SAP Datasphere Discovery Workshop

Master Deck for Partner

SAP

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Purpose

​The purpose of this presentation is to provide a template for customer workshops with a focus of
transforming their data and analytics landscape.
​Thesematerials were developed and are being used by the SAP Data & Analytics Centre of Excellence.
These workshops consist of four parts (preparation, discovery, pilot, and recommendation). The pilot phase
leverages the “free tier” option of the SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA).
​SAP partners are welcome to leverage these slides to create or improve their own workshop formats.

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 Workshop flow and outcomes

Explore Pilot Phase Define Recommendatio

Preparation Call Discovery Call
Questionnaire (customer & recommendation n Call
(w/ customer) (w/ customer)
(internal) partner) (internal) (w/ customer)

Recommended materials: Recommended materials: Recommended materials: Recommended materials: Recommended materials: Recommended materials:
• Call presentation template • Completed questionnaire • Discovery Call presentation • How to use Free Tier • Recommendation • Recommendation
• Questionnaire • SAP/partner architecture • Completed questionnaire • Defined SAP Datasphere presentation template presentation
templates use cases • Questionnaire • Questionnaire
• L2 deck, BW bridge L3 deck
• Discovery Call presentation • As-is architecture, customer • L2 deck, BW bridge L3 deck
Desired outcomes: • Use case definition template
template motivation
Desired outcomes: • Review of pilot use case
• Customer understands Desired outcomes:
Desired outcomes: Desired outcomes:
sequence of workshop steps • Customer is able to Desired outcomes:
• Customer confirms as-is
and how to complete the • Translate questionnaire into successfully evaluate SAP • Target architecture
architecture and team • Build confidence in
questionnaire as-is architecture understands fine-grain Datasphere via a delivered • Define steps to transition to customer by showing
pilot
• Set dates for following • Identify potential challenge details target architecture realistic transition journey
meetings and set zones (e.g. Planning, ABAP • Customer can show a
• Team understands • Sizing and pricing indication • Customer feels listed to and
expectation to deliver apps) individual use case /
challenge zones (in order to Estimated duration: 1 day that their specific
completed questionnaire solution to their business
• Note: Don’t jump to formulate solutions in the requirements are
within two weeks users
conclusions or pre-defined next step) and customer considered
Workshop duration: 45 mins responses – allow customer motivation for landscape • Ideally the pilot will go into • Specific next steps to
(works well as remote to explain existing change production (go-live)
progress with purchase offer
session) architecture, history, and • Customer understands SAP Estimated duration: up to or further steps that lead to
strategy
key messages: D&A 90 days an offer (e.g. hands-on, trial,
• Completed Discovery Call strategy, value props, and guided experience)
presentation BW bridge (both, value and • Successful pilot
technical details)
Estimated duration: ½ day implementation and switch
• Well defined pilot use case to productive SAP
for SAP Datasphere Datasphere instance
Workshop duration: 180 - Workshop duration: 120 -
240 mins (works as remote 180 mins (works as remote
session, on-site preferred) session, on-site preferred)
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SAP Datasphere
Discovery Workshop
Preparation Call
<Name>
<Date>

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Overview & Set-up
SAP Datasphere Discovery Workshop
Overview

Discover how to… FORMAT OBJECTIVES

Preparation Call Identify Use Cases
Discovery Day Customer Pilot
… empower business users with
Pilot Architecture Proposal for
agile self-service. Data & Analytics
Recommendation Day
landscape
… achieve interoperability in best of
Focus Topics

breed architectures.

… support data fabric architecture with data AUDIENCE CONTACT

product governance and exchange. Head of BI Sales Executive
Head of DWH/BW <Contact>
… establish scalable and governed data and
Head of SAP CC
analytics foundation for (Gen)AI use cases.
Head of LoB

… modernize SAP BW in the public cloud.

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SAP Datasphere Discovery Workshop
Journey

DISCOVERY DAY
PREPARATION Value drivers Identify pilot
PILOT PHASE
CALL & demo use case Provide instance
Define setup Onboarding
Understand onsite
and pre-work
as-is architecture 4 hours Bi-weekly calls
Identify +SAP Partner
stakeholders max 90 days
remote
1 hour
RECOMMENDATION DAY
Results handover
remote
Next steps 2 hours

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SAP Datasphere Discovery Workshop – Setup

• Focus topics
– Which focus topic do you want to cover?
• Workshop participants
– Who from which area, line of business will be invited?
• Agenda of the Discovery & Demo Day
– Is a product presentation and demo expected / required?
• Execution of a pilot use case
– Are you going to implement a use case in the BTP Free Tier?
• Partner Involvement
– Who is your Data and Analytics Service Partner?
• Existing SAP BTP Contract type
– CPEA, Pay-as-you-Go

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Questionnaire
SAP Datasphere Discovery Workshop
Questionnaire

​I Stakeholder Priorities
 Input for business case & transition plan

​II Use Cases for Pilot

 Identify & prioritize use cases

​III As-Is Analysis

 Input for architecture proposal

Template available on SAP PartnerEdge

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Next Steps
SAP Datasphere Discovery Workshop
Next Steps
​Schedule Discovery Day
 Date, Participants, Preliminary work

​Questionnaire
 Input for pilot & architecture proposal

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SAP Datasphere
Discovery Workshop
Discovery Day
<Name>
<Date>

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Recap & Agenda
SAP Datasphere Discovery Workshop
Journey

DISCOVERY DAY
PREPARATION Value drivers Identify pilot
PILOT PHASE
CALL & demo use case Provide instance
Define setup Onboarding
Understand onsite
and pre-work
as-is architecture 4 hours Bi-weekly calls
Identify +SAP Partner
stakeholders max 90 days
remote
1 hour
RECOMMENDATION DAY
Results handover
remote
Next steps 2 hours

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Agenda - Example

What Who When

Welcome & Intro ALL 09:00-09:15
SAP Unified Data & Analytics SAP 09:15-10:00
Value drivers & demo
Understand YOUR Situation & Goals CUSTOMER 10:00-11:15
> Business View
> IT View
Break ALL 11:15-11:45
Specify & prioritize use cases ALL 11:45-13:15
Identity use case for pilot
Next Steps ALL 13:15-13:30
Pilot phase, recommendation day

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Value Drivers & Demo
 SAP BTP
Unleash digital innovation
across business functions

Create personalized experiences Build faster with business context Run with confidence on a trusted,
that instantly work with SAP applications to meet change with agility enterprise-grade platform

App Dev Automation Integration Data and Analytics AI

Build and innovate Optimize and automate Connect and simplify Give data purpose Infuse intelligence

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Unified Data & Analytics – 3 focus topics for our customers
Self-Service Data & Analytics Build your Business Data Fabric Modernize Reporting and BW

​Head of BI ​Head of SAP CC ​Head of BI

​Head of LoB ​CDAO, Data Architects ​Head of DWH/BW

​How to establish self-service with ​How do I transform within a hybrid ​How do I modernize my reporting
both agility and governance? data landscape? and BW landscape to support the
new business requirements?
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SAP data and analytics

Business Data Fabric

Deliver semantically-rich, trusted data to every
data consumer with business context Extended Intelligent
and logic intact Planning and Data
Analysis Applications
Intelligent Data Applications Users
Empower developers to build apps that
utilize generative AI, are context-aware,
and connect to vital business data
Business
Data Fabric
Extended Planning and Analysis
Connect finance, HR, operational, and strategic
planning with data and analytics
on a single stack

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SAP Datasphere is the foundation for a business data fabric architecture

Extended Planning and Analysis Intelligent Data Applications

with SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP HANA Cloud
Connected planning | FP&A, supply chain, workforce planning Insights driven transactions | Augmented Experiences
Planning engine | Business simulations, predictive forecasting Multi-model database | Relational, document, geospatial, graph, vector
Analytics and BI | Self-service dashboards, NLP, embedded LoB analytics AI | GenAI, vector embeddings, RAG, embedded ML library

Business Data Fabric

Powered by Self-service data access | Virtual data products

SAP Datasphere Data discovery | Business content, data marketplace, recommendations

Orchestration | Data transformation and data ops
Processing and persistency | Warehousing, business semantics, (analytic/relational
Security
models), knowledge graph
Access control
Data governance | Metadata management, catalog, lineage, privacy, data quality
Availability
Data ingestion | Data replication, data federation, real-time data, application integration

On-premises Cloud Data Warehouses Relational Unstructured/

SAP and non-SAP data Applications
Data Warehouses and Lakehouses Databases Semi-structured Data

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 DEMO SAP Datasphere
Demo Store
Guided experience

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YOUR Situation & Goals
Business & IT View
Business View
Utilize the Questionnaire

​I Stakeholder Priorities
 Input for business case & transition plan

​II Use Cases for Pilot

 Identify & prioritize use cases

​III As-Is Analysis

 Input for architecture proposal

Template available on SAP PartnerEdge

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IT View
Example UD&A As-Is Architecture
Questions
AfO BO 3rd Party
Ask questions what‘s not clear, e.g.
Design Power BI BO Server
Studio
Frontend
WebI
 What is your BI strategy
UNX
Live Connection

Modelling
 How do you use CalcViews
 …

Planning
BW 7.50
Calc
 What is your planning strategy?
BW Queries Java BPC NLS SAP IQ
Views
…
dbconnect
ODP

ODP

S-API

To-be
a
quest dapted bas
ionna
ERP HR CRM MS SQL File ire re ed on
spons
e
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Next Steps
Next Steps

​Plan for Pilot

​Schedule Recommendation Day
​Set up regular status call during pilot phase

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SAP Datasphere
Discovery Workshop
Pilot Phase
<Name>
<Date>

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How to use the Free Tier option
Pre-requisites to Use SAP Datasphere for Subscription/CPEA/BTPEA/PAYG

​Customers need to have:

• A BTP global account (refer to the onboarding
process slide)

• Subscription orders will entitle SAP Datasphere in

the customers global account
• Customers provision the tenant as any other BTP
service

• A Cloud Foundry subaccount where SAP Datasphere

is entitled (
Configure Entitlements and Quotas for Subaccounts)
NOTE: Customers provision their own tenants whenever the entitlements
are available in their BTP global account. SAP does not provision the
• The user must have SAP BTP administration tenant like done with the previous SKUs.
authorization on the subaccount that is entitled
to SAP Datasphere.
SAP Discovery Center - Services (cloud.sap)
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Instantiate an SAP Datasphere tenant in BTP – Process Flow

1- Find service

2- Select a plan
& Provide
instance info

3- Submit SAP
Datasphere admin info
& Provision tenant

Relevant for Subscription, CPEA/BTPEA & PAYG 4- Configure tenant

(Only valid for
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Updating Plans from Free Tier to Paid – Process Flow

Select Update

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SAP Datasphere
Discovery Workshop
Recommendation Day
<Name>
<Date>

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Recap & Agenda
SAP Datasphere Discovery Workshop
Journey

DISCOVERY DAY
PREPARATION Value drivers Identify pilot
PILOT PHASE
CALL & demo use case Provide instance
Define setup Onboarding
Understand onsite
and pre-work
as-is architecture 4 hours Bi-weekly calls
Identify +SAP Partner
stakeholders max 90 days
remote
1 hour
RECOMMENDATION DAY
Results handover
remote
Next steps 2 hours

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Agenda

What Who When

Welcome & Recap All 09:00 – 09:15
Review Pilot All 09:15 – 10:00
> Success Criteria
> Lessons Learned
> Next steps
YOUR Situation & Goals SAP 10:00 – 11:00
> Architecture Recommendation
Closing & Next steps All 11:00 – 11:15

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Review Pilot
Review of each pilot use case

Measurement of success Lessons learned Next steps

• Have the goals been met? • What was the experience with • Will the pilot be transitioned
• Check the fulfilment of the the solutions? into productive use?
success criteria • What is your feedback on the
• Was the pilot successful? solutions used in the pilot?

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YOUR Situation & Goals
Architecture Recommendation
IT View
Example UD&A As-Is Architecture

SAP BusinessObjects SAP Netweaver Portal 3rd Party Frontends

WebI Lumira Analysis Queries

BI Planning Catalog

SAP Analytics Cloud

SQL server

SAP BW 7.50
on HANA BW queries

Old BW data Integrated BW/4HANA ready

ABAP logic
models Planning data models

Files Cloud Solution SAP S/4HANA on-premise Oracle

* Source: Questionnaire

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IT View
Example UD&A Transition Architecture: Hybrid Scenario

SAP BusinessObjects SAP Netweaver Portal 3rd Party Frontends

WebI Lumira Analysis Queries

BI Planning Catalog

SAP Analytics Cloud

Models Marketplace Spaces

SAP Datasphere

SAP BW 7.50
on HANA BW queries

Old BW data Integrated BW/4HANA ready

ABAP logic
models Planning data models

Files Cloud Solutions SAP S/4HANA on-premise Oracle

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IT View
Example UD&A Target Architecture: Cloud Platform

3rd Party Frontends

SAP Build Apps
Office
BI Planning Catalog
Integration
SAP Build Work Zone
SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Integration Suite

Models Marketplace Spaces BW Bridge Data Catalog

Data Data
Management Integration

SAP Datasphere

Files Cloud Solution SAP S/4HANA on-premise Oracle

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Next Steps
Next Steps

​Discuss next steps after recommendation day

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Thank you.
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