SAP Analytics: Roadmap & Strategy

Jonathan Freeland, SAP EMEA Centre of Excellence, Platform & Technologies

3rd December 2019
 Agenda

• SAP strategy in a nutshell - where are we going ?

• SAP Analytics Cloud – roadmap and direction
• What does this mean for SAP BusinessObjects ?
• Key/useful resources

Disclaimer
The information in this presentation is confidential and proprietary to SAP and may not be disclosed without the permission of SAP.
Except for your obligation to protect confidential information, this presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other service
or subscription agreement with SAP. SAP has no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this presentation or any related document, or to develop
or release any functionality mentioned therein.
This presentation, or any related document and SAP's strategy and possible future developments, products and or platforms directions and functionality are all
subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. The information in this presentation is not a commitment, promise or
legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. This presentation is provided 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 presentation is for informational purposes and
may not be incorporated into a contract. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this presentation, except if such damages were caused by SAP’s
intentional or gross negligence.
All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates,
and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
What are we seeing in the analytics market?

• Decline in traditional “Enterprise Reporting”

• Desire for self-service, devolved insights…
• Drive to embed analytics in decision making, applications and processes
• Analytics means many things – breadth of capabilities across BI, exploration, planning,
simulation, forecasting, optimization, AI/ML, bots……
• Shift of workloads to the cloud, but concerns remain over privacy, security and location
• Organisations responding to proliferation of tools, need for consolidation
SAP Analytics Strategy in a nutshell ….

Analytics is at the center of SAP innovation:

• SAP Analytics Cloud is the primary focus for innovation

– “Embedded” intelligence in business applications and processes
– “Intelligent Solutions”
– Analytics for the “Intelligent Enterprise”

…..and our strategy is Hybrid….

 SAP Analytics Cloud – One, Simple, Cloud….

BI, Exploration & Visualization

Planning, Simulations & Workflow

Smart Search, Insights & Predictive

Digital Boardroom

Application Design
 SAP Analytics Cloud – Planning

• Go-forward collaborative planning solution for SAP

• Create powerful ‘connected’ planning applications Embedding
and processes applications into
other web pages
– Top-down, middle-out, or bottom-up
– Private versioning and simulations
– Driver based planning
– Predictive forecasting
– Collaboration, workflow and cell commentary
– Cost allocations
• Business content for FP&A, salary and workforce
planning, project budgeting, sales performance, travel
and expense and more…. Communicating
with other web
• Recent developments include: pages
– S4 write-back
– BPC live integration
– IBP integration
– BW/4 live integration (due Q1 2020)
 SAP Analytics Cloud – Digital Boardroom

Embedding
applications into
other web pages

• Provides contextual, 360-degree real-time view of business performance across

departments
• Cascade across the organisation (top floor to shop floor) to align on consistent version
• Perform explorations, correlation and simulations on the fly to access causes and
impact of decisions
 SAP Analytics Cloud – Analytics Designer

• Enables professional design of analytic

content, ranging from dashboards and Embedding
applications into
guided analytic solutions to sophisticated other web pages
planning applications
• Create custom widgets (as of Q4/2020)

Communicating
with other web
pages
 SAP Analytics Cloud – One, Simple, Cloud….

BI, Exploration & Visualization

Planning, Simulations & Workflow

Smart Search, Insights & Predictive

Digital Boardroom

Application Design
Embedded Intelligence
For a seamless embedded experience

Embedding Application
Contextual Bi-directional UI Embedding

Single Sign-On

White-label

Life-cycle Management

Self-Service Provisioning

Live Connectivity

Extensibility
 SAC “Embedded” in SAP S/4HANA
Available today
▪ SAC real-time and data acquisition connectivity to
S/4HANA and S/4HANA Cloud
▪ SAC stories can be launched through Fiori tile
▪ SAC planning write-back to S/4HANA
▪ 60+ Business Content stories available in Analytics
Content Network

Coming soon
▪ SAC available (1911) seamlessly embedded in S/4HANA
Cloud with no additional license
▪ Packaged content/dashboards for aging & accounts
payable, disputes, financial statements and treasury
▪ Data Analyzer – Flexible drill-down into financial
statements (P&L, cashflow, balance sheet….)
▪ Automated provisioning, connectivity and content
▪ Integration into Fiori Launchpad and S/4HANA role
▪ Seamless in-shell intent based navigation
 SAC “Embedded “in SAP SuccessFactors
Available today
▪ Data acquisition connector for SuccessFactors

▪ Standard business content for analytics and

planning in the Analytics Content Network

▪ Closed Beta: Real time connectivity embedded in

the application allowing cross reporting and
seamless analytics UX and query design across
all modules
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People Analytics embedded
edition

Coming soon
▪ Real-time embedded connectivity:
▪ Q4 2020 - GA: SAP SuccessFactors: People Analytics
embedded edition
▪ Future Direction - GA: SAP SuccessFactors: People
Analytics advanced edition
▪ Future Direction - Closed Beta : People
Analytics planning edition
 SAC “Embedded “ in Ariba
Coming soon
▪ Real-time, seamlessly embedded SAC
– automated provisioning
– Unified user management
– Unified analytics UX
– Query building across exposed data models
– Advanced analytics and data visualization capabilities
▪ Q4 2019:
▪ Closed Beta :SAP Ariba: embedded analytics for Ariba Network
▪ Closed Beta: SAP Ariba: embedded analytics for Spend Analysis
App

Future Direction:
▪ SAP Ariba: GA of embedded analytics for Ariba Network and
Spend Analysis app.
▪ SAP Ariba: Wider support by providing embedded analytics for
other Ariba applications like SAP Ariba Sourcing etc.
 Embedded Roadmap
Q3 2019
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People Analytics
embedded edition (closed beta)
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People Analytics advanced
edition (closed beta)
▪ SAP Marketing Cloud solution (version 1905)
▪ SAP Fieldglass solutions (beta release)
▪ SAP Sales Commissions (beta release)
Q4 2019
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People Analytics
embedded edition (GA)
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People
Analytics advanced edition (closed beta)
▪ SAP Ariba: embedded analytics for Ariba
Network (closed beta for selected buyers
and suppliers)
▪ SAP Ariba: embedded analytics for Spend
Analysis App (closed beta for selected
customers)
▪ SAP S/4HANA Cloud (GA)
▪ SAP Sales Commissions (GA)
▪ SAP Cloud for Customer (beta release)
Future Direction
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People Analytics
advanced edition (GA)
▪ SAP SuccessFactors: People
Analytics planning edition (closed beta)
▪ SAP Ariba: GA of embedded analytics for
Ariba Network and Spend Analysis app.
▪ SAP Ariba: Wider support by providing
embedded analytics for other
Ariba applications like SAP Ariba Sourcing
etc.
▪ SAP Fieldglass (GA)
▪ SAP Cloud for Customer (GA)
▪ SAP CPQ
▪ SAP Concur
SAC Embedded vs Enterprise Edition Comparison

Feature Embedded* Enterprise

Live access (no data replication) to embedded app data ✓ ✓
Live access to other data sources ✓
Access to acquired (replicated) data from other sources ✓
Data preparation including joining multiple datasets from different systems together ✓
Administration rights – configure new connections and users ✓
Create and modify SAC stories based on embedded app data ✓ ✓
Create and modify SAC stories based on other data ✓
Use Smart Assist features likes Search to Insight, Smart Insights ✓ ** ✓
Use Smart Predict feature with predictive models ✓
Use ‘R’ predictive language ✓
Consume prebuilt analytics applications ✓(App only) ✓
Create and modify analytic applications ✓
Create planning models ✓
Analysis for Office ✓

*SAC Embedded is focused on Embedded BI capabilities to start. ** Search to Insight and Smart Insights are part of the embedded roadmap
Intelligent Solutions – People Analytics
SAP Analytics Cloud – Roadmap & Direction
• SAC Product Plan is published and updated here alongside product
update details
SAP Analytics Cloud – Roadmap & Direction
Recent Developments
• SAC Planning: Scripting engine and data actions
• Office Integration:
– SAC now includes Analysis for Office licence
– Analysis for Office cell based commenting (for BW/4)
– Analysis for Office now (Nov 2019) includes live and acquired BW/4HANA connectivity
– (New) Analysis for Office 2.8 (Nov 2019)
– Office 365 now in Beta
• Content network enhancement
– Growth in business content and partner content applications
– Lifecycle management (incl. sharing content between tenants)

Future Developments
• Scheduling and distribution to SAC via email as PDF, on acquired and live data sources (due Q1/2020)
• Enhancement of Live Connectivity including Search to Insight and Smart Predict
• Continued Application Design enhancements (eg: Custom widgets)
What does this mean for SAP BusinessObjects?
• SAP continues to support and invest in SAP BusinessObjects
– Next version (4.3) due 2020, Beta starts Dec 2019 (accepting requests now)
– Support will extend to 2027 (at least – TBC)
• “Enterprise Reporting” remains, but market is shifting to modern, cloud approach. The
SAP strategy IS hybrid…..
• Key themes for 4.3 are:
BusinessObjects 4.3 – Hybrid
Live Universe Connector 3.0

– Accessing on premise universe data without moving it to the cloud

– Apply data level security
SAP Analytics
– Use powerful query capabilities
Cloud
– Create visualizations using business terms

Metadata
Data never leaves the customer’s network
On Premise customer trusted network

Live Data

Database SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

Analyst laptop
with Universes, and LUC 3.0
BusinessObjects 4.3 – Hybrid
Consume Web Intelligence data model in SAP Analytics Cloud
 BusinessObjects 4.3 – Hybrid
Consume Web Intelligence data model in SAP Analytics Cloud

Re-use existing Web

Intelligence documents SAP Analytics
to build new information
Cloud

Data Model

List of available objects:

dimensions,
measures, variables

#1 #2 #3 #4 Data Providers
BusinessObjects 4.3 – Hybrid
Hybrid User Management

• Deliver SCIM (System for Cross-domain

Identity Management) APIs
▪ Easily onboard existing on-prem users to SAP Analytics
the cloud (SAP Analytics Cloud / Analytics Cloud
Hub) either by user or user groups
• SCIM APIs can be used by Identity
Provisioning Service to provision and
synchronize BI Platform Users to SAC
SCIM API

BI Platform
Users/Groups
BusinessObjects 4.3 – Hybrid
Analytics Hub Integration

• Select and identify Business

Objects content to be pushed to SAP Analytics Hub

automatically appear as ‘Hub’

assets
• Content remains synchronized and
up to date

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

BusinessObjects 4.3 – User Experience
New user experience

▪ New/Modernized (Fiori like, HTML5) user

experience/launchpad
▪ Do not ship the existing BI LaunchPad
▪ Light menu-bar and contextual (right click)
menus
▪ One client for the web and desktop, for
viewers and designers
▪ New, rejuvenated mobile experience
Products not shipped with 4.3

– Adobe will stop supporting and distributing the Flash player on Dec 31 2020
– SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer both
depend on Flash and hence will not be available in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3
– Please refer the following links for additional details
• KBA 2739919 – Dashboards will be removed in BI4.3
• KBA 2729987 – BI Widgets will be removed in BI4.3
• KBA 2679783 – Explorer will sunset by end of 2020

– After Dec 31 2020, existing installations may continue to work, but will not be
supported by SAP
– SAP recommends SAP Analytics Cloud as the replacement for SAP
BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Conclusions
• Analytics has changed - SAP offers a unique blend of traditional vs
modern approaches
• Hybrid is key to cloud success for many organisations. With SAP Analytics
cloud your data does not go to the cloud (via Live connectivity)
• SAP Analytics Cloud goes from strength to strength – if you’ve not had a
go already please do (SAP Store)
– SAC Business Content
– SAC Product Plan
– SAC Roadmap Videos
• For SAP BusinessObjects customers, 4.3 is a major opportunity to refresh
your approach. Look out for further details coming soon
Any Questions !

Jonathan Freeland
SAP EMEA CoE
Platform & Technologies

mailto:jonathan.freeland@sap.com