Discover and utilise Embedded

Analytics in S/4HANA
Dr. Paul Hawking
Motivation
ECC Reporting
Development Information Report
Tools Systems Repositories
•ABAP List Report •Logistic •General
•ALV Grid Report Information •Application
•Report System
Painter/Writer •COPA
•SAP Query Views •HIS
Semantic Layer
SAP Business Intelligence (early days)
 SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics:
■ Delivers contextualized analytics for SAP
S/4HANA embedded within the context of
work and tailored to business needs and roles
■ Consists of Virtual Data Models (based on CDS
Views) covering role based operational reports
for lines of business
■ Comes with tools for Business Users, Power
Users and Developers to analyze data and
manage the lifecycle of reports and KPIs
■ Is included in the SAP S/4HANA Enterprise
Management license and does not require a
separate installation by customers
■ Integrates with SAP BusinessObjects BI, SAP
Lumira, and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud- all of
which require a separate license CDS: Core Data
Service
■ Does not replace SAP HANA Live, SAP Business
Warehouse or any other SAP analytics
offering but complements and integrates with
them
 Principles of Analytics in S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics:
SAP HANA Live
■ Delivers contextualized analytics for SAP
S/4HANA embedded within the context of
work and tailored to business needs and roles
■ Consists of Virtual Data Models (based on CDS
Views) covering role based operational reports
for lines of business
■ Comes with tools for Business Users, Power
Users and Developers to analyze data and
manage the lifecycle of reports and KPIs
■ Is included in the SAP S/4HANA Enterprise
Management license and does not require a
separate installation by customers
■ Integrates with SAP BusinessObjects BI, SAP
Lumira, and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud- all of Views built on SAP HANA Calculated Views
which require a separate license
■ Does not replace SAP HANA Live, SAP Business
Views based on SAP Business Suite data model
Warehouse or any other SAP analytics
offering but complements and integrates with Views are maintained using HANA Studio
them
View security handle at the HANA database level
 Principles of Analytics in S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics: S/4HANA
■ Delivers contextualized analytics for SAP
S/4HANA embedded within the context of
work and tailored to business needs and roles
■ Consists of Virtual Data Models (based on CDS
Views) covering role based operational reports
for lines of business
■ Comes with tools for Business Users, Power
Users and Developers to analyze data and
manage the lifecycle of reports and KPIs
■ Is included in the SAP S/4HANA Enterprise
Management license and does not require a
separate installation by customers
■ Integrates with SAP BusinessObjects BI, SAP
Lumira, and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud- all of
which require a separate license
• Core Data Services (CDS) are SAP’s strategic modelling approach for business
entities
■ Does not replace SAP HANA Live, SAP Business
Warehouse or any other SAP analytics • Enriched SQL scripts: SQL + extensions + annotations
offering but complements and integrates with • SAP HANA views automatically generated based upon scripts
them
• Exposed as “Analytical Queries” in the Query Browser
• Exposed as Transient InfoProvider / BEx Query
 SAP S/4HANA Embedded
Analytics
SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics:
■ Delivers contextualized analytics for SAP
S/4HANA embedded within the context of
work and tailored to business needs and roles
■ Consists of Virtual Data Models (based on CDS
Views) covering role based operational reports
for lines of business
■ Comes with tools for Business Users, Power
Users and Developers to analyze data and
manage the lifecycle of reports and KPIs
■ Is included in the SAP S/4HANA Enterprise
Management license and does not require a
separate installation by customers
■ Integrates with SAP BusinessObjects BI, SAP
Lumira, and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud- all of
which require a separate license
■ Does not replace SAP HANA Live, SAP Business
Warehouse or any other SAP analytics
offering but complements and integrates with
them
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics

Query Browser provides a catalogue of available CDS views

SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics

Multi-dimensional Reports allow for ‘drag and drop’ functionality

and charting to quickly analyze data created by Query Designer
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
The Analysis Path Framework (APF) tool builds user journeys
through analytics. This allows users to set up their own
analytical apps by defining paths through different analysis
steps from different tools.
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
Query Designer is a basic tool for super users to build queries
from HANA Views utilizing key figures, layout formatting, filtering
and charting
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics

KPI Modeler is a tool for creating Fiori tiles that contain

Performance Indicators that can be added to the Launchpad.
Tiles can be set up as visualizations or numeric identifiers
 Resources

SAP HANA Academy

SAP Training

SAP Press

SAP Community Network

 My Questions

Operational Reporting

Roadmap

Fully utilising S/4HANA internal BW

Sharing Reports

Governance/ Best Practices

Your Questions
Operating Data is represented in S/4 HANA using Virtual Data
Models. S/4 HANA shields the existing primary ERP
persistence/tables by an understandable, comprehensive Virtual
Data Models.
Features of Virtual Data Model:
• User well known business terminology
• Documents the relationships between entities
• Enriches the entities by business semantics
• Meta-data Driven Creation of Smart UI’s
• FAQs
• Can historical data reporting be done using embedded analytics?
• Embedded Analytics approach is recommended for operational reporting only. Operational reporting
shall give insight into the very latest data coming out of the business transactions of an ERP system for
example. You want to make immediate decisions based on this very recent data and need reports which
reflect this. In this case the HANA-based OLAP models provide this information in real-time, in SAP
S/4HANA even enabled to work embedded in the transactions
itself. http://rapid.sap.com/bp/BP_S4H_ANA
• Do we need to consider anything from sizing perspective while implementing embedded analytics?
• From the sizing perspective, after the finalization of scope (no. of reports/users/drill downs, high work
load hour etc), it further needs to be verified on the sufficiency of the current hardware as CPU
utilization is impacted with no of users involved for reporting purpose.
• Can we use legacy data for embedded analytics? Is this recommended?
• SAP doesn’t recommend consolidation of data from third systems for embedded analytics and it is meant
for operational reporting only. Embedded analytics is not intended for building an Enterprise Data
Warehouse.