The document discusses SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics. It states that embedded analytics delivers contextualized analytics within SAP S/4HANA tailored to business needs. It consists of virtual data models based on CDS views covering role-based operational reports. Tools are provided for business users, power users, and developers to analyze data and manage report lifecycles. Embedded analytics is included in the SAP S/4HANA license and integrates with other SAP analytics offerings.

1. Discover and utilise Embedded
Analytics in S/4HANA
Dr. Paul Hawking

2. Motivation
Development
Tools
•ABAP List Report
•ALV Grid Report
•Report
Painter/Writer
•SAP Query Views
Information
Systems
•Logistic
Information
System
•COPA
•HIS
Report
Repositories
•General
•Application
ECC Reporting

3. Semantic Layer

4. SAP Business Intelligence (early days)

5. SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
CDS: Core Data
Service
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

6. Views built on SAP HANA Calculated Views
Views based on SAP Business Suite data model
Views are maintained using HANA Studio
View security handle at the HANA database level
Principles of Analytics in S/4HANA
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 HANA Live

7. Principles of Analytics in S/4HANA
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
• Core Data Services (CDS) are SAP’s strategic modelling approach for business
entities
• Enriched SQL scripts: SQL + extensions + annotations
• SAP HANA views automatically generated based upon scripts
• Exposed as “Analytical Queries” in the Query Browser
• Exposed as Transient InfoProvider / BEx Query
S/4HANA

8. 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

9. End User
• Consume data
• Analyse data
• Insight to action
Key User
• Enable the end
user
• Maintain queries
• Assign reports,
KPI’s and
IT User
• Single source of
truth
• CDS development
and maintenance
User Roles

10. SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
Query Browser provides a catalogue of available CDS views

11. SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics

12. SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics

13. SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
Multi-dimensional Reports allow for ‘drag and drop’ functionality
and charting to quickly analyze data created by Query Designer

14. SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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

18. SAP HANA Academy
SAP Training
SAP Press
SAP Community Network
Resources

19. • Operational Reporting
• Roadmap
• Fully utilising S/4HANA internal BW
• Sharing Reports
• Governance/ Best Practices
My Questions

20. Your Questions

23. 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

24. • 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.