Maximizing SAP Analytics Cloud Performance: A Strategic Approach to Real-Time Data Integration

As SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) increasingly becomes the strategic analytics platform of choice for SAP customers, organizations face a critical challenge: how to efficiently connect their diverse data landscape to this powerful analytics engine. According to Allan Pym, Chief Operating Officer at APOS Systems, “SAP Analytics Cloud is becoming the go-to platform for enterprise analytics, but its true potential lies in how effectively organizations can feed it with real-time data from across their business ecosystem.”

This highlights the critical need for seamless connectivity, an area where CData Connect Cloud can help, particularly for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) users.

SAP Analytics Challenge: Bridging the Data Gap

For SAP-centric organizations, the journey to real-time analytics presents unique complexities. Whether running S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, or hybrid landscapes, businesses need to ensure seamless data flow while maintaining SAP’s stringent security and performance standards. As demonstrated in CData’s technical partnership with APOS Systems, the key lies in combining certified connectivity with enterprise-grade performance.

CData provides pre-built connectivity solutions that enable seamless integration between SAC and over 250 data sources. These connectors support real-time data access, ensuring that the insights generated in SAC are based on the most current information. Whether an organization’s data resides in on-premises systems, cloud applications, or hybrid environments, the solution ensures that SAC can access it effortlessly.

CData Connect Cloud’s integration with SAC is designed for:

1. SAP-Compliant Connectivity: Our solution maintains full compliance with SAP’s connectivity protocols, ensuring reliable and secure data transmission. As Allan Pym notes, “The performance improvements we’ve seen with CData’s connectors are substantial, particularly in complex hybrid environments.
2. Real-Time Data Orchestration: The platform enables live data access across more than 250 sources, eliminating the need for resource-intensive ETL processes that can impact SAP system performance.

1. Broad Data Source Coverage: With support for over 250 data sources, including Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Google BigQuery, and more, CData ensures businesses can consolidate all their data in SAC. This eliminates data silos and provides a unified view of business operations.
2. Ease of Use: The solution is designed to be intuitive and easy to implement. Users can connect SAC to their data sources without extensive coding or IT involvement, reducing the time and effort required for integration.
3. Secure Data Connectivity: CData prioritizes data security, offering features like SSL encryption and OAuth authentication to ensure the security of data transfers between SAC and external sources.
4. Customizable Data Models: With CData Cloud Connect, users can create custom data models tailored to their specific business needs. This flexibility ensures that the data presented in SAC is relevant and actionable.

Making a Case for SAC Integration with CData

By integrating CData Cloud Connect with SAP Analytics Cloud, businesses can:

• Get real-time access to data to ensure that decisions are based on the most accurate and up-to-date information.
• Streamline operations by consolidating data from multiple sources into SAC to simplify reporting and analysis and save time and resources.
• Improve agility with seamless data integration to quickly adapt to changing market conditions and make data-driven adjustments to their strategies.

CData also simplifies complex integrations, enabling businesses to derive maximum value from their analytics investments.

For example, consider a retail company that uses Salesforce as its CRM system to manage customer interactions, sales pipelines, and marketing campaigns. The company also relies on SAP Analytics Cloud for business intelligence and planning. The company needs to integrate Salesforce data into SAC to gain a comprehensive view of its sales performance and customer insights.

To achieve this integration, the company will use CData Connect Cloud’s pre-built SaaS Salesforce connection for real-time access to Salesforce data. This would enable the organization to:

• Connect Salesforce to SAC by using CData’s intuitive interface to automatically map Salesforce objects (such as Accounts, Opportunities, and Campaigns) to SAC’s data model.
• Enable real-time data sync to ensure that any changes in Salesforce, such as new leads or updated sales figures, are instantly reflected in SAC.
• Create custom dashboards in SAC to visualize key metrics, such as sales performance by region, customer acquisition trends, and campaign effectiveness.
• Analyze trends, identify opportunities, and make data-driven decisions like allocating resources to high-performing regions.

What This Means for SAPinsiders

For SAP environments, security is paramount. To ensure security governance, CData provides native integration with SAP’s authentication frameworks, support for SSO and OAuth 2.0, granular access controls at the data source level, and comprehensive audit logging for SAP users.

Decrease reliance on IT support for simple tasks. CData’s pre-built connectors and user-friendly interface make it easy for SAP users to connect SAC to external data sources without requiring extensive technical expertise. This reduces implementation time and allows users to focus on deriving insights rather than managing complex integrations.

Eliminate silos with a unified real-time data view. By consolidating data from multiple sources—such as CRM systems, ERP platforms, and cloud applications—into SAP Analytics Cloud, CData removes data silos. This enables SAP users to gain a holistic understanding of their business operations.