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SAC functionalities w.rt. tasks, workflow and write back/live data manipulation

niamor — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:29:54 GMT

Hi all,

From the available information online (https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/cloud-analytics/features.html) on the features and capabilities of SAC I am not 100% able to confirm the below. Could you please help out?

* Regarding tasks and workflows. Is it possible to send out tasks, potentially part of workflows, in SAC native or when it is integrated in a FIORI application (embedded SAC")?

* On the topic of live data manipulation and write back. For instance a use case we have is "1) being able to e.g. for financial invoices mark on the document level in a table whether it has been reviewed or not and 2) being able to write this back to e.g. a SAP HANA table". Are these two functionalities present? I have read about being able to write back data to SAP BPC, but was unable to confirm whether other write destinations are also possible.

Many thanks!

Re: SAC functionalities w.rt. tasks, workflow and write back/live data manipulation

William_Yu1 — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:53:20 GMT

Hi niamor,

1. Workflow capability (SAC Celandar) is only available in SAC entepriese, and it's NOT there for embedded SAC.

2. Document level detail on invoice is normaly refering to actuals happened on ERP side, SAC usually is NOT planning on invoice level. What's the use case you have to change invoice level information from a planning solution?

Best regards, William

Re: SAC functionalities w.rt. tasks, workflow and write back/live data manipulation

N1kh1l — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:53:37 GMT

niamor

Workflow tasks in SAC is managed through Calendar task. See below for details.

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ANALYTICS_CLOUD/00f68c2e08b941f081002fd3691d86a7/6019a3530ff744a7894a050340febba9.html

SAC Export Options Available:

https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/2540886

Export Models and Data (SAP Analytics Cloud Help)

Current export sources (See help file above for further information and pre-requisites):

To a file (CSV),
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) (3011069 - Checkpoints: Export Job and Import Job between BPC Model and SAP Analytics Cloud),
OData service to BW and BW/4HANA (2920775 - Export of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) transaction data to SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 SP4 or SAP BW 750 SP18),
SAP S/4HANA (2998919 - Tips and Tricks of Analyzing S/4HANA Data Integration with SAC Issues),
SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) (2721602 - Connection to IBP with SAP Analytics Cloud).

Data Export Service Open API:

Please upvote/accept if this helps you.

Nikhil

Re: SAC functionalities w.rt. tasks, workflow and write back/live data manipulation

niamor — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 10:53:45 GMT

Hi William

Thanks for your quick reply.

1. The workflow capability (SAC Calendar) seems to be primarily for financial planning and review processes. Is this correct? Or can the functionality also be used for other types of workflow use cases? Take for instance periodic assessments of key risk indicators and so on?

2. I'll elaborate more. The use case I was referring to is actually not in the financial planning and/or consolidation domain, but in the risk management domain. Let's say based on the logic in the backend (e.g. SAP HANA calculation view / CDS view) a list of 10 invoices is flagged and shown in the SAC dashboard (or embeded in fiori app), for instance because we suspect these to be duplicate or because these appear not to be compliant. Thus end-user needs to follow up on these invoices.and check these 10 manually whether indeed something is not in line with our expecations. User wants to record a conclusion per flagged invoice, e.g. "reviewed and okay" and "reviewed and not okay", potentially with an added comment. Of course, we want to save this information in a data source to keep track of this.

Thank you

Re: SAC functionalities w.rt. tasks, workflow and write back/live data manipulation

William_Yu1 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:23:39 GMT

Hi niamor,

1. Calendar feature is NOT limited to planning scenario in SAC.

2. Ok, I can undestand your use case, but I'm still wondering if SAC the best tool for this use case. At least, at this moment SAC does not support commenting on live data source( we are working on it).

Best regards, William