S/4 and Analytics: Disruption, Confusion and Opportunity

Implementing S/4? It’s time to rethink your BI strategy. Organisations moving to SAP S/4HANA as part of their digital transformation are also seeing a disruption in their BI and analytics roadmap.

With a multitude of architecture options combining SAP and non-SAP toolsets, customers are at a crossroads evaluating the BI needs and the right path forward. Teklink will discuss what prompts companies to embrace S/4HANA and the kind of analytical capabilities can you expect with S/4HANA, with an emphasis on embedded analytics. The analytics maturity of an organisation, the abilities of S/4 environment, other technology and the unmet needs prompt analytics confusion for IT departments. You can use this as an opportunity to set up an analytics foundation that aligns with your digital transformation journey.

S/4HANA provides next-generation processes that connect and orchestrate your business, taking advantage of artificial intelligence so every employee can make smarter decisions, faster. However, users spend more time preparing data than actually analysing it.

Most accessible data is siloed and confusing. In this session, learn how companies can set up a BI platform that aligns with their digital transformation journey. What are the expectations from an analytics platform? Understand the benefits of a cloud based platform which can be scaled up or down on demand and makes it easy to ingest a variety of structured and unstructured data from a multitude of sources. In addition, limitless storage and the ability to consume your data securely from anywhere, takes your mind off important factors so that you can focus on the analytics and insights.

Teklink will take you through the decision making process that compares the different features and use cases to meet business expectations and showcase architecture options, including a best of both worlds hybrid reference architecture. Get geared to meet your business analytics needs better so that you can make the best decision for your company.

Speaking at this Webinar: Pravin Gupta & Sandeep Khare

Pravin is a senior Director and head of Global EDW and TPM Delivery at TekLink International, Inc. with 20 years of analytics and EDW experience. Pravin has led successful SAP EDW (BW and HANA), BPC, Enterprise Analytics, Data Integration and Enhancement projects at Fortune 500 corporations where he designed complex Supply Chain, Inventory, Distribution, FP&A and Procurement solutions. He is also a noted speaker at events such as ASUG Annual Conference, SAPinsider, and SAP TechEd.

Sandeep leads the Cloud Analytics, Big Data, and Advanced Analytics practices at TekLink. He is an accomplished technology and business consultant with over 25 years of industry experience in architecting, designing, and implementing Enterprise Applications and Analytics solutions. He specializes in EDW, S/4 HANA, SAP HANA, and big data technologies. He has led numerous Enterprise Application implementations with a focus on delivering business value using the power of technological innovations.