Rethinking Reporting – Uber

Reporting
Dr. Paul Hawking
Motivation

Self
IT Business
Service
Business Intelligence Maturity
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) –
Builds on the Output Integration
capabilities to send alerts and make
decisions in real-time.

Decision Enablement – Automation of BAM

the decision process including alerts.
Systematic rules used to make decisions
based on data captured after past Decision
decisions stored in a knowledge Enablement
repository.

Business Performance Management -

Implemented to help executives and Business Performance
managers avoid information overload and Management
focus on the key metrics. Some alert and
notification capabilities offered.

BI Infrastructure – Creation BI Infrastructure

of enterprise and divisional or other data
(Data Warehouse)
warehouses. Required, in order to set
the foundation for an enterprise wide
decision support system. (McDonald, ASUG 2004)
Requirements Are Evolving!
Uber Reporting!

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Transformation
Digital Transformation
• Digital transformation is the change associated with the
application of digital technology in all aspects of human
society. ...

• The transformation stage means that digital usages

inherently enable new types of innovation and creativity in a
particular domain, rather than simply enhance and support
the traditional methods. (Wikipedia)
Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation Skills and Reporting
Are there What are the user
technologies which experiences?
can be better
utilised?

Do we fully Can we re-use

understand the previous efforts?
decision and its
context and the best
action?

Are there other Are we thinking

people who can outside the box?
help?
Digital Transformation Skills and Reporting

Do we fully
understand the
decision and its
context and the best
action?

Are there other Are we thinking

people who can outside the box?
help?
Digital Transformation Skills For Reporting
Digital Transformation Skills and Reporting
Are there
technologies which
can be better
utilised?
Digital Transformation Skills For Reporting
Digital Transformation Skills and Reporting
What are the user
experiences?
Digital Transformation Skills For Reporting
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
KPI Modeler is a tool for creating Fiori tiles that contain
Performance Indicators that can be added to the Launchpad.
Tiles can be set up as visualizations or numeric identifiers
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
The Analysis Path Framework (APF) tool builds user journeys
Smart Business Cockpits through analytics. This allows users to set up their own
analytical apps by defining paths through different analysis
steps from different tools.
Digital Transformation Skills and Reporting

Can we re-use
previous efforts?
Cloud BI
Embedded Analytics in S/4HANA
S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics:
■ Delivers contextualized analytics for SAP
S/4HANA embedded within the context of
work and tailored to business needs and roles
■ Consists of Virtual Data Models (based on CDS
Views) covering role based operational reports
for lines of business
■ Comes with tools for Business Users, Power
Users and Developers to analyze data and
manage the lifecycle of reports and KPIs
■ Is included in the SAP S/4HANA Enterprise
Management license and does not require a
separate installation by customers
■ Integrates with SAP BusinessObjects BI, SAP
Lumira, and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud- all of
which require a separate license
• Core Data Services (CDS) are SAP’s strategic modelling approach for business
entities
■ Does not replace SAP HANA Live, SAP Business
Warehouse or any other SAP analytics • Enriched SQL scripts: SQL + extensions + annotations
offering but complements and integrates with • SAP HANA views automatically generated based upon scripts
them
• Exposed as “Analytical Queries” in the Query Browser
• Exposed as Transient InfoProvider / BEx Query
Decision Automation
Digital Transformation Skills and Reporting
What About Leonardo?
Methodology
Questions?