Page 1 Water Technologies IBI/WebFocus Pittsburgh Users Forum Thursday Oct. 18, 2012 Presented by: Susan Swanger Copyright © Siemens AG All rights reserved.

Page 2 Water Technologies Siemens Water Technologies Siemens Water Technologies (SWT)  Part of the Industrial Sector of Siemens AG - a 160 year old global electronic and engineering company with 336,000 employees worldwide.  SWT provides comprehensive, cost-effective and reliable water treatment products, systems and services ranging from water supply and conventional water treatment processes to wastewater reuse systems, membrane bioreactors, UV disinfection systems and RO cleaning contracts.  Our products and services are designed to help keep cities safe, or your company profitable.  SWT IT is Headquartered in Warrendale, PA  5400 Employees Worldwide, over 4500 in the US  120 Branch Offices

Page 3 Water Technologies SWT BI Team Susan Swanger:  Graduated from University of Pittsburgh with a degree in MIS  Analyst/Programmer for 15 years  Employed by Siemens for over 12 years  A lead analyst on the Siemens BI Team SWT BI Team:  1 Project Manager  1 Security Admin  2 ETL Developers  4 WebFocus Developers  2 WebFocus Developers double as the Server Admins

Page 4 Water Technologies SWT Business Challenge  Prior to 2007 SWT had 26 different ERP systems across SWT worldwide  Three year “Fusion” project consolidated all ERP systems to SAP  Limited flexibility of reporting in SAP drove the need for a reporting & BI tool

Page 5 Water Technologies Reasons for Choosing IBI/WebFocus  Ease of use  Quick turnaround for report creation  Ad hoc abilities  Info Assist  Guided Ad Hoc  Ability to access multiple data sources  Dashboarding capabilities  Active report capabilities  Excel like features  Create charts and graphs on the fly  Ability to reports  Fully interactive offline

Page 6 Water Technologies  Implemented WebFocus  January 2010 –  Current Version –  Main Users  Sales  Production Planning  Engineering Projects  Finance  Supply Chain Management  Currently 672 users  Only 64 reports SWT Web Focus Implementation Ability to add/remove columns, change the order of columns and change the aggregation level - allows one report to serve multiple Roles within the Organization

Page 7 Water Technologies Internal External – Customers, Partners, SWT WebFOCUS Technologies - WebFOCUS, DevStudio, Report Caster, MRE, Active Reports, Flex Enable, and InfoAssist Dashboard Guided Ad Hoc InfoAssist All People Power Users - 17 Power Users - 17 Business Users Business Users - 655

Page 8 Water Technologies SWT Reporting Architecture Cost Center WF Reports, KPIs, & Dashboards Projects Sales & CRM Inventory Production Planning Purchasing Warrendale Data Warehouse Source Systems Nightly Data Extractions WebFOCUS Contracts Profitability & Finance Service

Page 9 Water Technologies SWT WebFocus Data Sources Data Warehouse  SQL 2005 Database  Access 420+ SAP source tables  360+ DW target tables (Fact, Dimension and Staging tables)  384+ R3 Dataflows (SAP – ABAP and Business Objects ETL’s)  Size of Production Data Warehouse: 800+G Other Data Sources  Essbase Cubes – Essbase Version 11  CRM System – SQL 2000 Database  Remedy Help Desk System – SQL 2005 Database

Page 10 Water Technologies SWT Executive Finance Dashboard Built with WebFocus Fexs, Flex Enable and FlashBuilder

Page 11 Water Technologies SWT Executive Finance Dashboard Drills down to more detailed data Rollovers provide values for a specific chart area Links in report allow for further drilling to more details Filters dynamically change graphs with Flex animation Clicking on a chart area passes parameters to a detailed drill down report

Page 12 Water Technologies SWT Supply Chain Management KPIs Allows our SCM Team to quickly drill down to areas needing attention.

Page 13 Water Technologies SWT WebFocus Future  Drive SWT to create more strategic and exception based reporting using dashboards  Go Mobile!  Upgrade to WebFocus 8.0  Upgrade Dashboard from Flex to HTML 5  Make it device agnostic  Change front end from Flex to HTML 5  Can still use all the same Fex files we have now!

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