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
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SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud Data Integration
Hybrid Strategy
Live Universe Connector and Demo
Analysis for Office
Agenda
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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
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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
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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
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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
Analysis Office for SAC
Smart Predict
Analysis Office for SAC
Smart Predict
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Users | Applications | Data
SAP Analytics Strategy is Hybrid
CloudOn Premise
Connect
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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
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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
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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
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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
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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▪ 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 ✔️
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Product Descr ipt ion
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
Further information can be found in the SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office product roadmap: https://www.sap.com/canada/products/roadmaps.products-solutions.html
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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)
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
New in 2.7 (June 2018)
Contact information:
Blair Wheadon
@blairtwheadon
Thank you.
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
Upcoming Events
November 14
APOS Solutions for SAP Analytics Cloud & Hybrid BI – Webinar
As organizations begin their journey into hybrid BI and Analytics deployments, they find new challenges and new considerations to manage. At the same time, they find various consistencies in the ongoing needs of their user base and their system management.
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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