Mine your own business...!

The Extended SAP Configuration Platform SilverMine

October 2007
L. Hgsted, Vice President, Configit Software

Agenda
Where is the Silver? What is the Mining Challenge? Extensions for the new SAP Platform Facts and Examples From The SilverMine Early Adopter Program Live demo of a SilverMine application for Netstal (CH) How to participate in SilverMine Q&A
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Where is the Silver?

Orders must be 100% correct across all touch points

Marcus Behrens, CWG 07

Where is the Silver?

Failure is not an option

Here is the Silver

PRODUCT MODELER

Who is mining the Silver?

Product Managers need to get product knowledge and capabilities to Sales

R&D and IT need to get product knowledge into applications

PRODUCT MODELER

Marketing needs to communicate and define the offer to the market

Customers and Sales force need Guidance and Tools To buy and sell

Silver is Mined by exchanging Information

Product Managers

R&D & IT

PRODUCT MODELER

Marketing
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Customers and Sales force

But

Information

is NOT knowledge

Break Down The Information Wall To Get To The Silver

Product Managers R&D & IT

PRODUCT MODELER

Marketing
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Customers and Sales force

SilverMine Early Adopter Program

What is SilverMine?
Collaboration between Configit, eSpline and SAP-VC users Early Adopter Program for Extending the SAP platform to support new business scenarios Test platform for discovering and evaluating the potential in you SAP-VC data A way to share and communicate the potential in SAP A means to identify possible improvements on the modeling side Test, improve and mature VT Distiller suite, while providing valuable feedback to you
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Why Join Silvermine?

Explore and evaluate how to: Use VC in non-SAP applications Publish stand-alone configurators or webservices Obtain performance improvements Debug and enforce Quality Assurance Automate proposal generation outside SAP but using the essence of SAP-VC Share your models with others

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What do you get out of SilverMine?

By contributing with models, you get:

XML-versions of your VC-models Analysis reports of potential errors and problems Visual Interactive Documentation of your models Evaluation of graphical VC-modeling environment Access to generated configurators

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The SilverMine Value Rules

VALUE RULE #1 IF (Configurator defines Product) THEN SILVER ELSE INFORMATION WALL ; VALUE RULE #2 IF (Configurator defines Product) THEN AMOUNT(SILVER) ~ #USERS ELSE SIZE(INFORMATION WALL) ~ #USERS ;

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Two simple step stones to value

Configurators MUST define your products

These Configurators MUST be used by as many users as possible REJECTED

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SAP Closes The Gap With Composite Apps

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Composite Applications Creation

Model Composite Views and Processes. Extend through the development of dedicated application logic Composite Process: Guided Procedures
Modeling of user-centric processes Invocation of diff. application types & services Ready-to-use run-time framework User Interface: Visual Composer, Web Dynpro, Adobe Forms Graphical modeling of UI building blocks Re-use of custom building blocks Generation of multiple UI types
Enabling VT-Technology

Runtime Configuration Services

Product Modeling Services

Business Objects and Services: Import of Enterprise Services Modeling business objects Composition of application logic
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SAP-VC

EXTRACT

DISTILL

Distill and Publish User Friendly Configurators from SAP-VC

COMPILE

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DELIVER

SHARE

QUOTE

SilverMine Districts

Belgium Austria Schweiz Denmark Italy USA

Gerrmany France

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20 sample SAP-VC models OBJTYP VariantTableContent 160000 Sum of COUNT VariantTable VariantFunction_BasicData VariantFunction UIDesignGroup_Descriptions UIDesignGroup_Cstics UIDesignGroup UIDesign RulesAllocdToCsticValues RulesAllocdToCstics 100000 RulesAllocdToConfigProfiles RulesAllocdToClassCsticValues RulesAllocdToClassCstics Size 80000 ObjectDependency MaterialAllocdToClasses Material Language 60000 KB Cstic_ReferenceToTable Cstic 40000 ConstraintNet_Documentation ConstraintNet_BasicData ConstraintNet 20000 Constraint_Source Constraint_BasicData Constraint 0 Model KBID ROOTMATNR ConfigProfile Class_CsticValues Class_Cstics Class

140000

120000

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Interactive Graphical Report for SAP-VC

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SilverMine for Netstal

SilverMine Evaluation
First upload June 22 Second upload Fourth of July (this is in Europe) Third August 8 Fourth August 27

Decision to Evaluate A PreQuoteTool on top of SAP-VC using VT-Distiller Suite September 10 start workshop September 24 PreQuoteTool in evaluation version completed

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SilverMine outcome for Netstal (CH)

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SAP-VC

EXTRACT

DISTILL

Distill and Publish User Friendly Configurators from SAP-VC

COMPILE

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DELIVER

SHARE

QUOTE

Join SilverMine?
By contributing with models, you get:

XML-versions of your VC-models Analysis reports of potential errors and problems Visual Interactive Documentation of your models Evaluation of graphical VC-modeling environment Access to generated configurators

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Mine your own business...! Questions to The Extended SAP Configuration Platform SilverMine
Oktober 2007
L. Hgsted, Vice President, Configit Software