Selected Talk by Rüdiger Eichin, Research Manager at SAP AG, Germany at the European Data Forum 2014, 20 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Deriving Value from Big Data for Enterprise Performance Management.

1. Deriving Value from Big Data
for Enterprise Performance Management
Dr. Rüdiger Eichin
SAP Products & Innovation

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Changes in the Value Creation of Enterprises
*) Source: Ocean Tomo
 Value is more and more depending
on digital and intangible assets
(DIA), e.g. Computerized
Information, Innovative Property,
Brands and Competencies

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Changes in the Value Creation of Enterprises
*) Source: Ocean Tomo
 Value is more and more depending
on digital and intangible assets
(DIA), e.g. Computerized
Information, Innovative
Property, Brands and
Competencies
17%
32%
68%
80% 80%
83%
68%
32%
20% 20%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
1975 1985 1995 2005 2010
Intangible Assets Tangible Assets
Components of S&P 500 Market Value*  Stock Markets can serve as an
indicator for these changes

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Changes in the Value Creation of Enterprises
 How do enterprises manage their
key value drivers today ?
 Can Big Data help to improve the
situation ?
*) Source: Ocean Tomo
 Value is more and more depending
on digital and intangible assets
(DIA), e.g. Computerized
Information, Innovative
Property, Brands and
Competencies
17%
32%
68%
80% 80%
83%
68%
32%
20% 20%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
1975 1985 1995 2005 2010
Intangible Assets Tangible Assets
Components of S&P 500 Market Value*  Stock Markets can serve as an
indicator for these changes

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Digital & Intangible Assets (DIA) – Challenges

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Digital & Intangible Assets (DIA) – Challenges
 Relevant for
many decisions
 Hard to
capture, measur
e and monitor
 May reside in-
and outside of a
company
 Control and
reporting
systems are
mainly focused
on financial
value

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Digital and Intangible Assets – Benefits from Big Data
 Much of the information related to DIA is unstructured, e.g. for
 Customer Relationship: Behavior and sentiment
 Human Capital: Collaborative tools & social company networks
 Intellectual Capital: Patents and ideas

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Digital and Intangible Assets – Benefits from Big Data
 Big Data may help to improve with regards to
 Availability
 Quality
 Semantics
 Relevance
 Much of the information related to DIA is unstructured, e.g. for
 Customer Relationship: Behavior and sentiment
 Human Capital: Collaborative tools & social company networks
 Intellectual Capital: Patents and ideas

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Our Project – Building a Foundation for DIA
 Connect to multiple sources with
internal and external,
structured and unstructured,
transactional or machine-generated,
and multi-lingual content

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Our Project – Building a Foundation for DIA
 Connect to multiple sources with
internal and external,
structured and unstructured,
transactional or machine-generated,
and multi-lingual content
 Extensible, e.g.with methods for
measuring,
predicting,
text analysis,
sentiment analysis,
and reporting of DIA

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Our Project – Building a Foundation for DIA
 Connect to multiple sources with
internal and external,
structured and unstructured,
transactional or machine-generated,
and multi-lingual content
 Extensible, e.g.with methods for
measuring,
predicting,
text analysis,
sentiment analysis,
and reporting of DIA
 Enabling new types of solutions and
services, e.g. for
Human Capital Managment,
or Marketing

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Transparency on the Value Creation of a Company – Example
www.sapintegratedreport.com

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Transparency on the Value Creation of a Company – Example
www.sapintegratedreport.com
Connecting financial and
non-financial performance

14. Dr. Rüdiger Eichin
SAP Products & Innovation
Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16
69190 Walldorf
Germany
ruediger.eichin@sap.com