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Enterprise Analytics: Empowering Lines of Business to Manage Data and Drive Insight #askSAP Call Summary
Last week SAP held its first askSAP call of 2021, expertly moderated by the great Timo ELLIOTT
Some of the acronyms:
SAC – SAP Analytics Cloud
DWC – SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
BTP – Business Technology Platform
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Legal disclaimer applies
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Analytics is number 1 pandemic technology
Explosion of uncertainty
Why Analytics and Line of Business
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Do best companies run SAP?
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Comparing SAP and non SAP customers
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How tie solutions together?
With BTP, Business Technology Platform
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End to end analytics capabilities – not just embedded analytics or standalone analytics
HCM with SuccessFactors example
Operational analytics – embedded analytics
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Enterprise analytics across applications
Not just SAP applications
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Using SAC and DWC
For business user and IT across SAP and non-SAP applications
DWC – combine and enhance data
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Access multiple areas from one dashboard
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Planning top down, bottom up
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Over 200 industry and LoB packages
Over 90 packages in SAC and DWC
Get started with data models
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Business content packages
HXM
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Highlights of survey
84% HR data underused
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HR is siloed
Finance does planning, can’t see HR counts?
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3 parts of analytics as part of HXM
Report Story – embedded SAC in SuccessFactors – “People Analytics”
Workforce Analytics – prebuilt KPI’s, one click implementation
- Connector between Workforce Analytics and SAC
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DWC harmonizes SAP and non SAP data
SAP creates stories
Smart predict to predict attrition, value driver tree to change drivers
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Challenges of spend
Right side are KPI’s from SAC/DWC to improve spend visibility
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Sample SAC dashboards
Sourcing analysis – source is from Ariba, from established contracts
Bottom left – compliance of using purchase orders, contracts, from using Ariba effectively
Process Efficiency – how long purchase approvals take
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Sample KPIs on the top
DWC harmonizes the data
DWC is the harmonization layer
Streamed to SAC
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Q&A (just a subset):
Q: What release version of SF comes with embedded SAC
A: already embedded last year
Need a specific version of identity management
Q: Does Spend Analytics depend on bringing together from S/4HANA, BW?
A: SAC can connect to HANA, BW, would be more work for IT to implement the workflow
Q: What is tip to get LoB managers to get engaged?
A: Where is data located, what types of KPI’s trying to track per LoB, look at LoB content packages
Q: Does SAC have alerting capabilities on mobile?
A: Different alerting components in SAC planning
Not on mobile yet
Source: SAP
Reference:
Replay is available at this link: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3026022/A10C2C01D3E6103CE788E4BE4779761D
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