This course was retired in October, 2023.

Course Summary

Reporting makes business data transparent, and is a must-have for every company, regardless of its size. It provides insights to support better decision making, and delivers the relevant contextual information at the point where the job gets done. This allows you to leverage your business data to better understand business trends, success drivers, and critical situations.

This course will focus on the requirements of small and midsize enterprises for a built-in analytics solution that is tailored to their business needs. SAP Business ByDesign is SAP’s cloud-based ERP solution for SMEs, and integrates transactional and analytical processing efficiently. With plenty of demonstrations and business examples, this openSAP course will teach you how to leverage analytics as a key user and an end user. You will learn not only how to easily consume, but also how to build your own reports in browser-based or Excel-based environments. As SAP Cloud for Customers and SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense use the same cloud platform, the delivered know-how is also relevant for those interested in learning more about analytics for those applications.

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Course Characteristics

• Starting from: January 20, 2016, 09:00 UTC. (What does this mean?)
• Duration: 4 weeks (4 - 6 hours per week)
• Final exam: February 17, 2016, 09:00 UTC – February 25, 2016, 09:00 UTC
• Course language: English
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Course Content

Week 1: Introduction and Getting Started
Week 2: Analytics from an End-User Perspective
Week 3: Analytics from a Key-User Perspective
Week 4: Microsoft Excel-Based Reporting
Week 5: Final Exam

Target Audience

• Business users
• Analytics Key Users
• Analytics End Users
• Partners

Course Requirements

A general understanding of business processes is an advantage, but not mandatory.

Development Systems

If your primary interest in taking this course is to get a general overview of the analytics solutions in SAP Business ByDesign, you do not need access to a development system. However, we realize that many of you might be interested in trying out the system first hand based on the demonstrations in the video lectures. We have made reference systems available for you, completely free of charge. Detailed information on how to log on will be given at the beginning of the course.

About the Instructors

Henriette Willhauck

Henriette Willhauck is a product expert for SAP Business ByDesign, focusing on business analytics.

Henriette works in the SAP Business ByDesign development area, where she creates customer-specific reports and performs analytical consulting.

http://scn.sap.com/people/henriette.beha/content

Stefan Kraus

Stefan Kraus is a product expert and architect in analytics at SAP.

Stefan has been working on financial and CRM-related analytics topics for a number of SAP products for over 15 years. Prior to this, he worked in consulting, where he helped customers implement R/3.

He contributed to SAP Business ByDesign as a product owner, and supported many customers in adapting the solution to their needs.

Stefan is currently working on SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics as part of the suite architecture team.

Knut Heusermann

Knut Heusermann is a product expert for SAP Business ByDesign, focusing on SAP Business ByDesign Web interfaces and solution integration.

Knut has worked on solution integration topics for a number of SAP products since 2002. He is currently working in the SAP Business ByDesign development area, helping SAP customers and partners realize integration scenarios between SAP Business ByDesign and other business solutions.

http://scn.sap.com/people/knut.heusermann/content