The University of Florida Shands Hospital (UF Health) began its analytical journey developing reports sent via email, but with the growing demand of customized reports, they decided to begin developing highly interactive dashboards in SAP® BusinessObjects™ Web Intelligence® that not only enhanced data delivery but improved hospital rankings. In early 2016, UF Health began an initiative that focused on evaluating quality of care provided by UF Health in meeting its mission to provide the highest quality of clinical care.

Foreseeing an increase in data requests, UF Health began developing an all-encompassing self-service dashboard in Web Intelligence® that would satisfy requirements of 12 teams. Each team defined the scope of their specific focus area, identified measurable objectives necessary to achieve the desired outcome, and listed the required metric data necessary to benchmark and monitor progress. The result was an interactive dashboard containing KPIs addressing the metrics in the form of tiles, charts, and graphs with the ability to slice and dice data on numerous dimensions (e.g., department, division, doctor, patient type, payer, etc.) The dashboard is refreshed daily and presents the past two years of monthly trending data.

With a 50,000-foot view of the hospital’s performance, users can easily monitor the overall direction of the most important KPIs and quickly drill down to the encounter level. The dashboard has been very successful with its ability to be incorporated in EPIC Hyperspace and supports integration with Web Intelligence® documents. This integration enabled users to view, interact, and take action on Web Intelligence® documents without needing to access a stand-alone web browser or sign-on separately.

Key Business Benefits:

• Increased efficiency and effectiveness: reduction in length of stay, mortality, and re-admissions


• Improved patient safety


• Increased patient satisfaction rates

Learn best practices of dashboard design and data visualization in a detailed, practical, step-by-step, and ready-to-use way. Focus is placed on a common set of dashboard design rules, such as the usage of different visualization, colors, and text as part of an overall dashboard design process. These best practices are contrasted with less successful design examples.

The session is product independent.

Key Business Benefits:

• Attendees will receive a very practical overview and receive detailed, step-by-step material which can be applied right away as part of their next dashboarding project.


• Attendees will receive an overview on dashboarding best practices for building easy-to-consume dashboards.


• Attendees will receive detailed material that can right away be applied to their next dashboarding project

With support from Deloitte, National DCP (a midsize supply chain company) was able to realize its business intelligence (BI) vision with a very unique approach that was different from traditional BI projects. Cost effectiveness was always a top priority, as National DCP wanted to empower business users and make them self-sufficient in creating SAP® BusinessObjects™ reports. For the purpose, Deloitte came up with an approach of providing a simple but powerful data warehouse solution using SAP HANA® 2.0 and SAP BusinessObjects (SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office and SAP Lumira® 2.2). The challenge was integrating multiple source systems, including ERP from SAP ECC, Fleet Management from PeopleNet, and .

Project challenges included coming up with an integrated design (which will provide a base for the future reporting platform), upgrading to the latest SAP HANA and BusinessObjects versions, and providing a seamless integration to cloud platform. The project was hybrid Agile and delivered in a short timeframe. Last but not the least, the solution involved data tiering into hot/warm data to manage the system performance and efficiency.

Key Business Benefits:

• Understanding fast-track SAP Analytics implementation approach for midsize companies


• Technology overview for the latest HANA 2.0 and Lumira 2.2, designer edition, including data archiving


• Challenges while integrating non-SAP and SAP source systems efficiently

Whether you’re working with data from the IT or a business perspective, it’s essential to explore anything that might give interesting insight and help to tell the story. Although it requires extra work, painting the picture using intuitive graphics or actual customers or inputs to your model can turn a dry presentation of coefficients and statistics into an engaging presentation that makes an impact on your audience. In this session, Kristen will explore real examples from models she’s built previously to demonstrate how you can turn confused stakeholders into advocates of your work.

This session is product independent.

Key Business Benefits:

• Differentiate yourself as a data expert.


• Position yourself as a thought partner for future projects.


• Build trust in the solutions you're providing.