What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

What does SAP Analytics Cloud offer?

With the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) solution, SAP is constantly pursuing its own cloud strategy. SAC is a software as a service (SaaS) solution with high functionality.

With this cloud-based solution, a business can combine, visualize, and have information and analytics on data from different sources in real time.

Advantages of SAP Analytics Cloud

With SAP Analytics Cloud, analysis and function planning can be performed in a single application. In addition, companies can benefit from new technologies such as machine learning through the cloud with access whenever desired.

As part of an intelligent enterprise strategy, a business should implement SAP Analytics Cloud in the cloud suite.

Similarly, SAP offers the solution on the premises of the SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence (SBOP BI) platform, a suite for reporting, visualization, and shared data usage. The product is currently available without restrictions.

Cloud Analytics Technologies

SAP Analytics Cloud utilizes cutting-edge technologies from the SAP Business Technology Platform, enabling the greatest possible compatibility with data sources, maximum data security, and availability.

Companies do not need additional servers, databases, or complex installation and update processes. With SAC, companies can connect and link local or cloud data sources and analyze data in just a few steps using Smart Assist functions with Predictive Analytics.

What is the objective of SAP Analytics Cloud?

The objective is to make all analysis functions available in a single product for all users, that is, for end users, decision-makers, and IT departments.

SAC offers analysis, planning, and forecasting in real time in a single application. This makes SAC a complete BI tool in itself that can function independently of other SAP applications, but it doesn't necessarily have to.

The user can access data from internal and external sources, perform planning that includes predictive models, and also visualize everything in the same tool.

Key Features of SAP Analytics Cloud

The following are some of the features that can be found in SAP Analytics Cloud

Business Intelligence

The business intelligence capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud provide intuitive self-service capabilities with access to company-wide information. This allows decisions to be found and shared with all stakeholders in the form of interactive storytelling.

Total Access to System Data

Data sources can be accessed in real time across all business areas through data connectors, including SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, and even non-SAP applications.

Simple Business Reporting

Regardless of the size of the dataset, SAP Analytic Cloud also allows end users to explore data, discover relationships, visualize, and communicate in interactive visualizations through filtering and drill-down functions. Integrated big data analysis, reporting, and analytics are integrated into the solution, as well as tools for sharing reports.

Planning

With SAC's planning capabilities, operational and financial plans can be created and linked for better decision-making.

Intelligent Planning

Forecasting and machine learning tools enable intelligent planning. They can also integrate visual performance metrics into reports.

Access Rights Management

The permissions configuration allows you to control access to confidential data. At the same time, plans can be easily shared, discussed, and coordinated with others.

Real-time analytics

SAP HANA's in-memory technology and machine learning enable data-driven forecasting in real time.

Smart Predict

Smart Predict extends business intelligence capabilities by learning from historical data and making recommendations for the next best course of action. This feature helps end users with innovative business questions without requiring data science expertise.

Smart Discovery

Smart Discovery uses machine learning to explore data and generate new insights.

It helps to find the most important influencing factors that affect KPIs, to analyze patterns in the data, or to identify outliers. Automatically generated dashboards help to gain clarity.

Smart Insights

Smart Insights discovers the key drivers of a selected asset using natural language and visual explanations.

Smart Transformations

SAC automatically makes suggestions to improve data models and quickly clean and prepare data for advanced visualizations.

Clustering

Intelligent clustering allows users to visualize groups of data in scatter plots and bubble charts. This allows you to identify groups of customers or perform behavioral segmentation.

Conclusion

When we talk about integrating SAP Analytics Cloud into our company, we are referring to incorporating a tool that allows for a high level of analysis and performance thanks to its active functions of combined machine learning and predictive analytics technologies.

A competitive advantage and all deployed from the cloud. This way, you can have full access to your enterprise data sources and all analytics technologies from anywhere in the world and in a single product. Any questions, ask the SAP Xamai consultants.