BID201 Production Management DashboardBID201 Production Management Dashboard

Estelle de BeerBI Product Manager – South Africaestelle@sybase.co.za / +27 11 202-10006 August 2003

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How healthy is your company ? Business problems How do we deal with these problems ? Complexities around the current solutions The Sybase solution Addressing the Business and Technical issues Where does the data come from ? Technical architecture Business benefits The Final Frontier

How healthy is your company ?How healthy is your company ?

What are the key measurements that you use to run your company on ?

How do you perform these measures ? How frequently do you perform these measures ? What data are they based on ? What are the expected outcomes ? What actions will be taken when these measures don’t

conform to the expected results ?

Business ProblemsBusiness Problems

Measuring success and failure Standardising these measures Complying to legislative requirements Management view (and understanding) of operational data Reporting operational data in a consolidated format

How do we deal with these problems ?How do we deal with these problems ?

Production and MIS reports Performance Measurement Systems

KPI’s Balanced Scorecards

Budgets and Forecasts Data warehousing

ComplexitiesComplexities around the current solutions around the current solutions

Consolidating separate environments and processes Technical measures vs Financial measures Manual systems vs computerised systems Disparate Software applications Silo’s of data feeding each system

Financial reporting cycle vs Production reporting cycle No consolidated view of a production facility Internal tension between management and operational staff Hidden landmines

The Sybase The Sybase SolutionSolution

Management need is like driving a car/plane Alert me only when action is required

Addressing the business and technical challengesAddressing the business and technical challenges

Consolidation data related to financial and production cycles

Consolidating the silos of data Disparate hardware platforms Disparate Computer systems storing data Manual data capture processes

Data Security Change management No off-the-shelf software available IT Skills shortage

Fully automated Zero IT admin required

Where does the data come from ?Where does the data come from ?

Applications Scada systems (Azon, Adroit, Citect) HR Stores General Ledger Planned Maintenance Vehicle Monitoring Power Management Pilot logbooks Mineral Reserves Leave, time & attendance Safety Environment …..

Oracle DB2/AS400 SAP Informix Microsoft SQL Server Sybase Flat files Manual capture …..

Technical ArhitectureTechnical Arhitecture

Hardware Microsoft or Unix

Software Data modeling : Sybase Powerdesigner

ETL (Data Extract, Transform, Load) : Ascential DataStage

Data Storage : Sybase IQ

Application : written in ACUGT from Accucorp

Ad Hoc Reporting : Crystal, Business Objects, Infomaker, Cognos, ….

Technical ArhitectureTechnical ArhitectureData Flow

Flat Files

Extract and Consolidate Data

Consolidated Data Store

e-Promis

Simple Reporting

AnalyticalReporting

Exception Handling

Business BenefitsBusiness Benefits

Consolidated Operational Management environment

Instant access to all data Accurate and timely information Integrated scorecard application Open technology Fully automated, near zero-admin

environment Huge volumes of transactional

(operational) data online Added value : Birth of the data

warehouse

The Final Frontier : Enterprise Management DashboardThe Final Frontier : Enterprise Management Dashboard

Pilot Logbooks

SAP Pl Mainte-Promis HR

Meta-dataRepositor

yPortal

Management

Security

Load Balancing

TransparentClient

Failover

HA Service

Clusters

PublishPersonalize Security

ContentOrganization

ProcessWorkflow

ContentManagement

ClustersHA Service

ClustersData Applications Events

Integration AdaptersIntegration Adapters

Share price, Exchange

rates, ..

Everything works better when Everything works better when everything works togethereverything works together