S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
The new reporting capabilities in S/4HANA across business units.
Reporting requirements have changed significantly in all business areas in recent years: Digitization, mobile devices and a new generation of users. In addition, the number of data to be analyzed has increased massively. S/4HANA Embedded Analytics addresses these new requirements and expands the possibilities for your
operational reporting in all modules. With S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, SAP offers a BI-independent option for evaluating operational and transactional data directly from the ERP system - real time and on the fly.
Embedded Analytics
Embedded Analytics is a combination of technology and tools that enables reporting in all business areas - from finance to sales to inventory management - directly in the operational system in real time.
With the launch of S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, SAP is making completely new real-time reporting options available. The new technology builds on functionalities that users are already familiar with from the SAP Business Warehouse environment. This means that operational and transactional data can be evaluated and analyzed not only much more successfully, but also more efficiently. S/4HANA Embedded Analytics is an integrated component in all current S/4HANA Business Suites. It is available both on-premise and on-cloud. To enable the extended functionalities, S/4HANA Embedded Analytics uses the new Virtual Data Model technology in S/4HANA.
Advantages for your company
In the classic ERP environment, you have only a few options in your company for quickly customizing reports, performing sorting in reports quickly and easily, or visualizing data interactively. In the classic BW environment, you already have options to make your reporting relatively simple. However, you have to wait until the data is loaded from the ERP. The data is therefore never completely up-to-date. With S/4HANA Embedded Analytics this problem is now a thing of the past. Transactional data can be analyzed immediately and without delay - real time and on the fly - and used in
reports. SAP also provides new tools and Fiori Apps: The sales embedded analytics app "My Sales Overview" creates a high level of transparency in sales processes and supports optimization in the operational business. These can be used by you on the most diverse end devices.
The Virtual Data Model
The Virtual Data Model is a structured representation of the HANA database that underlies all S/4HANA systems. Data from different tables is linked and made available with the help of Core Data Services.
The Virtual Data Model is based on tables within the HANA database at its lowest level. Individual Basic Views are used to read data from the tables. In composite views, these data are brought into the desired relation to each other. Consumption views are used to make this combined data available for further use, such as S/4HANA Embedded Analytics Apps. With the S/4HANA Business Suite, SAP provides a wide range of standard views. Additional views can also be created based on views that have already been delivered. These extension views allow you to extend the delivered standard SAP content and adapt it to your individual needs.
It can take into account customer-specific fields and tables as well as specific logics with which you want to extend your operational reporting in order to optimally implement your customer requirements.
Standard content is extended in such a way that you retain all the benefits of the standard S/4HANA Embedded Analytics apps. To make views available for S/4HANA Embedded Analytics Apps, they must be created as analytical views.
In addition to the S/4HANA Embedded Analytics apps, the views of the Virtual Data Model can also be used by other components:
- ABAP Repository Objects
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- Development of own Fiori applications
- Non-SAP services that consume Odata services
The key user functionalities of S/4HANA
Embedded Analytics
S/4HANA Embedded Analytics also opens up many new possibilities for your key users. Using standard tools, key users can now create new reports, fiori apps and dashboards for end users. This means that the reporting portfolio in your company can be specifically adapted. It is possible to browse all analytical and non-analytical
views through the View Browser and to view the structure and its table accesses. For analytical views the content, i.e. the result of the query, can be displayed. Key users can create their own reporting apps within the SAP Fiori Launchpad via smart business modeling apps. KPIs are the central entity of these apps.
KPIs can be created and analyzed using the following smart business modeling apps
- Create KPI
- Create evaluation
- Create tile
- Configure Drilldown
- Manage KPI links
- KPI Workspace
Ask yourself the following questions frequently in your company:
- How do we manage to determine the pain points?
- Where is operational reporting missing in our company?
- Which reports were developed with SAP tools?
- Which reports were created in Excel?
You as a customer have specific requirements - for example, many customer-specific fields and special reporting requirements. There are many new possibilities to derive data from the posting material
and to serve accounting regulations or other legal requirements and to flexibly map different hierarchies. Various functions are no longer available in S/4HANA and must be replaced.
Our customers:
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The experts at CONSILIO are happy to support you:
- Analysis of the requirements of operational reporting in financial accounting
- Identification of relevant tools and transactions
- Structure and mapping of the data models
- Demo, introduction, and customization of all relevant Fiori apps
Every project of every department in your company must deal with the possibilities of S/4HANA Embedded Analytics in order not to lose touch with the competition. CONSILIO is already working extremely successfully with this tool for quite a few customers.
We help you to identify relevant functions, support you with data models and the structure of the views. This is operational reporting, not BW. Your company needs help implementing the new possibilities offered by S/4HANA Embedded Analytics? Then do not hesitate any longer!
Of course, we support you in setting up your embedded analytics solution by jointly identifying relevant functionalities, creating customized data models, and generating informative views. In the end, you should not only be able to operate the solution but also fully leverage its capabilities. That’s why we complement our services with comprehensive training sessions for end users.
