ANALYTICS CLOUD

TRAINING
Anubhav Oberoy
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What is SAC –

SAP Analytics Cloud is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) connecting your

people, data, and ideas from multiple sources to enable fast and confident
decision making. It allows users to discover, visualize, plan, and predict, all
End to End Single Training to cover all your
needs
• All the BI features with all
kinds of stories and widgets
like charts, table, maps
• Real-time scenarios

• Setup SAP Analytics Cloud • Learn Planning with Planning

system models built on acquired
• Learn fundamentals of SAP data models
Cloud platform • Advanced planning features
• Scenario based training with all with value-driver tree,
the required data sets based on allocation, distributions and
real-time examples provided many more.

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All topics at one single place – clear direction

Digital Board Room Prediction and Analytic Live Connections

Designer
• Connect stories to build • Create predictive models and utilize • Configure LIVE connections to
digital board room machine learning scenarios for • SAP S/4HANA, BW, and BPC
regression, classification and time series • Consume data from SAP
• Use smart predict, smart
• Design amazing Analytical apps using HANA in SAP Cloud platform
insights, smart discovery
analytic designer • SAP Cloud connector and
• Utilize scripting to trigger insight to SAC agent
action
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Who all can join?

Business Users BW and BI Consultants BOBJ Consultant

Build Models & Stories Acquire data and advance Build Dashboards on Live
modelling and acquired data

Financial Analysts Business Analysts / Data Application Developers

Build planning model and enterprise Scientist Design complex scripting based
financial and resource planning Build ML models and predict future analytical apps for insight to
trends action
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What we have in demo today?

Load Data – Use Case

We have received last 9 year hospital beds data in
USA states and hospitals, we would like to prepare a
dashboard on the same.

Create Model after wrangling

We need to enrich data with geo axis (spatial data)

Build Story
The need is to show all the states on a geo
map and display the total no. of beds in each
hospital
Display the bed break-ups per hospital over Y-o-
Y basis

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Our expected result
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Easy Step by Step - Story Building

Understand Upload Prepare Story

Understand the Upload the data to SAP Use available widgets to present
requirement from the user’s analytics Cloud the data, configure drill downs
perspective and linked analysis

STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5 STEP 6

Collect Data Wrangle and Blend Style and Publish

Collect and prepare data at Prepare data model as foundation Apply styling, branding and
one single place from for story by data wrangling, theming to present the data
different sources transformation, blending to your end user

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FAQs
1. Is there any pre-requisite to learn?
With anubhav trainings there is zero pre-requisite as we will cover all of it from beginning, which includes fundamentals of SAP cloud platform, BW, analytics, BI,
DB, HANA and S/4HANA introduction.
2. What are all covered in this course?
Everything you need to know as per SAP SAC certification which includes BI, planning, predictive, designer, digital boardroom, live connection and
Administration. (All-in-one)
3. Where do I practice (server access)?
SAP offering free trial for SAC where you can practice, we will provide all datasets to build stories of BI, planning, ML and analytic designer.
4. Will you show Live data connection, if yes which systems?
We will see live connection with S/4hana, BW, BPC and with HANA in cloud.
5. How to enroll for the course and what is the duration?
Duration is 40 hours, please email us on [email protected] to enroll for this course
6. Where can I find detailed course content.
For more Details
Its on our course page : https://www.anubhavtrainings.com/sap-analytics-cloud-training
7. Will I get study material also?
Visit
We will provide link to study material offered by SAP with public domain links. https://www.anubhavtrainings.com
8. Is training real time?
Yes, we will cover all real time scenarios with case studies, exercises, and scenarios.
9. What about SAC certification?
We will cover a unit where we explain about certification topics, exam code, and tips to crack.
10. Can I also attend the course in video mode in case I miss a class?
Yes, we have all the Live classes which are recorded and you can watch them after the sessions.

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What is On-premise and Cloud?
An on-premise software requires following
- Hardware to be purchased 3 Lakh Customers
- Networking to be setup 30 k partners
- License needs to be bought by paying lump-sum
- Hire professionals to maintain the system and health of the solution
65% of world GDP
- Upgrade and new patches is on customer to apply
- Initial investment is very high
- Scalability is difficult to achieve
Example: SAP ECC, Outlook, Office, SAP BW, SAP BOBJ, SAP BI, SAP S/4HANA … (Large corporations)
Cloud Solution
- Consume the software as a Service (SaaS)
- No installation required in your co.
- No hardware, hire any security and networking workforce
- Complete software is managed by Vendor including upgrades
- Pay per use, pay per user
- Low TCO, Fast adaption, faster innovation
Example – Gmail, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud (SaaS) (SAC)

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What does Cloud Offers?
The app we share with our end user and they can access it over
SaaS – Software as a Service internet w/o any installation in their system
e.g. Gmail, SAP Analytics Cloud
Allows you to support for programming
(programming, DB, Scaling, Q, dis, proxy..)
PaaS – Platform as a Service ESo2, ocean cloud, cloud 9, SAP Cloud Platform
NEO (SAP) and Cloud Foundry (AWS,MAZ,Google)

IaaS – Infrastructure as A service Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google

The Infrastructure and apps also are use on sharing basis. Each customer who is sharing these resources is
called tenant.

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What is SAP Cloud Platform?
SAP Cloud Platform is a platform as a service which provides support for developing
applications in the cloud. It offers so many services like DB, Prog.,Monitoring. It is available in
2 options –
1. Neo (SAP owns the IaaS)
2. CF (Infrastructure is AWS, G, MAZ)

Data Center or Region cloud vendors to achieve scalability & elasticity and compliance, they
have servers across globe. Check Data Centers and offerings here

SAP Analytics cloud is Software as a Service which is also hosted/offered by SAP Cloud Platform.

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What is HANA and S/4HANA?
HANA stands for High Performance Analytical Appliance. It is an in-memory database. SAP also added more capability in this DB like
programming support, Enabled built-in machine learning capability (EML), added predictive capability (PAL). Hence HANA is called now as
platform.
S/4HANA is a latest SAP ERP solution introduced in 2015. It also offers 2 ways of deployment
1. S/4HANA
2. S/4HANA Cloud
Responsive App – An application which adapts itself according to device.

Presentation Presentation
SAPGUI I/O SAP Fiori Apps

New ERP
2015 going Application Layer (Basis)
Application Layer (Basis) Processing (S/4HANA –
to be the
Processing (ECC – functionality) functionality)
future of SAP
ERP

HANA OR Other DB HANA

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How different Solutions work?

Miami King County SAP BPC

Planning
S/4HANA
&
ERP Consolidation
Santa Clara NYC

SAP HANA On-premise SAP HANA

Oracle
OLAP
Online
Analytical
BOBJ Processing
ETL
Data Warehouse
SAP BI Extraction,
SAP BW – On Premise
Transformation
Modeling and Loading
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What is SAP BW, BOBJ & BPC?
BW – Business Warehouse
BOBJ – Business Objects for the data wrangling and dashboard creation
BPC – Business Planning and Consolidation

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What is SAP Analytics Cloud?
A SaaS which allows the business users/CIOs/Decision Makes to take Informed and confident decisions.
Decision making = based on data
Confident decision = Insight
Turn insight to action
SAC enables the intelligent enterprises by providing everyone with the insight to make confident
decisions and take immediate action. A solution which is
Complete – its one solution – all analytical capabilities – BI, Planning, Predict and Designing
Contextual – Gain enterprise ready insight and take actions
Confident – Make smarter decisions with AI-driven insights w/o learning complex algo.

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History of SAP SAC?
Mid 2013 – Project Orca

2014 – SAP Cloud for planning

2015 – SAP Business Object Cloud

2017 – SAP cloud for Analytics

2019 – SAC – SAP Analytics Cloud

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SAC Strategy - Principles of Convergence
We are converging use-cases not features and functions
SAP BI 4.x continue to work and maintained 4.3 (investment is still ON)
No force migration

Exceptions:
The support for ADOBE flash is ending in Dec 2020
SAP BOBJ Explorer
SAP BOBJ Dashboard
SAP BOBJ Desktop intelligence – Dec 2018

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Impact on Existing Solution – BI Strategy
Data discovery
*SAP BOBJ Explorer
Rombi SAP SAC
Lumira Desktop/Discovery
BOBJ Analysis for OLAP

Dashboard and app design

BOBJ Designer Studio SAP Lumira 2.x – by 2024
Bex Webapp Designer After that we must move to SAC
*BOBJ Dashboard

Office integration
Live Office Analysis Office
EPM Add-in
Bex Analyser

Reporting Crystal Reports (BOBJ)

Desktop Intelligence SAP SAC
BOBJ Set Analytics

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Impact on Existing Solution –
Planning Strategy

BPC – standalone planning with S/4HANA on-premise

Planning SAC – standalone solution for planning for SAP Cloud solutions

BPC – standalone planning with S/4HANA on-premise

Consolidation S/4HANA – group reporting functionality – s/4hana embedded
planning and consolidation

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Impact on Existing Solution – Prediction
SAP Data intelligence solution – Develop machine learning models and can be applied on
your ERP dataset.
Going forward all the data intelligence development starring 2018 were channelized to SAP
SAC.

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Why SAC is important as compare to outside market

BI – Business Intelligence – Tableau (Salesforce 15.7bn), Power Bi, Quicktech

Planning – Hyperion, Alaplan
Predictive – Watson (IBM), SAS

SAC – Supports All of above and on top the Application designer

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How SAC is advanced from its Competitor
WORKDAY
SAP – SAP ANALYTICS ORACLE MICROSOFT (Power THOUGHTSPOT* SALESFORCE +
CAPABILITIES CLOUD (OAC) BI) needs updating
(Adaptive Insights + ANAPLAN
TABLEAU
Prism Analytics)

Not in one (no planning)

All analytics on one cloud native platform: BI, planning, platform
augmented​analytics

Live connection to on-premise data sources without

moving the data to cloud​

Pre-built industry and line-of-business content, built by

the vendor and its partners​
(Acquired through
Hybrid analytics: offering on premise and cloud that Tableau)
work together​

Embedded machine learning in business applications

with process and workflow with semantics
and business logic​

Board and C-suite analytics with large touch screens

display UX with SAP Digital Boardroom​

End-to-end data management and

analytics capabilities that work seamlessly together ​

Planning and analysis embedded with ERP​

Has this capability Has some of this capability Does not have this capability

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SAP SAC Architecture

Applications SAP Digital Boardroom SAP Analytics Hub Mobile Experience SAP App Center

BI Planning Predictive Application Design Embedding

Discovery Events and workflows
Analytic Smart Assist Scripting Analytics into applications
Charts and tables Allocation
Capabilities Build & deploy predictive Composites
Geospatial Value driver tree simulation models UI theme & stylesheet

Core Data Administration

Wrangling Modeling Visualizations Collaboration Mobile APIs
Capabilities connectivity Auditing

PaaS SAP Cloud Platform

Amazon Web Services SAP Data Center

Cloud data sources On-premise data sources and

and applications
applications

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Embedded Standard Content

72 Packages 65 Packages
by SAP by Partners
 SAP S/4HANA  SAP data sources
 SAP C/4HANA  Non-SAP data sources
 SAP SFSF
 SAP Concur
 SAP Ariba
 etc..

Accelerate your Enterprise Analytics projects with pre-built analytics from SAP and our Partners

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Business content delivered by SAP
Line of Business 
 SAP S/4HANA for Financial Products Subledger – Real Estate
 Advanced Compliance Reporting Reporting  Retail (Model Company Fashion for Vertical Business)
 Business ByDesign (Finance and Procurement)  Sales Cloud for SAP S/4HANA (BPE)
 Environment, Health and Safety  Sales Performance and Target Planning (CRM)  Retail (Model Company Core Retail)
 Field Service Management  Sales Cloud for SAP S/4HANA Cloud (BPE)  Retail (Omnichannel Article Availability and Sourcing)
 Finance  SAP Sales Planning for SAP S/4HANA Cloud  Rural Sourcing Management
 Finance Account Receivable – Invoice Payment Forecasting.  Service Cloud Analytics (CRM)  Utilities
 Finance Contract Accounts (FI-CA)  Solution Manager: Test Suite Analysis
 Finance – Live based on Semantic Tags

 Solution Manager IT Service Management Analytics Packages that include Planning
Financial Consolidation for SAP S/4HC Cloud (BPE)  Sports One Analytics
 Financial Planning & Analysis for SAP S/4HANA Cloud  Sports One Analytics (German)  Banking
 FI Operational Expense Planning  Trade Management  Chemicals
 Goods and Services Tax GST Analytics  Travel & Expense – Concur
 Human Resources (SuccessFactors)  Treasury Management  Finance
 Human Resources (SuccessFactors) – Simplified Chinese Localization  Vendor Management System (Fieldglass)  Financial Planning & Analysis S/4HC (BPE)
 Human Resources (SuccessFactors) (BPE)  Workforce Planning for S/4HC (BPE)  FI Operational Expense Planning
 Human Resources Salary Planning  High Tech
 Intelligent Asset Management Industry  Human Resources Salary Planning
 Integrated Financial Planning for SAP S/4HANA  Integrated Financial Planning for SAP S/4HANA
  Agriculture Origination, Trading and Risk Management 
Liquidity Planning for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Liquidity Planning for SAP S/4HANA Cloud (BPE)
 SAP Marketing (New)  Oil & Gas
 Manufacturing S/4HC (BPE)  Banking  Product Cost Planning
 Procurement  Chemicals  Project Budgeting & Planning S/4HC (BPE)
 Procurement for SAP S/4HC (BPE)  Consumer Products  Project Staff Planning
 Product Cost Planning  Customer Profitability Analysis  Sales Performance and Target Planning (CRM)
 Project and Portfolio Management  Engineering, Construction, & Operations  Sales Planning for SAP S/4HANA Cloud (BPE)
 Project Budgeting & Planning S/4HC (BPE)  Health Care  Travel & Expense (Budget Planning)
 Project Staff Planning  High Tech (New)  Workforce Planning for SAP S/4HC (BPE)
 Receivables Management for S/4HANA Cloud (BPE)  Industry Innovation Kit – Leonardo Zero Waste
 

SAP Finance – Contract-based revenue recognition (CBRR)
SAP Financial Products Subledger IFRS17 for S/4HANA (New) 
Insurance
Mill Products Further information can be found
 

SAP Integrated Business Planning
SAP Intelligent Asset Management 
Mining
Oil & Gas in the following blog
 SAP Qualtrics - Customer Satisfaction Score  Professional Services S/4HC (BPE)
 SAP Qualtrics - Survey distribution and Analysis  Public Sector
 SAP Supply Base Optimization  Public Services: Higher Education and Research

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References
SAP Analytics Cloud Product Roadmap
SAP Analytics Cloud Help Documentation
SAC Webinars
Help Library
Free learning videos
What’s new with SAP SAC
SAC YouTube Playlist
SAC Admin guide for Live connection
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Register for your SAP SAC Server
https://blogs.sap.com/2019/06/24/webinar-summary-sap-bi-roadmap-update-with-saps-patrick-sims/
Coming Friday
- Analytics HUB – Standard Content – Live Connection with BW, BPC and HANA
- Digital board room
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SAP Analytics Cloud Certification –
C_SAC_2008
• One SAP Analytics Cloud Certification (SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP
Analytics Cloud) was rolled out in December 2019.
• This certification proves that the candidate has an overall understanding and
technical skills to participate as a member of project team.

• Certification Hub Subscription : 500 € (EUR)

• CER006 - SAP Certification in the Cloud (6 attempts)

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SAP Analytics Cloud – BI Features
BI – Business Intelligence
BI comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for data analysis on historic and
present data for finding pattern and taking future decision.
BI is now leveraging Machine learning which is a field of AI to also take confident decision.

Process of applying BI

Visualize –
Requirement Prepare
Access data Building Predict Share
Collection Modeling
Story

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 Understand Data Types – Dimensions &
Measures
aster Data – data which does not change frequently, create TRs. Employee – Master data
mension
ompanyCode Name
Empid Name
IBM Transaction data (facts) – numeric value
1001 Anubhav
SAP
Measure - KPI
SoId Company Amount Curr Emp Pid 1002 Jack
Facebook
1 X 520 USD 1001 P1 1003 Ananya
2 Y 950 EUR 1001 P1
3 Z 500 EUR 1001 P2
4 X 9000 INR 1003 P3
5 Z 1500 JPY 1003 P4
6 Y 7500 USD 1003 P4

Time (date) Aggregation by currency ProductId Name

Yearly
P1 iPhone
Half
Quarter P2 iPad
Months
Days P3 Laptop

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What is Account Dimension & Hierarchy?
Account Dimension
All your measure combining called Account Dimension
Grouping of all KPI and also in Financials it gives sign (+ve,-ve)
Account dimension in FIN planning have version (Category) – Actual, Forecast, Budget

Hierarchy  1. level based hierarchy 2. Parent Child hierarchy (visualize tree)

Tree relationship between data, It helps to aggregate data and visualize in more of business terms
Cost Center Hierarchy, Region-Country-City

APJ 3800
India 1800
Rajasthan 600
EMEA kota 200
Maharashtra jaipur 400
NA
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Prediction – Types of Data Types
Data Type

Categorial Continuous
Dimension Measure

Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio

Discrete values Discrete values but they have There is some difference in the Measure Values
e.g. currency, empid, order data Sum, Substract Multiply
customer, product Hour, Day, week, month, Q Sum, Substract e.g.
CANNOT Multiply, devide Gross, profit, loss
No True Zero height
e.g. Temprature
-10 -5 0 5 10
Use Case 1
The Mobility Company

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Different Types Of Models
Model is the foundation which is built using data or Connection in SAP Analytics Cloud for
building Stories.
Why we use model
- Data wrangling, cleansing
- Blending
- Hierarchy
- Adding new Dimensions and Measures
- Aggregations and Exp. Agg.
Types of models in SAC
Embedded V/s Public
Analytics v/s Planning
Acquired V/s Live

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Model Types
Embedded V/s Public
• Embedded models are only used by one story
• Public Models can be used by Multiple Stories – Reusable

Analytics v/s Planning

Analytical models are used in BI Stories and Planning models are used in Planning scenarios (FI)
Most of the models are analytics models = Account dimension
A planning model has following mandatory – Account, Category (version), Time, Org(planning)

Acquired V/s Live

Acquired – All data is Stored inside SAC
Live – Data is fetched at runtime, model is just a structure (data never moves out of customer system)
In trial account how much data you can store in SAC  200 MB

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Funda Fox
• The pre-requisite to make sure that you design a good dashboard to take right decision is that your
data must be proper
• In case there are data anomalies (blank, errors) you can use data wrangling to correct it.
• In SAC, when we create Story we have 3 types of pages
 Canvas Page – Desktop based stories
 Responsive Page – Used to create story which works on all devices (mobile)
 Grid – Desktop but looks like a Table only
• Ideally all dataset corrections must be done in Source of data, SAC should be used for minor
available wrangling and transformation options

Story
panel
panel widgets
widgets
Pages Panels
panel widgets
widgets
panes
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Types of filters
- Story filter - Filter data at entire story level
- Page Filter - Filter data at page level
- Widget filter - Filter data at widget level

Funda Fox
It is possible to convert Story filters to page filter and vice-versa

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Public Model
A public model in SAP analytics cloud can be of type planning or analytics. The main purpose is to allow
data to consumed by multiple stories unlike the embedded model which is only used by ONE story.
There 3 data sources to choose from
1. Manually – Using Blank Model option
2. Flat file
S/4HANA
3. Data Source
1 trillion

Data Model Data source

Story
(public) Google Drive

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Hierarchy
It is a tree data structure to represent data with its relationship to the parent.
1. Level based hierarchy
Used when we want to create parent-child relationship between MULTIPLE
dimensions. All the parent nodes will become an property of the child
dimension.
2. Parent-child hierarchy (easy to edit)
Real Parent child relationship which is actually between 2 dimensions, but there is
workaround with which we can also create parent-child hierarchy using MULTIPLE dimension.

Note: One model can use only type of hierarchy at a time.

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Point of interest Layer
A point of interest layer in SAC provides us geo location which is under interest example which are all
the locations, we have our offices, plants, machines, trucks and depots..
1. Using a dbf and shp (Shape files) file
2. Using a model which has geo coordinates already enriched
3. Using a file directly

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Variance
Variance allows us to compare a measure based on time/version dimension, this gives the big picture at
the level of overall performance.

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Smart Assist Portfolio of SAC

Search to Insight Smart Insights R Visualizations Smart Transformation

Time Series
Smart Discovery Forecasting Smart Grouping

Deliver Simplicity through Machine Learning

Integrate machine learning seamlessly into business processes and workflows
Leverage machine learning to save time, remove complexity, and gain actionable insights

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Smart Assist Feature
Search to insight : also known as augmented analytics, in this option we ask questions in natural
languages to SAC and system will automatically produce charts for us. These results can easily be
copied to our story pages.
Smart Discovery : Allows us to use complete, powerful, in-built, computerized data scientist. It can
generate complete story pages, find unusual data, discover hidden patterns and prepares multiple slice
of data in different story pages. Applied at measure level and generates 4 story pages.
Smart Insight: allows us to find the most contributing dimension on a particular measure, e.g. if I have
population per country, when I apply smart insight, system will confirm that china and India are the top
contributors to the population. We can further drill down to see more contributions from different
measure and dimensions side. Applied at a single chart level.
Automatic Forecasting: done on measures which are changing over the time axis and when we apply
the auto forecast, we can also choose algo. Which system should use to apply forecast
- Linear regression - triple smoothening

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Smart Assist
Smart Grouping: divides the data sets in to the group of data clusters so that we can analyze and
segregate a particular group of points.

Requirement: Want to develop a scenario where I want to see emp sal distribution by position. But this
pie chart distribution we want to see per region (APJ, EMEA, NA). Do I need to create now 3 pie charts
with filter on region, or is there any easy way.
Trellis
Exception Aggregation:
An aggregation on a measure which is based on a dimension. In SQL world we have a concept of
GROUP BY clause, the exception agg. Is exactly the same.
SELECT SUM(SALES) from sales_order – Aggregation - SUM
SELECT COUNTRY, SUM(SALES) FROM sales_order GROUP BY COUNTRY – Exception Aggregation
Dimension – COUNTRY

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Smart Feature Support Matrix

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Planning
Planning is a fundamental management function, which involves deciding beforehead, what is to be
done, when it will be done, how it is done and who is going to do it. It is an intellectual process which
lays down an organization’s objectives can achieve those goals. It chalks out exactly how to attain a
specific goal. For example: how many people I need to hire in sales to achieve 20 bn sales this year.
Planning is performed for various functions of a company, such as sales planning, expense or cost
planning, and core financials planning to report your numbers to shareholders. HR plans for people at
all suggested levels (like Managers, VP, SVP, Associates). Planning helps us to increase coordination
and onerous task at any company.

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Planning Process

What-if/
Predictive Value Driver
Modelling update/ Allocation Collaboration
forecast Tree
visualization

1. Direct Entry
2. Distribution/spreading
1. Collect data
3. Variance chart
2. Model dimensions
4. Copy/paste of data
3. Import data
5. Threshold
4. Currency setting
6. Asymmetric reports
conversion rates
7. Formulas
8. Forecast

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Planning Evolution with SAC

PAST NOW NEXT

Centralized process to connect • Connect all LOBs across the enterprise

• Decentralized owned by the
strategy to financial goals
business • SAC embedded in Enterprise
SAP (BPC) dominated the Intelligent Suite
• business buyer take over buying
“Corporate Core”
decision

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Planning Jargons
Revenue: Total amount of goods and
services produced by organization in a given
span of time. – GDP (country)
Gross Revenue: Total income earned by co.
in specific period
Indicates potential for growth
Revenue = Units X Price of a product
Net Revenue-
gross Revenue – discounts – returns
Helps business to minimize expenses
Gross Profit = net revenue – cost of goods (raw, machines, labor, packaging, shipping)
Gross Margin % = Gross Profit / Net Revenue
Operating Profit % = Operating income / Net Revenue
Operating Expense Ratio % = Operating Expense / Net Revenue
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Planning Data Specifications
1. Planning data always have Version ( Categories: Actuals, Forecast, Budget,….)
Actuals: Current facts data which is most recent or could be past experiences based on reality.
Transaction data.
Budget: budgeting is the financial direction of where management wants to take the company, helping
qualify the expectation of revenues that business want to achieve for the future period. This decides
our companies top line and bottom line.
Forecast: tells whether the company is headed in the right direction, estimating the amount of
revenue and income that will be achieved in future. Market statement.
2. It is mandatory to have TIME/DATE dimension for the planning model
3. We can have the Organization Dimension also known as ENTITY (Location of the business entity)
Regions->Country->States->Cities->Entity Code, Currency

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Account Dimension…
4. Account Dimension –
- Represent an account in balance sheet like.
- Operating profit, loss, expenses, gross margin, revenue, operating income.
- Account dimension always have Parent-child hierarchy automatically built.
- It is used to record and aggregate values together. Actual Measure belongs to a/c imension.
- Each a/c has contribution to the balances while projecting the data
+ve – INC, INTINC
-ve – EXP, INT
Neutral - NFIN
5. We can apply currency conversion on the finance data dependent on exchange rates
Average, Fix
If we have only 2 dimensions together to be joined in hierarchy – Parent-child hierarchy
Emp Manager relationship
If we have more than 2 dimensions to be joined together – Level Based Hierarchy
Office location, city, country, region
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Requirements
1. What-If analysis
Where the business will ask us, what will happen to our accounts in case a change in one of the
account happens by some % or absolute value.
- Increase of a account by some %
- Distribution & Spreading
- Variance Chart

2. Updates
Suppose we wanted to add a new product, new resource, new machine etc. to our existing data set,
since it’s a new entity, the system will not have data but we can take indications from similar entity and
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Planning features..
Asymmetrical Report – will allow us to use any one the account dimension values to be calculated
based on filters and other account dimensions. The data will be presented in form of a table report.
HANA SQL Function Guide
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f99f0300dd95cd9.html

Allocation v/s Distribution:

Distribution is just dividing values based on absolute value or % value
10 cakes = 50% cakes to office 50% to home = 5,5 – Distribute
Allocation is a distribution based on factors (other dimensions values)
Depending of people at home and office divide the cakes.
20 – people 3 – members @home
8 cakes to office, 2 cakes @home
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Allocation Calculation

Allocation Steps Rule

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Data Actions
In the Planning, data actions helps end users/planning experts to perform complex tasks with the click
of a button. E.g. if we would like to distribute, copy, calculate data in a planning data model, the user
has to manually change values in the report. All of this can be achieved by defining a data action with
the click of a button.

Data action Formula’s documentation

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Why Digital Boardroom?
Why digital boardroom?
Since our co. is using so many different solutions, SAP & Finance HR
Non_SAP with heterogeneous technologies. As a Board
Marketing Travel
member, my challenges is Transparency and connected
insight. Sales SRM
What & Types of Boardroom Presentations
Allows us to integrate different stories (planning, bi) on a single large screen device. Which
helps us to take confident decisions.
1. Agenda – used to present data in a flow
2. Dashboard – free flow
*the digital boardroom is only available in SAC productive version.

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 Digital Boardroom - Benefits
Total transparency Instant data driven insights
Simplified boardroom proces

• Get a complete picture of the company • Answer ad-hoc questions on-the-fly to • Transform the boardroom experience
situation in real-time better understand the business for better outcomes
• Visualize in-context insights to performance • Reduce boardroom meeting
maximize impact on the audience • Analyze root causes to identify business preparation time and effort
• Align executive decisions on one source risks and opportunities in real-time • Leverage predefined best practices to
of truth across business areas • Simulate impact of potential decisions accelerate time to value
to financials and operations
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Benefits

Contextual user Guided or free structure Data-driven

 experiences
Give executives a complete, real-time view of  Follow a traditional presentation  Explore and insights
combine KPIs, and use filters to
company situations and KPIs across structure with the ability to break-off, compare trends and spot correlations
departments – and foster trust among leaders skip, or go back  Simulate impact of potential decisions to financials
 Align executive decisions on one source of truth  Create a freeform presentation in a new and operations
across business areas exploratory style to meet your  Get a 360-degree view and visualize insights in
 Embedded and personalized to each individual organizational structure context across multiple touchscreen displays to
maximize impact

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Use Case

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Digital Boardroom All Analytics. All Users. One Product. SAP Analytics Hub
• Total Transparency Business Intelligence Planning Predict A single entry point to find
• Instant Data-Driven Insights
• Simplified Steering Meetings
the analytics you need
Aggregation/
Chart & Crosstab Time series forecast
Allocation

Drill up & down Version Management Smart Insight

Geo Map Workflow/Input Tasks Smart Discovery

Explorer What if Simulations Smart Predict*

Core functions
Real-time data Authentication ・
Model management Collaboration Mobile Access Data security
access SSO

Data acquisition Data Manipulation Event / Calendar API Deployment Monitoring

SAP Business Objects

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Demo of Digital Boardroom
1. Create an Agenda
In our company there a Board of director’s meeting which is going to held this afternoon. The agenda of
the meeting is to observe the pulse of the business and following will be presented by top leaders of our
co.
Fred Smith – 10 AM – overview of the co. real-time
Celine – 10.30 AM – HR and Travel and expense
Ryan Dyal – 11 AM – Sales and Marketing data

2. Create a dashboard

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SAP Intelligent Enterprise Strategy – decision
making

Employees
Act accordingly
Data engineer
Collect and track

Decision Data scientist

analyze
Makers
CEO’s office

Data scientist
Predict using models

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SAP Intelligent Enterprise Strategy

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What is Machine Learning?
It is a field of study that gives computers the capability to learn w/o being programmed explicitly.
e.g. Amazon
Search for Shoes
Does amazon hire a person to check your search and next time show you the similar result.
Huge human effort

data
output input
Computer
program Computer Program
Expected
output Rule
Model

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Process to identify a model
Marks Result Training
9 Pass Computer
IF Marks >= 5
2 Fail Then PASS
Machine Learning
3 Fail Tries to identify the Else FAIL
5 Pass best model with Model
8 Pass highest accuracy
4 Fail Marks Actual Marks Pre
Validation - 3 Res
7 Pass Result
IF Marks >= 3 3 Pas
3 Fail Then PASS
5 Pass 5 Pas
Else FAIL – 80%
7 Pass Model 7 Pas
10 Pass 10 Pas
2 Fail 2 Fail
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Model and techniques
Modeling is a process by which machine learning tries to find/create Best model for your use case. The
model is created to predict an outcome. Model evaluation is an integral part of model development
process. In order to find best model, we use mathematical algorithms. There are 2 ways we can use to
detect the model
Hold-out – Large dataset
The entire data (outcome is known) is divided into 2 parts. First is called training dataset and second
validation dataset. With the help of training dataset we train the computer by applying algorithm and
derive a model. If we apply different algo’s we get different models.
In the validation process, we pass the validation dataset to these models and compare the accuracy.
This is how we know which model works good with our dataset.
Cross-Validation
When only limited data, to achieve an unbiased estimate of model performance, we use cross-
validation. We divide data in k parts, each time one k set will be out of the sampling.

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Types Of machine learning
1. Supervised ML
Train the model  model, Validate the model, Retry, Retrain
Algo: Decision Tree, Native Bayes, Logistic Regression, Linear/Multi Regression, SVM…
Scenario- Regression and Classification are examples of Supervised Learning.
2. Unsupervised
Let machine work on the data like a Child to explore Huge amount of data and make model out of it.
Algo: K-means, Hierarchical, Apriori, Generic Algo, Trend Analysis
Scenario – Time Series
3. Re-inforcement learning
Candy-Stick Approach, If you do good – candy , if you not study – stick
Robotics

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Difference between Analytics and Predictive
analytics
Analytics: is used to create visualization on historic data that will give us just insight. Just as-is state.
Predictive Analytics: When we want to predict forecast/future, we use predictive analytics. The future
state.
When we put analytics with predictive analytics, we get a large vision.
Prediction will be done based on past events and experiences to take us to future. It is very important
to choose historic data correct to portrait the future correctly.
Before we apply machine learning, we need to ask 3 questions
1. Business need
2. Business Goal Which scenario to use
3. Output expected by decision we make

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Classification Scenario
Scenario 1: I want to run a marketing campaign but the no. of customers are huge. if I run the
marketing campaign for all my customers randomly 10mn, the cost is too high and it is very
unlikely that all 10mn will respond positive to my campaign.
10 X 20% = 2mn
We want to divide the customers in 2 groups,
1 - positively responder – high probability to respond
0 – not respond at all
When we want to classify the group of members (population) into 2 groups (0,1 – binominal) this type of
problem is called classification. The rule which is used to solve this problem is called Classification Rule.
Concept of Dependent and Independent
Variables
Requirement: Based on different health check results, predict whether the patient have a heart
diseases or not?
Chest Pain Good Sugar Wt… Has Heart
Blood disease?
Circulation
Yes No Yes Yes Yes

No Yes NO No No

Yes No Yes No Yes

Yes No No No No

No Yes No Yes No

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How to determine accuracy
What is Classification and when to use?
When the dependent variable is binominal we use classification.
Regression?
When the dependent variable is continuous(number), we use the regression.

Suppose we applied different-different algorithms to get predications. How to determine, which model
is good for my dataset or not.
There are different ways to determine accuracy of our model
1. Confusion matrix – to avoid confusion of which model is best
2. ROC Charts
3. AUC Charts

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What is confusion matrix?
I did a sampling of 200 patients and we provide this validation data set(actual result is known
to us) to a model, the model produced predicted output for these 200 patients. Now we write
a confusion matrix to detect the accuracy of the model

Sampling of Actual has Actually not

200 patients HD 1 a HD 0
Predicted has
heart Ds. 1
Predicted
does not has
heart Ds. 0

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F1 Score
ROC and AUC
ROC – Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve – it is a curve between TRP v/s FPR

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 Logistic Regression Curve - Classification

1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
se 0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1

0
weight
Red – actual not obese
Blue – actual obese

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1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1

0
Confusion Matrix for the different Threshold
Threshold Value: 0 Threshold Value: 0.1 Threshold Value: 0.2 Threshold Value: 0.5
Actual Is fat Is not Actual Is fat Is not Actual Is fat Is not Actual Is fat Is not
Predicted 1 fat 0 Predicted 1 fat 0 Predicted 1 fat 0 Predicted 1 fat 0



Is Fat
1 4 4 Is Fat
1 4 3 Is Fat
1 4 2 Is Fat
1 3 1
Is not
fat 0 0 0 Is not
fat 0 0 1 Is not
fat 0 0 2 Is not
fat 0 1 3

(TPR, FPR) (TPR, FPR) (TPR, FPR) (TPR, FPR)

Threshold Value: 0.7 Threshold Value: 0.8 Threshold Value: 0.9 Threshold Value: 1
Actual Is fat Is not Actual Is fat Is not Actual Is fat Is not Actual Is fat Is not
Predicted 1 fat 0 Predicted 1 fat 0 Predicted 1 fat 0 Predicted 1 fat 0



Is Fat
1 3 0 Is Fat
1 2 0 Is Fat
1 1 0 Is Fat
1 0 0
Is not
fat 0 1 4 Is not
fat 0 2 4 Is not
fat 0 3 4 Is not
fat 0 4 4
(TPR, FPR) (TPR, FPR) (TPR, FPR) (TPR, FPR)
ROC – Receiver Operating Characteristics
Chart
1

0
1

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SAP Analytics Cloud Presents Model as below

Perfect Model
Random
1 sampling

0
Population % 1

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Student Marks
Roll No Name Qans Study Tutorials Marks
Time attended
1 Anu 15/20 8 Hrs 200/230 78%
2 Ananya 20/20 10 Hrs 150 90%
3 Rahul 5/20 8 Hrs 200 60%
4 Somumi 3/20 5 Hrs 230 50%
5 Parag 1/20 10 Hrs 150 40%
6 Jack 0/20 0 Hrs 0 0%
Classification Demo Scenario
Please refer the specification document shared by Anubhav.

Classification Rate > 0.75-0.95

Prediction confidence > 0.95

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Profit Simulation
12.4 % employees are contacted and we can detect 39.6 % positive targets
If we contact 258 employee, we can detect 102 employees who has high probability to leave.
Total Employees are 8000
If I did not have ML
Total Contacts – 8000X12.4% = 992 Employees I have to contact w/o ML
With ML Cost – 258 X 1$ = 258 $
With ML saving – 102 X 10$ = 1020 $ Saving
Profit – 1020 – 258 = 762 $ of saving

W/o ML Cost – 992 Employees X 1$ = 992$

W/o ML I can get about 992X 10.625% = 105 Employee X 10$ - 1050$ Saved
Profit – 1050 -992 = 58$ of saved
762-58 = 704
% of profit increased 1213% of savings extra you make with ML
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Questions
Quarantile
Regression Concept
Is a scenario where we want machine to predict a single value (target variable) based on independent
variables. When dep. Variable is NUMERIC
If the target is dependent on Only one independent variable, then we use Linear regression if the target
is dependent on multiple variables (independent var), we use the multi-regression.

1. If we provide too much data – overfit

2. When the data is not sufficient enough - undefit

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Kinds of Regression
Simple Regression Multiple Regression

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Matrices to check regression quality

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RMSE & MAPE
RMSD/RMSE – Root mean square Residual (Deviation)

The value of RMSE can range between 0 to infinite which is difficult to interpret by business. In
order to make our business understand the model better, we have another marker called
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Draw Values of RMSE in the Reg. chart

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Segmented Time Series
Is also used to predict numeric values of target but additionally
1. Also the trend
2. We will have the output predicted also PER SEGMENT (Entity)
3. The X axis is always TIME (inp. variable axis)

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SAC – Analytic Designer
SAP SAC Analytic designer completes the analytics cloud, it gives us advance scripting capabilities with
which we can design complex applications with input controls of different kinds input, dropdown,
checkbox, calendar, powerful scripting capabilities using JS.
Close-loop scenario: able to take action to insight.
In analytic designer we create an analytic application. They are 2 different artifects
Story Application
Covers the standard scenario Covers the customer scenario
Non-technical consultant Technical consultant
BI dashboards For close-loop scenarios
BI, and planning Advance scripting to design an app and use
all features using API
Reused b/w stories and app
- They both share the model concept
- They both share some widgets like chart, table, inp control.
- Provide same user experience
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Scenarios which we use SAC-AD
Category 1: Interactive designer capabilities like Lumira
Category 2: Integrate with planning, BI and smart feature using API, navigation to stories and
smart features, integration with business application.
Category 3: close-loop scenario where can take action on insight by calling REST(Odata)
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2. Add a dropdown in the app with 2 values Revenue and Discount
When user select Revenue, show Qty sold and sales revue in the table
When user select Discount, show discount and gross margin in the table
EX1- Try changing measures to chart1 using scripting.
Scripting API Documentation
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