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SAP Road Map – SAP Analytics Cloud Session at #SAPSapphire
This was a live SAP Road Map session, presented by SAP’s Matthias Kraemer at last week’s Sapphire.
This session covered the following items:
- Strategic road map
- Planning and analytics
- Analytics cloud
- Office add ins
- Overview of latest achievements
- Future, next
The road map disclaimer applies that future items are subject to change.
Note I do not have the actual slides, so these are photos from the session
Figure 1 Source SAP
Planning and analytics as a core tech to sap
Integrate into solutions
HANA cloud database
SAP DataSphere – rename DWC, part of database, data management strategy
Extended analytics
SAP and all non SAP together
Figure 2 Source SAP
Growing business, analytics
50K have taken SAP SAC OpenSAP courses
Thousands attend courses
Figure 3 Source: SAP
Nice mobile app
For store managers
Figure 3a Source SAP
Integration to line of business; composable
Nice content packages for S/4HANA finance
Composable BI
Smaller parts
Use widgets, build in operations
Figure 4 Source SAP
Recent highlights
151 innovations
Working with DSAG on the backlog
Call external APIs from planning, triggering API – back to SuccessFactors
Figure 5 Source SAP
Figure 6 Source SAP
“Just ask” in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
Google like query prompt
Figure 7 – Just Ask Demo
Type sentence
Data analyzer – deep dive in datasets
Just ask, add to watch list, get an alert on home page
Build in Just ask in SAC
Most interaction for business end users
Data analyzer will be integrated in S4 group reporting and Datasphere
Unified story – run for 15 months
- Classical dashboard design + designer
- Catch events
- Brought together
- Unified experience
- Switch scripting, for power users
Multi device editor
Theming now in
Show table switch – 2 lines of code
Data change settings
Figure 8, Source SAP
Performance Improvements
- reduce loading times, cache, reference dashboard4
- Optimized view and design experience, “fast mode”
Figure 9, SAP Demo
Outlook add in; ask questions
Inside stories are the widgets
Figure 10, SAP Demo
Will have the full SAC client in Outlook, with slice and dice
Integrate into PowerPoint as Outlook and Teams and already have Excel integration
Planned for Q4 this year
Figure 11, Source SAP
Figure 11 shows the evolution of story client
Figure 12, Source SAP
Figure 12 shows the key priorities for 2023
Integration to Datasphere
Office add ins
Unified story
Future – “just ask” with data analyzer
Figure 13, Source, SAP
Future includes integration with PowerPoint
Describe – using Justask
Writes executive summary
Using large language models, SAP plans to connect chat GTP, Google Bard into SAC
Integrate API with Chatgpt – can you optimize dashboard for me?
Source: SAP
SAC/ Datasphere integration, analytical model
Road map shows SAC and Datasphere journey
Connect planning closer to it
Note:
SAP Analytics Cloud is the second largest on SAP Community after S/4HANA; every Friday Matthias’s team answers questions
I am glad that some ASUG sessions such as these were off the show floor.
Thanks for sharing your notes Tammy Powlas ! Best regards Antoine
Thank you Tammy!
Tammy Powlas
Thank you for the article! Are the pdf slides available?
Hi Aleksey - I am sorry but ASUG does not make road map slides available in PDF. I don't have them. Thank you for reading.
Thank you very much for taking the time to help and share this valuable information, especially coming from a respected SAP Mentor like yourself.
Poorna