SAP Analytics Solutions: Road Map and Strategy

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SAP Analytics Cloud solution

Analytics catalog Mobile app

Centralized portal iOS and Android

Digital boardroom Stories Analytic applications MS Office integration

Business Augmented Enterprise

intelligence analytics planning

Data exploration Conversational analytics Planning and forecasting

Dashboards and visualizations Automated analytics Collaboration and workflows
Enterprise reporting Predictive analytics Predictive planning

Data connectivity Content translation Scheduling

Platform services Data preparation Lifecycle mgmt Collaboration
Data modeling Auditing and monitoring APIs and SDKs

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SAP Analytics Cloud
Business intelligence, augmented analytics, and planning on one common platform

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SAP Analytics Cloud
Business intelligence, augmented analytics, and planning on one common platform

Reporting
What has happened

Read data Today

SAP SAP Data SAP SAP SAP

S/4HANA Ware- Success IBP Customer Files …
house Factors Experience
Cloud
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SAP Analytics Cloud
Business intelligence, augmented analytics, and planning on one common platform

Visualize and model

Why did it happen

Reporting
What has happened

Read data Today

SAP SAP Data SAP SAP SAP

S/4HANA Ware- Success IBP Customer Files …
house Factors Experience
Cloud
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SAP Analytics Cloud
Business intelligence, augmented analytics, and planning on one common platform

Visualize and model

Why did it happen

Reporting Prediction
What has happened What could happen

Read data Today Create data

SAP SAP Data SAP SAP SAP

S/4HANA Ware- Success IBP Customer Files …
house Factors Experience
Cloud
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Business intelligence, augmented analytics, and planning on one common platform

Vision

Planning
What should happen

Visualize and model

Why did it happen

Reporting Prediction
What has happened What could happen

Read data Today Create data

SAP SAP Data SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP

S/4HANA Ware- Success IBP Customer Files … Analytics S/4HANA SAP BW SAP IBP Files …
house Factors Experience Cloud
Cloud
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 SAP Analytics Cloud
Business intelligence, augmented analytics, and planning on one common platform

Monitor and process

Ask
§ Monitor and alert
§ Understand status quo
§ Execute processes
§ Model business questions
SAP
Success SAP S/4HANA –
HR Strategy
Factors Group
solutions reporting
Collaborate

Act and visualize SAP IBP Sales and

Analyze for sales and Finance Invest
SAP S/4HANA
§ Review data § Ad hoc insights COGS Finance
operations
§ Run smart analytics § Share stories § Data exploration
§ Trigger actions § Run discussions
§ Enter comments

SAP Customer Marketing Expense SAP Concur

Experience solutions
Plan Predict
§ Input / adjustment § Time series forecast
§ Distribution and allocations § Planning proposition
§ Advanced formulas § Driver determination

Powerful analytics, Link operational and Integrate with enterprise

1 planning, and applications
2 financial data from all LoBs’ 3 applications
create a closed loop from data to see one version of the In real time to bring
insight to action. truth in context. intelligence to the end user.

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Business intelligence, augmented analytics, and planning on one common platform

SAP
Vacancies Success HR Strategy
SAP S/4HANA –
FTE planning Factors Group
solutions reporting
Diversity
Variance analysis
Promotions
SAP IBP Sales and SAP S/4HANA
for sales and COGS Finance Invest
Salary Finance
operations
Terminations

Contingent workers SAP Customer Marketing Expense SAP Concur

Locations Experience solutions

Financial
integration

Powerful analytics, Integrate with enterprise Enhance with

Link operational and business content
1 planning, and applications
2 financial data from all LoBs’ 3 applications 4 for faster implementation
create a closed loop from data to see one version of the In real time to bring
insight to action. intelligence to the end user. projects.
truth in context.
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SAP Analytics Cloud
Enables extended planning and analysis (xP&A)

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Operational workforce planning

Aggregated planning Configuration and preparation

Permanent workforce
Initialize plan versions
planning
Personnel cost planning
Contingent worker Maintain cost drivers
planning

Plan alignment Define planning levels

Handshake mapping Detailed planning
Finance
planning
Cost center Cost center Existing employee planning
Company Company Personnel cost planning
Cost types G/L accounts Vacancy planning

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Factors
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Integrated financial planning for SAP S/4HANA – Q2 2022
Capital expense planning Reporting / Analytics Financial statement planning Reporting / Analytics

CAPEX planning Balance sheet planning Cash flow planning

Depreciation planning P&L planning

Sales and profitability planning Reporting / Analytics

Consensus demand
plan (SAP IBP –
SAP S/4HANA)
Management
Sales prices planning Sales revenue and business review
Profitability planning (SAP IBP –
deductions planning
SAP S/4HANA)
Deductions percentage
Sales quantity planning planning

Product cost planning Reporting / Analytics

Product cost estimate
(SAP S/4HANA and Raw material price planning
SAP S/4HANA Cloud)

Resource calculation Quantity structure Product cost planning

Operating expense planning Reporting / Analytics

Activity price planning and Workforce

Activity quantity planning Operating expenses Cost center expenses
calculation planning

Activity type split Allocations Project expenses

Activity cost rates Statistical key figures

(SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud) (SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud)

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Integrated financial planning for SAP S/4HANA – Q3 2022 and beyond

Capital expense planning Reporting / Analytics Financial statement planning Reporting / Analytics

CAPEX planning Balance sheet planning Cash flow planning

Depreciation planning P&L planning

Consumer sales Sales and profitability planning Reporting / Analytics

Management
planning (SAP Sales revenue and business review
Analytics Cloud) Sales price planning Profitability planning
deductions planning (SAP IBP –
SAP S/4HANA)
Consensus demand Deductions percentage
plan (SAP IBP – Sales quantity planning planning
SAP S/4HANA)

Product cost planning Reporting / Analytics

Product cost estimate
(SAP S/4HANA and Raw material price planning
SAP S/4HANA Cloud)

Resource calculation Quantity structure Product cost planning

Operating expense planning Reporting / Analytics

Activity price planning and Workforce

Activity quantity planning Operating expenses Cost center expenses
calculation planning

Activity type split Allocations Project expenses

Activity cost rates Allocation rules (SAP S/4HANA and Statistical key figures
(SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud) SAP S/4HANA Cloud) – Q1 2023 (SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud)

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Operational sales planning

Configuration and preparation Sales planning L1: Overall target setting

Target setting Over- and underallocation

Handshake mapping
Initialize plan versions
Cost center Cost center
Sales planning L2: Sales org plan
Maintain PPG prices
Company Company

Sales org distribution Over- and underallocation Plan alignment Product Product Finance
planning
Derive data Trade budget Sales deduction
Sales planning L3: Sales team plan
Quantity Quantity
… …
Final allocation Over- and underallocation

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SAP Analytics Cloud in 2021 / 2022
Continuous feature delivery

SAP Analytics Cloud features in total Feature highlights

50 + 45 + 42 + 44 = 181
Q3 ‘21 Q4 ‘21 Q1 ‘22 Q2 ‘22 Planning: Conditional
Platform: Administrator
control of connections dependencies in calendar

Planning: Flexible time MS add-in: Tenant repointing

Features delivered by category

Planning 49 Integration: Bidirectional Mobile: Ability to run analytics

data transfer with SAP applications in Android app
Reporting, Story & App Design 46 Data Warehouse Cloud

Analytical Platform Services 27

Analytics designer: Optimized Story: Support of optimized
view mode view mode for planning
Data Integration & Modeling 24

Microsoft Office integration 18

Planning: Fluid data entry Platform: Configuration
Content Management & Cataloging 11 (GA) performance benchmarks

Smart and Predictive 6

Story: Optimized design Integration: Open API for data
experience – Initial release export (GA)
Features delivered in last 4 quarters addressed 95 influence requests.
Customer Influence

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SAP Analytics Cloud
Focus and key priorities
SAP Business Technology
Platform and LoB integration
Deep integration with SAP Data
Warehouse Cloud and SAP’s LoB
applications
Live connectivity
SAP Business Warehouse (SAP
BW), SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation (SAP BPC), SAP
S/4HANA, and SAP HANA Cloud
providing live capabilities for SAP
HANA
Enterprise readiness,
performance, and usability
Performance improvements,
enterprise analytics, administration
capabilities, and an enhanced data-
entry experience
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Advanced planning features Integration of predictive
and flexible modeling forecasts with planning
Flexible modeling, data entry Automation and scheduling,
optimization, and planning increased transparency and trust,
automation with workflows
predictive and multi-actions
Data exploration Story 2.0
Data analyzer as the one One experience combining
exploration experience with stories, analytics designer, and
integration into story workflow and SAP Digital Boardroom
catalog
SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in Enhanced workflow
for Microsoft Office 365 (Excel) support
Full support of planning features with Conditional dependencies,
data actions, new lines, and more enhanced mass creation, and bulk
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SAP BPC and SAP BW – Live focus

SAP BPC – Live features highlights SAP BW – Live features highlights

Performance (BOLT,
Planning sequence API Comments for SAP Hide/show compound
persisted INA, metadata
– Q3 2022 BPC live – Q1 2023 keys – Q3 2022
optimiz.) – Q3 2022

Context-sensitive
New lines enablement Difference from Comments for SAP BW
execution for planning
– Q4 2022 – Q4 2022 live – Q1 2023
seq. – 2023

Other SAP BW / SAP BPC – Live features (planned, no timeline yet)

§ Support of fiscal dimensions (for example, fiscal year / period) § Improved support of time- and version-dependent hierarchy

§ Improved support of time dimensions (other than date) § Improved support of queries with 2 structures

§ Hierarchical drill / expand for charts § Transient data access without creating an SAP Analytics Cloud remote
live model
§ Dynamic time calculations (PY, YoY, YTD, …) § Range filter for all characteristics

§ Measure-based filters § Support of report-to-report interface of SAP BW

§ Conditional formatting / threshold with measure comparison § Support of default query settings of SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)

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The new API step included within multiactions adds new closed-
loop integration capabilities to SAP Analytics Cloud.

Example with SAP Business Warehouse: 1

SAP Analytics Cloud

Planning input sheet 2

SAP Analytics Cloud

Multiaction
SAP Analytics Cloud
Planning model
Export data to SAP BW using
A C
A API step + export API

Call ABAP exit using

B API step

Import result data using

C data import step
SAP Business Warehouse
B aDSO

SAP Business Warehouse

Selected new features 1 Export API 2 API step
ABAP routine

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Simpler LoB experience reduces floor costs and improves end-customer experience

Analyze

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Design
§ Self-service story building
§ Existing story capabilities
§ No-code features of analytic applications, such as
custom widgets, theming

Extend
§ Smooth extension through scripting
§ Low-code and advanced coding capabilities of analytic
applications

Present
§ Ability to build your presentation
§ SAP Digital Boardroom concepts, such as navigation
paths through story contents
§ Composable business intelligence

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Growing together: SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud

Common data foundation Analytics-as-a-service Planning-as-a-service

Today Q1.2023 2023

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud models

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud as
common data foundation with live
access for analytics and
bidirectional integration for
planning
to become a native and integrated
model type in SAP Analytics Cloud Streamlining planning and analysis
One catalog across SAP Data with reduced modeling efforts
Warehouse Cloud and SAP
Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud SAP Analytics Cloud SAP Analytics Cloud

One data catalog
Analytics Planning Analytics Planning Analytics Planning

One data catalog

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Data foundation Data foundation Data foundation

SAP and non-SAP sources SAP and non-SAP sources SAP and non-SAP sources

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SAP BusinessObjects solutions road map
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.3 SP3
Planned for Q4 2022
#1
Increase productivity
with WebL new data mode
§ Preview your data
§ Enable facet navigation
§ Visualize data flow (query and
object)
§ Combine flows of data (append,
joins)
§ Prepare and transform your data
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#2
Extend possibility
§ Microsoft Drive support
§ “Export to” another repository
destination
§ Ability to organize your “Prompts”
§ Support of oDATA v4
§ New connectivity and SDKs
§ Wiiisdom freemium
#3
Improve usability
§ Support of pixel reporting
§ New trellis chart
§ Cell justification
§ Table resize using “anchor”
§ “Guides” to ease block
positioning
§ Multiblock selection using “lasso”
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SAP BusinessObjects portfolio
Rationalization strategy

Available on premise and in managed cloud

Add-

SAP Analysis for

ons

SAP Lumira SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
SAP BusinessObjects

SAP SAP Crystal SAP

Client tools

SAP Crystal SAP Analysis for SAP BusinessObjects SAP Crystal Reports
BusinessObjects Reports BusinessObjects
Reports (classic) OLAP Web Intelligence (classic)
Enterprise

Web Intelligence (enterprise) Live Office

Universe design tool – UDT Information design tool - IDT Information design tool
(for .unv universes) (for .unx universes) (for single source .unx universes)

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030+

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Contact information:
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Vice President, Head of Product Management, Planning and Analytics, SAP

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