2 years as a Product Manager for CR!

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Agenda!

We Approve this Message!

Size of System!

Sizing!
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Creating Conversations!
When were done with this session, we will understand: How our current deployment is architected and how each Universe is designed Which content in our DEV and QA environments have not been promoted to PROD The duplicate content that exists in our PROD environment The reports, universes, data sources, objects, and tables that are not used frequently The users who are not logging in and they content that they own or have in their inbox Which schedules and reports are failing and why Which schedules run the longest, which reports are the largest, and which reports have the most instances How much scheduling is leveraged versus ad hoc repor[ng The volume of exis[ng DeskI content, how much of it has been viewed, created, or updated, and the types of data sources behind those reports The specic reports that will be impacted by changes in the product or known issues

Service Documentation!

Service Property Documentation!

Universe Documentation!

Access Restric[ons Tables Joins Contexts Objects Condi[ons Linked Universes Custom Hierarchies Derived Tables

Reports Not Promoted!

Objects Not Promoted!

Number of Duplicate Reports!

Actual Duplicate Reports!

Duplicate Universes (by Name)!

Potential Duplicate Objects!

Infrequently Used Reports!

Infrequently Used Universes!

Infrequently Used Databases!

Infrequently Used Objects!

Infrequently Used Tables!

Infrequently Used Inboxes!

Users Never Logged In!

Users Not Logged In > 90 Days!

Content Owned by Inactive Users!

Recurring Schedule Failures!

Recurring Report Failures!

Long Running Schedules!

Largest Size or History!

Adhoc Versus Schedule!

DCP!

Amount of DeskI Content!

Newly Created DeskI Content!

Newly Viewed DeskI Content!

DeskI Data Sources!

Product Changes!

Informed Conversations!
At this point, we understand: How our current deployment is architected and how each Universe is designed Which content in our DEV and QA environments have not been promoted to PROD The duplicate content that exists in our PROD environment The reports, universes, data sources, objects, and tables that are not used frequently The users who are not logging in and the content that they own or have in their inbox Which schedules and reports typically fail and why Which schedules run the longest, which reports are the largest, and which reports have the most instances How much scheduling is leveraged versus ad hoc repor[ng The volume of exis[ng DeskI content, how much of it has been viewed, created, or updated, and the types of data sources behind those reports The specic reports that will be impacted by changes in the product or known issues

Agenda!

We Approve this Message!

Admin & BICC Focused Metrics!

Ineciently designed content Complex versus non- complex reports Regulatory compliance Who is accessing cri[cal content Most and least busy groups / applica[ons Frequently used data .. Power users versus casual users Schedule dura[on growth BI community growth Failure rates Process compliance BI pervasiveness / user adop[on Inac[ve content Deployment dierences ..

Growth of System!

Users Not Logging In!

Daily Failed Schedules!

Session Aggregation!

Sherlock Mobile!

Watches, Probes, Alerts!

Default Probes CMS Logon / Logo CMS Ping CMS Cache CMS Database Crystal Reports Web Intelligence

Integra1on Tivoli Solu[on Manager Open JMX Framework

Remote Support Component!

More Information on Monitoring!

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More Information!
Contact: Coy Yonce! Email: coy@evtechnologies.com! Cell: 803.445.8033! On the Web: evtechnologies.com! Twitter: @coyyonce!

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