Key Terms, Used in This Lesson:
- SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC): A cloud-based solution that allows users to visualize and analyze data, creating interactive dashboards and stories.
- Analytics Dashboards: Tools within SAP APM that enable the visualization of data through interactive charts or tables to provide insights into asset performance.
- Master Data: Core data that is essential to operations in SAP APM, including attributes for class, characteristics, indicators, notifications, and alert types.
- Indicator Time Series Data: Data that provides a historical view of an indicator's measurements over time, useful for trend analysis and predictive maintenance.
- Transactional Data: Data generated from day-to-day operations, such as alerts and notifications, either created in the back-end system or directly within SAP APM.
- Query Designer: A tool used to build data models within SAP APM, leveraging available data to create customized reports and analyses.
- Standard Capabilities: Predefined functions in SAP APM for creating dashboards that utilize direct data from SAP APM without the need for external sources or custom calculations.
- Custom Capabilities: Advanced options in SAP APM that allow for the integration of external data sources and custom calculations, typically using a separate SAP HANA database.
- SAP HANA Database: An in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system that is the backbone for storing and processing large volumes of data in SAP.
- Enterprise SAC License: A type of license that provides access to the full capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud, allowing for comprehensive data analysis and integration.
Lesson Overview: The Analytical Capabilities Available for SAP Asset Performance Management
While the applications within SAP APM give good visibility to individual technical objects, users of SAP APM often want to view fleet of equipment or construct their own views. To achieve this, SAP APM offers several options for building dashboards using SAP Analytics Cloud.
Analytics Dashboards enable you to visualize data using interactive charts or tables. This allows you to analyze and explore your data from SAP Asset Performance Management and provides you with insights. Everything you need to create a dashboard is readily available in SAP Asset Performance Management, the data, the selection of data views, and the creation of the dashboard with its charts and tables.
Architecture of Analytics
With SAP APM and SAC, there are two approaches for dashboards:
- Standard Capabilities
- Custom Capabilities
Standard
With this option, you can create dashboards for the following data from SAP Asset Performance Management:
- Master Data: most of the attributes for class, characteristics, indicators, notifications, and alert type.
- Indicator Time series data: aggregated data for numeric indicators.
- Transactional data: alerts, and notifications created either in the back-end system or in SAP Asset Performance Management.
Using this data, directly from SAP APM you can leverage a query designer to build data models leveraging the SAP APM data above, then build a story in SAC, and finally embed that created dashboard in SAP APM.
Custom
With custom capabilities, you can leverage your own SAP HANA database along with an Enterprise SAC license to access both the SAP APM analytics data along with any other data source. This option is useful if you want to combine the data from the analytics data base with other data or do your own calculations on the data. Custom dashboards can still be consumed directly in SAP APM, however.
As of 2402, SAP APM does not support financial data within its data model. So if you wish to join finance data from S/4HANA with SAP APM, then a custom dashboard is the approach to take.