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EMPOWER THE BUSINESS
WITH BIMODAL BI
Governed Data Discovery & Self-Service Analytics
on your SAP data - in just 3 days!
Cross-process
analytics
Real business
self-service
Understands SAP
configuration
Plug-and-Play
implementation
SAP certified
(ECC & HANA)

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Governed Data Discovery and Business User
Self-Service Analytical power on SAP!
Every Angle provides ‘real’ business user self-service and governed data
discovery capabilities
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Your bimodal BI challenge solved in less than a week!
Plug-and-Play installation and implementation
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So what does Every Angle offer that other BI tools
do not?
Actionable Insight vs Hindsight
1. Simplification of SAP data
Simplified SAP data that’s easy to understand
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2: Built-in intelligence
Analyze processes horizontally across the whole value chain
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3: End user focused GUI
Find answers to ad-hoc questions without IT assistance
Every Angle Platform
The Every Angle platform consists of three components: Extractor,
in-memory modelserver and self-service GUI.
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Benefits of Every Angle for IT over other BI and
self-service solutions
Reduce Maintenance Effort, Free IT resources, Reduce Risk and Reduce
the time to value. IT stays in control of the SAP-data usage.
SAP HANA and Every Angle
Big data + Big insights
The Future of Every Angle: Constantly Innovating...
• Three major areas of improvement that will be rolled-out in our
forthcoming software releases
• Every Angle is excited by the development of S/4 HANA
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Governed Data Discovery
and Business User Self-Service
Analytical power on SAP!
As the pace of change quickens in businesses, so does the pressure on IT to provide more
than just reports. Businesses need more than big data; they need big answers.
There is a plethora of SAP reporting tools to currently choose from, both delivered by SAP
and from a wide selection of 3rd party BI vendors, all offering advanced reporting and
visualization capabilities on ECC, HANA or other databases.
The trouble is, 90 per cent of all critical business questions that need answers are ad-hoc,
arising from unpredictable events that occur daily throughout the business, resulting in IT
being swamped with requests for easier access to key decision-making information.
This obviously costs IT departments big in terms of time, resources and money.
The development of self-service analytics was supposed to provide the answer to this – but
it hasn’t.
While most self-service solutions do allow business
users to create their own reports and dashboards, it still
requires a significant amount of IT time to design,
curate, stage, test and maintain the data set. Plus,
the business users are constrained to that pre-defined
dataset.
This provides little benefit to the users over and above
the visualization and drill down capabilities. The data
being analyzed by the business is often just that –
data. It brings no extra intelligence or understanding,
resulting in these ad-hoc, critical business questions still
remaining unanswered, and the users frustrated.
Not anymore.
Every Angle provides ‘real’ business user self-service
and governed data discovery capabilities for SAP.
Why ‘real’? Because rather than just report, it actually
understands the SAP data and the customizing behind
it. Understands the connections between processes.
Understands the master and transactional data setup.
Real because it allows business users to create their
own analysis without:
Specialized help from data analysts or IT
Significant implementation effort
A new dataset to be developed
Data curation or staging
Constant IT support and maintenance.
Every Angle empowers business users with easy,
engaging and empowering analytical tools that provide
new insights, cross-process intelligence and added
pre-calculated fields designed to provide answers to
critical business questions, highlight exceptions, identify
root causes and generally provide insights on open items
that can be acted on immediately.
UNDERSTAND ISSUES!
CONTROL PROCESSES!
IMPROVE OUTCOMES!
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Plug-and-Play installation
and implementation
Your bimodal BI challenge
solved in less than a
week!
Every Angle’s built-in knowledge of SAP enables it to extract data from productive
SAP databases automatically, enabling it to interpret your company’s SAP customizing
settings, SAP application logic and SAP data. This ability enables a plug-and-play
installation procedure, enabling Every Angle’s governed, self-service analytical power
to be live in 3 days and immediately ready-to-use.
Compare this to the BI competition, all of which still require IT specialists to
undertake the time consuming and error prone process of requirements analysis,
dataset design, data selection, extraction, transfer and publishing.
Easy to install!
Every Angle is a SAP certified add-on, with approved
integration with ECC and SAP HANA. It only requires 2-3
hours of IT support to setup, and follows a standard SAP
installation procedure (DEV > QA > PROD) and is usually
technically live with your actual data in 2 or 3 days.
Customizing aware!
Every Angle is unique because of its built-in understanding of
the SAP data structure, SAP dictionary and SAP customizing.
Every Angle interprets these three, out-of-the-box, including
being able to easily understand and include bespoke Z-Tables.
Easily integrates with 3 rd Party BI Tools
Already invested in data visualization tools like Tableau or
Qlikview? Business users still frustrated with the lack of insight,
and IT frustrated with the need to continually manage the dataset?
No worries. Every Angle can feed into these BI systems seamlessly,
resolving SAP data extraction and insight creation issues in one go.
Start adding value immediately!
Every Angle doesn’t require extracted datasets to be developed
and maintained by IT. Doesn’t require constant maintenance.
Doesn’t require curating, manipulation or staging. This allows
Every Angle to be plug-and-play without the need for extensive
data source analysis.
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So what does Every Angle offer
that other BI tools do not?
Every Angle provides clear advantages over normal data visualization and reporting tools,
distinguishing itself both in the solution itself, and in its implementation and ongoing
maintenance. Every Angle solves the SAP self-service challenge through three clear and
unique value propositions that empower business users to:
KNOW MORE AND ACT FASTER:
1: Simplification of SAP data
Enabling end users to understand and
analyze complex business scenarios
2: Built-in intelligence
Additional analytical fields that
provide new insights
3. End user, self-service GUI
Releasing the business from needing IT
to build reports
The Every Angle advantage:
Actionable Insight vs Hindsight
Every Angle
Other Reporting tools
Designed and built for the business end user /
information consumers
Designed and built for IT-people or for
IT-savvy business people/data scientists
Solution
characteristics
• Simplification of access to ALL relevant transactional
data through the Every Angle Objectmodel
• Slicing / Dicing / Dashboarding on an aggregated
subset of the data within the constraints of the Data
prepared by IT
• Built-in cross-process intelligence for supply chain
and finance (order status, critical order analysis, root
cause)
• No additional business logic is available
• End user self-service supporting GUI that enables
business users to rapidly create their own analysis
based on templates/diagrams
• Great and powerful GUI, but often for IT-savvy
business people and data scientists
Implementation
• Plug-and-Play 3 day implementation, due to the
built-in knowledge of SAP’s application logic, data
structure and customizing
• Lengthy and time consuming project that includes
requirements analysis, dataset design, build, test,
implementation and management
ACTIONABLE INSIGHT
BEAUTIFUL HINDSIGHT
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1. Simplification of SAP data
Every Angle provides real business user self-service through its ability to take complex
SAP data, held in separate tables within SAP, and simplify it so that it can be understood
by business users, not just SAP specialists.
P2P Activity Diagram
To achieve this, Every Angle takes over 1,000 SAP tables - including customizing tables
- and all of their related fields and domains, and converts them and their core interrelationships
into around 100 easy-to-understand ‘Objects’ contained in a unique Every
Angle Object model.
This is a translation of the complex SAP data into an end useroriented
terminology we call ‘Objects’. An Object is the digital
representation of something which exists in reality (e.g. a
material, a sales document, a customer, or a stock batch).
Each Object contains all relevant registered SAP fields (from
all the connected SAP tables) and relationship to other
objects (e.g. from purchase document item to PD header,
material, info-record and vendor) as well as new fields
that have been created as the result of calculations with
algorithms (see ‘built-in intelligence’).
Finally, we further simplify the data by creating an Activity
Diagram for each process area, allowing users to easily select
process control, data management or business performance
insights for their area of the business.
This fundamental concept enables end users to perform their
own data discovery, freeing them from their dependency on
IT resources having to do this work – which allows these IT
resources to focus on other priorities.
This model is then used to create the new cross-process
calculations, fields and insight that you cannot get from
SAP or any other reporting tool – such as highlighting which
components on a late purchase order will directly customer
service by delaying the production and delivery of a finished
product that is in short supply.
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2. Built-in intelligence
One of Every Angle’s primary differentiators is the fact that it is loaded with unique
built-in cross-process supply chain intelligence. This added intelligence enables
business users to analyze their processes horizontally across the whole value chain -
from purchasing via production and warehousing and sales down to Fi/Co (dynamic
approach).
Critical orders
Polluted data
Bottlenecks
Delays
Shortfalls
Risks
The Every Angle Supply/Demand matching algorithm enables users to detect
bottlenecks, understand backorders, highlight order pollution, spot delays, identify
excess inventories or potential shortages and much more.
This algorithm works cross-module (MM/SD/PP/QM) and
cross-process, providing the capability to analyze the end-toend
supply chain processes within one single SAP system
(across all plants, and all levels in the Bill-of-Material).
This enables business users to analyze stock,
demand and planned receipts in order to identify
and resolve:
Data and process exceptions
Orders at risk
Supply Chain bottlenecks
Stock shortages
Excess inventories
Every Angle contains ‘Google style’ search functionality,
allowing users to quickly find information by simply searching
for key words.
Every Angle has also used its experience and knowledge
of complex business scenarios to pre-build hundreds of
‘out-of-the-box’ analyses (which we call ‘templates’). These
can easily be transformed into ‘Actionable insights’ or crossprocess
‘Control Tower’ dashboards in minutes.
This freedom to perform their own analytics unleashes
business users investigative capabilities, providing them
with immediate visibility of issues and their impact on the
customer, empowering them with real insights that they can
act upon and resolve issues before orders are shipped.
This enables them to maximize customer service, eliminate
unnecessary costs, reduce waste, optimize inventory,
manage risks and control data.
Unnecessary purchases
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3. End user, self-service GUI
In business, every day is different and the issues that arise are often not known upfront.
This means that different users want different insights at different times.
Instead of presenting your business team with a series of pre-defined reports produced
by IT-literate people, Every Angle’s self-service GUI actually empowers business users to
find the answers to these ad-hoc questions, without IT assistance.
Every Angle empowers business users to answer questions as they arise in
the following ways:
Firstly, users can create their own Angles and displays using
predefined templates, found either by direct search or via
Diagrams, which in turn can be executed immediately or
automatically at pre-determined time intervals.
They can also easily create Angles with different displays in
the form of lists, pivots and charts to their own liking.
Finally, Every Angle allows users to combine displays from
different process areas into a personalized dashboard simply
by clicking a button.
The combination of these 3 factors differentiates Every Angle
from the competition that simply displays and reports on
data, and means that Every Angle is the only solution that
provides real bimodal business user self-service.
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Every Angle Platform
The Every Angle platform consists of three components, as the picture
highlights below, namely:
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Every Angle
Extractor
The Every Angle Extractor takes either
a full or delta (configurable) extraction
from the relevant SAP tables. The
content of the extraction is based on the
business applications that the customer
has licensed as well as the modules
that have been activated. The extractor
automatically interprets the master and
transaction data, the SAP data dictionary
and takes into account the customizing
settings.
Every Angle
(in-memory) Model Server
Upon receiving the newly extracted
data, Every Angle rebuilds the
model (‘Refresh’). Every Angle uses
configuration files outside the source
code to build this model, which allows
for a very rapid addition of Z-tables or
Z-fields.
Every Angle GUI /
Output Alternatives
Every Angle offers a browser-based GUI
that can be run on tablets and desktops.
It also has a SAP Certified transaction
code (ZEA03) that allows for the
execution of Angles in SAP itself. Finally,
it can also easily export its enhanced
data to 3 rd party BI or data visualization
tools.
Browser / tablet
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FEED TO BI
SAP GUI
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Push
Pull
3
3 rd party
applications
Refresh Object Model
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Frequently refreshed,
data store with all
details
Certified SAP function
module
Extract data
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Any SAP database
/ HANA
This extraction process can be done multiple times per day, this has no impact on the SAP system performance and does not
interfere with other processing that takes place. The general rule/estimate is that the Every Angle extractor is between 3 and 5%
of the size of the SAP database.
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Benefits of Every Angle over other BI
and self-service solutions
Reduce Maintenance Effort
Every Angle’s operational analytics adapts
automatically to any changes in SAP configuration,
and updates data accordingly.
Control master and transactional data and highlight
inconsistencies.
Minimizes the maintenance overhead - no need for
IT to keep having to ‘add’ fields, create calculations,
amend reports – real self-service.
Free IT resources
No more responding to numerous requests,
writing technical specs and managing off-shore
development for simple reports.
No need for IT to prepare, curate or manage a
separate reporting data set.
Minimal ongoing IT assistance and support required,
freeing.
Reduce Risk, Retain Control
Dramatically reduce the number of off-SAP
downloads and ABAP queries, removing the
risk of having multiple versions of the truth in
circulation.
Users don’t have direct access to data, ensuring
data integrity.
Compliant to IT regulations - process is both
configurable and controlled.
Reduce the time to value
Immediately start delivering value – not after an
expensive implementation project.
Find out if you have the right information in one day
– not after weeks or months of development.
Simplify data warehouse and BI system designs,
reducing the effort, risk and cost of long BI
implementation projects.
Companies that use Every Angle experience a dramatic reduction in the amount of off-SAP
downloads to tools like Excel, reducing business risks caused by users creating multiple versions
of the truth. Better still, companies that use Every Angle report a significant improvement in user
satisfaction in SAP – which translates to a better perception of the value IT delivers.
Reduce
off-SAP downloads
Reduce
business risks
Increase
SAP user satisfaction
Increase
IT value perception
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SAP HANA and Every Angle
Big data + Big insights
One question that potential customers ask again and again is ‘is Every Angle compatible with SAP HANA?’ The answer is
an emphatic ‘yes’. Every Angle is an HANA value amplifier, not a bottleneck.
Every Angle is able to enhance HANA data in the same way that it enhances SAP data on other databases:
1| By simplifying the complexity of SAP data, enabling end users to have access to real analytical self-service capabilities.
2| Through its Plug-and Play installation, removing the need for extensive data transformation, modelling, curation, staging and testing.
3| Through its proprietary and unique levels of built-in intelligence, extensive added analytics and actionable insight.
4| Through the sheer ease of use, which reinforces the usability and value of end user self-service.
Every Angle can work with the power of SAP ECC on HANA in three ways:
1 Superfast Extraction of ERP data from ‘ECC on HANA’
Every Angle is able to perform accelerated data extracts from ECC on HANA systems, either a full download or as a delta. Live case studies
show a dramatic reduction in data download speeds from HANA, enabling users to access Every Angle’s insights quicker. This enables
Every Angle to rapidly build its model and then enhance it with the extensive amounts of new fields, added intelligence and insights, before
publishing the HANA sourced data to the business users in a ‘near real-time’ format.
2 Data extraction from HANA / execution and publication of HANA views in the Every Angle GUI
In addition to the added insight and intelligence that is provided out-of-the-box, Every Angle can execute HANA views in real-time and
present the data to the business user in the Every Angle GUI. We can also extract data directly from HANA into Every Angle.
3 Publication of Every Angle content to a HANA data lake
Every Angle is able to export its value adding insight and added intelligence content directly to HANA. This can be done either (a) by
exporting a dataset that is then imported into HANA, or (b) through a pull mechanism created via an ODBC connection directly into HANA.
EA-Browser / tablet
ZEA03
3 rd party BI
HANA as ‘Datalake’
Export insights
to HANA (‘push’)
3a
Pull insights from
EA into HANA
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Superfast extraction
of ERP-data as with
other DBMSs
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Direct data
extract
Direct execution and
publication of HANA-views
in the Every Angle GUI
ECC on HANA
HANA (sidecar)
If an upgrade to SAP ECC on HANA is on your current roadmap, then Every Angle is still something you
really need in your organization. HANA may provide data faster, but it doesn’t make it any smarter.
That’s where Every Angle comes in.
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The Future of Every Angle
Constantly Innovating...
Here at Every Angle we are constantly looking at ways to improve and innovate in order to meet the
needs of our customers. Our Every Angle 2018 product development plan contains three major areas
of improvement that will be rolled-out in our forthcoming software releases:
Increase Insight and Intelligence
We will put more analytical power at the
fingertips of business users by improving the
quality and quantity of our unique, out-ofthe-box
content, creating more insight,
more cross process visibility and answering
even more critical business questions.
Enhance the User Experience
We will be striving to simplify the whole
user experience, making it as easy as
possible for non-technical people to use
Every Angle. We will also ensure that
exporting our insight to other BI tools is
fully supported.
Advance the Architecture
To ensure Every Angle stays relevant to
your needs, we will be enhancing its multisource
capability to include non-SAP data.
We are also embedding our analytics into
S/4 HANA, removing the need for a data
extract and making the analysis real-time.
We currently have two approaches to S/4 in development:
1. EA Extractor for S/4 HANA
The table structure of S/4 HANA is significantly simplified compared to ECC. This means that Every Angle can
execute a much faster and simplified data extraction process, resulting in more time being available to add
even greater levels of business insight and intelligence to the data, resulting in the availability of even greater
analytics to the end user with less latency.
2. Real-time execution of Angles in S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA’s simplified table structure, in combination with the speed of execution provided by its in-memory
technology, allows Every Angle to develop Angles directly on the S/4 HANA source data as well. This means
that some of the value-added analytical power of Every Angle can be delivered in near real-time. For the more
extensive calculations, such as the unique (and complicated) demand-supply matching algorithms that provide
Every Angle with cross-process supply chain insight, the Every Angle Model Server will still be necessary.
Every Angle The Netherlands (HQ)
Kampenringweg 45A
2803 PE Gouda
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 182 577 744
info@everyangle.com
www.everyangle.com
Every Angle UK
Knyvett House | Waterman’s Business
Park The Causeway | Staines-Upon-
Thames TW18 3BA
Tel: +44 (0) 1784 895 010
info.uk@everyangle.com
www.everyangle.com
Every Angle
Deutschland GmbH
Science Park 2
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Tel: +49 681 3096 4135
info.de@everyangle.com
www.everyangle.de
Every Angle USA
197 8th Street
Flagship Wharf Suite 400
Boston, MA 02129
Tel: +1 844 233 3006
info.us@everyangle.com
www.everyangle.com