SAP Business Analytics, 1st ed. A Best Practices Guide for Implementing Business Analytics Using SAP

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 For

Analytics strategists, BI managers, BI architects, business analysts, and BI developers.

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 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 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 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 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

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 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

The book elaborates on all the SAP Business Analytics suite of products.

Gives examples of different industry domains

Gives an overview of determining the right SAP Business Analytics tool that needs to be chosen for the right work at hand

Covers end-to-end technical implementation of SAP Business Analytics suite of products

Examples of successful SAP Business Analytics implementations