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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
1.1.1 The Digital Transformation Imperative
19
1.1.2 What Does Digitalization Mean for Your Company?
21
1.1.3 SAP’s Role in Your Digital Transformation
22
1.2 SAP S/4HANA: The Intelligent ERP System
23
1.2.1 Business Needs for the Intelligent ERP System
23
1.2.2 The Evolution of ERP Systems
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1.2.3 Technologies
25
1.2.4 Key Principles
26
1.3 SAP S/4HANA Business Requirements
30
1.3.1 ERP in the Cloud: Software as a Service
31
1.3.2 Integrating the Intelligent ERP System
33
1.3.3 Real-Time Data
33
1.4 Summary
34
2 Analytics in the Digital Economy
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2.1 Embedded Analytics versus Standalone Analytics
35
2.2 Combining Transactions and Analytics
39
2.2.1 On a Single Platform
40
2.2.2 Within the Business Process
40
2.2.3 Within a Single User Interface
43
2.3 Summary
44
3 Architecture
45
3.1 Architecture Overview
45
3.1.1 Stack Overview: Journey of Data from Tables to Tiles
46
3.1.2 Building Blocks
51
3.2 Virtual Data Models in Core Data Services
60
3.2.1 Core Data Services
60
3.2.2 Virtual Data Models
72
3.3 Authorization and Security
81
3.3.1 Authorizations
81
3.3.2 Roles in Frontend Server
86
3.4 SAP Fiori Programming Model: Access and Visualization
88
3.4.1 Service Enablement
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3.4.2 Data Access Protocol
90
3.4.3 SAP Fiori Catalog and Navigation Targets
93
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
4.1.1 Typical Usage
100
4.1.2 Features and Personalization Options
103
4.2 KPI Reporting and Analysis Using SAP Smart Business KPIs
109
4.2.1 Typical Usage
110
4.2.2 Features and Personalization Options
112
4.3 Multidimensional Reporting
123
4.3.1 Typical Usage
123
4.3.2 Features and Personalization Options
125
4.4 SAP Fiori Overview Pages
135
4.4.1 Typical Usage
135
4.4.2 Features and Personalization Options
139
4.5 Embedded SAP Analytics Cloud Stories
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4.5.1 Typical Usage
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4.5.2 Features and Personalization Options
146
4.6 Additional Functions
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4.6.1 Query Browser
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4.6.2 App Catalog
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4.6.3 Enterprise Search and App Search
159
4.6.4 Notifications Area
160
4.6.5 User Assistance
163
4.7 Summary
165
5 Predefined Analytics Content
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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
5.3.1 Procurement Analytics Content
182
5.3.2 Financial Planning and Analysis Content
185
5.3.3 Manufacturing Analytics Content
188
5.4 Business Content for SAP Analytics Cloud, Embedded Edition
191
5.4.1 Dashboard for Sourcing and Procurement
192
5.4.2 Dashboard for Sales
196
5.4.3 Dashboard for Finance
199
5.5 Integration SAP Best Practices
202
5.5.1 SAP BW and SAP B/4HANA Integration
203
5.5.2 SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform Integration
207
5.5.3 SAP Cloud Platform Integration
208
5.6 Summary
209
6 Analytics for the Analytics Specialist
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6.1 The Analytics Specialist Role
211
6.1.1 Process Overview
212
6.1.2 Technical Details and Process Mapping
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6.2 Browsing the Virtual Data Model
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6.2.1 Overview
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6.2.2 Features and Options
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6.3 Creating and Publishing Data Sources and Queries
226
6.3.1 Custom CDS Views
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6.3.2 Custom Analytical Queries
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6.4 Manage KPIs and Reports
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6.4.1 Process Overview
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6.4.2 Creating a KPI Group and a KPI
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6.4.3 Creating Drilldown Report
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6.4.4 Adding Additional Views and Previewing
261
6.4.5 Add a Tile for a KPI
263
6.5 Maintaining Reports
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6.5.1 Maintaining an Analytical List Page Report
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6.5.2 Maintaining an SAP Analytics Cloud Data Analyzer Report
280
6.6 Maintaining SAP Analytics Cloud, Embedded Edition Stories
285
6.6.1 Header Data
285
6.6.2 Data Source and Layout
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6.6.3 Additional Data Sources
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6.6.4 Preview and Publish
295
6.7 Defining Date Functions
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6.7.1 Defining Date Functions
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6.7.2 Using Date Functions in the KPI Configuration
302
6.8 Creating SAP Fiori Launchpad Tiles for SAP Analytics Cloud Stories
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6.9 Summary
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7 Analytics for the IT Expert
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7.1 The IT Expert Role
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7.2 Creating and Consuming CDS Views
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7.2.1 Exploring CDS Views
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7.2.2 Consuming CDS Views with the Analytical Engine
319
7.2.3 Consuming CDS Views with OData Services
322
7.3 Summary
325
8 Additional Extensibility Options
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8.1 Custom Business Objects
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8.2 Custom Fields and Logic
335
8.3 Summary
343
Part III Additional SAP Analytics Tools
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9 Data Warehousing
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9.1 Do You Need Additional Data Warehouses?
348
9.2 Data Management for SAP S/4HANA
351
9.3 SAP BW/4HANA
354
9.3.1 Overview
355
9.3.2 Integration
358
9.3.3 Migration Process
362
9.3.4 Extractors
364
9.3.5 What Comes First?
364
9.4 SAP HANA for SQL Data Warehousing
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9.5 SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
369
9.6 Big Data Warehousing
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9.6.1 Data Lakes
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9.6.2 SAP Data Intelligence
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9.7 Summary
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10 Business Intelligence
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10.1 Should You Use Additional Business Intelligence Solutions?
375
10.2 SAP Analytics Suite
376
10.2.1 Portfolio Structure
376
10.2.2 SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and Architecture
379
10.2.3 SAP Lumira
380
10.2.4 SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
380
10.2.5 SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
381
10.2.6 Integration
383
10.3 SAP Analytics Cloud
384
10.3.1 Self-Service Business Intelligence
384
10.3.2 Hichert Standards Support
385
10.3.3 SAP Digital Boardroom
386
10.3.4 Integration
387
10.3.5 Planning
389
10.4 Summary
390
11 Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
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11.1 Overview
393
11.2 Approaches to Machine Learning
395
11.2.1 Embedded Machine Learning
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11.2.2 Side-by-Side Models with SAP Cloud Platform
399
11.2.3 Side-by-Side Models with SAP Analytics Cloud
401
11.2.4 Extending and Enhancing the Machine Learning Models
405
11.3 Solution Architecture
407
11.4 Intelligent Enterprise Example
411
11.5 Summary
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A Future Outlook
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A.1 SAP Analytics Cloud Integration into SAP S/4HANA
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A.2 Data Integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Data
416
A.3 Cross-Product Analytics
417
A.4 UX Improvements and Adoption of SAP Fiori Innovations
418
A.4.1 Spaces and Pages Concept
418
A.4.2 Improvements to the SAP Smart Business Runtime
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B The Authors
421
Contributor
423
Index
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