Week 5: Extending Analytics

Unit 4: SAP Analytics Cloud Integration

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Extending analytics

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5

Introduction and Consuming Preparing Data From Data to Extending
Getting Started Insights for Sources for Key Insights for Key Analytics
Business Users Users Users

KPI and Report

Introduction Creating Your Integration
Monitoring on Basic Concepts
First Report Architecture
Overview Pages

Onboarding
Analysis Pattern Basic Data
New Key Figures
Sources
OData APIs and
Fundamentals Integration to BW
and Excel-Based
What’s New with Reporting Extensibility / Creating Your
HTML5 Adding Fields First KPI
Insight-to-Action Intelligent
Built-In Analytics Examples Applications with
– The Joined and Managing
CAS/SCP
Foundation for Combined Data Dashboards /
Ways to Share Sources Overview Pages
Intelligent Insights
Processes SAP Analytics
Creating Excel-
Work Center and Cloud Data Cloud
Mobile Analytics Based
Role Concept Sources Integration
Workbooks

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Unit objectives

▪ What are recommended integration

Learn how to
scenarios with SAP Analytics Cloud as the
leverage SAP
extension platform?
Analytics Cloud to
▪ How do you connect SAP Business extend Built-In
ByDesign (ByD) and SAP Analytics Cloud Analytics with
(SAC) and what are the considerations? additional
visualizations,
▪ Learn more on visualizations, analytical
methods, and
methods, and analytical scenarios adding
analytical scenarios
value.

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SAP analytics integration scenarios

▪ Advanced visualizations and dashboards

▪ Business planning and forecast
▪ Predictive intelligence (Smart Predict)
▪ Reporting across multiple applications and
external data

REST / OData
ByD OData APIs

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Technical options to integrate with SAP Analytics Cloud

1 OData Report API

▪ Aggregated report results,
including all master data attributes,
descriptions, calculations…
▪ Access rights of business user 3 Acquisition Mode
2 OData Data Source API
▪ Raw data of a basic data source
▪ Referenced data sources
to be joined in target system
▪ Technical user via communication 1
arrangement CLOUD
DATA
SOURCE 2
3 OData /SOAP API –
write-back to cloud data source

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Summary from a technical perspective

ByD – SAC Integration is designed as data acquisition scenario.

You schedule aggregated data exports to SAC using OData APIs.

▪ Based on the report API, summary calculations and report results can be reused in SAC.

▪ The replication approach allows to use the full spectrum of SAC features.

▪ The report API is designed to deliver summary data for reporting clients.
Accordingly, it has limitations when data on business document level is needed.
For this, we recommend the data source API.

▪ Access rights and users need to be managed on SAC side.

▪ Please consider current data limitations defined by SAC per model.

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Getting started / working with business content

ByD Content SAC Content

Custom
Reports
Standard
Reports

Connection
Data
Sources

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System demo

SAP Business ByDesign system

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Steps to integrate SAP Business ByDesign with SAP Analytics Cloud

IMPORTANT STEPS:
1. Identify relevant OData service on ByD side (report/data source API)

2. Create the connection to ByD on SAC side

3. Create SAC model based on your connection

4. Data preparation within your SAC model

5. Build you SAC story

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Selected business intelligence features

Smart Insights /
Stories / Dashboards Smart Discovery Smart Grouping

▪ Find the answer to business ▪ Uncover key influencers of KPIs ▪ Get smart groupings (clusters)
questions through by using classification and of data values across several
meaningful visualizations regression techniques measures
▪ Search to Insight for ▪ Interact with insights and explore ▪ Use recommended number of
conversational analysis hidden structures and groups most appropriate for
relationships your data
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Selected predictive, planning, and forecasting features

Smart Predict / Smart Predict / Planning and

Predictive Methods Train and Apply Forecasting

▪ Classification ▪ Train model based on ▪ Enter, distribute, and create

▪ Regression historic data planning data
▪ Time series ▪ Apply model to current ▪ Forecast, simulate, and
data extrapolate data

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Key learnings

▪ You learned the recommended integration scenarios from

a business perspective
▪ You know how to integrate ByD and SAC from a technical
perspective
▪ You learned in detail the important considerations and
added value for each integration scenario

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