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Question 1
“Is updating my reporting
strategy important, and
why?”
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Update your reporting and analytics strategy
Your strategy will be important
▪ Context to your journey
▪ Roadmap for your journey
▪ Alignment to tools
▪ High level architecture
▪ Scope for reporting and analytics
▪ What to do where
▪ Self service
▪ Living document
▪ Pragmatic, else no one will read
▪ …
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Question 2
“What are my first
actions for SAP
S/4HANA reporting?”
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First action items – Pragmatism
I can’t see the forest for the trees; where to start?
▪ Despite the diversity of the supporting portfolio, let’s go back to basics
▪ Refresh your strategy and roadmap in line with your SAP S/4HANA
journey and SAP portfolio
▪ Focus on a journey to SAP S/4HANA
▪ What is the scope of your journey? Contain your immediate actions to
that scope
▪ What will be impacted by the journey, what needs addressing, what can
you take advantage of?
Above all… be pragmatic: Rome was not built in a day
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First action items – The right mindset
What are your thoughts?
▪ Phased
▪ Big bang
▪ Steady-as-she-goes
▪ Opportunistic
▪ Hungry for innovation
▪ Low risk, conservative
▪ Culture shift to latest
Updated strategy
▪ Showcase intentions
▪ Will provide context
▪ Greater visibility
▪ Sketch the future
Plan for detail
▪ Embedded analytics
▪ Cloud
▪ User experience
▪ Visualization
▪ Self service
▪ Scalability
▪ Innovation
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Question 3
“What is embedded
analytics anyway?”
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Embedded analytics – Addressing operational reporting and more
Entry Point
Gain immediate overview from landing page, navigate
easily to your most relevant apps
Insights and Actions
Gain insights and decide what action to take,
trigger quick actions or drill down to related apps
Explore and Act
View details and perform actions,
easily navigate to related apps
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Consolidated view on a certain domain,
e.g. Purchasing
KPI monitoring on the SAP Fiori launchpad
Combine analytics with transactional
content in one screen
Generic approach to mix analytical and
transactional activity
Analyze and visualize data from multiple
dimensions
Optional, SAP Analytics Cloud additional
content for SAP S/4HANA
Smart Business KPIs
In-App Analytics and ML
Overview Pages
Multidimensional Reports Dashboards
Analytical List Page
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Embedded analytics – Offering for the business user
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View BrowserManage KPIs and Reports
Search, browse, and tag analytical and non-
analytical queries
Custom Analytical Queries
Custom CDS Views
Manage Date Functions Predictive Scenarios
Smart Business KPI & Report Modeler Create your own data access by making
use of a custom CDS view
Custom Analytical Queries develops
multidimensional report
Define date types with relative context Create and publish predictive ML scenarios
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Embedded analytics – Offering for the analytics specialist (selection)
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Question 4
“Can embedded
analytics resolve all
my reporting needs?”
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Analytics – Understanding use cases and constraints
Additional functionality outside of SAP S/4HANA
Embedded functionality in SAP S/4HANA
Planning
Engine
Predictive
Engine
Pixel-True
Visualization
Advanced
Dashboarding
Data
Warehousing
Excel In-App
Integration
Self-Service
BI
Digital
Boardroom…
SAP S/4HANA
Embedded Analytics
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Question 5
“Given embedded
analytics, do I still need
an EDW system?”
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The role of BW/EDW
SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics
▪ Operational data
▪ Real-time data access
▪ Transactional decision support
▪ KPI-driven process handling
▪ Data modeling extensions leveraging
key user tools
SAP BW/4HANA – Core EDW
▪ Data replication (for snapshots,
performance enhancements)
▪ Enterprise-wide data harmonization
▪ Data governance
▪ Data federation/mashing (EDW)
▪ LSA modeling
▪ SAP and non-SAP data
▪ Planning
▪ Archiving (for delta comparison)
Exceptions (related to visualization preferences, cost, time, …)
SAP Analytics Cloud
▪ Best visualization
▪ Focus on cloud-based source
systems (e.g. SAP S/4HANA Cloud)
▪ Data federation/mashing (without
EDW harmonization)
▪ SAP and non-SAP data
▪ Planning
▪ Self-service BI Cloud LoB reporting & analytics
▪ Operational data
▪ Real-time data access
▪ Transactional decision support
▪ Available reporting tools and analytics
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Question 6
“I’m still confused about
reporting and analytics;
how can I get enabled?”
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Getting enabled – openSAP learning
openSAP Key Functional Topics in a System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA (Repeat)
openSAP Key Technical Topics in a System Conversion to SAP S/4HANA (Repeat)
openSAP Implementation of SAP S/4HANA
openSAP S/4HANA Learning Courses
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Getting enabled – Blogs
SAP Blogs: Embedded Analytics
Predefined Virtual Data Model as example for understanding difference of CDS View type
How to find a predefined Virtual Data Model in SAP S/4HANA
How to deal with “Not released” predefined VDM in SAP S/4HANA
Safeguard Performance of ABAP CDS Views – Part 1 CDS View Complexity
Standard DEMO Examples of ABAP CDS views
ABAP News for Release 7.51 – Meta Data Extensions in ABAP CDS
BW Query on CDS View, OData from BW and value of BW Query in SAP S/4HANA
Integrated Analytics: SAP Analytics Cloud now embedded in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Intelligent ERP Update: SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1905 Release – Deep Dive for Analytics
Latest MTE Sessions: Learn about SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics and core data service views
Embedding Predictive Analytics into SAP S/4HANA Cloud
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Getting enabled – Embedded analytics
Purchase the print or e-book at sap-press.com/4690
➢ Configure SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics for your
landscape
➢ Use embedded analytics for operational reporting and process
analytics
➢ Integrate with other SAP tools for data warehousing, business
intelligence, and predictive analytics
Customize and use SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics!
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics: The Comprehensive Guide
Written by: Jürgen Butsmann, Thomas Fleckenstein, Anirban Kundu
430 pages | 09/2018 | E-book: $69.99 | Print: $79.95 | Bundle: $89.99
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Getting enabled – SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
Watch the SAPPHIRE NOW 2019 Demo
▪ Beta program sign-up www.sapdatawarehouse.cloud
▪ Get the latest Blogs
▪ Watch the Video Content
▪ Register for the upcoming Talk Show Series
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Getting enabled – SAP Analytics Cloud
https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/
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Question 7
“What is the difference
between SAP Analytics
Cloud and embedded
analytics?”
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SAP Analytics Cloud and embedded analytics
Persistency
Modeling
Visualization
Access
Database tables on SAP HANA
ABAP-CDS-Models
(for analytical and transactional purposes)
SAP Fiori UI
analytical apps, reports, KPIs,… delivered as part of
SAP S/4HANA, extensible by the customer
OData servicesTransient analytical
queries
SAP Analytics
access SAP S/4HANA data directly via
transient analytical queries
SAP S/4HANA
SAP BW/4HANA
(for seamlessly extending transactions with data
warehousing workflows)
Database tables on SAP HANA
Intelligent Technologies
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SAP Analytics Cloud
Intelligent Decisions
Smart Discovery
Search to Insight
Smart Insights
Time Series Forecasting
Smart Grouping
Smart Transformation
R-Visualizations
Only analytics solution to bring
together BI, Planning, and
Predictive in the cloud
Smart features deliver insights with
embedded machine learning –
no data scientist required
Get insights wherever you
are with analytics available
on any device
Business Intelligence
Augmented Analytics
Enterprise Planning
Data to Intelligence
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SAP Analytics Cloud – Extending SAP S/4HANA
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Overview Key Influencers
Outliers Simulation
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SAP Analytics Cloud – Smart Discovery (why did it happen?)
After selecting a measure or dimension,
Smart Discovery automatically generates
a story with up to 4 pages:
▪ Overview: data distribution, summary of
trends and patterns detected
▪ Key Influencers: top correlated variables,
insight quality, influence visualizations (only
created if a pattern is discovered)
▪ Unexpected Values: records identified as
outliers (only if a measure is selected)
▪ Simulation: interactive what-if simulation
(only if a measure is selected)
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Question 8
“How will my other
reporting solutions be
impacted?”
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Remediation of downstream reporting systems
What to do where?
Rebuild and extend
Plan for downstream remediation
Check the status of Business Intelligence
Check the status of EDW (BW) solution
▪ Check OLTP extractors
▪ What is still working?
▪ Usage of BEx?
▪ Housekeeping
▪ What next?
▪ Establish the status quo of
BI/Analytics
▪ Data sources changed?
▪ Role of Big Data?
▪ Housekeeping
▪ What next?
▪ Separate operational BI/Analytics
layer and EDW
▪ Target architecture SAP
S/4HANA, SAP BW, and SAP
Analytics Cloud, BI/PA/Planning
▪ Systems taking ERP feeds
▪ Excel spreadsheet with
hardcoded logic
▪ Replacement of older
technologies
▪ Decommissioning strategies
▪ Influencing factors: individual
preferences, strategy, effort,
available functionality, skill set,
investment, …
▪ Plan detailed steps to implement all
remaining analytical requirements
(e.g. by extending SAP S/4HANA)
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▪ Allowing cross-system view on all data
Examples
▪ Total Spend Management
Bring together spends data from
SAP Ariba, Fieldglass, and Concur
▪ Campaign Effectiveness – Campaigns
from Marketing
Cloud and Opportunities from
SAP C/4HANA (Sales Cloud)
Big Data
Non-SAP Systems
Intelligent Suite
Customer
Contingent Labor
Procurement
Travel & Expense
SAP S/4HANA
SAP C/4HANA
SAP
Fieldglass
SAP
Ariba
SAP
Concur
Core ERPDigital Supply
ChainIntelligent Finance
Human Resources
SAP
SuccessFactors
here: SAP Analytics CloudSAP HANA & Analytics
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What is your vision? Does it align to the SAP roadmap?
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Big Data
Non-SAP Systems
Intelligent Suite
Customer
Contingent Labor
Procurement
Travel & Expense
SAP S/4HANA
SAP C/4HANA
SAP
Fieldglass
SAP
Ariba
SAP
Concur
Core ERPDigital Supply
ChainIntelligent Finance
Human Resources
SAP
SuccessFactors
Semantic Data Layer
Data Warehouse Layer
BI Visualization Layer
EDW
▪ Allowing cross-system view on all data
▪ Data warehouse layer for enterprise-wide
data harmonization to establish the
corporate memory
▪ Semantic data layer for agile,
self-service mashups and blending
▪ BI visualization layer leveraging data
sources of all kinds, including data
warehouse and semantic data layers
Examples
▪ Profitability per employee – Compute
profitability with headcount from SAP
SucessFactors and financial KPIs from SAP S/4HANA
▪ Effect of marketing spends on net promoter
score – Analyze how spends on Spotlighting
Accounts from Marketing Cloud impact net
promoter score on your brand with surveys
from Qualtrics
LoB
LoB
IT
Reporting and Analytics – Starting the Journey
What is your vision? Does it align to the SAP roadmap?
SAP HANA & Analytics
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▪ Update your reporting and analytics strategy
▪ Start your learning journey sooner rather than later
▪ Understand the options within your scope
▪ Embrace a new paradigm
▪ Downstream remediation
▪ Prepare for Change Management
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