Meet your BI needs with SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Explore the system architecture and data model and learn how to perform analytics on live transactional data. Business user? Walk step-by-step through SAP Smart Business KPIs, dashboards, and multidimensional reporting. Analytics specialist? Master the virtual data model and report creation. Jack of all trades? Create CDS views, apply custom fields and logic, and learn to integrate SAP S/4HANA with SAP Analytics Cloud. This is your complete guide to SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Highlights include: 1) Architecture 2) Virtual data…mehr
Meet your BI needs with SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Explore the system architecture and data model and learn how to perform analytics on live transactional data. Business user? Walk step-by-step through SAP Smart Business KPIs, dashboards, and multidimensional reporting. Analytics specialist? Master the virtual data model and report creation. Jack of all trades? Create CDS views, apply custom fields and logic, and learn to integrate SAP S/4HANA with SAP Analytics Cloud. This is your complete guide to SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics!
Highlights include: 1) Architecture 2) Virtual data model (VDM) 3) CDS views 4) SAP Fiori apps 5) SAP Smart Business 6) Key performance indicators (KPIs) 7) Dashboards 8) Reporting 9) Data warehousing 10) SAP Analytics Cloud 11) Machine learning
Jürgen Butsmann is part of the Global Business Development team for SAP S/4HANA, and is responsible for the Go-To-Market (GTM) of SAP S/4HANA in the EMEA region(s). He ensures that this new innovation is picked up by all markets units of SAP EMEA and acts as a solution evangelist with customers and partners. In conjunction with the development organization he works on the future strategy and roadmap of SAP S/4HANA. This includes the positioning and messaging of the solution. In particular, Jürgen heads the GTM of the analytics solutions inside SAP S/4HANA (SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics) and positioning with related solutions (e.g. SAP Analytics suite and enterprise data warehousing, incl. SAP HANA and SAP BW/4HANA). Jürgen joined SAP back in 1997 as consultant for SAP EC EIS, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP SEM, and SAP EPM. Jürgen built up business development for enterprise performance management for planning in EMEA and globally until 2007. In 2012 he took over solution ownership of SAP HANA Live and the SAP Smart Business cockpit as part of solution management of the SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. He joined the business development team for SAP S/4HANA in 2016. He is based out of SAP Headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. Jürgen studied industrial engineering and management (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and has a Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur.
Inhaltsangabe
... Preface ... 13
... Target Audience ... 13
... Book Structure ... 14
... Acknowledgments ... 14
Part I ... Getting Started ... 17
1 ... The Intelligent Enterprise ... 19
1.1 ... Digital Transformation ... 19
1.2 ... SAP S/4HANA: The Intelligent ERP System ... 23
1.3 ... SAP S/4HANA Business Requirements ... 30
1.4 ... Summary ... 34
2 ... Analytics in the Digital Economy ... 35
2.1 ... Embedded Analytics versus Standalone Analytics ... 35
2.2 ... Combining Transactions and Analytics ... 39
2.3 ... Summary ... 44
3 ... Architecture ... 45
3.1 ... Architecture Overview ... 45
3.2 ... Virtual Data Models in Core Data Services ... 60
3.3 ... Authorization and Security ... 81
3.4 ... SAP Fiori Programming Model: Access and Visualization ... 88
3.5 ... Summary ... 95
Part II ... Analytics by User Type ... 97
4 ... Analytics for the Business User ... 99
4.1 ... Operational Insight-to-Action Using the Analytical List Page ... 99
4.2 ... KPI Reporting and Analysis Using SAP Smart Business KPIs ... 109
4.3 ... Multidimensional Reporting ... 123
4.4 ... SAP Fiori Overview Pages ... 135
4.5 ... Embedded SAP Analytics Cloud Stories ... 143
4.6 ... Additional Functions ... 155
4.7 ... Summary ... 165
5 ... Predefined Analytics Content ... 167
5.1 ... Content Delivered with SAP S/4HANA ... 167
5.2 ... Analytics Content and SAP Best Practices ... 174
5.3 ... Line-of-Business-Specific SAP Best Practices ... 181
5.4 ... Business Content for SAP Analytics Cloud, Embedded Edition ... 191
5.5 ... Integration SAP Best Practices ... 202
5.6 ... Summary ... 209
6 ... Analytics for the Analytics Specialist ... 211
6.1 ... The Analytics Specialist Role ... 211
6.2 ... Browsing the Virtual Data Model ... 217
6.3 ... Creating and Publishing Data Sources and Queries ... 226
