Hi All,
S/4HANA is steadily gaining shape in the market and so is the S/4HANA Embedded Analytics.
Introduction:
What is Embedded Analytics?
It is the collection of all Analytical Features integrated in the SAP S/4HANA Suite that enables, Business users or end users to perform real time analytics or operational reporting on the live transactional data. It comes with a set of predefined and prepackaged representations of operational data. These representations called VDM (Virtual Data Models) allows business users to derive good insights into the data.
It doesn’t require a separate implementation. It is a part of the S/4HANA Software and is generally available with the new S/4HANA releases.
Customers and partners can extend the existing CDS Views VDM’s and build new ones in SAP S/4HANA.
Please be informed that SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics will not replace any existing SAP Solutions.
SAP strategy is to offer customers maximum choice and flexibility and more innovations and S/4 HANA Embedded Analytics compliments existing SAP Solutions.
You can carry out all your operational reporting with S/4HANA Embedded Analytics. This can help you reduce the operational reporting load from your SAP BW Application. You might still need BW for your EDW which will help you analyze the historical data, data consolidation from multiple sources and intensive data analysis.
My Personal opinion here is with SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, SAP BW (Embedded BW) has got a lot of significance.
Disclaimer : Please note that the above 2 screenshots are extracted from SAP Standard documents.
1) QUERY BROWSER
Launch into a Fiori Launchpad of a S/4 System.
You will have a tile called Query Browser, which basically displays the available CDS Views. The CDS view output can be accessed through “Open in Design Studio”. (I believe this is just a flavor of Design studio and not the entire application)
Once your Analytics is completed, you have the flexibility of saving the same as a Tile as well.
If you want to explore the CDS code behind, Double click on the View name, to see more details.
Go to the Annotation tab
Take the SQL View name from the Annotations tab.
Go the Backend system in the SAP Logon PAD.
Take SE11 --> Provide the SQL View name in the Views part and click display.
Double click the Package name to Open the Package Hierarchy
Remember this name and open the Backend System in HANA Studio ABAP Perspective.
Right Click on the system and click “Add a Package”.
Select the package name that we took earlier and click OK.
We can now find the CDS View definition within the Data Definitions Folder
Double Click on the same and the CDS View definition is displayed.
2) MULTI DIMENSIONAL REPORTS
Multidimensional reports are based on Webdynpro grid application that we have as a template. It renders all sorts of analytical CDS queries. All queries can be rendered in the same way. Functionality is the same for Analytical reports.
Example: Incoming Sales Orders
Thanks for going through the Document. Do let me know your Reviews and Suggestions.
This is a 3 Part Blog Series. In the Subsequent parts, we will see more on:
a) Analytics Annotations
b) Accessing CDS View in Bex
c) Accessing CDS View in Analysis for Excel
d) Accessing CDS View in Lumira
e) Accessing CDS View in DesignStudio
f) Accessing CDS View in Cloud For Analytics(C4A)
g) FIORI Smart Business Apps(Newly Introduced S/4HANA KPI Modeler tools)
h) Analysis Path Framework (APF) in Fiori
BR
Prabhith