Chapter 1: Before the Work Starts Chapter Goal: Miscellaneous intro topics.
No of pages: 40
Sub -Topics
1. Business Intelligence: the art of enriching data
2. HANA changing the OLTP versus OLAP game
3. Cloud flavors: SaaS versus IaaS
4. The latest thing: CDS-views 5. Frontend: Fiori and UI5
6. SAP's BI portfolio
7. S/4HANA and Embedded Analytics
Chapter 2: No Work: Use What is Delivered
Chapter Goal: S/4HANA comes with rich analytical apps that can be used immediately. This chapter focuses on the content delivered by SAP.
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics
1. Discover analytical apps
2. Activate them
3. Use them
Chapter 3: Some Work: Smart Business Service
Chapter Goal: S/4HANA has built-in functions for codeless creation of simple analytical apps. Target group of these functions are power users, but in practice functional (non-BI) consultants are most suitable to use this functionality.
Functions are made available as a group of Fiori-tiles under the product name "Smart Business Service".
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Tiles "KPI Design"
2. Tiles "Report Design"
3. Tile "Analysis Path Framework Modeling"
4. The end-result: again tiles
Chapter 4: More Work: Building Analytical Queries Using TilesChapter Goal: S/4HANA comes with tiles to create so-called "Analytical Queries" starting from SAP-delivered CDS-views. Analytical Queries are not static reports, but versatile, interactive queries on real-time data.
For the SaaS version of S/4HANA, this is the only option to create Analytical Queries.
No of pages: 40
Sub - Topics:
1. Discovery of SAP-delivered CDS-views with tile "View Browser"
2. Enriching CDS-views with tiles "Custom CDS Views"
3. Building an Analytical Query with tile "Custom Analytical Query"4. Running the query with tile "Query Browser"
5. How to navigate within an Analytical Query.
6. Creating a dedicated tile for the query
Chapter 5: Most Work: Building Analytical Queries in a Development Environment
Chapter Goal: Starting from real-life business requirements, often the conclusion is reached that SAP-delivered CDS-views won't do the trick. For a SaaS version of S/4HANA, the process following this conclusion is called "managing expectations". For an on-premise version, a development environment can be applied. And then ... the sky is the limit! Development can start not only from SAP-delivered CDS-views but also from tables.
No of pages: 60
Sub - Topics:
1. Layered approach towards the analytical query2. Data-integration
3. "Cube-view"
4. Analytical query
5. Examples transaction data
6. Examples master data
7. Example: Replacing custom ABAP-report by analytical query
8. Performance considerations; balance between performance and support-friendliness
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About the Author: Freek Keijzer has a background in science (physics), industry (manufacturing, process industry) and ICT (SAP system integration), holding various project management, people management, and specialist positions. He holds degrees in natural sciences (PhD) and information management (MIM). In 1996, he became involved in an SAP implementation, initially as an R/3 key user, later as internal project leader, interim manager of the support organization, and (international) information manager. Since 2001, he has focused on SAP BI consultancy, working for three consultancy firms and more than 50 clients. His responsibilities as a consultant include product development, team competence development, sales support, and resourcing. Freek's specialties (technical) include SAP Business Intelligence, Hana, NetWeaver, and ERP integration. His roles include project leader, lead consultant, business consultant, (interim) manager, and scrum master. Since 2015, Freek has been a brewer/owner of the Rubelijn craft beer brand.
