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Clariba Obtains the SAP Partner Center of Expertise Certification

Certificate PCoE

SAP service and support audit confirms that Clariba can support its customers in accordance with SAP’s current technical and organizational standards, thereby receiving the Partner Center of Expertise (PCoE) Certification.

On the 30th of May Clariba employees received the amazing news – They had passed the final audit and SAP was granting Clariba Support Center with the PCoE certification.

This was the finishing line of a process that started in 2011 and took a lot of effort from Clariba Support Center members, going from the installation of SAP Solution Manager (the system used to provide support), through certifying support center staff, creating all marketing materials and finally undergoing a 6-hour audit to evaluate if all requirements were in place.

It’s been a very long and complex process, since it was our first experience with SAP native applications. Installing and configuring SAP Solution Manager has been a big challenge, but now it  allows us to provide full SAP Enterprise Support to our customers. We use SAP Solution Manager to monitor our customer installations remotely as well as connect them with the resourceful SAP back-end infrastructure. In addition, SAP Solution Manager provides our support customers with a Service Desk available 24x7, to create and track their incidents and to ensure a fast and efficient service for very critical issues at any time” says Carolina Delgado, support manager at Clariba.

The Partner Center of Expertise (PCoE) certification affirms that the defined procedures, guidelines and certified support team members are available to provide qualified, timely and reliable support services for SAP BI Solutions.

“As a requirement for achieving the PCoE certification, all our support consultants have the Support Associate - Incident Management in SAP BusinessObjects certification and as a commitment to high quality and professionalism, we require all our consultants to be certified in the SAP BusinessObjects suite. Both accreditations ensure that our support staff has the required knowledge to efficiently address and resolve any technical issue that may arise. In addition, they can draw from a wide knowledge base that comes from many years of experience on SAP BusinessObjects installation and development as well as on a continuous interaction with the SAP community" mentions Carolina.

PCoE Process

With this in place, Clariba Support Center can offer VAR delivered support to its clients, providing the knowledge and support tools for SAP BusinessObjects licenses through a single point of contact ─ a familiar, agile and available partner, ensuring that a defined and known point of contact is always available to customers in the event that any problems arise in their SAP BusinessObjects systems.

Carolina points out that the Key benefit is the proximity with customers and their environments. “In most cases we are maintaining BI systems which have been deployed by Clariba itself. This gives us the advantage of better understanding the customer's environment, so that we can provide a more accurate and tailored service.”

As a SAP Partner Center of Expertise (PCoE), Clariba can offer their clients

a fully qualified staff according to SAP quality standards;

real-life SAP BusinessObjects implementation, training and support experience;

a relationship with the client organization built on trust and past successes;detailed knowledge of the organization’s history, systems and business processes when the BI system has been deployed by Clariba;

staff trained for rapid issue resolution and focused on customer satisfaction;

very strong cooperation and relationship with SAP experts worldwide and an integrated support platform that ensures the best quality of service.

For more information on Clariba´s Support Center offerings visit http://www.clariba.com/bi-services/support.php

Join Clariba at the SAP Forum and SUG MENA Conference events in Doha on May 29 and Dubai on May 30

Clariba is pleased to be sponsoring SAP Forum and SUG MENA conference in Qatar and UAE in May 2012. SAP Forum (known as SAP World Tour in 2011) and the SUGMENA Conference will be jointly held by SAP MENA and SUGMENA (SAP User Group, MENA) in May 2012. This is a unique opportunity where attendees can enjoy unparalleled networking with peers from many industries, thought leadership keynotes and innovative demonstrations.

“Clariba is glad to be sponsoring the SAP Forum Qatar and UAE for the second year. We had a great event in 2011 and expect 2012 to be even better” says Marc Haberland, Managing director of Clariba. SUG MENA conference will be jointly held with SAP Forum on 2012 and Marc comments “we think this is a great addition to the event, as we get the chance to learn more about how SAP users are experiencing the solutions we offer”. Marc sees the event as the SAP highlight of the year in MENA “it´s the main SAP event in the region and a great occasion for business and IT professionals to network and to learn more about leading technologies like SAP BusinessObjects BI4, SAP HANA and many more up and coming innovative solutions”. On a final note, Marc says “don’t miss the chance to visit us in the Partner Exhibition zone where we will have our team showcasing our solutions. If you happen to be attending the event in Dubai, make sure you catch our customer case study presentation with ADCO on the Business Analytics track.”

As a trusted SAP Partner in Business Intelligence in the region and a specialist in SAP BusinessObjects technology, Clariba is on board of this incredible event as a sponsor. Members of the Clariba BI consultancy will be present at our booth in the exhibition area. They will be available to demonstrate our dashboard and reporting solutions for a variety of industries and business units and will be happy to guide you through the SAP business intelligence offerings. You will also have the chance to enter the drawing to win an iPad when you visit our booth.

Clariba will also be presenting at the Dubai event. Join the Business Analytics track (track 6), from 15:45 to 16:20 where you will have the chance to hear from Clariba, Jason Bath (Director of BA&T SAP MENA) and one of our customers, the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO), on how Clariba and SAP have helped them gain actionable financial insight into their business and achieve significant benefits.

In addition to meeting Clariba at our booth, the event also offers great benefits to professionals, such as C-level executives, IT decision makers and Business managers, whose career depends on the successful execution of business objectives. These are some of the activities participants can look forward to:

  • Seeing the latest solutions underpinning SAP’s latest product strategy demonstrated on stage and at the SAP technology showcase.
  • Hearing from some of the leading regional CIO’s on how they are driving SAP investments to deliver the competitive edge and productivity improvements required by their organisations.
  • Witnessing the latest Ecosystem technologies in the SAP Forum and SUGMENA Conference Sponsors Exhibition.
  • Networking with attendees from most SAP customers in your region as well with SAP Partners like Clariba.
  • Listening to visionary keynote from Jim Snabe (co-CEO SAP) in Dubai and Steve Stathis Tzikakis (Senior Vice President, Head Premier Customer Network, SAP EMEA) in Doha and learn about the latest essential business technology trends and innovations.
  • Discovering how today's open technologies and business networks can help create a business beyond boundaries.
  • Realizing how investing in technology can deliver greater visibility for improved decision-making, operational excellence, flexibility and sustained growth.

The SAP Forum and SUG MENA conference in Qatar will be held on May 29 in the Grand Ballroom of the St Regis Doha, at Doha west bay from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Attendance at the SAP Forum is free of charge. REGISTER NOW to secure your place.

The SAP Forum and SUG MENA conference in Dubai will be held on May 30 in Sheikh Rashid Hall in the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre - Dubai World Trade Center, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Attendance at the SAP Forum is free of charge. REGISTER NOW to secure your place.

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Clariba delivers innovative, reliable and high-quality business intelligence (BI) solutions to customers worldwide. We are recognized and respected as one of the leading SAP Business Intelligence consultancies in EMEA. Our consultants, based in the Middle East and Europe are SAP BusinessObjects certified professionals and experts in the planning, installation, development and deployment of BI solutions. Clariba develops best practice BI solutions for dashboards, reporting and analysis, providing our customers with clarity and actionable insight to improve their business performance. Our customers in the Middle East are leaders in the telecommunication, education, manufacturing, and banking sectors. By working closely with business leaders and IT teams, Clariba turns vital data from ERP, CRM and other transactional systems into actionable insight for all levels of the organization. For more information on Clariba’s business intelligence solutions visit www.clariba.com or contact us at info@clariba.com.

Clariba Webinar – Exxova MyBI Mobile: Movilidad para su Negocio

Obtenga la posibilidad de tomar decisiones a cualquier momento visualizando los datos de su empresa desde su dispositivo móvil con Exxova MyBI

Asista a nuestro Webinar (en Castellano) 16 de Mayo de 11.00 a 12:00 (CET GMT+1:00)

REGISTRESE AQUÍ

 

Muchas empresas han realizado importantes inversiones en el desarrollo de sus soluciones de Business Intelligence. En el caso de SAP BW y BusinessObjects, dichas empresas han acumulado cientos de informes utilizando herramientas como Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence y Dashboards (Xcelsius) de SAP, realizando además grandes esfuerzos para establecer un modelo de seguridad y suponiendo todo ello, una inversión considerable. La percepción actual del mercado es que los dispositivos móviles actuales, no pueden manejar el análisis de datos de la misma manera en que lo hacen las soluciones de BI avanzadas y maduras de hoy en día, por lo que los negocios tienden a modificar sus procesos y contenidos para la movilidad.

Sin embargo, la aplicación MyBI Mobile permite a las compañías aprovechar sus inversiones anteriores. Con ella el usuario puede acceder al contenido crucial de toda la empresa en cualquier lugar, en cualquier momento y sin ninguna modificación importante en el contenido o la plataforma existentes. Los usuarios pueden imprimir, cambiar, actualizar y hacer todo el trabajo que realizan actualmente en el sistema BI de la empresa a través de un dispositivo móvil, facilitando la acogida por parte de los usuarios.

Le invitamos a invertir una hora de tu tiempo para conocer esta solución y verla en acción en nuestro webinar MyBI. La agenda del evento es:

  • Introducción
  • Características principales de Exxova MyBI Mobile
  • Beneficios principales de Exxova MyBI Mobile
  • Demo
  • Preguntas y respuestas

Para obtener más información visite nuestro sitio web.

Saludos Cordiales,

Lorena Laborda Business Development Manager – Clariba EU

Clariba Webinar – Decision Making goes Mobile with Exxova MyBI

Are you looking for a way to access your company data from your mobile device? With Exxova MyBI, you can!

Attend our Webinar (in English) on the 15th of May from 11.00 - 12:00 (UAE - GMT +4:00).

REGISTER HERE

Currently, organizations have made significant investments in developing their Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. In the case of SAP BW and BusinessObjects, business and IT organizations have amassed hundreds of reports using tools such as Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, and Dashboards (Xcelsius) from SAP. Additionally, significant efforts have been used to establish an enterprise security model. These combined efforts represent a considerable investment.

The existing market perception is that the current mobile devices cannot manage the heavy lifting of the data analytics comparable to today’s advanced and mature BI solutions, so businesses tends to modify their processes and content to adapt to mobile tools.

However, Exxova´s MyBI mobile app allows companies to leverage their previous investments. With it users can instantly access Enterprise wide content at crucial decision points at any location at any time without any major modification to any existing content. Users can print, change, update, and do all of the work that they currently perform on the enterprise system through a mobile device, increasing end user adoption.

We invite you to invest an hour of your time to get to know this solution and see it in action in our MyBI webinar. The agenda for the event is:

  • Introduction
  • Main features of Exxova´s MyBI mobile
  • Main benefits of Exxova´s MyBI mobile
  • Demo
  • Questions and answers

REGISTER HERE

For More information about Exxova MyBI visit our website.

Best Regards,

Xavier Marigó Sales Manager – Clariba ME

 

Exxova Announces Clariba as New Channel Partner

Exxova Worldwide Corp., a Georgia-based business intelligence (BI) solutions provider, on the 16th of April announced a value-added reseller agreement with Dubai-based Clariba  to resell Exxova's MyBI Mobile product as part of Clariba's solution range. The MyBI Mobile technology allows Clariba customers the ability to meet the ever-growing demands of business users to access actionable information through either iOS or Android mobile devices. “We are pleased to have Clariba join the growing Exxova partner network and act as a value-added reseller through its operations in Spain, Europe, and the Middle East,” said Todd Baker, vice president, Global Channel Sales, Exxovaa.  “Businesses are wanting a mobile BI solution without having to redevelop, redesign, and re-platform their BI content.  Clariba – an SAP® channel partner – provides leading support in the implementation of SAP® BusinessObjects™ business intelligence (BI) solutions and provides validation of the need for full business intelligence on a mobile device.”

"We believe that it’s important for the entire SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio to run on multiple mobile platforms," said Marc Haberland, managing director of Clariba. "Our customers have been asking for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to run on iOS, which Exxova delivers. In addition, Exxova’s MyBI Mobile solution is a very cost-effective, easy-to-use option to deliver existing SAP BI content to decision-makers on a tablet device without compromising data security.

Having launched the MyBI Mobile product to the market in 2011, the MyBI product now provides customers the ability to go mobile with SAP BusinessObjects content, including SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, without limitations currently found in iOS and Android devices.

“Users can expect the same access to the reports, documents, and dashboards that they have on their PCs,” said Glenn Hillam, senior solution architect, Exxova.  “They can print, change, update, and do all of the work that they currently perform on their enterprise systems through a mobile device. The difference is that the app allows users to access their enterprise information at the decision point.”

For more information on Exxova’s MyBI Moble app, please visit Exxova’s website at  www.exxova.com.

 

About Exxova

Exxova Worldwide Corporation is a global technology company delivering high quality products and services through innovative solutions, methodologies and tools. With a relentless focus on innovation, Exxova differentiates from the norm and brings unique, creative and flexible ways of accomplishing complicated initiatives.  Exxova is a recognized thought leader in business intelligence and also provides solutions in data warehousing and enterprise consulting.  Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Exxova has operations in the UK, Singapore, and India.  For more information on Exxova’s solutions, including the MyBI Mobile app, please visit www.exxova.com or contact us at +1 770-343-8484.

About Clariba

Clariba, founded in 2002, is an expert provider of business intelligence services, training and solutions across many industries including telecommunications, high technology, banking, manufacturing, retail, oil & gas, public sector and education. Clariba works with the most advanced BI technologies and works closely with SAP as a channel partner. It is recognized internationally as a leading BI consultancy offering support of SAP BusinessObjects solutions.

With a focus on best-practice BI implementations and its rapidly deployable FastTrack solutions for enterprise performance management, planning & analysis, and operational reporting, Clariba provides its customers with the clarity and actionable insight to improve their business performance.

Clariba has a European office in Barcelona, Spain and Middle East offices in Dubai, UAE and Doha, Qatar. For more information on Clariba, please visit www.clariba.com or contact us at +971 4431 5011

Attend the Clariba Webinar "Why Migrate to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4?"

Do you wish to know more about the reasons to migrate to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, the most advanced Business Intelligence platform?

Attend our Webinar on the 12th of April, from 11:00-12:00 CET (Presented in Spanish)

REGISTER HERE

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 offers a complete set of functionalities that are key to today´s Business Intelligence market: an improved performance management, reports, search, analysis, data exploration and integration. This new version of SAP´s BI platform introduces several significant improvements to your BI environment, with a great number of functionalities designed to optimize performance.

With this in mind, Clariba invites you to invest an hour of your time to get to know the news and advantages of SAP BusinessObjects BI4, the most advanced BI platform.

The agenda of our webinar is the following:

  • Welcoming and introduction
  • What is new in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
  • Benefits of migrating to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
  • Why migrate with Clariba
  • Questions and answers

For more information about SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, visit our website.

Best Regards,

Lorena Laborda Business Development Manager - Clariba

 

Asista al Webinar ¿Porqué migrar a SAP BusinessObjects BI 4?

 

¿Desea conocer más acerca de los motivos para migrar a SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, la plataforma más avanzada de Business Intelligence?

Asista a nuestro Webinar el 12 de Abril de 11.00 a 12:00 (CET)

REGÍSTRESE AQUÍ

 

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 es la primera y única plataforma de Business Intelligence (BI) que proporciona un completo abanico de funcionalidades claves en el actual mercado de BI: una mejor gestión del rendimiento, informes, consultas y análisis, exploración de datos e integración. Esta nueva versión de la plataforma de SAP introduce avances significativos en su entorno de BI,  con un gran número de prestaciones diseñadas para optimizar su rendimiento.

Con esto en mente, Clariba le invita a invertir una hora de su tiempo para conocer las novedades y ventajas de SAP BusinessObjects BI4, la plataforma más avanzada en el mercado de Business Intelligence.

La agenda para el webinar ¿Porqué migrar a SAP BusinessObjects BI 4? es la siguiente:

  • Introducción y bienvenida
  • Novedades en SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
  • Ventajas de Migrar a SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
  • Porque migrar con Clariba
  • Preguntas y respuestas

Para obtener más información acerca SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, visite nuestro sitio web. Saludos Cordiales,

Lorena Laborda Business Development Manager - Clariba

Socializing your success - Interview with Marc Haberland

As part of the SAP Best Performance Challenge 2012, we have conducted an interview with Marc Haberland, managing director of Clariba on the challenges our company is facing, how we are dealing with them and how this has brought us success.

  • What is the greatest challenge you see in the market today and how is your firm dealing with it?

Naturally, the state of the global economy has also had an impact on our company. Along with increasing competition and a pressure on consultancy rates due to the shrinking number of projects, we are mainly faced with the delay of projects that were approved and inability to plan accurately as a result. This has required us to increase our own internal reporting and more frequent resource planning meetings combined with tighter financial control.

On the positive side, the challenges in the market have also required our customers to take a closer look at optimizing their business intelligence systems and related processes while choosing the best value for money. As a result, we have been very successful in helping companies optimize their BI investments and improve resource allocation by helping them deploy BI competency centers as opposed to decentralized BI. Focused solutions such as our 360 BI Assessment, our prepackaged solutions that help customers achieve faster ROI, as well as our focus on certifications, training and excellence have helped us build a pool of the best BI consultants in the market – a key to survival and continued growth.

  • What processes do you use for your business planning and for adapting your plan to current market conditions?

As many companies we started out managing our business with an Excel sheet. Given the need for better transparency, control and reporting over the past 18 months Clariba has made a major investment into a cloud-based ERP&CRM solution. This solution that touches every single aspect of our company now provides us with the information and processes we need to be successful. We have put a major effort on the BI aspects as well to ensure that we have the visibility we need to take rapid decisions. In fact, we have several customers interested in replicating some of our internal reporting solutions, such as our BI Project Management dashboard which includes earned value analysis and more.

  • How do you perceive the marketing plan using interactive online tools such as social media, social networks, blogs, or other digital media?

Social media in our business where we deal with a B2B interaction is still in its early stages. Yet behind every company we work with or target we find a group of amazing people that want to interact, feel taken care of and build a long-term trust relationship for the benefit of the company they work for. For this reason, we have embraced social media since about 2008 with blog articles, tweets, linkedin profile and lately our own youtube channel. For a consulting company we are very active in social media. In fact just recently the social media team of SAP invited Clariba to speak about the success that we have had with social media and the best practices we recommend to other SAP partners.

  • How does the Best Performance Challenge help your firm and its employees?

I believe the Best Performance Challenge is an excellent initiative as it has brought together a multidisciplinary team from Clariba to compete in a fun and engaging way. Not a week passes without our team eying the current results and where we stand! But not only is it a fun experience, it has forced many different people in the organization to stop their day-to-day activity and focus on a specific question, to learn and to provide new impulses that will ultimately serve Clariba and our relationship with SAP. We need to evolve and we need to continue learning. The Best Performance Challenge has enabled us to do just that!

Attend the Clariba Webinar "Why Migrate to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4?"

Do you wish to know more about the reasons why to migrate to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, the most advanced Business Intelligence platform?

Attend our Webinar on the 13th of March, from 11:00-12:00 CET (Presented in Spanish)

REGISTER HERE

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 offers a complete set of functionalities that are key to today´s Business Intelligence market: an improved performance management, reports, search, analysis, data exploration and integration. This new version of SAP´s BI platform introduces several significant improvements to your BI environment.

With this in mind, Clariba invites you to invest an hour of your time to get to know the news and advantages of SAP BusinessObjects BI4, the most advanced BI solution will provide your company with a great number of functionalities designed to optimize performance and bring you a scalable and secure platform.

The agenda of our webinar is the following:

  • Welcoming and introduction
  • What is new in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
  • Benefits of migrating to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
  • Why migrate with Clariba
  • Questions and answers

For more information about SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, visit our website www.clariba.com

Best Regards,

Lorena Laborda Business Development Manager - Clariba

 

Atienda al Webinar ¿Porqué migrar a SAP BusinessObjects BI 4?

 

¿Desea conocer más acerca de los motivos para migrar a SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, la plataforma más avanzada de Business Intelligence?

Asista a nuestro Webinar el 13 de Marzo de 11.00 a 12:00 (CET)

REGISTRESE AQUÍ

 

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 es la primera y única plataforma de Business Intelligence (BI) que proporciona un completo abanico de funcionalidades claves en el actual mercado de BI: una mejor gestión del rendimiento, informes, consultas y análisis, exploración de datos e integración. Esta nueva versión de la plataforma de SAP introduce avances significativos en su entorno de BI.

Con esto en mente, Clariba le invita a invertir una hora de su tiempo para conocer las novedades y ventajas de SAP BusinessObjects BI4, la más avanzada plataforma en el mercado de Business Intelligence, hará que su compañía se beneficie de un gran número de prestaciones diseñadas para optimizar su rendimiento, ofrecer una plataforma escalable y 100% segura.

La agenda para el webinar ¿Porqué migrar a SAP BusinessObjects BI 4? es la siguiente:

  • Introducción y bienvenida
  • Novedades en SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
  • Ventajas de Migrar a SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
  • Porque migrar con Clariba
  • Preguntas y respuestas

Para obtener más información acerca SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, visite nuestro sitio web www.clariba.com Saludos Cordiales,

Lorena Laborda Business Development Manager - Clariba

Clariba and SAP MENA Invite you to attend our Finance Central Webinar (MENA BI Webinar Series)

SAP MENA and Clariba would like to invite you to attend our Finance Central Webinar on Monday, 16th of January - 2012, from 14:00 to 15:00 (UAE local time) to learn more about the benefits of our solution. (Presented in English)

To Register for the Webinar CLICK HERE

We officially open our MENA BI Webinar Series with the first webinar about Clariba Finance Central, an interactive and user-friendly solution, which centralizes all financial information in one dashboard allowing for extended analysis in a highly visual format, putting instant power in the hands of the CFO. With this single version of the truth, your finance department can visualize all relevant financial KPIs and perform easy comparisons with budgets and performance targets.

The solution was developed using leading SAP BusinessObjects BI technology and can be integrated with any data source and adapted for any industry. Moreover, it can be incorporated into your company’s Microsoft Office and mobile devices, allowing for easy access to historic and current data.

The Webinar will have the following Agenda:

  • Welcoming & Introduction by SAP MENA
  • Clariba Finance Central:
    • Challenges of Finance departments
    • Benefits of our solution
    • Interactive Demo
  • Presentation of SAP BusinessObjects suite by SAP MENA
  • Q&A

To Register for the Webinar CLICK HERE

For more information about our SAP BusinessObjects solutions for Finance Departments, visit our web site to view a demo video about Clariba Finance Central: Click Here Best Regards, Xavier Marigó Clariba Sales Manager MENA