Real-time operational reporting
S/4HANA Embedded Analytics enables real-time analytics and monitoring of the most important KPIs. A virtual data model within SAP S/4HANA serves as the initial foundation. This makes it possible to link analytics and processing, which enables you to respond directly when action is needed.
SAP provides optimal support for BI tasks, including a number of ready-made Fiori apps for a variety of use cases. Customer-specific applications can also be realized and other front-end tools, such as SAP Analytics Cloud, can be integrated.
AI-driven findings for fact-based decisions
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is a self-service business analytics tool that lets you not only analyze current situations based on data models, but also investigate root causes and develop future scenarios.
This software-as-a-service solution is based on the SAP HANA Cloud platform and integrates business intelligence with predictive and planning functions. Its in-memory technology is very powerful and can be used on any device via a web browser. Your users are connected with one another on a central platform – meaning there's no need for tedious consolidation of Excel spreadsheets.
How many Excel spreadsheets of planning data exist at your company? How often do you have to e-mail Excel files back and forth until a plan is finalized? How many versions of the same plan are there in your SharePoint? In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can develop targeted data models for requirements in specific topic areas (such as personnel cost planning or depreciation) and integrate them with ease. You can reduce the complexity of your data landscape while still having all your planning in one central location. At the same time, the SAC makes it easy to share and discuss plans with colleagues. You'll be able to keep your inbox tidy and won't have to click your way through your company's SharePoint to get the exact reports you need.
Meanwhile, the collaboration features of the SAC enable you to further elaborate and coordinate your planning input. You can also create calendar tasks, organize processes, and assign planning tasks in the SAC. The system identifies market managers and product owners, for example, and creates all objects in a fully automated way. Your planners only see what they need to see.
Keep track and maintain control of process progress by reviewing, accepting, or rejecting planning figures. If your company operates in multiple countries, the SAC can also support you with automatic currency conversion and an option to set each country's fiscal year.
To utilize your enterprise data efficiently (even in big data scenarios) and derive important new business rules, you need a tool for clear, reliable forecasts: predictive analytics. SAP provides user-friendly environments – some of them in real time – for a variety of solution scenarios, such as time series forecasts, customer group analyses, shopping cart analyses, and decision support for pattern recognition (data mining), statistical analytics, and artificial intelligence. Take advantage of the wealth of data at your company and optimize your business processes with the fine-tuned analysis offered by SAP's BI tools for predictive analytics.
Enter and link data in real time
SAP Enterprise Data Warehouse is based fully on SAP HANA. From extended data modeling and data governance to powerful solution development, it offers a tremendous amount of flexibility. Simplify your work with big data – SAP data, data from third-party applications, unstructured data, geo-data, and Hadoop data – all live and in real time. SAP BW/4HANA enables your company to link historical data with live data for instant analyses and fast decisions.
