SAP Analytics Cloud
Alignment of SAP Analytics Cloud with Trends in Analytics
SAP Analytics Cloud is an evolution of SAP’s initial business intelligence (BI) offering as an extension of its all-inclusive SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) product. But this evolution in the form of SAP Analytics Cloud also aligns with three top trends in today’s rapidly evolving data and analytics solutions landscape, as identified in SAPinsider research report Enterprise Data and Analytics State of The Market.
Top Analytics Trends and Their Alignment with SAP Analytics Cloud
Trend 1: The future of data and analytics is in the cloud
The critical technology drivers of analytics transitioning to the cloud are the ability to scale quickly, enterprise-wide collaboration capability, and flexibility in systems capabilities, according to SAPinsider’s research report The Future of Business Intelligence. SAP Analytics Cloud leverages all these benefits and combines them with its domain depth acquired from decades of market leadership in enterprise systems.
Alignment of SAP Analytics Cloud with Trends in Analytics
SAP Analytics Cloud is an evolution of SAP’s initial business intelligence (BI) offering as an extension of its all-inclusive SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) product. But this evolution in the form of SAP Analytics Cloud also aligns with three top trends in today’s rapidly evolving data and analytics solutions landscape, as identified in SAPinsider research report Enterprise Data and Analytics State of The Market.
Top Analytics Trends and Their Alignment with SAP Analytics Cloud
Trend 1: The future of data and analytics is in the cloud
The critical technology drivers of analytics transitioning to the cloud are the ability to scale quickly, enterprise-wide collaboration capability, and flexibility in systems capabilities, according to SAPinsider’s research report The Future of Business Intelligence. SAP Analytics Cloud leverages all these benefits and combines them with its domain depth acquired from decades of market leadership in enterprise systems.
Trend 2: Democratization of data and analytics
Democratization of data, in the form of easy access to data for moderately skilled staff, “self-service” analytics, and easy and intuitive user interfaces are quickly becoming the new normal. SAP Analytics Cloud fits in there as well by providing self-service, AI-guided analytics features for functional managers, who are not data scientists or technical managers.
Trend 3: Cross-functional data and analytics platforms are becoming a necessity
Organizations understand that siloed view into data and siloed analytics do not yield the results they need to build a highly interconnected and resilient enterprise in this digital age. SAP Analytics Cloud addresses that need ideally by allowing it to be used as a collaborative enterprise planning tool.
Key Consideration for SAPinsiders
- Align SAP Analytics Cloud with your cloud analytics strategy: While cloud-based tools have advantages over on-premise tools in many areas, the key to success is understanding how SAP Analytics Cloud will fit into your comprehensive cloud-based data and analytics strategy. To know how SAPinsiders are formulating their strategy, read our latest analytics research Analytics in The Cloud.
- Push analytics to business: Modern analytics tools like SAP Analytics Cloud have features and functionalities like intuitive interface and drag-and-drop capabilities that allow business users to leverage these tools without needing technical skills. Ensure that you put these tools in the hands of more business users. This SAPinsider article shares an example of how augmented analytics in SAP Analytics Cloud helps business users make better business decisions.
- Understand the capabilities to leverage the full potential: The unique abilities that SAP Analytics Cloud combines, including planning, predictive analytics, reporting, and BI, provide a potent tool in the hands of SAP users. The key is to understand the comprehensive solution and plan your enterprise analytics initiatives accordingly. SAP Learning portal is a great resource to develop this understanding.
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Data Connections For SAP Analytics Cloud
Analytics is driven by data and hence even best-of-breed tools like SAP Analytics Cloud need robust data integration to harness their capabilities fully. Data connection and seamless integration to data sources are critical to building robust data and analytics capabilities. SAP Analytics Cloud supports a plethora of data sources and data connections. It offers a… -
Analytics in the Cloud Research Webinar
On Demand As organizations digitalize at a rapid pace, the amount of data that their processes are generating is exponential. Rapid expansion of edge analytics and collection of unstructured data is also proliferating. As organizations move to cloud-based data platforms and warehouses, they are also looking at cloud-based analytics applications. Analytics in the cloud offers… -
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Predictive Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) has advanced Machine Learning (ML) functionalities built-in that can allow non-data science users to perform advanced modeling as well. Predictive analytics remains a key advanced analytics approach among various analytical approaches. In this blog, we will explore the smart predict functionality of SAC and understand how expert, non-data scientist users can… -
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Life After BPC: How do SAP Group Reporting and SAP Analytics Cloud Support Effective Processes?
Many organizations currently leverage SAP BPC as a core planning solution. With the advent of SAP Analytics Cloud, companies now have a choice to update and extend their current capabilities. But does that mean you have to walk away from your current investment? This session offers a detailed guide for helping organizations get the most… -
Analytics in the Cloud Benchmark Report
In This Report: Business complexity has increased exponentially in the last decade and so have the associated risks of disruption. SAPinsiders have consistently indicated in multiple research reports that evolving their data and analytics portfolio can help them address and manage these complexities and resulting disruptions in a much better way while also helping them…...… -
HCM and Digital Transformation
Contributing Editor: John Yuva, SAPinsider I consider ‘HCM or HXM digital transformation’ as the next evolution of what we used to call ‘the journey into the cloud,’ says Danielle Larocca who oversees the HCM and EIM technologies at EPI-USE Labs. She says with any digital transformation, the concerns are around ensuring the continuity of business… -
SAP Analytics Cloud – Enhancements to Improve User Experience
SAP Analytics Cloud has been available for a few years now, with many customers using the product or thinking about implementing it. Perhaps you’re using SAP Analytics Cloud for analytical scenarios or planning scenarios, and are aware of the enhancements being delivered each quarter. In this article, we’ll focus on a set of critical enhancements… -
SAP Analytics Cloud’s Business Content Solutions
SAP business content enables rapid deployment across products and can cut down implementation time considerably. SAP Analytics Cloud comes with its own set of pre-built content; however, it needs to be integrated with the source to derive true benefits of advanced analytics. This article explores how SAP Analytics Cloud business content can be rapidly integrated… -
Your Enterprise Analytics Strategy Is Incomplete Without a Data Hub
by Kumar Singh, Research Director, Automation & Analytics, Supply Chain Management, SAPinsider Data Hubs, Data Lakes and Data Warehouses…..in this case…terminology matters I am an anti-jargon guy, but sometimes, jargons do matter. This is one such case. “We need a data lake in our data architecture”-is something I have been hearing a lot recently.… -
How Cloud Can Transform the Realm of Analytics Pilots
by Kumar Singh, Research Director, Automation & Analytics, SAPinsider Getting into the pilot seat Pilots are a critical element in advanced analytics journeys. For those not familiar with this jargon, a pilot essentially is testing a analytics application use case, in a scaled down, siloed environment. And as organizations evolve in their analytics journey, they… -
Key Components of a Best in Class Cloud Based Analytics Solution Architecure
by Kumar Singh, Research Director, Automation & Analytics, SAPinsider The future of Analytics is in the cloud If you follow the analytics space, you are cognizant of the fact that more and more vendors are moving their products to the cloud, building cloud native products. Due to the flexibility, scalability, agility and the ease… -
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Case Study: How Callaway transitioned their Planning processes from a legacy solution to the Cloud
Go inside Callaway Golf’s strategic initiative to transform their planning processes and capabilities moving from a very old and outdated legacy planning solution (SAP BPS) to SAP Analytics Cloud. You will hear details from different stages of their project from business case and scope through execution and go live. You will: - Learn why Callaway… -
A Corporate Rivalry Strategy Lesson from the Cold War Era
By Kumar Singh, Research Director, Automation and Analytics, SAPinsider A lesson from the collapse of U.S.S.R Among many other factors that led to the collapse of former Soviet Union, a key one in my perspective was the economic strain on the erstwhile Soviet Union’s economy. Regan, very strategically, led U.S.S.R into the game of… -
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Extend your BPC investment and complement it with SAP Analytics Cloud
Many organizations currently leverage SAP BPC as a core planning solution. With the advent of SAP Analytics Cloud, companies now have a choice to update and extend their current capabilities. But does that mean you have to walk way from your current investment? This session offers a detailed guide for helping organizations get the most… -
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Creating a cybersecurity risks dashboard in the SAP Analytics Cloud
When it comes to securing SAP S/4HANA business applications, organizations tend to face three key challenges: 1. How to enable the application security team to prioritize the necessary cybersecurity actions 2. How to give the CISO insight into application security risk activities 3. How to bridge the gap between the problems faced by the CISO… -
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Using stories, pages, and the digital boardroom to interact with your data
SAP Analytics cloud offers many powerful features and functionalities. Many of these features are embedded deep within the tool and users are not always cognizant about these. Three such effective tools are stories, pages and digital boardrooms. In this session, attendees will: -Learn what a Story is and how it’s used in SAP Analytics Cloud… -
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Model Creation in SAP Analytics Cloud
Developing models in SAP Analytics cloud allows you to leverage the full potential of SAC and the wide gamut of analytical tools it makes available. However, there are best practices associated with developing these models in SAC. This session will cover those best practices and the right approach. Attendees will: -Learn how to create… -
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Best practices for SAP analytics cloud and SAP BW/4HANA
In this session attendees will receive an overview on how SAP Analytics Cloud integrates with SAP BW / SAP BW4HANA and allows customers to leverage their existing investment and create compelling data visualizations. The session will cover the different data connectivity options and provide an update on the latest developments between SAP Analytics Cloud and… -
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Panel Discussion: SAP S/4HANA Analytics customer journeys
Line of Business leaders are under pressure to deliver superior business results. Leveraging SAP Analytics, organizations can solve business challenges and drive business results to new highs. Attend this SAP Customer panel, hosted by the SAP Chief Customer Office, SAP S/4HANA and Analytics Ambassador Program, and hear from companies who have implemented unique and innovative… -
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A detailed look at the latest SAP analytics cloud strategy and roadmap
This session will explore the latest SAP Analytics Cloud strategy, how it is set up, and how it aligns to SAP’s corporate strategy. You will examine what is in store for SAP Analytics Cloud and how the future platform direction will impact BI, planning, and augmented analytics. Learn about planned innovations and come away with… -
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The future of SAP analytics
Learn what the future has in store for SAP Analytics and its vital part in SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise Strategy. Gain a better understanding of our next steps with SAP Analytics Cloud and the SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite, and the value available through extending and expanding modern analytics capabilities across your organization. Key takeaways : -SAP… -
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Embarking on an SAP Analytics Cloud Hybrid journey
SAP sees the future of Business Intelligence (BI) in the cloud. Organizations have been using on-premises BI tools for decades so there are plenty of questions when it comes to undertaking the journey to SAO Analytics cloud. This session will help users with critical aspects that they need to know about embarking on an SAO… -
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SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics journey
Managing SAP HANA requires a wide range of skills. Take a deep dive into advanced SAP HANA administration and master techniques and tools for effective analysis of issues, monitoring of the workload, and overall management of SAP HANA systems, including multi-tenant databases. Attend this comprehensive session to: -Learn how to leverage the SAP HANA cockpit… -
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How SAP Analytics Cloud Planning can enable predictive forecasting in uncertain times
In today’s dynamic climate, one thing is for certain — we can’t plan based on last year’s results. Accurate, flexible, iterative and timely planning is critical. Sales forecasts fluctuate daily, and business conditions can change weekly. We must adapt to current facts and model numerous scenarios to be prepared for what lies ahead. This session… -
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Get started with SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics
Understand considerations for consuming SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics via SAP BusinessObjects tools, SAP Fiori, and SAP BW. Learn how to extend SAP-delivered core data services (CDS) views and build your own. Learn how to extend SAP-delivered core data services (CDS) views and build your own. Come away with a useful list of education options to… -
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Make Fast, Confident Business Decisions with SAP Analytics Cloud
The ability to make good business decisions quickly can make or break your organization. SAP Analytics Cloud brings business intelligence (BI), augmented analytics, and planning capabilities together in a single solution so you have everything you need to make fast, confident decisions for your business all in one place. Attend this session and learn how… -
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Journey to the Cloud: Complement your SAP BPC deployment with SAP Analytics Cloud
As an SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) customer you already made a key investment in planning software to support your business. Now, as cloud technology evolves and improves, you need to be considering whether extending your existing planning and visualization capabilities to take advantage of cloud technology is right for you. In this… -
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Best Practices for SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP BW/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA
This session will provide insight into various business intelligence (BI) and analytics client architectures using SAP S/4HANA and/or SAP BW/4HANA in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) with live connection and single sign-on (SSO). We will cover when to use SAC with SAP S/4HANA, when to use SAP BW/4HANA or SAP HANA data warehousing, and how to… -
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Drive Optimized Planning & Analysis powered by SAP S/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud
Attend this session to gain an understanding of how bringing next generation ERP and Analytics together empowers the finance and planning audience to drive better decisions. - Obtain a better ability to see the whole finance landscape with the next-generation intelligent cloud ERP suite in SAP S/4HANA - Learn how to use analytics against SAP… -
Financial Planning, Reporting, and Analysis
With the disruptions in 2020 caused by the pandemic, businesses need to evolve their financial planning and analysis capabilities. Learn how organizations are enhancing FP&A to provide flexibility and foresight in their planning and reporting. Sessions will help you get the most out of your existing investment in solutions such as SAP BPC and prepare… -
Use Case: SAP Analytics Cloud as a driver for BI in SMEs
At Dr. Schumacher (manufacturer of disinfection products), the sales reporting was rebuilt with SAP Analytics Cloud. Sales representatives can now easily access it on the go. (PDF download, German)… This content is available to (General or Premium) members. Sign in or Join for free! Sign In Become a Member... This content is available to (General… -
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Performing Planning and Calculations in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC): Working with Data Actions
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is evolving into an innovative platform to improve not only customer experience and data analysis, but also aspects of planning, which were previously done using SAP BPC, SAP IBP, and similar technologies. SAP SAC now allows the implementation of input data and calculations in the cloud within your model, and store… -
Creating Dynamic Charts and Tables Using SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud is becoming a groundbreaking technology to support financial and sales teams with graphics and the integration of multiple platforms, both SAP and non-SAP. The great capabilities available in SAP Analytics Cloud are not limited to integration but also include flexible data display capabilities and visualizations to bring the story of your business… -
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Case Study: Rumpke and the future of planning with SAP’s Analytics Cloud
Learn how Rumpke, one of the nation's largest privately-held waste and recycling firms, boldly stepped into the future of planning with SAP Analytics Cloud to complement their SAP S/4HANA environment. Learn how SAP Analytics Cloud helps Rumpke manage their complex enterprise-wide Sales and Operations Planning, financial forecasting, and other critical Planning processes. Key takeaways of… -
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Case Study: Early Adopter Advice: SAP Analytics Cloud, Add-In for Microsoft Office
SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office, delivers a Microsoft experience in the SAP Analytics Cloud solution. In this session, we describe how the add-in fits into existing SAP software implementations. We also present a real-world case study that illustrates how the add-in is being used by an early-adopter customer. This content is available to… -
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Easily Create Analytical Applications and Dashboards with SAP Analytics Cloud, Analytics Designer
As business intelligence landscapes become more complex, organizations need a way to create and customize analytics applications to meet their unique business needs. Attend this session and get an overview of the analytics designer for SAP Analytics Cloud, a capability that enables designers and IT departments to easily create an analytical application or dashboard. Through… -
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Drive Better Business Outcomes with SAP Analytics Cloud
This session will demonstrate how to successfully utilize SAP Analytics Cloud to streamline your financial planning and analysis processes. Walk through key activities for performing budgeting, forecasting, and driver-based planning with SAP Analytics Cloud such as variance analysis, enterprise reporting and what-if analysis. Discover how features such as Smart Insights and Smart Discovery focus your… -
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SAP Analytics Cloud, Add-in for Microsoft Office
SAP Analytics Cloud, add-in for Microsoft Office provides users with a Microsoft Office experience and offers tight integration with SAP Analytics Cloud, allowing users to slice and dice information from SAP Analytics Cloud models in any Microsoft Office version, even on a MAC. This blog will explain how to activate SAP Analytics Cloud, Add-in for… -
Session Recap: Make Fast, Confident Business Decisions with SAP Analytics Cloud
Annie Kennedy, Associate Conference Producer, SAPinsider During day 1 of SAPinsider’s Virtual Conference Experience, Dave Williams, VP of Product Marketing at SAP, presented “Make Fast, Confident Business Decisions with SAP Analytics Cloud,” explaining that SAP Analytics Cloud is a modern, built for SaaS analytics solution. Capabilities of the software include predictive functioning, allowing users to run different types of scenarios and time-oriented question, and enterprise reporting… -
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A General Overview of SAP Analytics Cloud
Managing multiple reports, charts, tables, and models in a single environment and with real-time data from multiple sources can be challenging. Over the years SAP has designed multiple tools to support these tasks and help business users identify trends and behaviors. Most recently, SAP Analytics Cloud was created to provide a unified and secure public… -
Case Study: Financial reporting and planning with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SimpleFi’s prepackaged FP&A content
Read the case study to discover how to overcome reporting and analytical challenges and gain insights for success. The Company had just completed an implementation of SAP S/4HANA, which also included a reporting model in SAC. They quickly discovered that the dimension structures their previous consultants had used in the design and build of their… -
Video: COVID-19 Spread Analysis
Most businesses in the US are currently impacted by COVID-19. View this video from SimpleFi Solutions to gain insight into geo analytics for the pandemic in the U.S. including insights for confirmed cases, infection rates, and predictions. Built by Eric Blondin at Simplefi, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and John Hopkins University data are leveraged to… -
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Four Questions to Help You Understand Embedded Analytics
Embedded analytics can provide key insights for your organization's success, but how can you start and optimize embedded analytics in your SAP projects? Dmitry Kuznetsov is a pioneer in SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics space and an author of a book “First Steps in SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics." He has a long track record implementing operational… -
Key Considerations When Moving Financial Planning and Reporting to the Cloud
Moving key business functions to the cloud involves a host of considerations, particularly when it comes to moving to a cloud-based financial planning and reporting solution. A major goal for any business evaluating the transition is to translate the value back to the organization, which requires evaluating cost of ownership, understanding practical first steps to… -
Change Is Coming to Financial Planning and Analysis:
Financial professionals are extremely focused on FP&A (financial planning & analysis). As SAPinsider prepares our 2020 studies, “The State of the Market for SAP Financial Planning and Analysis” and “The State of the Market for SAP Finance – a Benchmark Study,” we had a chance to converse with Bryan Lapidus, FPA&A Director, FP&A Practices… -
Are You Ready for One Simple Cloud?
Most SAP customers, by now, have heard of SAP Analytics Cloud — SAP’s self-service platform for data visualization, exploration, dashboarding, planning, and predictive analytics. However, many customers wonder what exactly the new platform offers, if it’s appropriate for their environment, and what it integrates with, replaces, and/or complements. This article introduces the platform, provides a… -
The Many Faces of the Future of SAP Analytics – Part 2 (Do You Still Need, or Want, an Enterprise Data Warehouse?)
Audio pioneer Dolby Laboratories, which has been delivering audiophiles a superior sound and sight experience since the 1970s, decided in 2016 that it wanted an equally stringent level of quality assurance for its business process testing. The business sought a risk-based automated testing solution to reduce or eliminate regression test coverage gaps and lengthy testing… -
Analytics in the Cloud: Moving from Hype to Reality
Cloud has gone swiftly from buzzword to reality in most enterprise organizations. But while it’s being considered as a de-facto platform to support different business and technical operations — such as storage, HR, and procurement —many companies have been reluctant to deploy other types of business processes on the cloud. A recent SAPinsider survey from… -
A Look at the Reporting Benefits of SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP has done it again. It’s made us all rethink what we are currently doing as we wait patiently until it has a fully integrated product. I’m, of course, talking about SAP Analytics Cloud, which is part of its Unified Reporting strategy that will allow customers to combine data from all SAP systems, including SAP… -
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Create Hybrid Planning Applications with SAP BPC 11.0 and SAP Analytics Cloud
Learn how you can create hybrid planning applications using models created in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) and use them automatically in SAP Analytics Cloud. This functionality allows you not only to use SAP Analytics Cloud as a web front end of SAP BPC but also to provide functionality to extend corporate planning…...… -
Inspired for the Future
Inspiration — combined with vision, creativity, and tenacity — can help companies of all sizes chart a course toward becoming the next big thing in business. Of course, inspiration alone is not enough. Technology has an increasing role to play in a company’s growth potential. The right technology decision, made early in the life of… -
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Realize Geospatial Analysis in SAP Analytics Cloud
Sergei Peleshuk provides an overview of SAP BW/4HANA and key considerations to think about when making the decision to migrate. This content is available to Premium Members. Sign In Learn more about Premium Access -
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An Introduction to SAP Analytics Cloud Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics used to be the domain of data scientists (math guys with a cooler sounding name). Although SAP still feels strongly about supporting this type of user in the ultimate mission of the advanced use of predictive analytics, enabling the average user in predictive endeavors is equally important. Learn the big picture using predictive…...… -
How to leverage SAP Cloud for Analytics to enhance planning and analysis capabilities within your organization
This conference session video is hosted by SAPinsider and sponsored by VantagePoint. This session, presented at SAPinsider’s Financials 2016 conference, explores real-world experience on how to use SAP Cloud for Analytics to bring efficiency to processes such as planning, forecasting, and analytics. Leave the session with: Insight into “out-of-the-box” functionality for top-down and bottom-up…...… -
Live from SAPinsider Studio: Karuna Mukherjea of SAP on SAP Cloud for Analytics for Planning
Karuna Mukherjea, Senior Director, Product Marketing, SAP Analytics, joins SAPinsider Studio to discuss SAP Cloud for Analytics for Planning. Topics covered include stories, events, collaboration, and bi-directional integration with SAP Business Planning & Consolidation. This is an edited version of the transcript. Ken Murphy, SAPinsider: Hi, this is Ken Murphy with SAPinsider. I’m at the…...… -
Live from SAPinsider Studio: Ty Miller of SAP on Cloud for Analytics
Ty Miller, Vice President, Product Management, SAP Analytics, joins SAPinsider Studio at the 2016 BI-HANA-IoT event to discuss SAP Cloud for Analytics. Topics of this discussion include the Cloud for Analytics roadmap for predictive and exploratory analytics, Cloud for Analytics for Planning, and what SAP’s acquisition of Roambi means for Cloud for Analytics. This is…...… -
Live from SAPinsider Studio: Henry Kam of SAP on the SAP Digital Boardroom
Henry Kam, Senior Product Manager, SAP Cloud for Analytics, joins SAPinsider at the BI-HANA-IoT event in Las Vegas to discuss the SAP Digital Boardroom. Topics of this discussion include the Digital Boardroom form factor, collaborative functionality, forming story visualizations, and use of the Digital Boardroom outside of the C-suite. This is an edited transcript of…...… -
Live from SAPinsider Studio: Clemens Praendl on SAP Cloud for Analytics
Clemens Praendl, SAP Senior Vice President and General Manager, Analytics, joins SAPinsider Studio at Reporting & Analytics 2015 to discuss the business value cycle in the context of SAP Cloud for Analytics. This is an edited transcript of the discussion. Ken Murphy, SAPinsider: Hi this is Ken Murphy with SAPinsider and I am here at…...…
