SAP S/4HANA Analytics

Your path to efficient, flexible and

intuitive real-time reporting

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You have many options with ABAP CDS
You have already successfully implemented SAP S/4HANA?
You are about to start or in the process of implementing SAP S/4HANA?

If so, you have no doubt already asked yourself at least one of the following questions:
▪ What place does analytics occupy in my company?
▪ How can I establish the right setup to be able to offer business analytics to the business departments?
▪ Do I need an SAP BI system and does my SAP BI team have the right skill set for the future?
▪ What should my analytics architecture and strategy look like?
▪ What possibilities does ABAP CDS technology open up?

-> Leave classic architecture principles behind and benefit from flexibility
-> Real-time capable and efficient analytics is possible and no longer a buzzword
ABAP
ABAPCDS
CDS
-> Usability is disengaged from the underlying architecture
-> Classic obstacles to extraction are resolved
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ABAP CDS Views in a general context

TECHNICAL ENHANCEMENTS

Integrated within SAP Optimised SAP HANA Enhancement of Supports numerous

HANA (ABAP stack) access (pushdown) SQL logic functions functions

Data definitions
Commands
(Data Definition Language)

Metadata Domain-Specific Language

Query definitions
Associations
(Query Language)

Data modifications
(Data Manipulation Language)

Permissions
(Data Control Language)

Annotations control your entire application

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The path to a smart reporting architecture with consistent frontend tools

SAP BW Queries SAP BW Queries SAP BW Queries

SAP BW/4 HANA

Architected Data Marts Architected Data Marts

EDW Propagation EDW Propagation

Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Virtual Data Model FI

CDS CDS

Virtual Data Model FI CDS CDS CDS

Virtual Data Model FI
CDS CDS CDS CDS
CDS CDS CDS CDS CDS CDS
A B C D

A B C D
A B C D A B C D
ACDOCA
A B C D
ACDOCA A B C D
ACDOCA A B C D
ACDOCP
A B C D
ACDOCP A B C D
ACDOCP …
… …

Classic approach: “Embedded BW” approach: “Native” approach:

SAP BW/4HANA on SAP S/4HANA SAP BW on HANA in SAP S/4 HANA Purely virtual S/4 reporting
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Virtual Data Model – Architecture and Tools

User
Interface

View
Virtual Data
View View
Model

View View View

Eclipse as modelling tool

Physical
Database
Layer
ABAP Workbench

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Relevant objects from BW (LSA++) and CDS perspectives
SAP BW Objects Virtual Data Model

SAP BW Query Consumption Views View View View

Composite Provider View

Composite Views
aDSO View View

InfoObject Key Figure Unit

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Basic Views View View View

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DEMO

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Advantages of source system reporting

System landscape Users

▪ Extractors not affected by release changes ▪ Facilitates efficient reporting in familiar tool environment
▪ Initial loading no longer required with all relevant features
▪ No BWA (if present) required ▪ Comprehensive analysis functionalities
▪ Smaller system landscape ▪ Compatible with all common frontend tools (SAC, Lumira,
AfO and UI5)
▪ Real-time reporting

Finances Day-to-day business

▪ Lower system costs ▪ High level of reusability of central objects, making for
▪ Lower licencing costs shorter development time
▪ Reduced maintenance requirements ▪ No release cycles
▪ Lower operating costs ▪ No time spent on loading data into BW
▪ Developer tests possible without ETL loading
▪ Analysis permissions no longer required
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Use our modular concept for efficient analytics!

Basic Frontend Analytics Analytics

Use Cases PoC
Workshop Strategy Strategy Project
We will show you No reporting without The purpose of this We are now familiar At a fixed price, you After positive test
what SAP S/4HANA frontend. Which workshop is to with your wishes and will receive a solution results and successful
Analytics is all about possibilities would suit determine your those of your users. for identifying the analytics outcomes, we
and explain the the respective user potential. Together, we Let us jointly create a improvement potential. will be able to jointly
possibilities it offers. group? The chosen will develop the basis roadmap for a future BI You can determine the make the new analytics
We will jointly analytics architecture for a meaningful PoC strategy and architec- scope of the PoC. experience available to
discover the potential does not affect the depending on your ture. During the workshop, your users.
for your future decision. It is the requirements. This can you can also underpin We shall be happy to
analytics. business department cover both extraction your strategy or try out contribute our content
and its users’ needs that and reporting topics. our CubeServ content. here as well.
are most relevant here.

1 day 1 day 1 day 1-3 days up to 10 days

No progress without a common understanding You can decide which modules you require!
and basis! You can, but don’t have to, select all modules.
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CubeServ Performance Portfolio

▪ We provide strategy consulting support ▪ Architecture recommendations

▪ PoC to assist with decision-making
▪ SAP S/4HANA Analytics
Readiness Check
Analytics Strategy Architecture ▪ Assistance with naming conventions
Consulting Consulting

▪ We can supply you with ▪ Implementation of complex CDS/BI

readymade templates for requirements also in combination
standard reporting
Standard Content Implementation with hybrid architectures
▪ Make use of our content for ▪ Coaching
extractors and don’t reinvent the ▪ Training
wheel!

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CubeServ Performance Portfolio

Why SAP S/4HANA Our offer for your

Analytics with CubeServ? company:

▪ We will assist you with our

▪ Comprehensive expertise in technical and operational
analytics competence.
▪ Top-class consulting company for
▪ We will be there for you, from
BI topics for 20 years
vision to implementation to
▪ Implementation experience operation.
involving ABAP CDS Views
▪ Broad technical and operational ▪ Let us start with a one-day
know-how workshop to check your envisioned
scenario for CDS compatibility.

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Contact us to obtain your personal offer!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

YOUR CONTACT:

René Lechtenböhmer
Management Consultant
T +49 173 214 6155
[email protected]

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