SAP Analytics Cloud-ready to Get Set and GO

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SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD
READY TO GET, SET AND GO?
Antony Aristotle Savari
Senior Manager, Visual BI Solutions www.visualbi.com

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SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD – READY TO GET, SET AND GO?
WEBINAR AGENDA
Introduction1
SAP Analytics Strategy and Roadmap2
Connectivity Options of SAP Analytics Cloud – Hybrid BI Strategy4
Migration to SAP Analytics Cloud from Legacy BI Tools5
What’s New with SAP Analytics Cloud3
Is SAP Analytics Cloud Ready For Prime Time?6
Live Demo7
Q&A8

ABOUT VISUAL BI
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Analytics services, solutions, trainings and products. We have proven expertise in enabling BI & Analytics
for 100+ world’s leading brands. We can help you achieve competitive advantage by effectively managing
the Plan - Build - Run spectrum for BI.
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the industry
Integration and Partnership with
SAP and Microsoft is our forte
CONSULTING SERVICES
• Strategy
• Architecture Implementation
• Training
• Managed Services
• Visualization
• Cloud Migrations
ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS
• Dashboards by LOB
• Advanced Analytics
• Big Data Solutions
TRAINING
• SAP Business Objects Training
§ SAP Lumira Discovery (2 Days)
§ SAP Lumira Designer (3 Days )
§ SAP Web Intelligence (2 Days)
§ SAP Analysis for Office (2 Days)
• SAP Analytics Cloud Training
• Microsoft Power BI Training
• Tableau Training
SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
• VBI View – One Portal for All BI Content
• Product Extensions for SAP Lumira / SAP Design Studio
§ Visual BI Extensions (VBX Suite)
§ Document Management and Change Control
• Value Driver Tree (VDT) for Planning and Simulations

ABOUT VISUAL BI
Customer Portfolio (Software, Services, Training)

END-TO-END BI ENABLEMENT
Spectrum of Offerings ( Consulting, Software Products, Trainings) to Drive BI & Analytics
Adoption
BI SERVICES
» Strategy & Roadmap
» Assessment / Health check
» Implementation
» Managed Services
» BASIS / Infrastructure
» Upgrades & Migration
» Corporate Training
» Mobile BI
» Self Service BI
TECHNOLOGY
» SAP BI / BW / BW4HANA
» SAP Business Objects
» SAP HANA EE
» SAP BPC / SAP BPC4HANA
» SAP BODS / EIM
» Microsoft Data Warehouse
» Azure Data Lake
» Azure Analysis Service
VISUALIZATION & REPORTING
» SAP Design Studio
» SAP Lumira
» SAP Analysis For Office
» SAP Web Intelligence
» SAP Crystal Reports
» SAP Dashboards
» Microsoft Power BI
» Tableau
» TIBCO Spotfire
CLOUD PLATFORMS &
SOLUTIONS
» SAP Analytics Cloud
» ROAM BI
» SAP HEC / SAP SCP
» AWS / Azure / GCP
PRODUCTS
» Value Driver Tree
» VBI View
» VBX Extensions
TRAININGS
» SAP Lumira Designer
» SAP Lumira Discovery
» SAP Analytics Cloud
» SAP Web Intelligence
» SAP Analysis for Office
» Microsoft Power BI
» Tableau
BIG DATA INTEGRATION TO SAP
» HANA Vora
» Hadoop
» Spark
70%
Of The Revenues from
Non-Visualization
Related Items

SAP ANALYTICS STRATEGY
AND ROADMAP
• SAP Analytics Portfolio
• SAP Hybrid BI Strategy

SAP Analytics
Cloud and On-Premise Solutions
§ Analytics on-premise or on
Cloud
§ Combine Business
Intelligence, planning,
predictive, discovery on
Cloud
§ Remote data connection to
the systems on-premise.
§ Data remains resident and
live on-premise
Source: #askSAP Community Call SAP Analytics 2019 Strategy and Roadmap

SAP Analytics
Business Intelligence Portfolio
§ SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Lumira
2.x and Business Objects
Enterprise are poised as different
offerings for customers with
some overlap as planned in the
future
§ SAP Analytics Cloud – Data
Discovery offering for customers
running cloud based services
(such as SAP SuccessFactors,
Ariba etc.) and on premise
systems, with data staying
resident on premise
§ SAP Lumira 2.x – Data Discovery
& App Design offering for
customers using On-Premise
systems (such as SAP BW, SAP
HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP
S/4HANA)
Source: https://www.sap.com/india/products/roadmaps.html

SAP BI
Hybrid Strategy
§ Analytics on-premise or on Cloud
§ Investment on SAP BI 4.3 and SAP Analytics Cloud
§ SAP Analytics Cloud connectivity to WebI data models
§ Enhanced live Universe connectivity 2.0, data remains on premise
§ Utilize Data Level Security from the Universe
§ Hybrid user management – onboard existing on-premise users to
cloud
§ Analysis for MS office connectivity to SAP Analytics Cloud models
§ SAP Analytics Cloud to get the SAP BI 4.3 connectivity servers, enabling
connection to 100+ data sources
§ SAP BI 4.3 General Availability Q2 2020, maintenance at least till 2026+
§ Streamlined licensing options
§ Improvements on user experience and ease of deployment
SAP Analytics Cloud and On-Premise SAP BI tools are sure to co-
exist

Licensing Options
On-Premise Licensing Model Cloud Extension Policy
§ Webi only License – indicates Webi is here to stay for a long time
§ Explorer and Dashboards removed from BOE suite – price reduced
§ Partial termination of On-Premise maintenance can be transferred to cloud subscription – lowering the cost entry barrier
for cloud

SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD
• Overview of SAP Analytics Cloud
• SAP Analytics Cloud Capabilities
• Application Design (Beta)
• SAP Analytics Cloud Roadmap

SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP’s One Simple Cloud Strategy
§ BI, Planning,
Predictive,
Application Design –
all in one service
§ Live data connectivity
§ End-to-End Analytics
Source: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/01/15/whats-new-with-application-design-in-sap-analytics-cloud-asug-webcast-recap/

Unifying BI Platform for all use cases
Tools by Persona or 1 Enterprise BI Tool for All Persona’s ?
Power Users (6%)
Complex Data Analysis
Complex Report Development
Data Analysts (6%)
Data Preparation
Data Discovery
Ad-hoc Analysis
Report Analysts (6%)
Ad-hoc Reports
Report Builder
Agile Visualizations
Presentations
Data Scientist (2%)
Statistical Analysis
Forecasting Functions
Predictive Analysis
Casual/ Business UsersExecutives Managers
Analyze Operational MetricsDashboards / Scorecards / KPI Tiles Trends Analysis for Hindsight
Transactional Reports / Order DetailsPresentations / PDFs / Infographics Drill Down Analysis for Context
Charts and Visualizations Formatted and scheduled Reports
Consumers
80%
Self-Service
BISeekers
20%
SAP Analytics Cloud (BI, Planning, Predictive, Application Design*, Enterprise Reporting*)
*Planned for future releases

* Planned for future releases
NOTE : Popular tools section only mention the strongest player(s) in each area. Other tools might have the flexibility to deliver multiple end products.
STORYBOARDS FORMATTED REPORTS DASHBOARDS APPLICATIONS
Definition
Document containing mostly
visualizations designed by end users
to answer ad-hoc business queries
using visualizations.
Ordered presentation of a detailed
data set usually portrayed as tables,
sometimes combined with
visualizations.
Collection of visualizations and other
elements consolidated and arranged
on a single-screen that can be
monitored at a glance.
Consolidated information presented
in a guided analytic path spread
across multiple pages or screens with
analytic capabilities for end users.
Primary Focus Trends or KPIs Score Cards and KPIsUnderlying Data & Details Trends & KPIs; Drilldown to Data
Purpose Self Service Analysis Performance OverviewIn-depth Data Analysis Multi-Purpose
Typical End Users Business Users & Analysts (Authors) CXO, Managers (Consumers)CXO, Managers, Analysts (All ) CXO, Managers, Analysts (Consumers)
User Interactions None to Minimal ModerateMinimal to Moderate Extensive
No. of Data Sources Single Single or MultipleSingle or Multiple Multiple
Visualizations Primarily Charts Charts and MapsPrimarily Tables and Some Viz Charts, Maps and Tables
Popular Tools
Lumira Discovery, SAP Analytics
Cloud, Tableau, Power BI, Qlik
Sense
Xcelsius, SAP Analytics Cloud, Qlik
View, Spotfire, Tableau, Power BI
Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports,
IBM Cognos, IBI Web Focus, SAP
Analytics Cloud*
Lumira Designer, SAP Analytics
Cloud*
Development Time Few Hours Few Days to a WeeksFew Hours to Days Few Weeks
Level of Detail
Business
IT
Unifying BI Platform for all content types
Can SAC handle all User Requirements

SAP Analytics Cloud
Offerings
SAC
Digital Boardroom
SAP Analytics Cloud is the cloud-based tool from
SAP that offers BI, Planning, Predictive, App Design
capabilities developed using Google chrome.
An independent mobile BI is available for SAC
and is currently available for iOS devices.
Mobile
SCP
SAP Cloud Platform on which the tool resides
and facilitates all the core capabilities.
An extension of SAC to a boardroom setup,
leveraging unique collaborative features.
Source : https://www.sap.com/products/cloud-analytics.html
Analytics Hub
Common portal to consume SAC and BOBJ. It
will be included with the SAC BI Subscription
Application Design
GA expected in Q2 2019. It will be included with
the SAC BI Subscription

SAP Analytics Cloud
Capabilities
BI Capabilities
§ Design, Visualize and Create stories
§ Data connectivity to SAP and non-SAP data sources
§ Review and prepare data with modeler
§ Combine data sources, Linked Analysis, Data Blending
§ Search to insight
§ Location Analytics, Geo-enrichment
§ Scheduling
§ Enterprise Reporting Capabilities
§ Scheduling, Bursting, Destinations
§ Application Design
§ Scripting Capabilities
Mobile Capabilities
§ iOS App, Android planned for future
§ One-touch login
§ Responsive pages
§ Collaboration and Alerts
§ Commenting
Planning and Predictive Capabilities
§ Smart Predict - Machine Learning driven insights
§ Smart Insights – Insights to Action in seconds
§ Smart Discovery – Interact with insights
§ Smart Grouping – Group data points based on similar properties
§ Exploratory Analysis
§ Allocation
§ Forecasting Capabilities
§ Automatic Forecasting, Triple Exponential Smoothing, Linear Regression
§ Value Driver Tree
Other Unique Features
§ SAP Digital Boardroom
§ Real time view of consolidated analytics
§ Comprehensive view on Metrics across divisions
§ Collaborate and Sharing
§ Interact, analyze, plan and visualize in the same application
§ Collaborate in context on your plan and make faster decisions
§ Customize Home Screen
§ Fiori styling for tenants
§ Hyperlinking

SAP Analytics Cloud
BARC – BI Survey 18
SAP Analytics Cloud
§ Scores high on Business Value
and Customer Experience
§ Falls under Moderate
Competitiveness category
§ Scores high on Customer
Satisfaction
§ 4th year, 2200 customers

Case Study
SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD IMPLEMENTATION ON SAP CLOUD PLATFORM
§ Installed and configured Smart Data Integration (SDI), BOE, and SAP Cloud Connectors
§ SAP ECC data replicated into SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) using SDI
§ SAP ECC data replicated as flat files into SCP for older versions of SAP ECC/R/3
§ Delivered complex views unifying SAP tables into HANA calculation views and
established SCP as single source of truth
§ Replicated SAP Transactions for Inventory as calc views in SCP for reporting
§ Enabled consumption of data from SCP into SAP Analytics Cloud
§ Delivered Dashboards and reports across business divisions leveraging the capabilities
of SAP Analytics Cloud
§ Managed and delivered training for SAP Analytics Cloud
§ Delivered best practices for data modelling and analytics
§ Implemented business domain-based security that was easily scalable
§ Validated data between ECC and SCP to establish trust in the system
SAP Analytics Cloud
HANA Modeling
Native Connectivity
Calculation
Views
Attribute
Views
Purchasing| COPA
Inventory | Sales
Material | Customer
Vendor
Base Layer Replicated data
SDI
(HANA Adapter)
SDI
(File Adapter)
SAP Cloud Platform
SAP ECC on HANA SAP ECC SAP R/3
Trigger Based
replication
File Based replication
Customer : KMG Chemicals, Fort Worth, TX USA
Employees ~1000
Check out the
video testimonial !

Application Design (Beta)
Source: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/01/15/whats-new-with-application-design-in-sap-analytics-cloud-asug-webcast-recap/
§ Lumira Designer type application development
on the cloud
§ Build Enterprise Dashboards, Planning and
Predictive Applications
§ Integrate Data Discovery and Analytic
Applications
§ Powerful scripting capabilities to build enterprise
dashboards and sophisticated applications
§ Custom Widgets
§ Consume applications in Digital Boardroom,
Mobile
§ With improved connectivity options and data
blending options, Application design can be the
enterprise application tool going forward
§ GA is expected in Q2 of 2019 and will be included
as part of the SAC BI subscription
For more insights into Application Design, register for our upcoming webinar
exclusively on Application Design
General Availability in Q2 2019

SAP Analytics Cloud
Strategy and Key Investment Areas
§ Bridging the gap between BOE and SAP Analytics Cloud
§ Formatted reports, forms, scorecards
§ Scheduling, Saving as PDF and Emailing
§ Personalize reports and insights, sharing and collaborating
§ With the upcoming connectivity to Webi, and improved Universe connectivity essentially the reporting can be pushed to cloud
§ Enhancements to Live connectivity ensure data stays on-premise
§ BIP’s security extension to SAP Analytics Cloud enables better data security

Product Roadmap
SAP Analytics Cloud
Connectivity
Modelling, Visualization
and Application
Development
Planning
Mobile
Administration
§ Integration with SAP HANA,BW and SAP BI Universe improvements
to browser based data blending
§ New Charts and Geomaps support
§ Connectivity to additional cloud data sources
§ Improvements to Live and Acquired connections
§ Expand the breadth of supported data sources
§ Extend data blending scenarios
§ Enhanced Modelling
§ Renaming Story measures and dimensions
Planning and Predictive support
Scripting
§ Enterprise Reporting capabilities
§ Modelling on Live Data, Multi source modelling
§ Multilanguage support
§ Improvements to bookmarking and other distributions
Custom Widgets
Mobile support, boardroom integration
§ Data Entry – private version commenting, version handling
§ Smart Assist (search to insight)
§ Smart Predict
§ Refined S4/HANA predictive scenarios
Q2 2019 Future Direction
§ Data Entry – Parent level data entry, storage
§ Smart Assist, Smart Discovery and Smart Predict for
Live HANA connections
§ SQL Database support
§ Annotations
§ Geo-spatial support – choropleth
§ Localization support
§ Android Support
§ Geo-spatial support – Bubble, drill down
§ Roambi integration
§ Folder-based security models
§ Export / Import folders
§ Support for SAML IdP-initiated SSO
§ AWS Data center support – more regions
§ Improvements to Import / Export contents
§ Improved security management, version control and
promotion management

SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD
CONNECTIVITY & BLENDING
• SAP Analytics Cloud Connectivity Architecture
• Live vs Acquired Connections
• Non-SAP DB Connectivity
• Data Blending Options

SAP Analytics Cloud
Hybrid (On-Prem + Cloud) Data Connectivity
§ Simplify data connectivity setup
§ Reduce feature parity differences between
Live and Import connections
§ Increase number of live data connections
to non-SAP sources
§ Extend data blending scenarios
§ Increase data import robustness
§ Make data preparation experience more
intuitive
§ Model live data
§ Multi-source models

SAP Analytics Cloud
Universe Connectivity – Live vs Acquired
Property Live Acquired
.unx support
.unv support
OLAP universes
Geo Map
Change Description / Hide a
dimension
Change Description / Hide a
measure
Create Calculated Measure
in Model
Create Calculated Measure
in Story
Create Calculated Dimension
in Story
Enable Planning
Schedule the Model
Rebuild Model
Input Control
Sorting in Chart / Table
Ranking in Chart / Table
Smart Discovery and Smart
Insights
Data Explorer
Linked Analysis
Hierarchy Support on
Relational Connection
Bookmark Support
Data Blending
Combining Data Source
All features supported Does not support features Limited support / Available in future
*Based on current features that are available in SAC as on March 2019. This may
change for future releases.

SAP Analytics Cloud
BW Connectivity – Live vs Acquired
Hierarchy Support
Create Measure
Filter on Measure
Filter on Dimension
Linked Analysis
Dynamic Text in Titles
Hyperlink
Geo Maps
Story Level Formula
Time Series Chart
Line Chart Time Series
Forecasting
R Visualizations
Search to Insights
Smart Discovery
Smart Insights
Smart Predict
BEx Query Elements
Query Variables (Optional,
Mandatory, Characteristic Value)
Custom Key Figure Structure
Dynamic Image Widget
Data Blending Options
*Based on current features that are available in SAC as on March 2019. This may
change for future releases.

SAP Analytics Cloud
HANA Connectivity – Live
Property Live
Hierarchy Support
Calculated & Restricted Measure
Calculated Dimensions
Filter on Measure
Filter on Dimension
Linked Analysis
Dynamic Text in Titles
Geo Maps
Time Series Chart
Line Chart Time Series Forecasting
Property Live
R Visualizations
Search to Insights
Smart Discovery
Smart Insights
Smart Predict
Smart Grouping (on Bubble and
Scatter Plot Charts)
Planning
Linking Variables
Ranking & Sorting
Story Level Formula
Data Blending Options
*Based on current features that are available in SAC as on March 2019. This may change for future releases.

SAP Analytics Cloud
Non-SAP DB Connectivity with SAP Analytics Cloud
System Live Acquired
Partner
Delivered
MS SQL Server
MS Azure
Redshift
Odata
Google Big Query
/ Drive / Sheets
Salesforce
Oracle
Teradata
Netezza
IBM DB2
Google Analytics
/ BigQuery
MongoDB
Source: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/02/07/sap-analytics-cloud-roadmap-asug-webcast-recap-with-qa/All non SAP Live connections need SAP Cloud Platform and uses Smart Data Integration
and Smart Data Access Adapters

SAP Analytics Cloud
Data Blending
Create end-to-end scenarios with blending data
from Live and Acquired Connections
SAP Analytics Cloud version 2019.4, the minimum required
agent versions:
• SAP BPC (standard only) = 1.0.75
• SAP BPC (embedded only) = 1.0.109
• SAP BW = 1.0.109
• SAP Universe = 1.0.91
• SAP ERP / SQL Database = 1.0.99
• File Server Export = 1.0.75
Browser based blending limitations:
• SAP BW live connections: up to 6 MB in dataset size
• S/4HANA live connections: up to 6 MB in dataset size
• SAP HANA live connections: up to 2 MB in dataset size
Data
Blending
Live Data
Connection
SAP BW
SAP HANA
SAP Universe
SAP BPC
Acquired Data
Connection
SAP BW
SAP Universe
SAP BPC
S4/HANA
*Non-SAP DB
Flat Files
Smart Data Integration
Data Provisioning Agent
Browser based blending
SDI based data blending

SAP Analytics Cloud
Data Blending Support Matrix
Flat file SAP HANA Live SAP BW Live SAP BW Acquired Universe Live Universe Acquired
Flat file
SAP HANA Live
SAP BW Live
SAP BW Acquired
Universe Live
Universe Acquired
SAP BW SAP HANA SAP BOE Universe
§ SAP BW/4HANA SP4+
§ SAP BW 7.4 SP17+
§ SAP BW 7.5 SP8+
§ SAP HANA 1.0 SPS12 SAP HANA Info Access Service
(InA), version 4.10.0
§ SAP HANA 2.0 SP01
§ SAP BI 4.2 SP4 Patch 3
Minimum System Requirements

MIGRATION TO SAP
ANALYTICS CLOUD
• Lumira Discovery vs SAP Analytics Cloud
• Explorer vs SAP Analytics Cloud
• SAP Dashboards vs SAP Analytics Cloud
• Roam BI to SAC migration

SAP Analytics Cloud
Data Discovery (Lumira Discovery Vs SAC ) Feature Comparison
SAP Lumira Discovery SAP Analytics Cloud
Data Preparation Hierarchy, Formulas, Grouping
Append/Merge/Blend Join, Union, Links
Interoperability with BO Tools SAP Lumira Designer, AO
SAP BusinessObjects (BO) Integration SAP BI Platform Security
Planning / Predictive Apart from BI Features
Visualizations/Storyboards Charts, Maps, Tables
Data Acquisition
SAP Import Data
SAP Live Data
Non-SAP Data
Comments / Chats / Events / Security Additional Features

SAP Analytics Cloud
Current Data Discovery Feature Comparison
• Excel and Flat
Files
• SAP HANA
• SAP BW
• 3rd Part SQL
• Cloud Apps
• Salesforce
• OData
• Big Data
SAP LUMIRA DISCOVERY SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD
• Performs BI, Predictive and Planning functions
• Web based tool, primarily on Google Chrome
• Visualization and Storyboard : Similar options + IBCS Certified
• Commenting available by default
• Mobile : iPad + iPhone, Android coming soon
• Integrates with SAP Cloud Platform (SCP)
• Extended to Digital Boardroom
• No desktop tool available
• Collaboration or Sharing
Shared only via SCP/Embedding and supports repointing of data sources
Export data : CSV
Export story : PDF or URL
• Security: Role based security needs to be setup in SCP
• Primarily for BI functions
• Web based for live connections
• Visualization and Storyboards : Similar options
• Commenting feature requires Designer
• Mobile : iPad
• Integrates with SAP BOBJ BIP
• Interoperability with SAP Lumira Designer
• Primarily a desktop tool
• Collaboration or Sharing
Shared locally or BIP that can be used for Migration process
Export data : Excel or CSV
Export story : PDF or OpenDoc URL
• Security: Role based security inherited from BIP

SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Explorer Migration to SAC
SAP Business Objects Explorer SAP Analytics Cloud
Information Spaces and associated Exploration views Imports and Live connections
Faceted dimension member and measure selector Various selector options along with Data Explorer
Data exploration through key word search Search to insight – natural language query interface
Ad-hoc filters for analysis Input controls and other selector widgets
Chart type selection for Visualization options Limited to Data Explorer view
Export Options Limited – PDF and table export to csv
Features Explorer SAC
Universe
SAP HANA / BW
Excel
Geographic
Data
Custom Filter
Keyword Search
Sort and Rank
Change chart type
Calculated
Measures
Filter based on chart
selection
Bookmarking
Email Data to
recipients
Export data to csv
Export data to Excel
Export to
Webi/png/PDF

SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) Migration to SAC - Charts
Chart
SAP
Dashboards
SAP Lumira
Designer
SAP Analytics
Cloud
Line
Pie
Column
Column – Stacked
Bar
Bar – Stacked
Waterfall
Marimekko
Bubble
Scatter Plot
Area
Stacked Area
Chart
SAP
Dashboards
SAP Lumira
Designer
SAP Analytics
Cloud
Tree Map
Horizontal Bullet
Radar
Filled Radar
Single Axis
Combination
Vertical Bullet
Horizontal
Progress Bar
Vertical Progress
Bar
Sparkline
Gauge
Candlestick
OHLC
Supported with VBX

SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) Migration to SAC - Selectors
Selector
SAP
Dashboards
SAP Lumira
Designer
SAP Analytics
Cloud
Check Box
Combo Box
Icon
Radio Button
Toggle Button
Push Button
Cascading Filter
List Box
List View
Horizontal Slider
Vertical Slider
Selector
SAP
Dashboards
SAP Lumira
Designer
SAP Analytics
Cloud
Label Based Menu
List Builder
Accordion Menu
Dual Slider
Sliding Picture
Menu
Spinner
Play Control
Ticker
Play Selector
Fisheye Picture
Menu
Supported with VBX

SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) Migration to SAC – Utilities, Maps and Other Features
All features supported
Does not support features
Limited support / Available in future
Utility
SAP
Dashboards
SAP Lumira
Designer
SAP Analytics
Cloud
Calendar
Print Button
Export to PDF
Export to MS Office
What-if-scenario
Trend Icon
Trend Analyzer
Offline Dashboards
History
Map Features SAP
Dashboards
SAP Lumira
Designer
SAP Analytics
Cloud
Countries by Region
/ Province / County
World Map
Standard Maps
without GeoJSON
Other Features
SAP
Dashboards
SAP Lumira
Designer
SAP Analytics
Cloud
Mobile Support
BW
Universe Connectivity
XML / Live Office
QaaWS Connectivity
Mobile Component
Compatibility
Performance on High
Volume Data
Average / Poor Good Good
Supported with VBX
For more feature parity and functionality – Lumira Designer +
VBX
Less fancy stuff and Cloud capabilities – SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud
SAC Mobile vs RoamBI
§ Cloud based solution designed specifically for mobile.
§ Unique blend of data analytics, mobile technology and productivity
applications
§ Multitouch data visualizations
§ Interactive and Intuitive user experience
The Future…
§ RoamBI seamlessly integrated in SAC
§ SAC Mobile App will be the application in focus going forward
§ Content built directly in SAC
§ Leverage SAC’s data connectivity and modelling layer
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL2vrY4xhUg&feature=youtu.be Source: https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/product_updates/mobile-q2/
Key Features SAC Mobile RoamBI SAP BO Mobile
iOS
Android
Windows
Collaboration
Tools
Mobile Alerts

IS SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD
READY FOR PRIME TIME?
• Live Customer Use Case
• Feature comparison with other Self Service BI Tools
• Ideal Architecture
• Upcoming features in SAP Analytics Cloud

Case Study
Agile Data Warehouse Using SAP Cloud Platform (SCP)
Location
US
Employees
~ 1000
§ Installed and configured Smart Data Integration (SDI), BOE, and SAP
Cloud Connectors
§ SAP ECC data replicated into SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) using SDI
§ SAP ECC data replicated as flat files into SCP for older versions of SAP
ECC
§ Delivered complex views unifying SAP tables into HANA calculation
views and established SCP as single source of truth
§ Replicated SAP Transactions for Inventory as calc views in SCP for
reporting
§ Enabled consumption of data from SCP into SAP Analytics Cloud
§ Delivered Dashboards and reports across business divisions leveraging
the capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud
§ Managed and delivered training for SAP Analytics Cloud
§ Delivered best practices for data modelling and analytics
§ Implemented business domain based security that was easily scalable
§ Validated data between ECC and SCP to establish trust in the system
Highlights
SAP Analytics Cloud
HANA Modeling
Native Connectivity
Calculation
Views
Attribute
Views
Purchasing| COPA
Inventory | Sales
Material | Customer
Vendor
Base Layer Replicated data
SDI
(File Adapter)
SAP Cloud Platform
SAP ECC
File Based replication

Self-Service BI
High Level Feature Comparison
All features supported Does not support features Workarounds / Limitations
KEY
FEATURES
SAP SAP
Analytics Cloud
Power BI Tableau Qlik Sense TIBCO Spotfire
WEBI Lumira 2.x
Basic Charts
Advanced Charts
Geo Maps
KEY
FEATURES
SAP SAP
Analytics Cloud
Power BI Tableau Qlik Sense TIBCO Spotfire
WEBI Lumira 2.X
Story/Dashboard
s
Applications
Reports
Ad-Hoc Analysis
VIZ + EXP 4.5 6.0 6.0 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.0
Exploration
Traditional BI (IT) Self Service BI (Business)
Traditional BI (IT) Self Service BI (Business)
NOTE : Advanced charts include custom visual extensions

SAP Analytics Cloud
Ideal Customer Profile Architecture

SAP Analytics Cloud
Current and Upcoming Features
§ Visualization and Story Boarding
§ Data connectivity to SAP Live and Acquired data
sources
§ Non-SAP database connectivity
§ Planning, Predictive and Forecasting Capabilities
§ Commenting and Collaborations
§ iOS Mobile Application
§ Feature imparity between Live vs Acquired
connections
§ Component limitations
§ Automatic Updates
§ International Business Communication Standard
(IBCS) Certified
§ Data blending
SAP Analytics Cloud - Today
§ Connectivity improvements – to both SAP and
non-SAP data sources
§ Feature parity between Live and Acquired
connection
§ Non-SAP DB connectivity improvements
§ Data blending improvements
§ Multi source models
§ Hybrid BI strategy – better integration with SAP
BI (Webi, Universe, AO)
§ Enterprise Reporting Capabilities
§ Android support
§ Application Design, SDK and API
§ Streamlined licensing options
§ Improvements to Smart Assist and Smart Predict
§ Bookmarking and Sharing
SAP Analytics Cloud – What’s Coming
§ ETL / Complex Modeling functionality
§ Export to MS Office
§ Enhanced map capabilities
§ More support for charts like Gantt, Funnel,
Gauge, Sparkline, Tag Clouds etc.
§ More support for filter components like Buttons.
Lists, Sliders etc.
§ Improvements to Combining Data Sources and
Data Blending options
§ Enhanced Mobile capabilities
§ Language Support
SAP Analytics Cloud – Good to have

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