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Abani Pattanayak
Rajeev Koppolu
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Introducing SAP
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Introducing
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The Authors of this E-Bite
Abani Pattanayak has more than 15 years of experience in data ware-
housing, and has been working with SAP in-memory technology since
2007. As a principal architect at SAP and an SAP HANA Distinguished
Engineer, he has helped implement and performance-tune SAP HANA
for multiple customers. He is a frequent contributor to SCN and a regular
speaker at events like SAP TechEd.
Rajeev Koppolu is a Principal SAP FICO Application consultant based out
of Dallas, TX. He is the SFIN Lead Multiplier for SAP North America and is
currently engaged in multiple projects across various Industries doing
SFIN Migrations and Implementations. He has over 12 years of SAP FICO
implementation experience, as well as certified in HANA. His awards in
SAP include Project of the Quarter in 2014, RBT in 2014 and Winners Cir-
cle in 2015.

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What You’ll Learn
Learn how SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics changes operation report-
ing for SAP through real-time process analytics and operational reporting
on live transactional data. Build and enhance virtual data models and CDS
Views, while customizing SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics to your
heart’s content. Then, integrate with SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects BI,
while exploring best practices with SAP Activate.
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1 Operational Reporting and Embedded Analytics with
SAP S/4HANA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2 SAP HANA Live vs. SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics . . . 13
2 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.1 SAP S/4HANA Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2 SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics Architecture . . . . . . . . 21
3 Data Models with Core Data Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.1 Setup and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.2 Creating CDS Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3.3 CDS Technical Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.4 CDS Views for Analytic Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4 Customizing SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.1 Best Practices for Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4.2 Base Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .