Business content in the SAP Datasphere - best practices for rapid progress
- SAP Datasphere
- 5 min reading time
Francis Heep
This article is about business content in the SAP Datasphere and how predefined data models and analyses support companies in efficiently fulfilling industry-specific requirements. It explains how the content is provided by SAP and third-party providers, what flexibility it offers for individual customization and how it differs from data products. It also provides insights into the use and integration of content and its benefits as a best practice and accelerator for DSP modeling.
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1. Business content in SAP Datasphere
Best practices for rapid progress
SAP Datasphere offers predefined business content, similar to SAP BW (BW content) or SAP Analytics Cloud. This includes data models and analysis content that are specially tailored to the typical requirements of different industries and business areas.
An example of predefined, elementary objects in BW content (SAP BW) are the so-called 0 info objects, such as the 0CUSTOMER info object. This object is designed to map customer master data centrally, including attributes such as name, address, customer group and sales data. Once activated, these properties are already included without the customer having to define them themselves, which can simplify the modeling of standard scenarios.
Although the business content in SAP Datasphere is designed in such a way that individual objects of a scenario can also be selected during import, it is primarily designed to provide a complete analysis scenario.
The ready-made models make it easier for companies to start using SAP Datasphereas they reduce the (time) time required to develop their own data models and analyses. can.
They can also contribute as best practices, standard requirements such as compliance with industry-specific rules and regulations.
The business content is designed so flexibly that it can be adapted to individual requirements.
Dhe Business content-packages are not exclusive, but mostly industry-specific or designed for specific business areas. The business content is availableBusiness Content is available in the DSP Navigation in the area "Semantic integration".
There the DSP user can, as marked in the screenshot with (1) and (2), in the SAP Business Content as well as in the third-party Business content.
Business Content (1) consists of data models and best practices. best practiceprovided by SAP itself. The third-party Business content (2) shows a collection of business content models provided by external SAP partner companies in the Datasphere provided by external SAP partner companies.
2. SAP Business Content
Under Business Content you will find an overview of all available SAP Business Content models.
As shown in the following screenshot below, the "Import status" column shows whether the Business Content has already been imported by the user and in which version this was done. this has been done.
A comprehensive overview of the regular versionupdates of a Business Content-package can be found in the SAP Help Portal at: Business Content Updates.
To ensure smooth integration and use of the business content should the release status of the Business Content with the source systemsn be compatible.
WFurther helpful information about provideden Business Content SAP provides via the Help Portal at - SAP Datasphere Business Content - Lines of Business (LoB) is available.
The Business Content Sales and Distribution: Sales Analysis for SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud isd in Figure 3 and 4 exemplary used to the in the SAP Help Portal available information available in the SAP Help Portal.
Under the heading "Architecture and Abstract", the high-level architecture of the SAP Sales Analysis package for SAP S/4HANA and SAP Cloud provides a comprehensive representation of the layer architecture. In addition, the technical names of the objects within the architecture can be viewed here. This information is shown in the graphic in Figure 4 illustrated
3. third-party business content
In contrast to SAP Business Content, the third-party Business Content content, which is shown under the second marker in Figure 1, comprises a collection of models provided by external SAP partner companies.
As a rule contains a business content-model in the overview detailed information on itsm business context context. Thus in Figure 5 and 6 marked third partybusiness content "Financial Reporting for SAP Business One" from the s-peers AG specifically for companies that use the financial module of SAP Business One and want to gain deeper insights into their financial data.
In addition, the packages of the Business contents under the tab Import options a detailed overview of the contained DSPartifacts.
The artifacts include DSP objects such as spaces, connections, local tables, views, analytical models and stories, which all individually selectable.
After the import into your own DSP space can the model subsequently in the Data Builder viewed, adapted or extended.
4. comparison with data products
In contrast to the creation and import of Data Products, which immediately ready for use and primarily provide read access to released data via views the import of business content serves more as a template or starting point for the individual adaptation and further development of (standard) data models and analyses. While data products are usually shared within a company between departments or via different DSPtenants are exchangedis the Business Content is usually provided by SAP or SAP partners as best practice from industry solutions other companies that use the Datasphere to other companies using Datasphere, made available.
Data products can be offered both free of charge and for a fee, especially if they are made available to external companies via the Public Data Marketplace. In contrast, the Business Content is an integral, free of charge component of the SAP Datasphere.
5. conclusion
In summary, it can be said that the business content in the SAP Datasphere provides companies with a valuable basis in the form of predefined templates and best practices. These make it possible to efficiently implement industry-specific scenarios and standard requirements, while at the same time retaining sufficient flexibility for individual adaptations to customer and requirement-specific needs.
With extensible (standard) data models, the business content acts as a kind of accelerator, that supports rapid progress in DSP modeling.
However, the scope of the Business Content is limited due to the still young development status of SAP Datasphere cannot currently be compared with that of established solutions such as SAP BW.
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