SAP Innovation Awards 2018 Entry Pitch Deck Transforming Business with the Digital Boardroom L3 Technologies, Inc
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SAP Innovation Awards 2018 Entry Pitch Deck Transforming Business with the Digital Boardroom L3 Technologies, Inc. Transforming Business with the Digital Boardroom L3 Technologies, Inc. Global (U.S. Headquarters) Aerospace & Defense Sumo is L3’s integrated platform based on SAP’s Digital Boardroom solution. Introduced in October 2017, Sumo provides L3 with the real-time business intelligence and analytics necessary to develop and execute its growth strategy. By leveraging a full suite of SAP offerings, L3 created a customized portal that aggregates critical data across every business unit to provide real-time transparent situational awareness, enabling the company to accelerate its business objectives. “As we execute our long-term vision for L3, we are implementing Products initiatives like Sumo to better enhance our responsiveness in an ever- SAP Digital Boardroom SAP Secure Cloud by NS2 changing world. We are focused on consistently delivering world- SAP Cloud Platform SAP Data Services class solutions to our customers. Sumo provides real-time, critical business insights that enable us to adapt, make faster, well-informed SAP Cloud Analytics SAP GRC Access Controls decisions, and monitor progress across the enterprise, including R&D SAP HANA investment, capital expenditures, financial key performance indicators and supply chain management. Benefits With greater visibility, we can achieve higher levels of operational . Reduced preparation time for the quarterly business efficiency. Our management team can more quickly identify and review from one month to several days. pursue emerging growth opportunities that align with our strategy and produce measurable results. Our partnership with SAP has resulted . Adopted as principal tool for strategic planning and in a powerful, transformative tool that sharpens our competitive edge, real-time operational status by L3 business segments. accelerates our innovative and collaborative efforts, and enables us to . Utilized for market Intelligence for strategic reach a higher level of performance.” opportunities by L3 business development teams. — Chris Kubasik, CEO & President, L3 Technologies 2 Participant Information L3 Technologies – Transforming Business with the Digital Boardroom Industry: Aerospace & Defense Website: www.L3T.com Partner: SAP Headquartered in New York City, L3 Technologies is a Fortune 500 top ten Aerospace & Defense company. With operations in 45 countries, 2017 sales of ~$10 billion and approximately 31,000 employees, L3 is a leading provider of a broad range of communication, electronic and sensor systems used on military, homeland security and Heidi Wood John Finegan commercial platforms. The company is also a prime contractor in aerospace systems, security Senior Vice President of Senior Director of Corporate Strategy & Enterprise Applications and detection systems, and pilot training. Technology & Strategy 3 Solution Overview Sumo is the primary platform for a single source of truth for board meetings, quarterly business reviews, market research, strategic pursuits, and all other planning activities. The system was launched on February 14, 2018, and follow-on deployments have enhanced L3’s ability to undertake important efficiency initiatives and improve operations. Before its implementation, L3’s 65+ businesses maintained separate systems to keep track of relevant data in major functional areas, including HR, Finance, Supply Chain and R&D. This lack of common processes made routine reporting and data-gathering for analysis time-consuming, which made it difficult to have productive discussions around making decisions. Through Sumo, L3 brings key business information from various sources into a single system on SAP HANA. Sumo easily consolidates data from SAP, non-SAP and external sources, vastly simplifying a process that previously required weeks of manual labor to just hours. The executive team is now able to get a true, real- time enterprise view and unify strategies by analyzing critical information to identify and monitor trends, accelerate efficiency initiatives, improve collaboration across businesses, track technology investments and evaluate M&A. Users can also track progress on HR, M&A, organic growth, financials, ethics policy, supply chain and R&D investments. Sumo was designed to meet U.S. Department of Defense data security requirements. Its unique hybrid architecture also supports the use of hybrid data for government and defense applications, where data resides in the SAP NS2 Secure Cloud HANA, while using SAP’s Digital Boardroom and SAP’s Analytics Cloud to provide an outstanding user experience. L3 is one of the first companies to deploy Digital Boardroom enterprise-wide, actively collaborating with SAP’s product management teams on features and functionality. 4 Solution Details Sumo is a multi-layer solution that utilizes a number of new and innovative SAP technologies. To maximize the user experience, Sumo relies on Digital Boardroom’s (DiBo) elegant user interface (UI) to provide a clear and engaging presentation of information. L3 has deployed a three-touchscreen setup in its Corporate HQ Strategy War Room and other offices across the country to fully leverage the solution’s interactive UI. Users can also interact via desktops and tablets. Top executive leadership can now meet and make data-driven decisions with confidence and secure fast agreement since there is a single source of truth. Mid-2018, L3 intends to enhance the DiBo interface through its partnership with SAP on Project E-Quill (see video on slide 11). Supporting the UI is a sophisticated HANA data mart that assimilates both real-time and periodic data from numerous SAP and non-SAP systems, as well as a third-party market intelligence data source. Data extraction and loading is achieved using SAP data management tools. The environment is a combination of both public and U.S. DoD secure cloud environments: SAP’s Cloud Platform and Cloud Analytics are public and provide the UI; and the SAP NS2 Secure Cloud hosts HANA and connects securely to L3’s On-Premises systems. 5 Benefits Business value: . Increased efficiency in financial and business reporting − Sumo significantly reduces the hours required to create reports for management review. In the past, it would take 20 people more than a month to compile data for the Quarterly Business Reviews. L3 can now pre-populate 90% of this data in one day. Similarly, other specialized reports previously required multiple data calls across the company, which took weeks. With Sumo, this information can be accessed in minutes. Increased transparency and reliable data − L3 Digital Boardroom helps executives make data-driven decisions using real-time information from a single source of truth. This improved visibility of operational performance allows management to adapt and respond more proactively and more in unison. Improved decision-making and strategic planning − Sumo allows users to leverage market intelligence and model scenarios using data for improved market and competitor awareness, sharpening L3’s ability to evaluate potential growth opportunities. It also is used to evaluate M&A candidates that will increase capabilities and strengthen our portfolio. This further enhances the innovative edge, producing solutions our customers need most. Human empowerment: . Improved real-time access to multiple data chains − L3’s 65+ divisions are organized into sectors, which report into segments, each having multiple processes that require hundreds of concurrent calculations. With Sumo, L3’s management team has access to the same data in real time via hybrid Live Data analytics. Operational and functional managers are empowered by a single source of truth and a consolidated, coordinated strategy. Work activity becomes more thoughtful and less “data assembly.” . Increased collaboration across the enterprise − Sumo helps users collaborate and work across segments on strategic opportunities leveraging expert knowledge and using interactive data visualizations. 6 Architecture 7 Illustration L3 Digital Boardroom 8 Quotes from L3 Stakeholders “L3 and SAP’s collaboration on Sumo was instrumental in creating a breakthrough technology that transforms how we run the company, use our valuable human resources more effectively, and execute and sharpen our ability to be aware and responsive. By integrating L3’s knowledge base across the enterprise, and armed with accurate, real-time or near real-time data, our leaders can make faster, yet more informed decisions. Sumo accelerates L3’s ability to use data-driven analytics and key performance indicators to drive decisions. This added capability allows us to better optimize operations, more effectively capitalize on growth opportunities and work together more collaboratively as a team. We called it Project Sumo because we wanted to encourage people to wrestle with the data…and not with each other.” — Heidi Wood, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Technology “L3 is proud to be an innovative technology partner with SAP in building a solution that will help us adapt and change as our data needs evolve. Sumo leverages our combined expertise to maximize the public and DoD secure cloud environments, from Proof of Concept through System Implementation. This continued collaboration will deliver advanced data analysis tools that will help L3 achieve its business goals.” — John Finegan, Senior Director of — Andy C. Ivers, Senior Vice President and Enterprise Applications & Strategy President of Communication