You’ve been encouraged by the vision and capabilities of SAP for its Analytics Cloud platform (SAC). It is now time to deploy! The reality though is you have hundreds, if not thousands of existing SAP BusinessObjects BI reports (based on Web Intelligence, Lumira Discovery, etc.) and would like to selectively migrate highly-used/highly-valued reports over to SAP SAC.

The bad news is, at this time, there is no content migration option for SAP BusinessObjects BI reports (Webi) or BW-BEx queries to SAC, and you are faced with a manual process of migration to benefit from the capabilities embedded in SAP’s roadmap analytics product. The good news is that many connection options exist for the SAC platform with notable connection options to any existing BusinessObjects Universes and BW-Bex queries – these sources provide a launch point for some of your migration work and provide much needed meta-data and data to create stories.

This reality also provides a nice opportunity to avoid simply re-deploying your SAP BOBJ BI report “legacy” into SAC, and to take a careful/thoughtful approach to deploying new capabilities, through new reports, to your business users. Method360, in partnership with your business teams, can quickly identify key go-forward capabilities and priorities, and quickly accelerate your migration to SAC in only a few short weeks.

Migrating SAP BusinessObjects reports to SAP Analytics Cloud

Overview

Develop visualizations with multiple playbacks

Formal Playback and Hand-off

Identify appropriate source (HANA Model, S/4HANA, BPC DataSources, etc.)

Establish integration between source system and SAC (Cloud Connector)

Link story to new model with no interruption on the business use of the system

In the midst of an acquisition, the company acquired 250 SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) licenses at the direction of the CIO for the purpose of implementing SAP’s latest Analytics and Visualization solution. It was promised by SAP that the project team would provide dashboards within two weeks.

Client:

Challenge:

Solution/Benefit:

Petroleum RefiningCompany

By the end of the engagement, Method360 helped deliver:

Case Study

A Dashboard in the first 2 weeks, as promisedLive Data and Import Data connections to BW/4HANA

Executive Finance dashboard, complete with a Digital Boardroom presentation

Commercial P&L dashboards

An approval/Planning tool Proof-of-concept

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Assuming the adoption of the Method360 SAP Analytics Cloud QuickLaunch for the installation of the landscape (or a prior set-up has been completed), the Method360 SAC QuickLaunch team will partner with your IT and Business stakeholders to:

Outline key SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) capabilities - across the core pillars of visualizations, planning and predictive analytics)

Outline how SAP Analytics Hub (SAH) can serve as your reporting gateway for SAC, SAP BOBJ, and non-SAP BI reports. Learn how SAH provides business users a self-service bridge between their personal and promoted BI content, irrespective of which BI tool was used to author the report.

Map critical reporitng/planning/predictive use cases that exist inside your company; prioritizing which capabilities are most pressing and would benefit the most from an SAC/SAH deployment. I.e. Self-service reporting, embedded planning, or consolidation of reports into a Digital Boardroom panel.

Disposition existing non-SAC reports and prioritize into logical releases of capability; Formulate a detailed roadmap/transformation plan to bridge “existing vs. new” approaches to deploying analytics.

Facilitate, and optionally support the hands-on development, of an initial wave of migration (i.e. based on the existence of Universes) and/or net new SAC reports.

Facilitate the process of preparing business users for the transition to SAC, and the subsequent de-commissioning of legacy artifacts; Document list of retired solutions and IT/Business benefits.

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