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November, 2017

S/4HANA Embedded Analyticsand SAP Digital Boardroom

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Agenda

SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics architecture

Core Data Services Views

SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics related applications

SAP Digital Boardroom

Architecture


SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics

Embedded Analytics

Deliver contextualized analytics for SAP

S/4HANA embedded within the context of

work and tailored to business needs and

roles

Consist of Virtual Data Models based on

Core Data Service (CDS) views covering

role based operational reports for lines of

business

Come with tools for Business Users,

Power Users and Developers to analyze

data and manage the lifecycle of reports and

KPIs

Highlights 1610 On-Premise

Continuous extension of the Virtual Data

Model, more than 6000 views and more

than 120 new Embedded Applications

(KPI’s) planned

View Browser Fiori Application to show all

delivered Views

SAP Smart Business and Analysis Path

Framework Integration

BUSINESS USERS POWER USERS

SAP S/4HANA

Virtual Data Models

QUERY

DESIGNER

SAP FIORI

KPI MODELER

ABAP

FOR ECLIPSE

DEVELOPERS

FRONT

END

BACK

END

Spend of

contract

Incoming Sales

Order ….PO Avg. Delivery

Time

Non-managed

purchasing spend

embedded analytics

SAP

SMART

BUSINESS

COCKPITS

QUERY/VIEW

BROWSER

MULTI-

DIMENSIONAL

REPORTS

ANALYTICAL

FIORI APPS


OLTP

Traditional:

OLTP & OLAP Separate

>48 Hours10:00 AM 10:00 AM

OLTP + OLAP in

SAP HANA

10:00:00 AM 10:00:00 AMImmediate

Instant Insight to Action on Live Data

>48+hr Old Data

Aggregate

ETL

Multiple Data Sources

OLAP

Replication

Replication

Replication

Application101010010101001001010011

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101010010101001001010011

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SAP S/4HANA

Decisions and Actions on Old Data

Multiple Data Sources

„Insight-to-action“ with SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics


SAP S/4HANAReal time analytics architecture

Atomic Pre-definedInstantaneous

HANA Database Layer SQL-Runtime-Views on Physical Tables

ABAP Layer Virtual Data Model, based on Core Data Services (CDS)

Analytical Apps and BI Clients

e.g. SAP BusinessObjects

SAP S/4HANA Application

Hybrid Transactional and Analytical

Applications

e.g. SAP Smart Business KPI’s

• Full ABAP Lifecycle Integration

• Supporting ERP authorizations

• Supporting ERP hierarchies

• Part of the general Extensibility concept

• Supporting more business cases

(analytics, search, fact sheets, planning,…)

• No latency

• No data duplication

• Ready-to-use content

• Integration scenarios with SAP BW

Analytical Engine*

*generating Transient BEx Queries

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How to proceed for customer

Existing BW reportsExisting BW reports

Existing BW reportsExisting BW reportsExisting BW reports

(if applicable)

Suitable for real-time

operational data?

EDW-only report/planning

scenario

New SAP S/4HANA

Scenario

Can be covered by

Extension of SAP

S/4HANA Analytics

standard content

Covered by SAP

S/4HANA Analytics

standard content

New non-SAP

ScenarioDone w/ BW

Feature check

Existing BW

reportsExisting BW

reportsExisting BW

reportsExisting BW

reportsOther reporting

requirements

BW hybrid S/4HANA Analytics

Core Data Services Views


Core Data Services enable a consistent SAP Platform Story

SAP HANA Database

ABAP Java HANA XS

Next generation data definition and access for database centric applications

CDS harmonize the programming model

across all SAP platforms on HANA to

ensure reuse and interoperability

Extends SQL to capture

the business intent in the data model

instead of technical complexity in query Core Data Services (CDS)

SAP

Business

Suite

SAP BW

on HANA

SAP HANA

Cloud Platform

High

Performance

Applications

Applications

Programming Interfaces


What are Core Data Services?

DDL

Data Definition Language

Data modelling and retrieval on a

higher semantic level

Extends native SQL means for

higher productivity

QL

Query Language

Consume CDS entities via

platform embedded SQL (e.g

Open SQL in ABAP)

Fully transparent SQL extensions

DCL

Data Control Language

Define authorizations for CDS

views

Integrates with classic

authorization concepts

A family of Domain Specific Languages and Services for defining and consuming semantically enriched data models

DML Write dataData Manipulation

Language

SAP S/4HANA analytics

and SAP HANA 2


This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time

Adoption of SAP HANA 2 in SAP S/4HANAAlways see PAM for HANA DB versions supported in a given SAP S/4HANA release

Starting with RTC of SAP S/4HANA 1610 FPS01

Use SAP HANA 2 as database

Application-support for select features:

– See SAP Note 2426477

– Active/active (first delivery, restricted scope)

– SAP S/4HANA scale-out

Plans to adopt further innovations, e.g.

– Optimizations for extreme data volumes

– Evaluating multistore partitioning for data aging

Benefit from generic enhancements in

administration and other areas

SAP HANA

2

Security / Log volume

encryption

Enhanced workload

management

Capture and Replay

Administration / New SAP

HANA Cockpit

Multistore partitioning

Optimizations for queries on largest data

volumes

Optimizations for OLTP scale-out

HANA System Replication: Active/active

Enabling Fiori

Applications to offload

analytical workload to

HSR secondary

Run largest S/4HANA

systems with

application-optimized

data distribution

Planned enhancements

for applications and

scenarios with extreme

data volume, e.g. retail

Readiness of multistore

partitioning for data aging

in OLTP applications under

evaluation

Features needing

application adoption:Generic Features:

Outlook: possible

further adoption:

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Note: passive support (no feature adoption) also for older SAP

S/4HANA releases (cf. SAP Notes 2426477 and 2445826) and ERP

6.0 EhP 8 and 7 (SAP Note 2447796 and 2494263)

These new

capabilities of the

SAP HANA

platform can be

used regardless of

the application

context

SAP S/4HANA 1709 supports SAP HANA 2

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2426477E

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2426477





Utilizing HSR CPU resources for read-only workload

Value proposition for customers utilizing HANA system replication

– Open secondary hardware for productive workload

– Data preloaded in main memory of secondary (short delay)

– Redirect purely reading workload to secondary▫ See documentation in SAP HANA Administration Guide

Perfect fit for SAP S/4HANA and HTAP* workload

– With increasing analytical workload, CPU requirements grow

– Many SAP S/4HANA customers use HSR with hot standby

Move part of analytical workload to secondary

First support in SAP S/4HANA 1610 FPS 1

SAP HANA Active/ActiveOff-load purely reading workload to HANA System Replication (HSR) secondary

Synchronous or asynchronous replication

modes supported.

Note: Regardless of replication mode, data is

available for read on secondary with short delay

SAP HANA System Replication (HSR)

Log

Application Server

HANA client

library

Application

rr/wHANA HANA

Primary Secondary

w rr

Add hint to allow usage of

active/active

Redirect to secondary if possible

*HTAP: Hybrid Transactional Analytical Processing Check out our blog series on

blogs.sap.com

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_hanaplatform/helpdata/en/fe/5fc53706a34048bf4a3a93a5d7c866/content.htm

https://blogs.sap.com/2017/07/12/making-use-of-an-activeactive-read-only-sap-hana-database-in-sap-s4hana-blog-series/


Adoption of Active/Active in S/4HANAStarting with SAP S/4HANA 1610 FPS 1 and SAP HANA 2.0 revision 1

Performance optimization for Analytical apps

– As of SAP HANA 2, there is an option in SAP HANA System Replication to free up CPU resources by using a secondary SAP HANA node. SAP HANA allows an app to read data not only from the primary SAP HANA node, but also from a secondary SAP HANA node

– For analytical apps that only require read access, reading from the secondary SAP HANA node is a good alternative▫ Works automatically, as long as active/active enabled in HANA

▫ Ignored by HANA if active/active not enabled

– Select Fiori applications being enabled for active/active – see list in SAP Note 2405182 (entries may be subject to change)

– Optionally enable own smart business apps see SAP product help Cross Components Analytics Smart Business Modeler Apps Create tile

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2405182E

http://help.sap.com/s4hana

Related applications



• Total transparency

• Instant data-driven insights

• Simplified boardroom processes

Logistics

Finance

SAP HANA BW

Operations

HR

Etc

Sales

OTHER

SAP BusinessObjects Cloud

• Planning

• Business Intelligence

• Predictive

• Governance

Top Floor


• SAP Smart Business cockpits

• SAP Fiori analytical apps

• Predefined reports & visualizations

• Extensibility concept & toolsShop Floor

Fro

m top f

loor

to s

hop flo

or

SAP S/4HANAFrom the top floor to the shop floor


Analytical List PageOverview Page Object Page

» Light-weight analytical capabilities in context

» KPIs and data visualization as part of the business process

» Visual filtering and intuitive selection based on charts

» Reach-out from the transaction into powerful analytical tools

transferring available context Cloud for Analytics

SAP Fiori analyticsConcepts and Designs


Featured new and enhanced tools and functionality

View Browser

Custom CDS ViewKPI Modelling Apps

Query Builder

Analysis Path

Multidimensional

Reporting Client

https://dewdfgwd01083.wdf.sap.corp:5109/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/ui2/ushell/shells/abap/FioriLaunchpad.html#Shell-home


Data Discovery

&

Analysis

Dashboards

&

Applications

Lumira

Explorer

Design Studio

Dashboards

BEx Web

Analysis for OLAP

Lumira

Design Studio Apps

Design Studio

ReportingCrystal Reports

Web Intelligence

Desktop Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence

Analysis Office

EPM Add-in

Live Office

BEx Analyzer

Office

IntegrationAnalysis Office

Co

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on

pla

tfo

rm s

erv

ice

s

Inte

rop

era

bili

ty

Simplify the landscape…BI Client Convergence

Se

lfS

erv

ice

En

ab

led


SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics + SAP Business Warehouse

Comprehensive operational + historical analytics and planning powered by SAP HANA

All analytics requirements fulfilled with one unified solution

Data Integration Scenarios are possible in multiple hybrid system setups

Strategic and tactical

Integration, harmonization, cross-

system consistency

Consumption

Planning Platform

Multi-sourced data

Preconfigured content

Data lifecycle

Data governance

Complete analytical suite

Operational data

Real-time

Lightweight modeling and

consumption

Extensible

Uniform

Basis for multiple embedded

use cases

Model reuse in analytical

applications

Lightweight planning solutions

SAP BW on SAP HANA or SAP BW/4HANA


Multi-channel Unified User Experience

SAP S/4HANA

(incl. Virtual Data Model)

SAP NetWeaver

New

SA

P A

pp

s

Part

ner

Ap

ps

SAP HANA PLATFORM

SA

P B

W

Database Services (include SAP HANA Views)

Synchronizations Services

Application Services

Additional positioning blog:

http://scn.sap.com/community/s4hana/blog/2016/04/07/

the-end-of-sap-business-warehouse-in-the-context-of-

sap-s4hana-is-not-in-sight

http://scn.sap.com/community/s4hana/blog/2016/04/07/the-end-of-sap-business-warehouse-in-the-context-of-sap-s4hana-is-not-in-sight


No immediate impact on the integration of SAP S/4HANA

and SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW/4HANA is not a prerequisite solution for SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA integrates in the same way with SAP BW/4HANA as it already does with SAP BW powered by SAP HANA

to…

– … complement each other

– … cover all analytic use cases on one data source

– … provide a comprehensive reporting platform

New innovations taking place in SAP BW/4HANA …

– … are compatible with existing setups (customers can migrate to where necessary)

– … focus on Big Data and enhanced data management (Multi-temperature handling, HEC, AWS or Azure, etc.)

– … primarily strengthen the EDW character of SAP BW/4HANA

With SAP BW/4HANA being SAP’s strategic platform for EDW, it’s new functionality

will enhance the integration with SAP S/4HANA in a long term

(e.g. CDS extraction, aligned content objects and models)


SAP Best Practices for analytics in SAP S/4HANA

The SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics are tailored to accelerate and simplify the adoption of analytics with

SAP S/4HANA edition by delivering enriched operational reporting in the context of the respective business processes

What value does it provide?

• Embedded Analytics with SAP S/4HANA for setting up CDS views and various

analytical apps based on CDS views to have a jump start the implementation and

activation of embedded analytics with SAP S/4HANA

• Pre-configured operational reporting for core business processes with role specific,

responsive and simple UX

• Two layered analytical content included to simplify the consumption of operational

reporting:

• SAP Fiori Analytical Apps embedded in the standard SAP Best Practices for

SAP S/4HANA business processes

• SAP BI Design Studio Dashboards provided in the areas such as Accounts

Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center and Revenue Planning

• SAP Best Practices offers extensibility to the preconfigured Dashboard templates

• Manual for Integration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW

• Pre-defined apps showing the integration between SAP S/4HANA and

SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Direct link to package in SMP: http://service.sap.com/analyticswiths4h

http://service.sap.com/analyticswiths4h

Additional information


Setup S/4HANA Analytics

The following 2 notes are to be referred and implemented in the sequence mentioned below.

2289865 - Configuration steps for S/4 HANA Analytics

1972819 - Setup SAP BPC for S/4 HANA Finance and Embedded BW Reporting (aka

Integrated Business Planning for Finance) *

For troubleshooting please review:

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Support+for+S4+HANA

* If using SAP BPC for S/4HANA it is recommended to verify the system setting as described in 2048896 - Hana Content

activation check

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2289865

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Support+for+S4+HANA

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2048896


SAP HANA Academy Videos: Please try this at home…

Playlist for S/4 HANA videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkzo92owKnVxO-jWmOWugBv_9WQiq8wLc


Operating System (OS) requirements see SAP Note 2235581. Minimum required OS versions:

• SLES 12 SP1 (Intel and Power)

• RHEL 7.2 (Intel only)

Hardware requirements

• Intel based restrictions SAP Note 2399995

• IBM: only Power 8 supported SAP Note 2055470, Power 7 uses Big Endian so Big Little Endian migration

activity needs to be performed to update to Power 8 (see SAP Note 2380257)

Summary of the procedure to upgrade from SAP HANA 1 to SAP HANA 2 in SAP Note 2469025

Operations

• Multitenant database containers are mandatory with HANA 2.0 SPS 01, if the database is a single container

a migration process is performed. See SAP Note 2423367 for details

Considerations for SAP HANA 2

Recommendation: customers planning new deployments of SAP

S/4HANA on the IBM Power Platform may want to choose SAP HANA 2

from the beginning, to avoid data migration activities.


Blog series with details has been published


Many details similar to static caches

E.g. how to configure acceptance of “delayed data” in Fiori or Smart Business App

See presentation by Christoph on static caches

More Information regarding active/active

Check out our blog series on

blogs.sap.com



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