CASE STUDY
BI Strategy and Roadmap
Sephora is a visionary beauty-retail concept founded
in
France
by
Dominique
Mandonnaud in
1970. Sephora's
unique, open-sell environment features an everincreasing amount of classic and emerging brands
across a broad range of product categories including
skincare, color, fragrance, body, smilecare, and
haircare, in addition to Sephora's own private label.
Today, Sephora is not only the leading chain of
perfume and cosmetics stores in France, but also a
powerful beauty presence in countries around the
world. Owned by Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy
(LVMH), the world's leading luxury goods group,
Sephora is highly regarded as a beauty trailblazer,
thanks to its unparalleled assortment of prestige
products, unbiased service from experts, interactive
shopping environment, and innovation.
This initiative consisted of providing an assessment of
the current integrations, source and target database
objects, ETL and semantic layer lineages and then
providing prescriptive recommendations and actionable
steps to reduce the amount of information being
provisioned and improve performance of remaining
integrations to meet the necessary SLAs.
Method360 Deliverable
The Method360 team delivered an assessment of
database object utilization landscape which included:

Identifying object utilization and creating an
inventory of used objects for re-implementation

Inventoried unused objects and integrations for
decommissioning

Proposed a comprehensive list of quick win
opportunities

Proposed an actionable implementation roadmap
Business Problem
The Sephora team was struggling with provisioning
data to its analytical environment in an SLA that the
business required. Sephora’s existing landscape was
comprised of an EDW with 650+ tables, 1,300+ ETL
processes and multiple Cognos models and Analysis
Services Cubes. It was expected that much of the
data being provisioned was no longer being utilized
costing Sephora valuable resource and system time.
The goal of this initiative was to lower the total cost
of ownership of the existing analytical landscape and
meet or exceed data provisioning timelines.
Solution
Method360, in partnership with the Sephora IT
teams, proposed a Information Management
Strategy and Roadmap initiative.
End-to-end services. High value solutions.
ENTERPRISE INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
Building enterprise trust
through data transparency.
SAP® provides a comprehensive suite of enterprise information
management tools that seamlessly integrate your applications
and provide a new level of information transparency and
availability. Method360’s EIM practice brings its extensive
experience and knowledge of enterprise information
management to deliver best practice solutions. Let our
team demonstrate how SAP® BusinessObjects™ Enterprise
information Management (EIM) solutions transform your
enterprise information into a competitive advantage.
The world of information management has primarily been
a function of an enterprise’s IT organization, with little or no
visibility by the business into the origination, accuracy or
timeliness of the resultant information – not anymore.
SAP’s EIM technology combines the most comprehensible
and usable suite of applications, enabling efficient system
integrations and transparency of lineage with the
associated quality and availability that is now required
by business today.
Method360’s foundation is built on providing leadership
that spans from strategic insight to tactical solutions for our
customers’ enterprise information needs. Our customer
partner delivery model results in better visibility to analytics
and enhanced capabilities to predict your business direction
– enabling enterprise information to be leveraged for your
competitive advantage.
Method360’s services span the SAP EIM Suite:
 Information Steward
 Data Services, Data Quality and Text Analysis
 Process Integration
 Master Data Management
 Master Data Governance
 Information Lifecycle Management
Why Method360?
The Method360 EIM mission is to enable clients
to have their data where they need it in a timely
and accurate manner for a long as needed. We
have the people and the methodologies required
to design and implement simple solutions that
enable transparency to the enterprise’s data.
Our EIM services include: Strategy, Architecture,
Roadmap Development, Development,
Implementation, Stewardship Configuration,
Performance Optimization and Support.
 Resourcing with over a decade of experience
 Rapid deployment solutions to enable the
realization of investment quickly
 Methodologies to repeatedly deliver timely,
consistent and accurate data across your
enterprise, both structured and unstructured
“
Method360 was key to providing the leadership
and consulting expertise in the definition and
implementation of a workable strategy for the
migration to SAP Business Objects Data Services.
The solutions provided support our long term
objectives while respecting our project timelines
and budget. They’re a great partner and
understand what it takes to deploy SAP‐centric
ETL processes.
”
-Global Retail Company Executive
End-to-end services. High value solutions.