​In this blog we will use Alteryx to build a model that produces a prioritized list of prospective customers for targeted marketing campaigns.

The Alteryx workflow builds a linear regression model using current customer data from SAP which is scored against prospective customer data from an Excel Sheet to produce a prioritized list of prospects.

​The data is then published to Microsoft Power BI.

​Following successful customer trials DVW is pleased to announce the General Availability of the Alteryx Connector for SAP BusinessObjects. 

If you want to extract data from SAP BW, SAP Business Suite applications (including SAP ECC, SAP CRM, SAP SCM etc.) or SAP BusinessObjects directly into Tableau, you should take a look at the DVW Tableau Connector for SAP.

How do you take control of the visits your sales teams make to your customers, but give your people the freedom to use their individual skills and intuitions?  How do you track which customers have been visited, and more importantly which haven’t?  How do you train your new-comers, or ensure best practice is followed by your old-timers?  How do you get the big picture of what’s happening, what’s coming up … or what benefits came out of your sales investment?

SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer data can be exported into SAP Lumira using the connector available from the download centre in the system.  Once the add-in has been installed locally, the user can log into the SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer tenant directly from SAP Lumira and access data using existing report views.  Once these links are saved, related SP Lumira analyses can be refreshed with updated data from the SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer system.

​Running SAP ECC for your back office but Salesforce.com for your CRM? Take a look at our short demo showing how easy it is to pull data from SAP using the Alteryx Connector for SAP before loading it into Salesforce.com with Alteryx.

If you are pulling your SAP data directly into Qlik you could be missing a trick. ​Check out our short demo of SAP data being used with the Predictive Analytics capabilities of Alteryx before visualising the data in Qlik.

We know that some SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer (C4C), customers are experiencing challenges with the performance of the solution particularly in a contact centre environment.

​The Alteryx Connector for SAP, works with SAP S/4HANA (AKA SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA) on-premise edition in the same way as it does for SAP’s Business Suite solutions (ECC, CRM etc.).

Take a look at this short demo of the Alteryx Connector for SAP (ACS) being used with an SAP S/4HANA system.

It was October 1, 2002 and after a full day attending various TechEd sessions, Daneel de Villiers and I sat in a bar in Bremen putting the world to rights.

​Daneel had recently left Price Waterhouse and I had returned to permanent employment after a few years as a contractor. We had both joined a start-up that turned out to be a masterclass in how not to run a consulting business and were feeling deflated.

We have recently completed the implementation of SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer's Service capability for a large enterprise, with subsequent large-scale and specific requirements.

The solution uses SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer (C4C) to capture and centralise HR ticket information for the entire employee population.  Tickets can be raised via integration with SAP HCM, via direct emails into the system or simply by agents manually keying in details, but all of these have flaws. 

Check out Darron Walton of De Villiers Walton's presentation on the future of cloud-based CRM presented at the Investigo SAP cloud event November 2016.

If the project plan and resourcing model for your SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer implementation looks like that of a "traditional" SAP ERP or CRM implementation there’s a high probability that either you or your SI have not implemented the solution before. 

DVW will once again be delivering the suite of SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer and SAP Hybris Marketing training on behalf of SAP's COEE in 2017.

Miller Heiman is one of the world’s most respected sales performance companies. Their Strategic Selling® system helps thousands of organizations worldwide develop comprehensive strategies to win sales opportunities.

​DVW has developed a packaged Miller Heiman integration for SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer and SAP CRM. The integrations cover the Blue Sheet, Green Sheet, Gold Sheet and Platinum Sheet.

​Get your SAP Cloud Application Studio (SDK) developments for SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer off to a good start by considering some of these tips and tricks from our SAP Cloud Application Studio Development Team. While some of them are common to all types of development, others are very specific to the SDK.

If your SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer project team looks like the image above,  you are in trouble. Let me explain.

​Check out this video in which, Daneel De Villiers of DVW, shows you how easy it is for Alteryx and Tableau users to utilize SAP data with the Alteryx Connector for SAP.

​Check out our "blink or you miss it" cameo in Stuart Murray of SABMiller's presentation at Alteryx Inspire Europe 2016. Self-promotion aside, the SABMiller journey to self-service data analytics underpinned by Alteryx is well worth listening to.

​Do you want to be able to send SMS messages directly from your SAP systems? Perhaps you’ve already considered SAP SMS 365 but your expected message volumes are too low to justify the investment. On the other hand, you may simply want a solution that is cost-effective, easier to implement but every bit as secure as SAP SMS 365.

​We have recently completed a complex Flexible Reporting programme for a global consumer goods company where we were engaged to help them transform an underperforming SAP BW implementation into a sophisticated BI landscape underpinned by a “gold standard SAP BW on HANA implementation” (SAP’s words not ours!).

For the last five years The Entertainer has delivered a high level of customer service via its website through Transversal’s Prescience Self-Service Adviser. With an expanding website offering and over 120 retail stores stocking thousands of products, and with Christmas coming, they recently recognized the need for agents in their contact centre to provide an equally high level of customer service. It was clear that their contact centre agents needed to find more accurate information faster through a single and consistent source of knowledge, so they have deployed Transversal's Prescience Contact-Centre Adviser.

​Following hot on the heels of the DVW Alteryx Connector for SAP, the fastest, easiest way to extract data from SAP into Alteryx, De Villiers Walton has developed the, DVW Alteryx Data Loader for SAP.

A recent LinkedIn posting, “Alteryx Here Alteryx There Alteryx Everywhere on Azure” by, Håkan Söderbom kicked off a flurry of activity at DVW Analytics. 

​The question: Can Alteryx customers install the Alteryx Connector for SAP (“ACS”) on Microsoft Azure and still successfully extract data from SAP?