You can use Dashboards to communicate results data with payees. However, Dashboards aren't ideal for the types of dynamic analytics required by financial and compensation analysts and other stakeholders. Embedded analytics for SAP Incentive Management provides tools to analyze live sales performance data from Incentive Management.
Embedded Analytics is an implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud. It is used to easily create interactive and dynamic analytics to explore data, find insights, visualize information, and share with colleagues.
Common use cases include:
- Identify outliers that can be fixed proactively.
- Understand incentive commission expense relative to sales/bookings.
- Measure the time for sales representatives to reach full productivity.
- View operational data.
- View historical data and trends.
- View data over multiple periods.
Populating Embedded Analytics Data
Embedded analytics data is populated when Compensate and Pay is run with the Update Analytics option enabled. However, if you need more control over the timing of data population, you can choose to only use Approved pipeline data. This feature preserves the results of a pipeline run while making only the Approved pipeline stage data available to users.
Before you can use this feature, the Approved Calculated Data flag must be enabled by SAP Support. Once this is done, running a calculation doesn't update credits, measurements, and other results data until an Approve Calculated Data pipeline process is run.