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SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics: An Overview

jkumaraplx
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‎2022 Apr 26 2:36 PM
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In this blog post I will discuss the overview of SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics which is one of the key innovations of S/4HANA. It is a collection of SAP Fiori tiles in SAP S/4HANA that enable real time operational reporting. Embedded Analytics uses SAP Fiori as the front-end user interface and SAP has delivered standard content known as Fiori analytical apps for various functional areas.

 

SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics Scope


 

    • Business Innovation through Radical Simplification

 

    • Agility and Creativity for the Line of Business

 

    • Scale and Trust for the Enterprise

 

    • Simplify the Platform

 

    • Enhance the user experience

 

    • Innovate for the future



 

SAP S/4HANA analytics overview


 

 

SAP S/4HANA Analytics Overview


 

    • Embedded analytics is exclusively based SAP Fiori and SAP Analytics UI's.

 

    • It comes with a lot of predefined analytical apps based on Fiori and on SAP Analytics Cloud for the Business Users.

 

    • For creating own KPIs, reports, dashboards etc., SAP S/4HANA provides tools for the role of the Analytics Specialist.

 

    • The analytical models are implemented in the SAP S/4HANA Virtual Data Model, which provides real-time access to the transactional data and which therefore needs no data replication.

 

    • Embedded Analytics works only on the data that is currently in the SAP S/4HANA system.

 

    • For S/4HANA On-Premise customers they can leverage the stories created with the stand-alone SAP Analytics cloud and integrate them into the SAP Fiori Launchpad.



 

 

SAP S/4HANA Architecture
(*) only available for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (edited by moderation)
(**) Refer to Enterprise SAC (edited by moderation)


 

Key takeaways


 

    • SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics is not a single feature but a concept of how to get insights to a business user

 

    • SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics comes with a lot of predefined business content in the form of KPIs, reports, queries, predictive scenarios, planning scenarios

 

    • The main user types addressed by SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics are business users and analytics specialists

 

    • The analytics specialist is a role that has all the tools to create customer -specific analytics content

 

    • SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics is well integrated with other SAP Analytics offerings



 

In this blog post we learned an overview of SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics and it's benefits, To learn even more on the SAP S4/HANA and to keep up to date be sure to check out the help documentation, Also please feel free to share any feedback in a comment under this blog post and if you have any further questions on SAP S4/HANA embedded analytics and be sure to leave a question in the community also here.

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