SAP S/4HANA Cloud –

Customer meets Developer Day 2018

S/4HANA Embedded Analytics – Overview and Offerings
Krithika Shankaranarayan, Akash Sinha, SAP
September 26, 2018

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Agenda

Overview and Introduction

Overview of SAP Analytics Offering

SAP S/4HANA: Analytics for End Users

SAP S/4HANA: Analytics for Key Users

Roadmap

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Overview and Introduction
 Improved
Challenges faced today… User Experience

Transactional Data
Traditional ERP
Analytical Data
Transactional and analytical data
is maintained separately, leading MS Excel Spreadsheets, and Access Databases
to a disjointed view. Visualizations, Dashboards

Multiple, Disjointed
Views

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 What if you had better contextual insights when making decisions?
Procurement: Material order entry
Analyze and predict

All on one screen

Start Complete
transaction Check budget overview transaction

Purchasing
manager

Enter material order Check average supplier Choose best supplier and
delivery performance complete material order
entry

✓ Faster customer delivery

Review detail report ✓ Larger average deal size
✓ Fewer warehouse stock
outs
*Screenshots shown are for demonstration purposes only and are not final product commitments
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 Improved
A different user access leads to different user behavior User Experience

Single entry point

 The SAP Fiori Launchpad will be the single entry
point to access all apps

Domain specific information and actions

 Users quickly get an overview of Overview Pages, List
Reports, and Work Lists; can trigger quick actions or drill
down to the next level of detail

Enter details and explore in depth

 Key and differentiating use cases will be re-imagined with the
SAP Fiori user experience
 All “classic” transactions will have the SAP Fiori visual theme

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S/4HANA embedded analytics – high level architecture

SAP S/4 HANA

(scope of standard delivery)

SAP Analytics products

can access SAP S/4HANA data directly via the
SAP Fiori UI available Transient analytical queries
Visualization analytical apps, reports, KPIs,… delivered as part of SAP
S/4HANA, extensible by the customer
(SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Lumira, SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis, …)

Transient analytical
Access Odata services
queries

ABAP-CDS-Models
Modelling (for analytical and transactional purposes)

Persistency Database tables on SAP HANA

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Overview of SAP Analytics Offering
 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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 SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics – Overview of current offering per user
type
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
SAP SAP
Analytics
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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SAP S/4HANA: Analytics for End Users
 Apps for the End Users

• Overview Page
• Analytical List Page
• Smart Business Runtime
• Multi Dimensional Reports
• Query Browser

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S/4HANA Analytical Apps using Fiori Embedded Analytics
LOB Procurement – Procurement Overview
Overview Page
Role: Buyer
Delivered: Q4 2016
Description:
▪ A Buyer gets the most important information at a glance
(instead of opening different transactions)
▪ Combination of analytical and transactional information
▪ More detailed information can be found with just one click
▪ Show all information (e.g. urgent contracts, purchasing
spend etc.) for specific suppliers, materials etc. via the
Smart Filter
▪ The entire page can be fully personalized

From this app, navigation is possible to the

following:
▪ Purchase Order Value
▪ Monitor Purchase Order Items
▪ Supplier Evaluation
▪ Purchasing Spend
….. and many more

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S/4HANA Analytical Apps using Fiori Embedded Analytics
LOB Procurement – Monitor Purchase Contract Items
Analytical List Page
Role: Purchaser
Delivered: Q1 2017
Description:
▪ This feature enables you to monitor purchase
contract items.
▪ A chart and table view is displayed by default, with
aggregated values of purchase contract items for
material groups.
▪ Contract Items by validity status and Latest
Release is displayed visually

From this app, navigation is possible to:

▪ Supplier Object page
▪ Apps related to Purchase Contract
▪ Apps related to material

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Query Browser

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SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics: Multidimensional Reporting Client

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SAP S/4HANA: Analytics for Key Users
 Apps for the Analytics Specialist

• CDS View Browser

• Custom CDS Views
• Custom Analytical Queries
• Date Function
• Manage KPIs and Reports

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Roadmap
2018 - Planned Innovations

Enhancements for SAP Smart Business KPIs

Alerts for KPIs
• Notify users when KPIs cross a defined threshold
• Notifications via e-mail and Fiori Notification Center
• Alerting for customer created KPIs can be enabled by the Analytics Specialist
• End-users can subscribe to enabled KPIs

* The above mentioned planned innovations are subject to change

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2019/2020 –Product direction/ Product Vision

New SAP Fiori user interfaces for KPI and Report management
• KPI and Report Workspace – Revamped Key User tools for defining KPI and Reports
Integration of SAP Smart Business to SAP Copilot
• Natural language interaction with KPIs
Introduction to Semantic Formatting
• Define in a central place the connection between certain formats and the business meaning like ‘Budget’,
‘Actual’, ‘Forecasts’, eg: for SAP Copilot

* The above mentioned planned innovations are subject to change

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Thank you.
Contact information:
Krithika Shankaranarayan
Akash Sinha
Shilpa Shankar
PO, P&I S/4HANA Cloud Foundation
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