SAP Solution: Embedded Analytics

A Chief Financial Officer today wears a variety of hats - and not all of them have to do with pure numbers. Companies still have to plan and weigh the benefits against the risks for all transactions.

A new risk category is establishing itself. Many companies are increasingly required to report on the sustainability of their operating business and financial assets. What does this mean for your SAP system landscape?

Companies around the world are required to make the right decisions quickly. The challenge here is to receive prepared data from the ERP system at any time.

For some time now, the term "Intelligent Enterprise" has been brought to the fore by SAP marketing. For companies, this raises questions above all, because it is currently still unclear on the market whether this is a product.

Talking about S/4 Hana is impossible without also mentioning the digital core. Aside from marketing catchphrases, what does this term actually mean, and what does it entail for your company?

The topic of S/4 and embedded analytics is currently the subject of controversial debate. What added value do the integrated reporting options in S/4 deliver? What does the standard offer and how can additional requirements be implemented? How can this integrated solution be differentiated from SAP BW?

In 2009, one year before the first release of Hana, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner published the groundbreaking white paper "A Common Database Approach for OLTP and OLAP Using an In-Memory Column Database. In it, he challenges the separation of OLTP and OLAP applications that has been practiced for many years. His theory is that an in-memory-only...