SAP Analytics Cloud – Best Practice Webinars

SAP Analytics Cloud is SAP’s strategic analytics solution and includes multiple functionality and features for BI, Planning and Predictive scenarios. All this can make getting the best out of the solution a little bit challenging, since there are so many things we need to consider.

In the Customer First organization we are working with the largest SAC customers worldwide and we know which are your pain points.That is why we decided to launch our monthly onboarding and best practice webinars back in April 2020. We wanted to tackle the most frequent challenges and share what we have learnt in the last years working with customers like you.

To be honest, we were very excited with your response, hundreds of you registered and we received very good feedback:

“Fantastic webinar, the instructor shared a lot of knowledge, thank you all” – Webinar SAP Analytics Cloud Landscape Architecture and Life-Cycle Management

“Very useful tips and tricks related to performance, thank you very much!” – Webinar SAP Analytics Cloud Performance troubleshooting and best practices

“very good and compact overview” – Webinar Working with a Cloud Service

After summer we thought, what can we do now to make the webinars even better? The answer was very easy, just run them again!

Starting in October and until the end of the year, we will be running the best practice webinars with live Q&A with the content creators and SAC’s Solutions Experts. We want to make sure no question remains unanswered.

Below you can find a brief description for all the webinars and a link to our registration page.

Success with SAP Analytics Cloud

Oct 7^th, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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As you onboard on your journey with SAP Analytics Cloud, we want to ensure that you have a good view of the road ahead. We’ve learnt that customers who plan for success achieve quicker time to value and run projects more efficiently and successfully to the end.

We’ve captured the basic requirements in our best-practices “Five Pillars of Success” and will share them with you during this session. Implementing an SAP Analytics Cloud project is a full-blown project that should be handled accordingly, taking into account many detailed specifics. After this webinar you will be able to set up and run the project successfully in your company by avoiding the common pitfalls.

Working with a Cloud Service

Oct 14^th, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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This session provides an overview to a number of topics including:

• Agreements including data security, privacy and service level agreements.
• Security and compliance

And then with a slightly more technical overview including:

• Data connections and what are the typically components needed on-premise
• The key security concepts
• The overall landscape architecture and how to perform life-cycle management

This session is essential to answering the most common questions when first starting out with SAP Analytics Cloud and is suitable for architects, project managers and a technical audience.

SAP Analytics Cloud Resources available and Support offerings

Oct 21^st, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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In this Webinar, we will cover the resources available from SAP which will help you to efficiently work through your SAP Analytics Cloud journey:

• Getting started to Advanced level (Guiding/Learning Materials).
• Product Support (Guidance to expedite your Product Support experience).
• Enterprise Support (How to make use of ES support channel through Value Maps).

Additional Resources – Courses, Trainings, Certification, Product Plan and Updates, SLA’s, SAP Trust Centre, Cloud Availability Centre.

Technical and Administration Overview of SAP Analytics Cloud

Oct 27^th, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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During this Webinar you will understand the Technical and Administration concepts of SAC to better prepare for the SAC Implementation projects. This session provides an overview to a number of topics including:

• The overall landscape architecture and different SAC Components .
• User Authentication and Security
• Data connections
• Administration and Monitoring including the Usage content

This session is essential to answering the most common questions when first starting out with SAP Analytics Cloud and is suitable for architects, project managers and a technical audience.

SAP Analytics Cloud Performance troubleshooting and best practices

Nov 4^th, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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In this session you will understand the key components and design tricks in a SAP Analytics Cloud  project that can have impact on performance

After a quick introduction on project performance requirements and high level architecture diagram to get a rough idea on all impacted areas, we’ll cover the main tip and tricks for a better performance in SAP Analytics Cloud for the following components

• Hardware and software requirements
• SAP Analytics Cloud frontend including Story design
• Backend best practices including HANA, BW or Planning

In addition we’ll give you some hints/methodology on how to quickly drive a performance analysis.

Learn how to use and navigate the Business Content packages in SAP Analytics Cloud

Nov 11^th, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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Join this session to get a detailed orientation around the available samples in SAC’s Business Content library. Learn how to navigate the lists of business content packages and understand their relevance by industry and line of business. We’ll also take a tour of the supporting technical documentation – including the content inventory – to help customers assess which datasource types and connection strategy are needed to successfully adapt the templates to their sources.

This session will also offer practical demonstrations of how to achieve this in the system, including highlighting other important supporting assets and articles online.

Smart Predict with HANA Live

Nov 12^th, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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Smart feature portfolio in SAP Analytics Cloud really augments the traditional BI experience with new & advanced analytics. Users get to experience new ways of analysis on top of their remote data sources from within existing dashboards. This means the insights are always up to date and data never leaves company’s firewall.

So get into this session, if you have been looking at Smart Features such as Smart Insights, Smart Predict or Forecasting but thought that this may not be real for my data(e.g. for complex joins in remote HANA views or for BW datasets).

The sessions is all hands-on in SAC tenant and includes information for IT users who need to setup few configurations and also then for end users who will eventually make use of Smart Features in their analysis.  It shows connection matrix at the end so that you know which feature is supported where.

SAP Analytics Cloud Landscape Architecture and Life-Cycle Management

Nov 17^th, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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What should the landscape architecture of SAP Analytics Cloud look like and how does it compare with traditional on-premise landscapes? How should I manage the life-cycle of content in SAP Analytics Cloud? Why do I need multiple environments to manage content and what content can I manage within a single SAP Analytics Cloud Service?

These and many more questions are addressed along with Best Practice. Matthew’s presentation is ideal for system architects or those starting out with SAP Analytics Cloud and wishing to understand how life-cycle management works with SAP Analytics Cloud.

Deep dive SAP Analytics Cloud Performance troubleshooting and best practices

Nov 25^th, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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In this session you will dive in all the key components and design tricks in a SAP Analytics Cloud  project that can have impact on performance
After a quick introduction on project performance requirements and high level architecture diagram to understand the key SAP Analytics Cloud components that could have an impact on Performance, we’ll get in details on do’s and don’ts for a better performance in SAP Analytics Cloud, providing some best practices for specific use-cases :

• Hana live connection best practices
• BW live connection best practices
• Planning scenarios best practices
• How to use troubleshooting tools to understand the cause of performance issues

This session will deliver detailed information and is suitable for a technical audience, architects and project managers.

How SAP Analytics Cloud Planning helps you to align plans across all business

Dec 2^nd, 2020, 10:00 am CET

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In this webinar you will learn best practices to create an integrated planning process with SAP Analytics Cloud Planning in alignment with the company’s plans. The goal is to allocate critical financial and operational resources in a way that maximizes profit and minimizes risk. SAP Analytics Cloud Planning leverages advance predictive tools to enable planners and decision makers to help them take decisions based on data.

Using SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, companies can seamlessly integrate planning and execution processes in the cloud. They can link financial and materials planning tasks directly across a common online interface. You will learn how to quickly access planning scenarios with help of predefined and free business content for different LOBs and industries.

When you register to the webinars, you will not only have access to the recording and the presentation used but also to a live Q&A with our SAC Solution Experts and content owners.

Don’t hesitate and take your SAP Analytics Cloud project to the next level with our Best Practice Webinars!