Book excerpt: Meet your BI needs with SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Explore the system architecture and data model and learn how to perform analytics on live transactional data. Business user? Walk step-by-step through SAP Smart Business KPIs, dashboards, and multidimensional reporting. Analytics specialist? Master the virtual data model and report creation. Jack of all trades? Create CDS views, apply custom fields and logic, and learn to integrate SAP S/4HANA with SAP Analytics Cloud. This is your complete guide to SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Highlights include: 1) Architecture 2) Virtual data model (VDM) 3) CDS views 4) SAP Fiori apps 5) SAP Smart Business 6) Key performance indicators (KPIs) 7) Dashboards 8) Reporting 9) Data warehousing 10) SAP Analytics Cloud 11) Machine learning