Description
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. 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 Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Analytics Chapter Goal: Making the audience aware of Business Analytics in general. Sub -Topics Definition Implications Challenges & business gain 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 Introduction to SAP Business Analytics Capabilities Introduction to each tool 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 Importance of merging data from different IT systems Challenges faced Solution to combine different data sources 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: Introduction to SAP Business Objects Data Services Key Features 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 Introduction to each of the products Key features of each product 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 Overview of SAP Analytics products capabilities for some main stream industries Examples of some SAP Analytics implementations Upcoming trends in the Analytics fields
