Introduction to Embedded Analytics
What it is, why it matters, and how it changes the way people interact with data.
What is Embedded Analytics?
Embedded analytics refers to the integration analytics directly into the transactional layer of S/4HANA. This allows users to consume and apply up-to date contextual insights within business applications and processes — eliminating the need to access separate analytics tools.
Instead of transferring data to a separate data warehouse, embedded Analytics leverages SAP’s in-memory HANA database to leverage live data instantly. The major advantage is that analytics and transactions rely on the same virtual data model, guaranteeing real time consistency and a true single source of truth. Business users benefit from faster decision-making in the same context and user-experience of their daily work.
Embedded Analytics,
what are the benefits?
Embedded analytics means integrating analytics directly into the transactional layer of S/4HANA. This allows users to consume and apply up-to date insights within business applications and processes — eliminating the need to switch tools.
- Real-time Insights - live data, zero latency
- Insight-to Action - Contextual and fast decisions
- Seamless User Experience - reduce the need to switch tools
- Simplified Security - unified data access
- Single source of truth and unified data modes.
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The business case for embedding analytics
Organizations that embed analytics see measurable improvements in decision speed, reduced Total Cost of Ownership, reduced IT Complexity and better data governance.
Realtime-Insights
Delivers actionable, up-to-date information exactly where work is done. Zero latency
Insight-to Action and Faster Decisions
When insights are available in the moment and context of action, decisions happen faster and with better information.
Seamless UX and Higher Adoption
Analytics embedded in familiar user experience in Fiori leads to 3–5× higher usage.
Reduced Dependency on IT
Self-services empowers non-technical users to generate their own reports and visualizations, reducing the bottleneck for IT Teams.
Out of the Box Content
Consolidating analytics into your product stack eliminates the overhead of separate BI tools.
Simplified User Access Righs
Common access rights and security models are applied to transactional and analytical tasks
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Avoids complex system landscapes and reduces the need for additional BI tools, data ware house, or expensive infrastructures.
Single Source of Truth
Unified data model for analytical and transactional worlds ensuring consistency and compliant data access.
Business Steering with multidimensional financial data.
Particularly in the Financials domain, as organizations move away from static reports toward multidimensional data analysis and more agile business steering, the universal journal becomes a critical foundation for modern Financial Analytics.
Financials is the Fitness Tracker of your Business
- Multidimensional accounting requires multidimensional analysis
- Decisions are taken in the context of daily work
- Accounting moves from periodic to continous analysis
- Less dependency on IT using Self-Services
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