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SAP Innovation Awards 2018 Entry Pitch Deck
L3 Technologies, Inc.
Transforming Business with the Digital Boardroom
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L3 Technologies, Inc.
— Chris Kubasik, CEO & President, L3 Technologies
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.
Transforming Business with the Digital Boardroom
SAP Digital Boardroom
SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud Analytics
SAP HANA
Reduced preparation time for the quarterly business
review from one month to several days.
Adopted as principal tool for strategic planning and
real-time operational status by L3 business segments.
Utilized for market Intelligence for strategic
opportunities by L3 business development teams.
Global (U.S. Headquarters) Aerospace & Defense
“As we execute our long-term vision for L3, we are implementing
initiatives like Sumo to better enhance our responsiveness in an ever-
changing world. We are focused on consistently delivering world-
class solutions to our customers. Sumo provides real-time, critical
business insights that enable us to adapt, make faster, well-informed
decisions, and monitor progress across the enterprise, including R&D
investment, capital expenditures, financial key performance indicators
and supply chain management.
With greater visibility, we can achieve higher levels of operational
efficiency. Our management team can more quickly identify and
pursue emerging growth opportunities that align with our strategy and
produce measurable results. Our partnership with SAP has resulted
in a powerful, transformative tool that sharpens our competitive edge,
accelerates our innovative and collaborative efforts, and enables us to
reach a higher level of performance.”
SAP Secure Cloud by NS2
SAP Data Services
SAP GRC Access Controls
Products
Benefits
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Participant Information
Heidi Wood
Senior Vice President of
Corporate Strategy &
Technology
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
commercial platforms. The company is also a
prime contractor in aerospace systems, security
and detection systems, and pilot training.
John Finegan
Senior Director of
Enterprise Applications
& Strategy
Partner: SAP
Website: www.L3T.com
Industry: Aerospace & Defense
L3 Technologies – Transforming Business with the Digital Boardroom
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Solution OverviewSumo 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.
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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.
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Benefits
Business value:
Human empowerment:
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.
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.
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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
Enterprise Applications & Strategy
— Andy C. Ivers, Senior Vice President and
President of Communication Systems
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Deployment Details
• Proof of Concept (April-June 2017): L3 and SAP established
the infrastructure for Sumo and iteratively developed Digital
Boardroom stories that included HR, Finance and IRAD
expenditures.
• Security Workshop (April 2017): L3 and SAP reviewed SAP
security concepts, SAP Cloud and On-Premises integration
architecture, and NS2 Cloud Infrastructure in preparation for
Sumo hosting at SAP NS2.
• Phase 1 Build (May-Dec 2017): L3 built out the initial six
stories for the Digital Boardroom, expanding to include third-
party market data, Customer Ratings and M&A (leveraging
SAP’s templates).
Design Thinking Session with L3 Leadership
• Aug 2017: SAP led a Design Thinking session with L3 executives
to develop the Digital Boardroom stories to support the quarterly
business review process. This was a co-innovation project where
SAP planned to create templates and make them available as
demo stories for other customers.
• Sept 2017: Deployment Best Practices workshop with SAP’s
internal Digital Boardroom team.
• Oct 2017: Unveiling of Sumo at the L3 annual strategy meeting.
• Dec 2017: Sumo deployed to the Corporate Strategy team.
• Phase 2 Build (Dec 2017-Feb 2018): L3 expanded to nine stories.
• Feb 2018: Wave 1 deployment to segment leadership on Feb 14.
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Additional Information
The L3 and SAP partnership has extended beyond the Digital Boardroom, with our
collaboration on Project E-Quill, a handwriting recognition software for the iPad®,
which is being integrated into the Digital Boardroom to help deliver a portfolio
solution for executive analytics.
E-Quill TechEd interview with L3