Leveraging Your SAP Investment

With TM1, SAP customers can easily extend their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for even faster analytics and easier-to-use planning, budgeting, reporting and performance management capabilities.

TM1 offers certified integration by SAP for SAP BW making it even easier to quickly source information from your SAP system.

Features and benefits:

Fast Query Response Times - TM1’s memory-based multi-dimensional cube architecture means excellent response times. TM1 has been rated as the best solution for both query times and dataload/calculation times, according to The OLAP Survey 6. With multiple memory-based cubes, data is more rapidly searched, modified, and restructured than with a single cube disc-based structure.
Business Modeling - With SAP BW providing the critcal business information, TM1 enables users to quickly build powerful models of their business. Using the data stored in BW, finance and business users alike can quickly build models for tasks such as planning, what-if analysis, and risk assessment. By basing these models on actual data, businesses can perform much more accurate analysis.
Flexible Data Analysis - You will gain greater flexibility in data analysis. Your users themselves can quickly build dynamic, multi-dimensional models (applications) with little training and no IT assistance. You can address one planning or reporting need and then quickly build more operational and financial applications over time. This means IT can spend valuable time and expense on other projects.
Fast Data Loads and In Memory, On the Fly Calculations - Because of TM1’s ability to quickly manipulate vast data sets in RAM, it avoids a major drawback of other products such as ROLAP solutions which have to precalculate consolidations and derive value before anyone can view the data. It also means that calculations are always up to date.
Powerful and Flexible End User Reporting - TM1 provides a natural extension to SAP for business departments to create reports based on SAP data. The TM1 Excel interface provides the most natural end user tool, enabling all your business personnel to work in the environment in which they are most comfortable, with little training required. InfoCubes, query cubes and other SAP object, can be reported on using TM1’s intuitive user interface while taking advantage of Excel’s formulas, charting, and formatting capabilities.

For those non-excel power users we offer Applix Executive Viewer for self-service analysis and reporting. With no programming or training needed, users can explore data from any perspective. Users can sort/select/pivot information, create on-the-fly calculations, identify exceptions, generate graphs, print fully formatted reports, and more – with unbeatable response times. More on Applix Executive Viewer.

Complementary aspects of TM1 to augment use of SAP data:

TM1 does not have to read from the SAP database for each query, speeding up response times.
No pre-calculation means that a planner could save hours a day making decisions. (Pre-calculation can require a much large database, greater query time, and often more hardware.)
TM1 allows for “spontaneous” changes and decisions – a real world response. According to independent testing, TM1 provides sub-second response times for hundreds of concurrent users, reinforcing its ability to support enterprise-wide business and operational performance management applications.

Read the success at Nikon.
Management Information Systems (MIS) are designed to inform the management. NikonMIS provides streamlined aggregation and reporting of the data – and without high training costs and effort. NikonMIS has been deployed successfully at Nikon for nine years. The data is fed in via a direct interface from the enterprise SAP cost accounting system, and the resulting planning data can be integrated and viewed through Excel. Nikon uses TM1 to manage the data for rolling forecasts and to match performance targets with actuals. The solution guarantees rapid and error-free generation of management reports.

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