Executive Committee Dashboards on Solvay using MicroStrategy

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1 Executive Committee Dashboards on Solvay using MicroStrategy Business meets IT 21/06/2012 François Garang Solvay Information Services

2 AGENDA "Cheops" Application context Project Birth Overview the Proof Of Concept Project Youth Architecture / Organizations Choices : "Yes we can!" Development Phase Overview - what result? On going further steps Lessons Learned Q & A "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy" - 2 -

3 Solvay and the new Rhodia Integration context Two sectors becoming Three : SOLVAY Chemicals, SOLVAY Plastics and Rhodia s activities Global leader in : specialty polymers, vinyls, essential chemicals like soda ash, caustic soda, hydrogen peroxide, special chemicals like fluorinated products and high-purity grades and now in polyamids, sustainable development products 15,000 people in 40 countries becoming 29,000 in 55 countries Confirmed growing presence in Asia, Americas and Eastern Europe Solvay in figures : Consolidated sales in 2011 of EUR 12.7 billion Operating profits of EUR 2.1 billion 90 % turnover on product for which Solvay is in Top Three 25/06/2012 "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy" - 3-3

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5 Application Context "Cheops" is Solvay's financial reporting application Client-Server application - MS SQL Server database (# 1 TB, 700 M records) > 350 users, > 200 consolidated companies, > 100 M updates / months, # calculations / month Home-made application! 25 years financial reporting experience Cheops is 12 years old : 6 main versions released so far A CPM (Corporate Performance Management) and a BI application together "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy" - 5 -

6 Cheops, a CPM Application Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting Strategy Management Profitability Modeling and Optimization Financial Consolidation Financial Statutory & Management reporting Extended "Executive Management Dashboards Board on - ipad 1 - using MicroStrategy" - 6 -

7 Cheops, a CPM Application Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting Strategy Management Profitability Modeling and Optimization Financial Consolidation Financial Statutory & Management reporting Totally Covered Partially Covered "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy" Extended Management Board - 1 -

8 and a BI Tool together Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting Strategy Management Profitability Modeling and Optimization Financial Consolidation Financial Statutory & Management reporting + BI Tool Iris Extended "Executive Management Dashboards Board on - ipad 1 - using MicroStrategy" - 8 -

9 Project Birth A Clear and Strong request from Solvay "Group Accounting" to the IT Cheops Team : «Add a user-friendly presentation layer to Cheops / Iris environment!» Meaning : simplified User Interface = hide Cheops database complexity aimed at managers / non-financial users available on mobile devices (tablets, smart phones) Extended "Executive Management Dashboards Board on - ipad 3 - using MicroStrategy" - 9 -

10 Quick focus on Solvay Solvay is a big SAP customer naturally developped usage of BW in both ERP and HR domains Bex usage mainly for ERP users (Sales, Logistics ) BI on demand for HR from SAP Portal : all managers For the financial scope : home made Iris within Cheops environment : standard requests execution + on demand New organization context at Solvay Management initiative on Global Reporting Optimization One output will be the agreed creation of a BI CC "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

11 Quick focus on Solvay Long history of Windows Mobile support First developped IT Service for mobile devices : Blackberry in 2007 (630) "Light" It Service for iphone in 2010 (200) New service for Android to come IT Innovation Challenge on ipads and finally this Executive Committee initiative on ipad! " it is not a gadget, it is the future! " "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

12 Project Youth Project merged within a more comprehensive study lead by Solvay IT BI Team, aiming at : answering similar requests (for example as a complementary tool on top of SAP BW systems ) more generally : establish a selection of tools to address a typology of different needs arising within Solvay "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

13 Project Youth Large range of BI Tools evaluated Proofs Of Concept run on a short list of pre-selected Tools : SAP Business Objects' "Web Intelligence" = "BI Stack Player" MicroStrategy's "MicroStrategy" = "BI Pure Player" QlikTech's "QlikView" = "BI Niche Player" Overall Study Report submitted to IT Entreprise Architects for decisions And for the Financial scope, the winner was "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

14 Project Youth Why MicroStrategy? Best Tool tested for financial field to be integrated on top of Cheops / Iris! Meta-data configuration : to hide the Cheops database structure complexity The "Mobile«offer : still not perfect however improving quite fast and more advanced than its competitors Market Leader / Features richness / visualization quality / Competitive commercial offer "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

15 Proof Of Concept Overview DEMO "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

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23 Architecture Choices : "Yes we can!" Solvay : weather trend is Cloudy! Decision to move to Gmail Significant Salesforce customer Increased hosting on the Cloud As a consequence : Cheops environment moves to the Cloud MicroStrategy Plateform moves to the Cloud as well "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

24 "Yes we can!" Ambitious choices! Fortunately, Cheops has supporters all around the world! Extended "Executive Management Dashboards Board on - ipad 1 - using MicroStrategy"

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26 First Project identification Solvay New Solvay Organization New Reporting Structure definition "Reporting Factory" creation for the Finance scope within Shared Services entity First Reporing achievement identified : Executive Committee dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy! and planned : June 2011 closing! "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

27 Who are our mobile users here? Senior Management Management Dashboards & Reports Customers of our Customers Customer Services Apps Mobile Employees Sales, Services, "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

28 Project development Source data preparation according to new financial reporting specifications MicroStrategy platform installation on the Cloud Help requested from MicroStrategy consulting services : on-going for : system implementation data modelization reports / documents / application creation "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

29 The Executive Dashboards Dream Team Eddy (MSTR) Bertrand (MSTR) Jakub (MSTR) Katarzina (MSTR) Olivier (Solvay) Marcin (MSTR) Mateusz (MSTR) Kamil (MSTR) Not to forget Yves, Patrick, Sandro and Mario (all MSTR)! "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

30 What was the result - Overview DEMO "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

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46 What s going on, what s coming next? Management Report current application to be converted to its web version to be adapted for Business Units merge Solvay and Rhodia Dashboards applications Management Reports to Management Dashboards no more reports : real dashboards! wider usage of MicroStrategy s visualization capabilities "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

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49 ipad expected advantages Foreseen advantages were mainly related to the delivered application : MicroStrategy dashboards on the ipad a huge PDF report of more than 100 pages (not always printed in both sides!) replaced by a single ipad application with an overall 30 screens in 16 MIcroStrategy documents information availability on the device : as soon as published following the monthly closing, thanks to subscription configuration in MicroStrategy, which automates the refresh from inside and outside Solvay (hosted on the cloud!) reachable even when no connection available, thanks to the local cache user-friendliness and new visualizations opportunities easy navigation within the application (in comparaison with printed pdf) application esthetic wide range of efficient visualizations even if not much used yet "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

50 and ipad less expected advantages! Un-foreseen advantages were mainly related to an immediate demand for a much wider usage of the ipad from the top management! Management Report additional requests : have the pdf version on board the ipads have refreshed for information not related to closing be able to put comments on Dashboards Other Documents management requests : be able to access all Executive Committee notes from the ipad be able to annotate PDF documents on the ipad : using the keyboard or the touch screen (finger ) Extended usage of the ipad requests, making it a all day companion! banking applications stock exchange applications news applications "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

51 Lessons learned Positive attitude is to start something! In our case : basic BI, more reporting than dashboarding light mobile deployment Tool selection is still quite important Mobile devices management not to be forgotten! If you can have more time than what we have for this project, do not hesitate : Take it! "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"

52 Q & A "Executive Dashboards on ipad using MicroStrategy"