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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.

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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

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