1. COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT
IN THE SAP BUSINESS WAREHOUSE
COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT AT ENTERPRISE LEVEL
ENTERPRISE COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT ENABLES MASSIVE DATA PROCESSING AND IS
AVAILABLE VIA A SPECIFIC INTERFACE TO SAP’S BUSINESS WAREHOUSE BUILT USING SAP’S
NATIVE FRONT-END TOOLS. THE SYSTEM IS OFFERED JOINTLY BY ONTONIX AND CUBEXX.
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2. MANAGE COMPLEXITY
CORPORATIONS
COLLECT HUGE
AT ENTERPRISE LEVEL AMOUNTS OF
DATA BUT THE
VALUE IT HIDES
USE THE DATA YOU ALREADY HAVE IS RARELY USED
Ontonix and Cubexx offer the possibility of using your primary informational TO THE FULL
asset, the data stored and managed in your SAP Business Warehouse, for EXTENT.
measuring and managing the complexity and consequently the robustness (or
fragility) of your company, your supply chain, your portfolio, your primary Huge and expensive to
markets, your customer base and product lines. SAP’s corporate data
warehouse offers you most of the relevant information basically for free as it is maintain databases have
already being used for management reporting purposes, steering tools or
planning. This validated and homogeneous data is readily available for tremendous potential to
analysis with Ontonix’s Quantitative Complexity Management System.
become information
powerhouses but this
hinges on applying new
and moderns means of
data processing such as
Quantitative Complexity
analysis.
The integration makes use of native SAP Business Warehouse Front-end
tools and simplifies greatly the access and preparation of data necessary for
performing complexity analysis.
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3. A NEW LOOK AT CORPORATE STRATEGY RAPID GROWTH
In our turbulent times Quantitative Complexity Analysis is one of the most OF COMPLEXITY
valuable and powerful analytical techniques and therefore we consider it to
IS THE BIGGEST
be an essential component in the architecture of a modern Corporate
Business Intelligence Solution. THREAT TO A
SUSTAINABLE
AND RESILIENT
GLOBAL
ECONOMY
Much has to be done in
order to build a
sustainable and globally
resilient economy. But if
there is one thing
corporations need today
it is time to react to
crises and problems
GROWING COMPLEXITY – THE BIG CHALLENGE
before they surface. This
s
Increasing complexity is becoming a major concern in every sphere of social means they need
life. Managing complexity is important because excessive complexity:
modern pre-alarm
pre
 is the first cause of fragility and vulnerability
 it makes systems inefficient systems that work.
 it reduces profitability
 is the biggest obstacle towards sustainability
Since complexity management constitutes a modern and advanced form of
risk management, it should become integral part of corporate strategy
strategy.
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4. COUNTERING PROBLEMS AT THE SOURCE COUNTERING
In order to understand how the various business parameters contribute to the
BUSINESS
complexity of a business it is necessary to examine the so-called Complexity FRAGILITY AND
Profile which ranks them in descending order.
INEFFICIENCY AT
THE SOURCE
A fundamental result of a
complexity self-rating is a
breakdown of business
complexity into its
components. Since high
complexity makes
business inefficient and
non-profitable it is
paramount to counter
complexity at the source.
With complexity measures and complexity profiling it is possible to manage
complexity rationally and to understand its structure and impact on a business
or any kind of system.
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