SAP Business Analytics: A Best Practices Guide for Implementing Business Analytics Using SAP

ISBN-13: 9781484213841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 103 str.

Sudipa Duttaroy

Opis

Focus on SAP business analytics business gains, key features, and implementation. The book includes example implementations of SAP business analytics, the challenges faced, and the solutions implemented. SAP Business Analytics explains both the strategy and technical implementation for gathering and analyzing all the information pertaining to an organization.Key features of the book are:

• A 360-degree view of an organization's data and the methods to gather and analyze that data
• The strategies that need to be in place to gather relevant data from disparate systems
• Details about the SAP business analytics suite of products
• The technical implementations used to gather data from disparate systems such as ERP and CRM
• Real business cases as examples

Analytics is the driving force in today's business, be it healthcare, marketing, telecommunications, or retail and hence the most vital part of any organization's strategy. What You'll Learn

• Gain an understanding of business analytics in general
• Absorb the technical details of the SAP business analytics suite of products
• Discover the challenges faced during an enterprise-level analytics project implementation
• Learn the key points to be kept in mind during the technical implementation of an SAP business analytics project

Who This Book Is ForAnalytics strategists, BI managers, BI architects, business analysts, and BI developers.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Analytics

Chapter Goal: Making the audience aware of Business Analytics in general.

Sub -Topics

1. Definition
2. Implications
3. Challenges & business gain
4. Business Gain

Chapter 2: SAP Business Analytics suite of products

Chapter Goal: To make the audience aware of the different tools available in the SAP Business Analytics suite

Sub - Topics

1. Introduction to SAP Business Analytics
2. Capabilities
3. Introduction to each tool
4. Brief description of key features of each SAP Business Analytics tool

Chapter 3: Consolidating data from disparate systems for an Analytics project

Chapter Goal: To make the audience aware of the different data sources

Sub - Topics

1. Importance of merging data from different IT systems
2. Challenges faced
3. Solution to combine different data sources
4. SAP Business Analytics tool to combine the different data sources

Chapter 4: SAP Business Objects Data Services

Chapter Goal: Introduction to SAP Business Objects Data services as the data integration tool

Sub - Topics:

1. Introduction to SAP Business Objects Data Services
2. Key Features
3. Example of implementation

Chapter 5: SAP Business Objects BI platform

Chapter Goal: Introduction to SAP Business Objects BI platform

Sub - Topics:

1. Introduction to SAP Business Objects BI platform

2. Key features

3. Technical implementation to analyze massive amounts of data using BI platform

4. Industry spe

cific examples of implementation

Chapter 6: SAP Analytics products

Chapter Goal: To showcase all the SAP Business Analytics products

1. Introduction to each of the products
2. Key features of each product
3. Factors that should be taken into consideration while choosing the right tool

Chapter 7: Practical examples of SAP Analytics product implementation

Chapter Goal: Industry specific SAP Business Analytics product implementation

1. Overview of SAP Analytics products capabilities for some main stream industries
2. Examples of some SAP Analytics implementations
3. Upcoming trends in the Analytics fields

O autorze

Sudipa DuttaRoy is a Business Analytics specialist with 12+ years of experience, specializing in SAP Business Objects architect, project leading, business analysis, technical leading, requirement analysis, consumer behavior analysis and customer segmentation across several industry domains such as telecom, retail, insurance and media. Sudipa has been involved in initiating business cases, architecture of data warehousing solutions and platform architecture, end-to-end. Sudipa has held SAP Business Objects internal trainings at her work place. She runs a blog on digital marketing - http://bit.ly/179Z0kf and has a publication on a tech blog - http://bit.ly/1FteqKH