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Make the Most of Embedded Analytics with SAP Digital Business
Services
Table of Contents
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Challenges – and Opportunities – of
Big Data and Industry 4.0
5
What Embedded Analytics in SAP S/4HANA
Can Do for You
11 Planning and Strategy – Services for Your
Analytics Journey
13 Build and Launch – Implementation Services
15 Running and Optimizing Your Analytics
Solutions
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Challenges – and Opportunities – of Big Data and Industry 4.0
The SAP® S/4HANA suite powers the SAP Digital
Boardroom solution, unifies transactional and
analytical applications, and simplifies your IT
landscape. Embedded analytics in SAP S/4HANA
provide contextualized information and insight
tailored to the needs of your organization. And
the SAP Digital Business Services portfolio
helps you bring it all together and plan, launch,
and optimize the performance of your software.
The pace of the digital, super-connected economy is fast
and getting faster, and understanding what customers want
and optimizing production and employee performance have
never been more important. A network of networks – linking
businesses, social media, mobile devices, and everyday
things – has created revolutionary conditions that are driving huge increases in the size of the global economy. This
digital economy generates tremendous amounts of new
data and content – and it brings new business opportunities that touch every aspect of the value chain, including
customers, suppliers, employees, and resources.
The digital economy generates tremendous amounts of new data and content – and
it brings new business opportunities that touch every aspect of the value chain,
including customers, suppliers, employees, and resources.
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Companies that lead the way in the fourth industrial revolution move with agility and speed to meet the demands
of the market, customers, and employees. To harness the
explosion of information that comes with the Internet
of Things, it is crucial to reduce technological and process complexity whenever possible. By giving customers
and employees timely access to relevant and actionable
insights, you can drive sales, profits, customer satisfaction,
and employee retention.
Many current IT systems, however, cannot handle
real-time information access and analysis and complex
interprocess connections. They feature heterogeneous
reporting solutions and static, out-of-date content and
data. Plus, key stakeholders often do not get a consistent, holistic view of information that is available both
inside and outside the organization. Finally, many organizations lack the strategy and know-how for an efficient,
low-risk, and effective digital transformation. But there
is a better approach.
SAP S/4HANA eliminates data latency and duplication and includes ready-to-use
business content to get you off to a fast start.
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What Embedded Analytics in SAP S/4HANA Can Do for You
across lines of business comprehensively and consistently;
handle massive amounts of data; and perform analysis
at a highly granular level.
SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics let you access and
combine data from any third-party application with data
from SAP S/4HANA, the SAP HANA® platform, and the
SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA. The
software eliminates data latency and duplication and
includes ready-to-use business content to get you off
to a fast start.
SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics provide contextual
data and invaluable real-time insights that drive better
and faster decision making across your organization. As
a result, decision making is based on actual figures and
facts, helping stakeholders from the executive suite to
human resources to finance better understand the past,
predict the future, and drive execution. With the software,
you can plan, discover, visualize, and predict performance
Thanks to user-friendly functionality and an intuitive
interface, you can reduce reliance on IT to move or integrate data and on specialist users, such as statisticians,
to build reports. So business users can create dynamic,
engaging reports that drive deeper and more revealing
insights and that everyone in the enterprise can view and
use. What’s more, you can use your existing business
intelligence tools to perform analysis on the most current data. You can visualize the performance of historical
data against expected results and use that combined
analysis to implement strategies to make you more
competitive in the market.
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You can gain a single version of truth, streamline and optimize processes, and facilitate management, governance,
and collaboration procedures. You can give analysts the
agility they need to better understand data and empower business users across your organization with trusted
engaging insights into performance – anytime, anywhere.
And you can equip business leaders in the boardroom
with real-time information, including the most important
metrics, across lines of business, to monitor, simulate,
and drive change in the digital economy.
ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS FROM SAP
Our analytics solutions provide you with capabilities
for both embedded analytics and strategic analytics
(see Figure 1).
By giving customers and employees timely access to relevant
and actionable insights, you can drive sales, profits, customer
satisfaction, and employee retention.
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• Smart business cockpits
• SAP Fiori® apps
• Predefined reports and visualizations
All Use Cases
• Business intelligence
• Trusted data discovery
• Predictive analytics
Strategic
Analytics
All Applications
• Best integration to SAP S/4HANA
• Agnostic platform
• Immediate 360-degree insight
Embedded
Analytics
SAP
S/4HANA
SAP® Digital Boardroom
• Total transparency
• Instant data-driven insights
• Simplified boardroom processes
Figure 1: Analytics Solutions from SAP
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Embedded Analytics
Embedded analytics in SAP S/4HANA enable business
users, analysts, and IT specialists to perform real-time
process analytics and operational reporting on live transactional data. Virtual data models – predefined representations of enterprise business and operational data
– let business users derive real-time, actionable insights
without help from IT. Embedded analytics can be built
directly into transactional business processes or consumed by stand-alone analytics clients and applications,
such as analytics solutions from SAP.
Strategic Analytics
The speed of business and innovation means that IT
cannot always keep up with demand for its services,
leading to shadow IT teams and silos of data and processes. The portfolio of analytics solutions from SAP helps
you unlock, unify, and connect data and make it accessible to stakeholders throughout your organization. The
portfolio includes software for enterprise business intelligence, agile visualization, trusted data discovery, and
predictive analytics. Key solutions include the following
(this list is not exhaustive):
•• SAP BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) platform
•• SAP BusinessObjects Data Discovery
(formerly SAP Lumira®)
•• SAP Predictive Analytics
•• SAP BusinessObjects Cloud (formerly SAP Cloud for
Analytics)
•• SAP Digital Boardroom
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ANALYTICS USE CASES
Here are some examples of how your organization can
use analytics solutions from SAP with SAP S/4HANA for
cutting-edge analytics and valuable business insights.
Planning and Predictive Finance
Perform real-time financial analytics across multiple
dimensions of finance and operations. Employ modeling
and prediction to evaluate the financial implications of
strategic business operations. Use planning and what-if
simulations to gain both a backward- and forward-looking
perspective on your business.
Sales Process Performance Analysis
Increase process efficiency and facilitate communication
with process stakeholders. Reduce lead and process times
as well as error rates. Monitor process quality, and enable
benchmarking among sales organizations.
Procurement
Gain real-time access to procurement information
to analyze purchasing spend, suppliers, and contracts.
Reduce supply costs and achieve savings in procurement
operations.
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HOW YOU CAN DO IT – WITH SAP DIGITAL BUSINESS
SERVICES
The SAP Digital Business Services portfolio provides
holistic, straightforward service offerings that bring
together our deep knowledge of analytics and technical
innovation and let you tap into the full potential of embedded analytics in SAP S/4HANA. With years of experience
and expertise, we offer comprehensive consulting to
help you throughout the software lifecycle, from strategy
and planning to implementation and optimization. With
software and services from SAP, you get the flexibility
you need to meet software and hardware requirements
while driving reporting performance and controlling
maintenance and operations costs.
Decision making is based on actual figures
and facts, helping stakeholders from the
executive suite to human resources to
finance better understand the past, predict
the future, and drive execution.
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Planning and Strategy – Services for Your Analytics Journey
Our fast, simple, and flexible business planning services
in the SAP Digital Business Services portfolio can help
you plot a path for your organization to socialize analytics
into business operations and decision making. The first
steps are to define and formulate a governance model,
target architecture, and analytics strategy that meet your
specific business and technology needs. Before long, you
will be up and running and able to improve operational
efficiency and create strategic advantages.
DELIVERY APPROACH AND SCOPE
Identify business drivers and change-management needs
to outline your analytics vision, strategy, and investmentspending goals. Create an analytics governance model
to establish standards and processes for setup, adoption,
and use, and build a custom road map to determine and
detail your analytics target architecture.
Embedded analytics in SAP S/4HANA provide contextual
data and invaluable real-time insights that drive better and
faster decision making across your organization.
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BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
YOUR BENEFITS
Empower stakeholders across the enterprise with realtime, user-friendly access to information and insights,
and improve governance by standardizing setup, adoption, and use. Find the best solutions to design your
analytics architecture.
Make the most of embedded analytics in SAP S/4HANA
and quickly improve the effectiveness of your analytics
processes by reducing risks and costs. You can gain a
holistic view of your analytics infrastructure to reduce
complexity and optimize expenses by prioritizing and
managing enablement tools.
Analytics solutions from SAP helps you unlock, unify, and connect data and make
it accessible to stakeholders throughout your organization.
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Build and Launch – Implementation Services
Implement the SAP Best Practices for analytics with
SAP S/4HANA package, and get off to a quick start
using the solution’s cutting-edge embedded analytics
functionality. With help from the SAP Digital Business
Services portfolio, you can integrate your best-in-class
analytics platform with other SAP solutions, such as
the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform, the SAP Business Warehouse application, and
other software.
DELIVERY APPROACH AND SCOPE
Identify major prerequisites, define project phases and
milestones, and implement options custom designed to
suit your needs. Services include a validation workshop
to demonstrate your solution and best-practices knowledge transfer for key stakeholders and business users.
The SAP Digital Business Services portfolio provides holistic,
straightforward service offerings that bring together our deep
knowledge of analytics and technical innovation.
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BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
YOUR BENEFITS
Integrate SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics with
SAP Business Warehouse, and execute a move to
SAP S/4HANA in defined steps for a more gradual
transformation – using the database of your choice.
You get flexible integration between SAP S/4HANA
and the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform. And you can
consolidate data from SAP S/4HANA in SAP Business
Warehouse and build analytical use cases based on an
enriched data environment from various data sources.
Get up and running and achieve fast time to value with
embedded analytics in SAP S/4HANA. By providing business intelligence–based analytics content for functional
areas across the organization, you can improve decision
making, speed, and results – from business units to the
executive suite.
Simplified service offerings are tailored to your business needs – all in a single contract –
and provide consistent and seamless support for cloud and on-premise solutions.
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Running and Optimizing Your Analytics Solutions
SAP Digital Business Services provides a streamlined
solution approach that focuses on driving business
results and optimizing the performance of your SAP
solutions. Premium support engagements through the
SAP MaxAttention™ and SAP ActiveEmbedded offerings
safeguard your technology investment and reduce your
total cost of ownership.
deployment options, from the beginning of your implementation throughout the software lifecycle. A global
network of mission and innovation control centers aims
to help you achieve the most effective and efficient
implementations and optimize ongoing operations.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SAP DIGITAL BUSINESS
SERVICES
Simplified service offerings are tailored to your business
needs – all in a single contract – and provide consistent To find out more, call your SAP representative today
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You get embedded support with cross-SAP software
Make the most of embedded analytics in SAP S/4HANA, and quickly improve the
effectiveness of your analytics processes by reducing risks and costs.
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