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The possibility of real-time, flexible and ad-hoc operational analytics is for many customers a prime motivation for moving to SAP Business Suite on HANA. Combine this with a beautiful self-service tool like Lumira and enable your business users to explore & anaylze themselves. Just this is already a big value prop in itself.
What are the ingredients?

  • First, you need either to have your ERP or Business Suite on SAP HANA, or run HANA Analytics in a side car mode.

  • With this comes SAP HANA live - if you want to explore, loot at this SCN post for starters. There is an abundance of documents in SCN on the topic. For example: How to Enhance SAP HANA Live - Webinar Presentation http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-46825

  • And yes - there is of course a rapid deployment solution (RDS) available - with recent updates like "how to realize profitability analysis (CO-PA) based on SAP HANA Live", or a pre-assembled appliance for SAP HANA Live to be deployed in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC).

  • Finally, you connect it to SAP Lumira to make your data look beautiful and easily accessible- a few good examples for starters:  http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55966 - or check below Lumira screenshot of an analysis of configured sales orders.


 



There are many good descriptions of how to to set this-up. I suggest the RDS - this should get you started, well, rapidly.



 

What about attributes, characteristics, configurations and classifications?

As always mill products we talk about rolls and sheets, every sales order and stock item is somewhat different - modeled through attributes or characteristics. Are those supported in SAP HANA live as well?

 

The short answer: yes, but you will need to "enable" them.

 

For many of the "normal" data base tables SAP delivers predefined HANA Live content - virtual model definition, like views. For classification and configuration the process is slightly different. Every customer can define their own attributes to describe a demand (e.g. sales order) or supply (e.g. a batch in stock) - as part of variant configuration and classification.

As we from SAP do not know your characteristic definitions in advance, we can't deliver ready to run HANA live views for those. Instead you will need to run a report to generate the HANA live views for classification and configuration in your system.
The result is similar: The view with your attributes is then available in your HANA content. From there you can start to link e.g. a configuration with a sales order query view, or with a inventory view for batches. Looking for a batch stock overview to search and display by attributes. Here you go.

 

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Let us know about the analytical models you have built, and share with the community your best findings!

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