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⇨ SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AfO) has been the successor to BEx Analyzer for nearly 15 years, utilizing a familiar Microsoft Excel interface for data analysis.

⇨ AfO remains popular among financial analysts and business users due to its integration with SAP applications, including BW, BW/4HANA, and S/4HANA, and its ability to provide timely analysis of real-time data.

⇨ The application enhances SAP's analytical capabilities by supplementing tools like SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BusinessObjects, offering powerful data manipulation through Excel's pivot table features.

SAP’s Analysis for Microsoft Office (AfO), launched nearly 15 years ago as a successor to BEx Analyzer, leverages Microsoft Excel to facilitate real-time data analysis for financial and line-of-business users, demonstrating its enduring popularity and utility alongside other SAP analytics applications.

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SAP introduced SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office, or ‘Analysis for Office’ (herein referenced as ‘AfO’) nearly 15 years ago as the successor to BEx Analyzer. Both applications use a Microsoft
Excel interface to allow various users – including financial analysts, and many line-of-business users – to analyze data from SAP applications such as BW, BW/4HANA, S/4HANA and Datasphere. The continuing popularity of AfO is partly a tribute to the importance of Microsoft Excel as the historical standard in financial analysis, but more importantly it demonstrates that AfO is a convenient and dependable means of providing timely analysis of real-time data. It supplements analytics applications such as SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BusinessObjects by allowing users to slice and dice information with Excel’s pivot table functionality.

 

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