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Last week, SAP kicked off the first #askSAP call with the Analytics Strategy and Road map for 2019. The replay is here: #askSAP Call: SAP Analytics 2019 Strategy and Roadmap
Slides are here
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March 7 BI: What's New in SAP BOBJ Web Intelligence 4.2 SP07
March 26 BI: Hybrid Analytics and Analytics Hub - Latest Developments
March 27 BI: Influence of Agility and Big Data Principles to BW/4HANA Architecture
March 28 BI: Overview of Latest BI Features in SAP Cloud Analytics
April 2 BI: A Beginner’s Guide to Use SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Planning
April 3 BI: Smart Predict Update
April 4 BI: Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Story Performance in SAP Analytics Cloud
April 9 BI: Data Protection & Privacy with BW/4HANA
April 10 BI: What's New with Application Design in SAP Analytics Cloud
April 11 BI: Hybrid Planning Scenarios Built by SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning and SAP Business Planning an...
April 16 BI: What's New in Transitioning from SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA
April 18: INFL: ASUG SAP Analytics Cloud Influence Council Launch for Data Connectivity & Agile Data Preparati...
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The askSAP calls were started in 2013 to offer the Analytics community a forum to learn more about SAP's plans for their analytics solutions and the latest product information, and to ask questions and give feedback to SAP. These 90 minute calls provide attendees interactive opportunities via multiple Q&A sessions, poll questions and a short survey.
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Mo leads product management for analytics, gathering requirements and provide road map and vision
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Mo covered the Intelligent Enterprise Framework
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Strategy this year; concentrate to combine SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and on-premise
Extending SAC to include application design
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All inclusive strategy
If you have BPC, leverage that
If you have BW, leverage that
Analysis Office - save to SAC platform
Improve BW connectivity
This year will be the BI4.3 release
Connect to more sources
Bring SAP Analytics HUB, SAC, and BI launchpad
Access WebI documents via SAC
BW4/HANA - just released new version; use to simplify data model
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BW/4HANA - big data ready, simplification
Customers are using SAC against S/4HANA
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Ty covered the quarterly release cycle: SAP Analytics Cloud | Release Schedule | Quarterly Release | SAP
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New capabilities around how connect, how prepare, how model, how make it available
Simplify way to connect to data - whether on premise or cloud
Blur lines between live connectivity (data remains in source) and import connectivity (bring data to SAC)
Extend blending scenarios; recently added blending and live connections
Improve user experience of data modeling, drag and drop (middle of this year, planned)
Add ability to model live data (BEx queries, HANA views, universes)
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Is SAC just for SAP data? Not. Ty said "we love all data"
Added 100 data sources just a few weeks ago (those from the BI platform)
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Enterprise reporting is not yet in SAC (creating balance sheets, legal documents, forms, reports with formatting)
Starting to work on this year
See capabilities to schedule, attach as email, and build on to meet enterprise reporting use case
Close live and import gap (almost closed for live HANA 2.0)
Self service - make part of that consumer user - increase capability for consumer user
Make it more intuitive
Close gap between table/chart
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Exciting area of SAC
Conversational AI - where SAC finds answers for you in a conversational manner
Automated discovery - search my data, tell me what you find - light bulbs to provide insight for you
Smart Predict provides algorithms, R integration and provide R as a service
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Adding predictive scenarios to business content
In Q2, add more to search to insight - plan to add global search across all models/data sources - not have to be in a story to search
Smart Predict - connect to SQL sources
Future direction - search to insight / discovery against live connection, starting with HANA 2.0, speech to text using mobile
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Familiar with Lumira Designer? Build a targeted application, bringing that to SAC
Plan to be available in Q2
Authoring in SAC; organic part of SAC
For all SAC use cases - BI, predict, planning
Everyone will get it, regardless of license
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Have a mobile experience today, SAC Mobile
Today it is iOS for phone/table
Working on building targeted mobile documents
Offline experience for mobile application
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Q1 - internal deployment SDK
Working on Android support
Adding geospatial to mobile, along with annotations - planned for Q2
Future direction - embedding mobile apps in other mobile apps (part of intelligent enterprise story)
Q&A
Q: Will App Design replace Lumira Designer?
A: No
Q: SAC is only compatible with Chrome; are you extending it to Edge?
A: Q1 release that came out last week added authoring and view support for Edge
Q: Is SAC able to compete with other tools?
A: Will not compete with others; different approach for SAC as it has BI predictive planning
Q: SuccessFactors and SAC integration
A: Part of Intelligent Enterprise; later Q2 start Beta program; have a connection to SF / Workforce Analytics; in Q2 start embedding SAC in SuccessFactors
Poll and responses:
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Adrian covered the hybrid topic
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Hybrid means mixed portfolio - tools can be deployed on premise and cloud
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Overview of areas covered.
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Licensing - how SAP can help you get the right licenses for hybrid landscapes
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New set of license options so you can select right size, right mix of options
WebI-only edition; pay less maintenance
Streamlining - with end of Flash based products, removing it from landscapes, and gives you opportunity to save money
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Cloud extension policy allows you to partially terminate maintenance and move to the cloud
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SAP Analytics Hub portal allows you to pull together content from multiple solution (on premise, cloud, 3rd party content)
Hub and SAC will be more aligned
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Live connectivity allows you to leave data on premise
Q2 - Live Universe Connectivity 2.0 will be released
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SAP Analysis Office - users feel comfortable in Excel and allow use of that with SAC models.
Special edition for SAP Analysis Office with SAC
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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 - next major release for BI platform
Continue to invest in on-premise suite
Long term commitment to BI
Extend BusinessObjects support to 2026
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Where we are at in the timeline
3.1 support ended last year
4.2 to 2022; still releasing SP's
4.3 to 2026
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Three themes of BI4.3 including hybrid
Fresher UX
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Continue building live universe connector - 3.0 in 4.3
Allow you to leave data on premise
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Consume WebI data models in SAC with BI4.3
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Make it easier to manage users in multiple environments
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Analytics Hub - that single catalog of analytics in your organization; get your BI assets and surface them in Analytics Hub
Q&A
Q: Will there be a WebI only edition:
A: right side version (see slides) and rich client
Q: Migration from 4.1 to 4.3
A: Pattern books
Q: Is the enterprise data warehouse approach still valid?
A: BW/4HANA 2.0 released
If customers want to create data marts in the cloud - looking at that
Q: Where does Digital Boardroom fit in the roadmap?
A: Premium user experience; in strategy, investing - just released meeting minutes
Q: Offer a SuccessFactors app as an iFrame?
A: You can, can embed SAC stories in other applications (SAP and non-SAP)
Can embed in SuccessFactors
Q: question from twitter - is there a tool to migration from BusinessObjects to SAC?
A: No
Recommendation today is use landscapes you have and use Analytics Hub
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The Q2 #askSAP call scheduled for June 6 so be sure to save the date on your calendar. The topic will be SAP Strategy for Data and Analytics. In advance of the June 6 call SAP recommends you read the recent article, From Data to Intelligence written by Gerrit Kazmaier (Senior Vice President, SAP Analytics and Database & Data Management). The article highlights recent Gartner reports where SAP is positioned as a leader in the January 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics for the 7th consecutive year and also positioned as a visionary in this year's Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms. It also shares how SAP's strategy is to bring all analytics together in one cloud-based platform as a clear market differentiator and how they have unmatched business domain expertise for LoBs and industries. Learn more about how SAP is bringing quality, performance, and customer support in the article. (Source: SAP)
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