S/4 HANA 1511, Operational reporting

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Hi S/4 HANA experts

Let's imagine we have a scenario of a new SAP customer (there's no migration from the previous releases), who bought S/4 HANA 1511 on-premises version, let's assume there's no SAP BW in the landscape.

There is a requirement to build operational reporting with using SAP recommended approach.

According the simplification list for Finance & SD in particular SAP recommends to build operational reporting on top of SAP CDS views.

A few questions follow up:

1) Is there an available description for the standard content: set of CDS views delivered with S/4 1511?

2) What's the existing data foundation for the other functional areas: MM, Plant maintenance... Is it SAP HANA Live?

3) Will SAP switch the whole operational reporting to CDS views? If so does road map with timelines exist? Will it be required to redo reporting based on HANA Live to CDS for example for MM?

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Best,

Igor

[former_member184458 · Accepted solution]

Igor,

you might find the information in this link helpful: SAP HANA Live & S/4HANA Embedded Analytics.

Thank you

Erich

[former_member6459]

Igor,

I hope I am able to justify your questions with below answers:

1) Is there an available description for the standard content: set of CDS views delivered with S/4 1511?

The ready to run reports or the content of S/4HANA Embedded Analytics has been shipped with S/4HANA 1511 in the areas of FI, SD, Inventory Management PP and Procurement.

The screenshots are enclosed in the post for the same.

2) What's the existing data foundation for the other functional areas: MM, Plant maintenance... Is it SAP HANA Live?

HANA Live is Real-Time operational reporting directly on your Suite on HANA and S/4HANA system without any redundancy or latency. Alternatively, SAP HANA Live can be used in a sidecar scenario next to your existing SAP Business Suite deployment on AnyDB.

For current users of HANA Live nothing changes. The existing virtual data models will continue to be supported by SAP. Once customers migrate to S/4HANA, the new CDS-based views can be used against the simplified data model in S/4HANA.

3) Will SAP switch the whole operational reporting to CDS views? If so does road map with timelines exist? Will it be required to redo reporting based on HANA Live to CDS for example for MM?

HANA Live still exists, the only change will be you have CDS views which are maintained in ABAP perspective of Eclipse.

Both HANA Live and S/4HANA are standard SAP delivered content for real-time operational Reporting, but use different technology.

•HANA Live uses native SAP HANA SQL views, S/4HANA Embedded Analytics is based on ABAP®-managed core data services (CDS) of the ABAP layer of S/4HANA.

•CDS views can be maintained in ABAP perspective of Eclipse, while native HANA SQL views are maintained in HANA Studio.