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SAP Best Practices for analytics with SAP S/4HANA

March 2016

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SAP Best Practices for Analytics with SAP S/4HANA: Software and Delivery Requirements

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Table of Contents Contents

1 Purpose of the Document .............................................................................................................. 5

2 General Project Prerequisites ....................................................................................................... 5

3 Technical Requirements ................................................................................................................ 5

3.1 Software Product Versions.................................................................................................. 6

3.2 SAP Notes ........................................................................................................................... 6

3.3 Software Landscape Diagram ............................................................................................. 6

3.3.1 BGH: Embedded Analytics with SAP S/4HANA ............................................................. 7

3.3.2 BGA: Integration Between SAP S/4HANA and SAP BI .................................................. 8

3.3.3 BGB: Integration Between SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW ............................................... 8

3.4 Connectivity ....................................................................................................................... 12



1 Purpose of the Document This document contains information to:

Validate that key prerequisites such as software products and versions match the customer situation

Check that all prerequisites for a customer implementation are in place

Check that correct content, tools and skills are in place before the project starts

The document lists different kinds of requirements on package level if they are valid for all scope items included in the package. For requirements valid for certain scope items only, these scope items are mentioned

The document contains pre-requisites only, not the procedures to meet them. For how-to information (Example: how to find the download area) please refer to the configuration guides.

2 General Project Prerequisites The following prerequisites need to be in place before an implementation project can start.

Prerequisite Responsibility

Kick off and workshop dates, location and attendees agreed Customer

Customer team allocated with correct skills and training in place Customer

Project sponsors and stakeholder identified Customer

Hardware fully commissioned Customer

Software licenses in place Customer

Infrastructure team can respond to requests quickly enough e.g. CSS notes, BW content, patches, user requests, authorization changes and transports

Customer

User interfaces agreed e.g. SAPGUI, Netweaver Business Client or Portal

Customer

Remote access is in place for SAP consultants and SAP Active Global Support

Customer

Decision made whether pre-assembled delivery will be used Customer

Decision made whether SAP Best Practices Solution Builder will be used to activate content.

Customer

Decision made whether Solution Manager will be used. Solution Manager set up with any relevant templates.

Customer

Tool for project repository and collaboration agreed Customer

Test management tool agreed Customer

3 Technical Requirements This section contains technical requirements in different areas. For each requirement, the relevance for scope items of the package is provided.



3.1 Software Product Versions The following software products and versions are required:

Product Product Version Components Comments Relevance

SAP S/4HANA ON-PREMISE 1511 SP1

SAP S/4HANA ON-PREMISE 1511 SP1

Mandatory. All Scope Items

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

SBOP BI PLATFORM 4.2

Web Intelligence

Mandatory BGA

SAP Design Studio

SBOP DESIGN STUDIO 1.6

Mandatory BGA

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

SBOP BI PLATFORM 4.2 CLIENT TOOLS

Mandatory BGA

SAP NETWEAVER

SAP NETWEAVER 7.4, SP13 or above

SAP_ABA 740 SP 13 SAP_BW 740 SP 13 BI_CONT 757 SP 08 or above BP-BW 740V2 or above

Mandatory BGB

SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION

SAP HANA, platform

edit. 1.0 (latest SP,

latest revision)

Optional BGB

SAP HANA Live for SAP ERP

SAP HANA Live for SAP ERP 1.0, latest support package

Optional BGB

3.2 SAP Notes The following SAP Notes need to be considered:

SAP Note No

Content Comments Relevance

2271853

This SAP Note contains critical information for implementing the SAP Best Practices for analytics with SAP S/4HANA.

Before you start the implement of the related SAP Best Practices scope, check the latest versions of this SAP Note.

All Scope Items

3.3 Software Landscape Diagram For each scope item, system landscape diagram are provided accordingly.



3.3.1 BGH: Embedded Analytics with SAP S/4HANA Below chart describes the embedded analytics in S/4 HANA:



3.3.2 BGA: Integration Between SAP S/4HANA and SAP BI This diagram is an abstract view of the system landscape for Scope Item BGA, to explain where work is done in an implementation project. It is not a specification that describes all the technical details of a real system landscape.

3.3.3 BGB: Integration Between SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW For integration between SAP S/4 HANA and SAP BW, there are different scenarios. Below 5 scenarios are also covered in detail in configuration guide BGD.

1. Integration of S/4HANA and BW when S/4HANA and BW in different DBs



2. Integration of S/4HANA in BW when BW embedded in S/4HANA



3. BW and S/4 HANA and HANA Live deployed across different HANA instances

4. HANA Live and BW in the same HANA DB



5. S/4HANA and BW in the same HDB with separate standalone BW



3.4 Connectivity The following connectivity is required:

1. Connection from SAP BOBJ BI Platform to SAP S/4 HANA On-Premise system.

The connections from SAP BOBJ BI Platform to SAP S/4 HANA system need to be updated after deployment of the reports. Please refer to corresponding configuration guide for more information. Please refer to http://service.sap.com/analyticswiths4h

2. Connection from SAP BW to SAP S/4 HANA On-Premise system.

The connections from SAP BW to SAP S/4 HANA system are needed, please check Configuration Guide BGD for details. Please refer to http://service.sap.com/analyticswiths4h as well.

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