Week 1: Introduction, Overview, and Business User

Unit 4: Using Multidimensional Reports

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SAP S/4HANA analytics overview

▪ Provide embedded insights in the solution, optimally support business users in defined business processes with decision support and information at the user's fingertips

▪ Integrate seamlessly into the enterprise intelligence offerings such as SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BW/4HANA

▪ Provide real-time access to solution data as well as replication of data and blending with multiple other sources for end-to-end enterprise intelligence

SAP Analytics Cloud, for

Enterprise Planning

and BI

SAP BW/4HANA,

SAP Data Warehouse

Cloud

SAP AnalyticsSAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics, powered by SAP Fiori and SAP Analytics

▪ SAP Fiori analytical apps for the business user

▪ SAP Fiori extensibility apps for the analytics specialist

SAP HANA DB SAP HANA DB

SAP S/4HANA – Virtual Data Model

Spend off-

contractIncoming

sales order

….PO avg.

delivery time

Non-managed

purchasing spend

Real-time access to

SAP S/4HANA data

Data replication of

SAP S/4HANA data

(both using the virtual

data model)

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Recap – The business user persona

▪ Uses SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics in the context of a business process

or line-of-business departmental activities, typically no IT background.

▪ Here are a few of many examples (have a look at

https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/):

− Material planner:

SAP Fiori app in SAP S/4HANA: Stock Availability Analysis for Just-In-Time

Calls, F3923

− Purchaser:

SAP Fiori app in SAP S/4HANA: Manage Purchase Requisitions, F1048

− Collection supervisor:

SAP Fiori app in SAP S/4HANA: Supervise Collections Worklist, F2375

− Sales clerk:

SAP Fiori app in SAP S/4HANA: Sales Order Fulfillment Issues, F0029A

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SAP Analytics

▪ separate products/services

▪ direct access to SAP S/4HANA data

▪ Dashboards and Digital Boardrooms developed

by SAP S/4HANA, available for SAP Analytics

Cloud

SAP S/4HANA Business User: Analyze the data and act according to insights

SAP S/4HANA IT User: Provide the single source of truth in one semantic layer

Multi-

dimensional

reports

SAP S/4HANA Analytics Specialist: Enable the Business User

View maintenance:

ABAP for Eclipse

KPI and report

modeling apps

SAP Analytics

Cloud

Other SAP BI

Products:

Examples: Analysis

for Office, Design

Studio, …

Smart

Business KPIs,

analysis path

apps

Embedded

SAP Analytics

Cloud

dashboards

Analytical list

pages

Overview

pages

Analytical

SAP Fiori

apps

Key user tooling

(e.g. Query Designer)

Using multidimensional reports

Recap – Overview of current offering per user type

we are here

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Powered by SAP Analytics Cloud

Overview PagesSmart Business KPIs

• Consolidated view on a certain domain, e.g. Purchasing

• Information presented in analytical tables and charts

• Take action in the same place or navigate to other apps

• Save personal variants

Multidimensional Reports

• KPI monitoring on SAP Fiori launchpad

• Drill-down into further analytical or transactional apps

• Save personal variants

• Generic approach to mix analytical and transactional activities

• Display table or chart or a combination

• Take action directly in the same app or navigate to other apps

• Save personal variants

• Analyze and visualize data from multiple dimensions

• Display pivot-table or chart or a combination

• Save personal variants

Dashboards

• SAP S/4HANA: Optional, additional content, stories (SAP

S/4HANA data only) shipped via analytics content repository

• Used as templates, customers will copy and adapt

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud: SAP Fiori-embedded SAP Analytics Cloud

content, stories come as part of SAP S/4HANA Cloud apps

• Queries supplying the data are shipped with SAP S/4HANA

Analytical List Pages

In-App Analytics and ML

• Combine analytics with transactional content in one screen

• Insight-to-action to prioritize based on facts

• Use drill-downs to determine transactional input parameters

Using multidimensional reports

Recap – Capabilities for the business user

we are here

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Multi-

dimensional

reports

SAP Smart

Business

KPIs

Analytical

SAP Fiori

apps

Overview

pages

Embedded

SAP

Analytics

Cloud

dashboards

Analytical

list pages

▪ Slice and dice, sort, filter

▪ Subtotals at any level

▪ Drill down, drill across

▪ Swap rows and columns

▪ Display chart and table

▪ Save personalized views

▪ Navigate to other SAP Fiori

apps

Using multidimensional reports

Business user: analyze the data and act according to insights

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Typically used

▪ For insight-driven, explorative, and flexible

analysis of large amounts of data

▪ For data centered around one specific topic,

such as sales orders, purchase orders,

G/L line items, cost center reporting,…

▪ Examples of SAP Fiori apps: − Incoming Sales Orders (F1249, role

SAP_BR_SALES_MANAGER)

− Cost Centers – Actuals (F0963A, role

SAP_BR_OVERHEAD_ACCOUNTANT)

Using multidimensional reports

Business user: analyze the data and act according to insights

SAP Smart

Business

KPIs

Analytical

SAP Fiori

apps

Overview

pages

Embedded

SAP

Analytics

Cloud

dashboards

Analytical

list pages

Multi-

dimensional

reports

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How to use multidimensional reports

Using multidimensional reports

Demo

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Key takeaways

▪ A multidimensional app in general works like a very

elaborate pivot table.

▪ The user can explore the data using slice and dice,

filtering, sorting, showing subtotals, and viewing the

data in a chart.

▪ From the data in a multidimensional report, the user can

easily navigate to other SAP Fiori apps, while keeping

the context like the selected ID.

▪ The result set of a multidimensional report can be

extensively personalized. The personalization is saved

in variants.

▪ A certain variant can be set as the default. Variants can

also be shared with others by making them “public”.

▪ The role of the analytics specialist has all the tools to

create additional, customer-defined multidimensional

reports.

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Where to find more information

SAP S/4HANA 2020 OP

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105

SAP Docu

Books

SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics

SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics – User Roles

Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics with SAP S/4HANA

Implementer’s Guide to S4-based Financial Planning & Analysis

for SAP S/4HANA using SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics – A Step Ahead and Beyond |

SAP Blogs

Part 1 – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Data Integration to power your

Intelligence Enterprise

Part 2 – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Data Integration Overview

Creating Dynamic Date filter using the Manage Date Function App

Six reasons why Web Dynpro is Better than Design Studio in SAP

S/4HANA Cloud

Blogs

YouTube: SAP S/4HANA Cloud

SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library

Others

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