S/4HANA Embedded Analytics

Technical overview
Tomasz Sawczuk, SAP
September , 2017

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Journey of Data: From Tables to Tiles

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Metadata driven Analytic UIs:
How Annotations translate to Business Semantics

Definitions Annotations
A KPI evaluates a one leading measure from KPIs
aggregated management perspective. - Selection Variant
- Data Point

UI
Reports
A Report is consumed by the end-user - Selection Variant
and is a simple chart or table based on
- Presentation Variant
multiple measures and dimensions. (e.g. UI.Chart, UI.Lineitem,..)

Analytical Query Consumption View

Consumption
Annotations

Data
CDS Annotations
Virtual Data Model
Application
Tables

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 1 – Consistent Ux across all Use Cases

Decision
Reports using generic automation and
exception
BI-clients Insight-to-
Action
handling
and decision
Operational/ support
transactional
Planning
Simulation
Application
Planning
Application
Office-
integration
Dash-
boards
Multi- Analytical Apps with specific logic and UIs
dimensional
report
Pixel-perfect
report

Simple List

Read-only Planning/Simulation (writing data to non-operational stores) Write operational/transactional data

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 1 – Consistent Ux across all Use Cases

Decision
Reports using generic automation and
exception
BI-clients
Effort for implementation, training,…

Insight-to-Action handling
and decision
support
Operational/
transactional
Planning
Simulation
Application
Planning
Application
Office-
integration
Dash-

Multi-
boards Analytical Apps with specific logic
Pixel-perfect
dimensional
report and UIs
report
Simple
List

Read-only Planning/Simulation (writing data to non-operational stores) Write operational/transactional data

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 1 – Consistent Ux across all Use Cases

Decision
Reports using generic automation and
exception
Different Use Cases, but certain features should always work the same way…
BI-clients
Effort for implementation, training,…

Insight-to-Action handling
and decision
… Personalization Operational/
support
transactional
… Sharing/Collaboration Simulation
Planning
Application
… Filtering Planning
Application
Office-
… Printing integration
Dash-
… Data Export
Multi-
boards Analytical Apps with specific logic
… Pivoting
Pixel-perfect
dimensional
report and UIs
report
Simple … Insight-to-Action
List
… Report-Report-Navigation
… Role-based access
Read-only Planning/Simulation (writing data to non-operational stores) Write operational/transactional data
…
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 2 – Seamless Integration with SAP’s Analytics Offering

Other SAP Analytics products: SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BI, SAP Predictive Analytics, …

embedded analytics
SAP
SMART
ANALYT. MULTI-
BUSINESS QUERY ANALYTICAL VIEW/QUERY VIEW SAP FIORI ABAP
LIST DIMENSIONAL
KPI’S AND BROWSER FIORI APPS DESIGNER BROWSER KPI MODELER FOR ECLIPSE
PAGE* REPORTS
ANALYSIS
PATH
SAP BW
SAP
on HANA
Leonardo
for ML SAP BW/
4HANA
Spend off-
contract Incoming
Sales Order
PO Avg. Delivery
Time
Non-managed
purchasing spend ….
SAP S/4HANA
Virtual Data Models
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Today transactions and analytics are handled separately
but in reality, business processes are often a sequence of…
transaction analysis transaction

Check Customer Adjust discount

Enter Order
Churn Probability percentage

Send email to all plant

Analyze yield and
managers above/below
scrap of plants
certain thresholds

Check updated salary

Work on employee
projection for cost
salary data
centers

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3 – embedded Analytics
Bi-Directionally Embedded Analytics in a Transaction Screen

Purchase Request: 4711

Material: 515
Embedded multidimensional
Supplier: 101 report shows suppliers for
the entered Material No. and
their Delivery Performance +
Default Discount: trading volume

…: Navigate to a full screen

2 1 version of the report and
perform multidimensional
…: analysis , personalize report
and share data.
Supplier Overview for Material 515
A supplier is selected in the report,
Current month Personalize
3
and its ID and other relevant data is
transferred to the corresponding Supplier Delivery Trading Volume
fields in the Activity. Performance Last Year

100 98% 550 K€

101 95% 1.230 K€

102 94% 270 K€

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Goals for S/4 HANA

n
1 One unified semantic model, which describes business content.
Authorization, Model-driven
Other cross Adaptability
n
2 Uniform data access layer (incl. metadata for Fiori UI and BI topics…
6
Extensibility
5
Tools), platform independent (ABAP Platform and HCP),
not proprietary (SQL) Fiori
4

3 Non-disruptive and seamless integration into the ABAP stack

bringing innovation to our installed base.
n
4 Seamless integration of transactional and analytical Uis in Fiori. Business Suite 4
ABAP Server
n
5 Simple and model-driven approach for Customers and SAP to 3

adapt and extend our solutions.

n
6 One approach to handle User Roles and Authorizations. (Stands
as example for all other cross functions…) SAP HANA DB
n Planning and analytics follow the same approach. 1 2

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Simplification - One Stack for all Application Types

Fiori Shell
Fiori
TCD One View type for all consumption
Apps,
Lumira/
Design Search
(analytical, transactional, search, …)
ALV Studio
(UI5)

Intermediate reuse of existing ABAP meta

OData R
InA R
InA R
data and infrastructure to fill gaps in 2 tier
ABAP
Gateway

R R
TCO Pure ABAP lifecycle, no HANA lifecycle,

Transactional Logic Analytic Engine (Enterprise-)Search

R R R Zero Downtime Support via ABAP

CDS View
HANA CDS = Minimize dependency on HANA fixes,
Suite Tables best of faster innovation cycle
HANA
+ best Take full advantage of HANA innovations
of NW

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S/4HANA embedded analytics – high level architecture

SAP S/4HANA – parts of

the standard delivery
Fiori UI
Visualization analytical apps, reports, KPIs,… delivered as
BusinessObjects BI
part of S/4HANA, extensible by the customer products can access
S/4HANA data
Transient directly via the
Access Odata services analytical available Transient
queries
analytical queries
(Business Objects Cloud,
CDS-Models
Modelling (for analytical and transactional purposes)
Lumira, Analysis Office, …)

Persistency DB tables on HANA

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SAP S/4HANA Analytics Architecture

Key-User/Business-User Defined
Fiori UIs SAP BI Tools (Design Studio …) 3rd Party UI/Client Content

3rd Party Components (Optional)

Interfaces: https | oData | InA

Provided by SAP (Out-of-the-

Customer & User-Specific Analytical Content Box)
(Queries, KPIs etc.)
Frameworks & Infrastructure
Analytical

Virtual Data Model (VDM)

oData Service Engine Consumption Customer-Specific
Ext.1 SAP Technology Components

Open CDS-based 2
Views Consumption Views 1

Gateway Custom-Built Development

Customer-Specific
Interface views Ext.1 Artefacts or Customer-defined
Interface Views 1
Extensions to SAP-provided
Application Objects
Customer-Specific Private
Server Private Views Ext.1
Views 1
(ABAP)

Database Server Physical Tables

(SAP HANA)

1 defined by roadmap and depending on deployment option 2 CDS = Core Data Services
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SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics:
Current Offering
 SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics – Overview of current Offering
per Type of User
End-User: Analyze the Data and act according to Insights SAP BusinessObjects

Multi- SAP Smart

Query Analytical List Overview Analytical
dimensional Business KPIs
Browser Reports Pages Fiori Apps
reports / APF
SAP
Business- SAP SAP
Objects Lumira BusinessObjects
Key-User: Enable the End-User Cloud Enterprise:
Examples: Analysis for
Office, Design Studio
CDS Key User
KPI and Report
Tooling
Modelling Apps
(e.g. Query Designer)

IT-User: Provide the single source of truth in one semantic layer

CDS View
maintenance:
ABAP for Eclipse

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A round of demos…
Demo

How to work with Analytical List Reports

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Demo

How to work with a KPI and the Analysis Path Drill Down

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Analysis Path Framework - Demos

Video Tutorials
§ APF Runtime – 1: UI Overview
§ APF Runtime – 2: Creating an Analysis Path
§ APF Runtime – 3: Further Options for Analysis Paths
§ APF Runtime – 4: Filtering Data in an Analysis Path
§ APF Configuration Modeler – 1: UI Overview
§ APF Configuration Modeler – 2: Configuring an Analysis Step
§ APF Configuration Modeler – 3: Configuring a Representation
§ APF Configuration Modeler – 4: Configuring Filters
§ APF Configuration Modeler – 5: Insight to Action
§ APF Configuration Modeler – 6: Export and Import of Configurations
§ APF – Smart Business Integration

Online Demo
§ SAP Fiori Demo Cloud – Demo of APF-based App (click on to get a guided tour)

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Demo

How to work with a multidimensional report

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 Demo: How to work with a multidimensional report

https://youtu.be/O8ZSlTztS_Y?t=10s

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Demo

How to create new data source for a query

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Demo

How to create a new query

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Demo

A very handy tool - the S/4HANA Virtual Data Model Browser

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Demo

How to create a KPI tile and get it into the productive system

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Demo

How to create an Analysis Path and connect it to a KPI

Public
Edit / modify an Analysis Path

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Connect Analysis Path to a KPI

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Demo

Report Design

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Report Design: End2End Demo

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End2End Scenario Diagram

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Questions

Q&A

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Thank you.
Contact information:
Tomasz Sawczuk
SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group
Principal Consultant
CEE Architects
SAP Polska Sp. z o.o.
ul. Wołoska 5 Taurus
02-675 Warszawa
LYNC +48 22 5416751, F +48 22 5416907, M +48 661351022E
t.sawczuk@sap.com

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