SAP Analytics Cloud Services
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How SAP Analytics Cloud Adds Value To Your Business Planning & Decision-Making?
What is SAP Analytics Cloud?
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is a software as a service (SaaS) data visualization platform from SAP that consolidates business intelligence, augmented and predictive analytics, and enterprise planning into a single cloud environment to facilitate faster data access and enhanced decision-making.
SAP Analytics Cloud is embedded in all the enterprise cloud applications of SAP, so you get analytics in the context of your business processes. The platform provides data integration, management, and analysis capabilities on a common, enterprise-grade infrastructure in the cloud for both SAP and non-SAP data.
Strategic analytics platform for all your business applications
- SAP Analytics Cloud users can work more efficiently by accessing all the data sources and analytics functions in one product
- Allows data analysts and business decision makers to visualize, plan, and make predictions, all from a single and secure cloud-based environment
- User-friendly and customizable interface that can be adapted to your organization’s standard software interfaces
- Integrated planning capabilities that will help you analyze, report, budget, and forecast within a single solution
- Augmented and predictive analytics features powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning technology
- Transforms the modern boardroom experience by providing a 360° view of your company across all Lines of Business and operations
- SAP Analytics Cloud offers a mobile app for iOS devices, so you can access your dashboards anywhere, anytime
Engaging a trusted SAP partner is critical for creating a successful end-to-end SAC implementation roadmap and gaining the desired value from your investment.
Distinguishing Factor
What Makes SAP Analytics Cloud Different from Other Cloud Analytics Solutions?
SAP Analytics Cloud solution allows you to bring together analytics and planning in a single user experience. This is achieved by supporting unique integrations to your SAP applications and seamless access to heterogeneous data sources (SAP or non-SAP).
- Instant transition from insight to action, business scenario simulation, and automatic generation of plans from predictions
- Equips your business to leverage the full context of SAP data and brings analytics closer to the point of decision
- Prepackaged SAP business content (best practices) across lines of business and industries to accelerate deployments
- A complete analytics solution that automates data-driven insights with the power of machine learning
- Helps address unique business requirements by enabling faster development of specialized analytics apps
Comparison
SAP Analytics Cloud vs. Microsoft Power BI
SAP Analytics Cloud
- Purely web-based with no desktop tool
- Targets businesses that already use SAP database and data warehouse platforms
- Powerful data visualization features to enhance the experience of self-service BI
- Integrated functionality for planning, analysis and prediction on a unified platform is a key differentiator
- Preferred by enterprise organizations and existing SAP users
Microsoft Power BI
- Microsoft Power BI Desktop tool is mandatory to start the process
- More focused on ad-hoc querying of datasets with powerful data slicing and dicing tools
- Limitations with respect to the chart types and BI visualizations
- Shows functional gaps in enterprise reporting as many of the functions offered in SAC are not fully supported by Power BI
- Popular among midsize businesses and enterprises
Considering to move from on-premise to cloud analytics? By connecting with our experts, you can learn more about the benefits of SAP Analytics Cloud for your business.
Features
Key Features of SAP Analytics Cloud
Analytics and Business Intelligence
- Self-service data modeling and preparation to gain deeper insights
- Interactive visualizations and data stories by slicing and dicing data
- Data-driven decision-making with machine-generated analytics and insights
- Business scenario simulations to visualize the impact before making decisions
Integrated Enterprise Planning
- Predictive forecasting and machine learning tools to anticipate business needs and stay agile
- Extended planning and analysis by combining transactions, analytics, and planning with SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors solutions, and SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain
- Cloud-based single connected planning model for data-driven budgeting, forecasting, and analysis with extensive support for iterations
- Engage with collaborators from anywhere, on any device and discuss plans on data points, reports, and stories with comments
Composable Analytics
- Tailor analytics and planning applications to meet unique business requirements across the organization
- Design functionally-rich applications by pulling from all capabilities – business intelligence, augmented and predictive analytics, and planning
- Low-code/no-code application design to accelerate transition from a technology-driven agenda to business-centric solutions
- Vast library of reusable widgets, flexible and modular APIs, and open connectors to increase the productivity of app developers
Prepackaged Business Content
- SAP data sources across lines of business to simplify your starting point
- Industry best practices for analytics and planning from SAP business process experts
- Accelerate setup and results with detailed documentation of KPIs, models, and data flows from SAP
- Analytics catalog on your homepage to unify access to all your analytics content
Solution Benefits
How SAP Analytics Cloud Benefits Your Business?
- Comprehensive in-memory data management (powered by SAP HANA database) and analytics
- Contextual delivery of smart insights through natural language processing
- Faster, more-confident decision-making without expert intervention and with reliable insights
- Affordable, available, and scalable analytics combined in one solution
- Allows you to connect live to on-premise applications, so you can avoid uploading data to the cloud
- Preconfigured industry and line-of-business content to accelerate deployment while lowering costs
- Ability to tailor the solution to your exact needs by working with a reliable SAP partner
Deploying SAP Analytics Cloud as part of your S/4HANA migration project will allow you to transition comfortably into a modern analytics environment.
Pros & Cons
Benefits & Challenges of SAP Analytics Cloud
Opportunities
- Ideal for organizations using SAP suite as it integrates well with other SAP products
- Features focused on planning models, workflow and plan versioning, allocations, currency translation and more
- Highly intuitive user interface which requires only minimal training for new users
- Offers embedded version at no extra cost, so users can build charts and dashboards into other SAP applications, in real-time
- Free trial can be extended up to 90 days which is longer than any other competitors in the market
Obstacles
- Challenging to connect SAP Analytics Cloud to non-SAP data sources
- Requires external support most of the times to troubleshoot and fix errors
- Supports cloud hosting only, not on-premise
- Not accessible via mobile web browser, can be accessed only through SAP app
- Requires lots of work and configuration to import data from local on-premise sources into SAP Analytics Cloud
Business Fit
Who Can Implement SAP Analytics Cloud into Their Business?
SAP Analytics Cloud can be incorporated by:
- Enterprise organizations that require predictive analytics and powerful data-driven insights to drive agile decisions
- Companies of all sizes and sectors that seek access to data modeling, text mining, and optimization
- Organizations aspiring to make data-driven decisions on their marketing campaigns and offer product/ service bundles that better meet customers’ needs
- Businesses that require multiple solution extensions for specific industry requirements such as route optimization, field force automation, customer experience analytics, etc.
- Companies that want to connect to various on-premise and cloud data sources including SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP BPC, OData, Google BigQuery, SQL, SAP Universes and more
- Integrating SAC with other platforms allows businesses to visualize and generate real-time data reports from both internal and external sources on the fly
SAP Analytics Cloud is a complete data analytics and visualization solution designed for every business that seeks to improve their processes and achieve success through robust data analysis and cutting-edge technology.
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