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1. Ohio Valley Oracle User Group February 19, 2010 Dodeca with Essbase at Kroger
2. Agenda Kroger Landscape Challenges Dodeca at Kroger Dodeca Live Deploy a report in less than 20 minutes Workbook Scripts & Essbase calc scripts Ad-hoc & other in Dodeca
3. Kroger 2008 Fact Book Headquartered in Cincinnati Fiscal sales of $76.0 billion #22 ranking on Fortune 100 326,000 employees 2,481 supermarkets 781 fuel centers 771 convenience stores 385 fine jewelry stores 40 manufacturing plants Fiscal 2009 results to be announced March 2010
5. Essbase Landscape Essbase 7.1.6 1,800 unique user IDs 11.0 FTE for dev & support in nine lines-of-business Plus 2.0 FTE in IS&S 80-85 reporting, budgeting & forecasting apps/dbs Most BSO; some ASO EAS & EIS MaxL & Esscmd
6. Essbase Landscape Many users have access across multiple apps/dbs and are counted more than once.
7. Dodeca Landscape 4 Dodeca apps today 2-3 more planned User base Offices, manufacturing plants and IS&S Controllers & analysts in all 18 divisions 200+ stores – via Citrix
8. Challenges Splintered – “divide and conquer” Unique business requirements everywhere Too many user-interfaces At least 3 custom Visual Basic apps ActiveOLAP Executive Viewer Too many skill sets needed
9. Requirements Keep control with the business users Create & deploy reports rapidly Custom calculations Share data between groups Share data quicker
10. More Requirements Eliminate redundancy Common platform Build & share best practices Keep it simple and supportable Build a team of Dodeca experts
11. Results We did – or are doing – all that Line-of-business kept control All groups moving towards Dodeca Building a knowledgeable team Rapid development & deployment Tokenized calc scripts started from Dodeca Better sharing of data
12. Dodeca in Production Reporting Mirror legacy reporting format, then allow drill-thru to detail and trend graph.
13. Dodeca in Production Weekly Projections Collect weekly inputs from Finance, Merchandisers & Operations
14. Rapid Deployment Deploy a report from a regular Excel file to users in less than 20 minutes. 19:08 run time This is a video, but will not run in this player. E-mail me for full presentation. matthewaholt@gmail.com
15. Workbook Scripts One of my personal favorite features of Dodeca. 2:06 run time This is a video, but will not run in this player. E-mail me for full presentation. matthewaholt@gmail.com
16. Add Ad-Hoc Ad-hoc reporting with no Excel add-in. Charts also available. 5:08 run time This is a video, but will not run in this player. E-mail me for full presentation. matthewaholt@gmail.com
17. Other Add a category and Internet View 3:45 run time This is a video, but will not run in this player. E-mail me for full presentation. matthewaholt@gmail.com
18. Thank You Matthew Holt, CPA matthew.holt@kroger.com matthew-holt.blogspot.com