Data Templates for Concur Data Delivery Service (D...

JJ_Waldher · ‎2024 Sep 17

Overview

The Data Templates for the Concur Data Delivery Service (DDS) Expense content package offers a powerful solution for visualizing and analyzing data captured in SAP Concur Expense. Seamlessly integrated with SAP Data Delivery Services and utilizing the SAP Analytics Cloud for data visualization, this solution provides administrators with comprehensive insights into organizational expenses, system administration, and user distributions. Its advanced analytics capabilities include robust auditing and control features essential for fraud detection and compliance assurance.

Built upon Analytical Models in SAP Datasphere and visualized in SAP Analytics Cloud, this content package encompasses a suite of detailed stories that deliver in-depth perspectives on expense management. These insights empower administrators to make informed decisions, optimize expense workflows, and enhance overall financial governance.

SAP MISSIONS

What are Missions? Missions include best practices and step-by-step guidance for implementing business use cases, with a well-established support from the community and mission experts, for free of cost. Missions also guide your project team throughout the adoption phases of SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP Missions are created by SAP Product Teams to help you address your pain-points and solve business problems. These missions span across the complete adoption lifecycle with the goal of go live. Missions include best practices and step-by-step guidance for implementing use cases, with a well-established support from mission experts and SAP Community.

Extract your Concur Data Delivery Service using SAP Integration Suite Mission

Use Case

If you are using the Data Delivery Service from Concur and have subscribed to the necessary SAP BTP services listed in the prerequisites below, you can take advantage of the pre-built content available across these services through Business Content. This approach will significantly reduce the effort required to build the data pipeline end-to-end. Instead, you will only need a few hours to import, configure, and use this content. This Discovery Mission will guide you through the process of using SAP Integration Suite to extract data from the Concur Data Delivery Service, load it into SAP Datasphere, and then deploy the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Business Content for Concur Analytics.

Current Position - What is the challenge?

The challenge is to bring SAP Concur spend data into SAP tools. This improves the user experience, decision-making, and financial and operational planning through relevant visualizations and frequent updates. It also sets a foundation for future use of SAC Enterprise smart features and integration with other data sources.

Destination - What is the outcome?

- Improve decision-making and financial/operational planning by presenting customers with a more comprehensive understanding of their Concur expenditure data, as SAC narratives provide a more interconnected view compared to Intelligence reports.

- Enhance the precision and completeness of data provided to customers.

- Provide frequent prompt insights numerous times a day.

- Establish a base for future use of SAC smart features and for integration with other data sources.

How You Get There - What is the solution?

The Data Delivery Service with Data Templates provides customers with their Concur data and a prebuilt pipeline using SAP BTP services. This includes not only today's data but also historical data from up to the last two years and all current transactional data. This way, companies can find new insights, and increase workflow efficiencies and cost savings.

Next Steps

To learn more and to complete this mission - click HERE!

* Travel, Travel Allowance, Invoice & Request data on Roadmap for future releases *

Resources:

SAP Concur SAP Integration Suite SAP Datasphere SAP Analytics Cloud