SAP Analytics Hybrid Strategy - APOS€¦ · SAP Cloud Platform connects to data using Smart Data...

SAP Hybrid AnalyticsClosing the Chasm between On-Premise & Cloud

November 7, 2018

Blair WheadonSAP

Allan Pym

APOS

Agenda

• Introduction

• SAP Hybrid Analytics Strategy

• Upcoming Events

• Q&A

About APOS

• APOS Systems Inc. formed in 1992

• Focus on SAP BI solutions

• Solutions and products enabling BI platform management, administration and migration

• Simplifying, automating, extending the SAP BusinessObjects platform

• Strategic SDK development and consulting

• Hundreds of customers globally

Blair WheadonGM of Data Discovery

SAP

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SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud Data Integration

Hybrid Strategy

Live Universe Connector and Demo

Analysis for Office

Agenda

SAP Analytics Cloud

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The Digital Era is Evolving into The Intelligence Era

1960s-1980s 1990s-2000s 2000s-2010s 2010s-2020s Time

Productivity Industrial

Automation

Business Process

Automation

Digital

Automation

Intelligent

Enterprises

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To keep up with expectations, we need to…

Deliver best-in-class

customer experience

by anticipating and proactively responding to

end-customer needs

Do more with less and

empower employees

through process automation and freeing up

people to do more meaningful work

Invent new business models

and revenue streams

by monetizing data-driven capabilities and

applying core competencies in new ways

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Data Discovery Alone…

Unclear Next StepsHuman Bias Delayed Insights

…Fails to Meet Expectations


Making Analytics Smart

Human Bias

Delayed Insights

Unclear Responses Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics turns insight into action.

Assistive technology enables fast accurate analysis.

Apply to new data to create predictions on the fly.

AI that empowers business analysts – simple to use and

understand. Powered by algorithms, accurate and trustworthy.

SmartTraditional


Smart Technologies

Smart Insights

Smart Grouping

R Visualizations

Time Series

Forecasting

Smart Transformation

Smart Discovery

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

Search to Insight


Predictive in Every Edition of SAC

Business Intelligence Business Intelligence

Planning Standard

BI

User and Concurrent

Session

Data discovery, story

creation and viewing

Planning

Standard

User

Entering data in

planning models

Planning

Professional

User

Create planning

models and value

driver trees

Planning Professional

Business Intelligence

Planning Standard

SAP Digital Boardroom SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Hub

User

Specialized analytics

portal

Analytics Hub

Engaging analytics on large

format screens

Analysis Office for SAC

Smart Predict


Smart Predict


Smart Predict


Search to Insights: Never Start From Scratch Again

A Faster Way to Find Answers

• Type questions and instantly

generate meaningful visualizations

• Recognize important trends with the

click of a button

• Enhance visualizations with

in-context explanations


Smart Discovery: Understand What Drives Your Business

More Accurate, in Less Time

• Detect the key influencers of business

performance

• Identify interesting patterns in your data

• Discover anomalies and outliers to

correct

• Simulate the impact of strategic

changes on business outcomes


Automated Forecast: Find Problems Before they Happen

Your Early Warning System

• Forecast future performance with a single click

• Automatically update projections as new data

becomes available

• Detect where you are at risk to miss your

targets


Smart Predict: And Know How to Stop Them

Answer the Toughest Questions

• Create predictions to determine the

next best course of action

• Generate hyper-personalized insights

into your customers, vendors, and

suppliers

• Enable business analysts to build

trusted and actionable predictions

with ease

SAP Analytics Cloud and Data Integration


Product Descr ipt ion

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Data integration

Connect to data anywhere stored in on-premise databases, cloud databases, and personal files. Enrich data

and business metadata in preparation for self-service data analysis through purpose built data modeling

capabilities and calculations

Live connections

▪ Data replication is not required

▪ Leverage business metadata directly without

additional modeling

▪ Leverage existing security and data authorizations

Data import connections

▪ Business users can model data with Smart Data

Preparation

▪ Easily track and reverse data transformations

▪ Refresh data on demand or via schedule


Recent Innovat ions

Data sources

Live

SAP Cloud Platform1 SAP S/4HANA Cloud

SAP S/4HANA SAP Universe

Access via SDI for SAP Cloud Platform & SAP HANA2

Apache Hive AWS SAP Vora SAP Sybase ASE, IQ, ESP

Microsoft SQL Server Spark SQL Oracle Teradata

OData

MaxDB

IBM DB2 MySQL Netezza Facebook Google+ Twitter

Partner delivered

APOS DB2

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Analysis Services

Oracle ExadataOracle Oracle Essbase

Denodo

Sybase SQL Anywhere

Teradata

Delivered Planned within the next 6 months Partners

1. Requires SAP Cloud Platform DBaaS license

2. SAP Cloud Platform connects to data using Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Access Adapters

Import

Cloud data sources

Google Drive

SAP Cloud Platform1 SAP Business ByDesignSAP Hybris Cloud for Customer

SAP Fieldglass

Google BigQuery Google Sheets

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

OData

Salesforce

SAP SuccessFactors ConcurSAP Workforce Analytics

SAP Ariba

SAP data sources

SAP BPC NW & MS SAP HANA SAP ECC SAP Universe SAP BW

SAP S/4HANA

Other data sources

IBM Microsoft SQL Server MySQL Netezza OData Oracle

Progress OpenEdgeCSV Excel

Partner delivered

APOS

Web Intelligence

CDATA

QuickBooks

NetSuite CRM & ERP

Microsoft SharePoint

MongoDB

Oracle Marketing Cloud

DataDirect Cloud

eloqua

Google Analytics

Hubspot

Marketo

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

SugarCRM

SAP BW4/HANA

Microsoft Azure

Redshift

MongoDB MongoDB Atlas MySQL

SAP SuccessFactors

SAP data sources

SAP HANA SAP BW SAP BW4/HANA

Cloud data sources

Netezza

Dow Jones DNA

Google BigQuery

Sybase IQ

Hybrid Strategy


Our customers use both

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise SAP Analytics Cloud

Run the Business

• Incremental improvement

• Minimize risk, lower costs

• Large investments in reports, dashboards,

Universes

Grow the Business

• Disruptive innovation

• Maximize speed

• Test New Business Models


BW/4HANA

BPC

Cloud NativeCombining BI, Predictive

and Planning

Hybrid EnablersInteroperability – Bridge from

On-Premise to Cloud

On PremiseContinuous improvements and

Hybrid support

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Hub

BI Suite

Analysis Office

Analytics Portfolio Hybrid View

• Predictive

• Planning

• Data Discovery

• Digital Boardroom


BusinessObjects

Enterprise

Traditional deployment

managed by customerAWS, Azure, or other partners

SAP Hybrid Analytics: Multiple Deployment Options

SAP Analytics Cloud provided

as a service

Fast track to cloud

BusinessObjects

Enterprise

SAP Analytics Cloud

IaaS and MCaaS Public Cloud (SaaS)On Premise

Multiple integration

points


Users | Applications | Data

SAP Analytics Strategy is Hybrid

CloudOn Premise

Connect

Live Universe Connector


SAC Live Universe Connector

Relational DB

UniverseON PREMISE

SAP Analytics Cloud

Live access to SAP

BWLive access to SAP

HANA

Live access to SAP

BusinessObjects

Universe


Customer trusted network

Analyst Laptop

Live Universe Connection

BI Platform

Browser

Running SAP

Analytics Cloud

8. Data is brought back

to the client browser

3. Browser establishes a

live connection

2. Dashboard

metadata is

downloaded

1. Browser connects to

SAP Analytics Cloud

Data never leaves the Customer network

App Server

cs_ina_agent

Catalog, Metadata,

Query

CMS

DSL Bridge

Service

WebI Processing

Server

SAP Analytics

Cloud

4. SDK call

5. SQL

7. Data6. Data

Access on premise universe data without replication▪ Queries are issues from the browser, not the server

▪ Link to best practices and step by step example

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOC/SAP+Analytics+Cloud+-+Live+Universe+Design+Best+Practices


Demo


Benefits of SAC Live Universe ConnectorEnable Hybrid

Re-use all your existing relational universes with SAP Analytics Cloud

Support for BI Platform single-signon

Go beyond Universes data

▪ Add calculations (Support for SAC calculated measures concept)

▪ Future: Consume WebI data model (data provider or tables with context)

No data is replicated to SAP Analytics Cloud

High performance

▪ SAP recommends BOE 4.2 SP5 patch 1 or later


Q4 2018

• Live Data Connection – Universes connection

• Calculated dimension

• Filter on measure

• SAC aggregations

• Support universe details

• Live Data Connection – Improved performance for

the Live Universe Connection

• Enhanced analytics capabilities (SAC Story)

• SAC Rank

• Support of hierarchy (navigation path)

• Support drill

• Link dimensions

• Total

• Enhance universes support (SAC Model)

• Multi columns LOV in QB

• Live Data Connection – Greater performance for

the Live Universe Connection

• Native INA API in webi server

• Live Data Connection – Universes connection

• WebI as a source

• Enhance universes support

(SAC Model)

• Delegated measures,…

SAC Live Universe ConnectivityHybrid Data Access: product direction

H1 2019 BI4.3

Planned

Innovations

This presentation and SAP‘s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document isprovided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement


SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office


▪ Included in all SAC editions – BI, Planning Std, Planning Pro – private and public – user or CS.

▪ No extra charge or additional contract or addendum to be signed.

▪ All SAC customers with new or existing contracts will be eligible to download and use it.

▪ Users of Analysis Office for SAC must have a SAC user or concurrent session license

Analysis Office for SAC Analysis Office for SAC is a SUBSET of Analysis Office

Feature AO for SAC Analysis Office included in BOE and BPC

Support for data in SAC models with local, acquired

data only

✔️ ✔️

Access to live BW or BW/4 with connection in SAC Q4 2018 N/A

Access to live HANA with connection in SAC Q4 2018 N/A

Direct access to BW or BW/4 X ✔️

Direct access to HANA X ✔️

EPM Add-in X ✔️

BPC Add-in X ✔️


Product Descr ipt ion


Extending options to prepare and analyze data

▪ SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office workflows and user experience based on SAP Analytics Cloud data

▪ Workflow starts in Excel – logon, browse for models, discover data

▪ Select table designs with SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office and perform conditional formatting

▪ Consume native cloud models as measure-based SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office models

▪ Work offline on a local snapshot of data

▪ Read-access for planning models


Further information can be found in the SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office product roadmap: https://www.sap.com/canada/products/roadmaps.products-solutions.html

https://www.sap.com/canada/products/roadmaps.products-solutions.html


Recent Innovat ions

Integration of SAP Analytics Cloud models

▪ Support of (native) planning models including write-back and version handling

▪ Stand-alone edition SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office, edition for SAP Analytics Cloud

– initial version restricted to SAP Analytics Cloud import models

– enforces authentication to SAP Analytics Cloud

– available with all SAP Analytics Cloud subscriptions at no extra charge

Continuous improvements with Analysis plug-in

▪ Comments (SAP BW/4HANA FP8)

▪ Enhanced reporting features: GetData enhancements (BW 7.50 SP8, BW4HANA SP8)

▪ UX: two ribbon tabs

▪ New BW search (Performance) (BW/4HANA FP8)


New in 2.7 (June 2018)

Contact information:

Blair Wheadon

[email protected]

@blairtwheadon

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APOS Well Managed BI Solutions

Live Data Gateway• Live Data connectivity for SAC, Lumira, AO• Simplified data discovery experience• Flexible data selection• Live connectivity to On Premise data sources from

SAP Analytics Cloud

• Rapid Security Management• High-Volume System Management• Object Settings and Preferences Management• Object Promotion• Schedule Management• Instance Management

AdministratorInsight• System Inventory• Security Analysis• System Usage Analysis• Report Impact Analysis• Advanced System Monitoring• Operating Environment Monitoring

Storage Center• System Backup• Content Archiving• Content Versioning• Selective Restoration• System Replication• Automated System Clean Up

Publisher• Systematic Content Delivery• Advanced Document Bursting• Enhanced Content Distribution• Security and Encryption• Statement Generation

IDAC• BI Query Governance• Real-time BI Query Monitoring• Query Performance Alerting• Query Intervention; Remote Cancelling• Query Processing and Pattern Analysis• Sensitive Data Audit

Web Intelligence Migrator• Bulk conversion of Universes from UNV to UNX• High-Volume Repoint Web Intelligence Reports• Success validation• Controlled, project based workflow

Validation Manager• Automated Report Testing• Regression Testing• BI Migration and Upgrade Testing• Validation of Report Data – Schedules, Instances• Report Performance Testing

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This session will focus on how APOS is addressing new needs in the SAP Analytics Cloud environment, ongoing needs in existing SAP BI environments, and how we can provide added stability and efficiency for the hybrid BI journey.

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