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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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A Simple Workaround for Charts in SAP Analytics Cloud StoryAug 24, 2023 — SAP Analytics Cloud is a state-of-the-art BI, planning and Augmented Analytics tool from SAP that enables self-service analytics and reporting on business data.
SAC provides a robust set of widgets, charts and graphs to analyze data across multiple parameters and diverse datasets. “Bar/column” charts are one of the most extensively widgets used in stories and dashboards for Data Analytics to showcase data changes over a period or illustrating comparisons among items. Showing “Totals” on the comparative datasets in a “bar/column” chart is a very trivial requirement that is often required in the stories and dashboards. However, the feature to add “Totals” in a bar/column chart is not available in SAP Analytics Cloud. This article provides a step-by-step workaround solution to achieve this in SAP Analytics Cloud considering a business scenario.
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Harness Years of Structured SAP Data with SAP Analytics Cloud Jun 15, 2023 — Unlock the untapped potential of your SAP data and drive growth and innovation with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Discover how SAC empowers you to leverage years of structured SAP data, gaining real-time insights, identifying areas of improvement, and predicting trends. Transform your business by turning data and statistics into actionable stories, making informed decisions that lead to long-term success.
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Experiences with SAP Datasphere and SAC at Endeavour EnergyJun 15, 2023 — The industry is increasingly moving towards fluid data movement and hybrid cloud environments. With SAP as the main source of truth the ability to understand and expose this data along with other corporate data for analytics is integral to the success of a data strategy. This presentation will cover early experiences with designing a hybrid cloud solution within the SAP and wider portfolio and deploying SAP Datasphere with all the laughter and tears that come with it.
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Deep Dive: SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud Designer, and SAP DatasphereJun 15, 2023 — In this presentation hear the latest on SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud Analytics Designer. This session will discuss SAP’s analytics capability strategy and will outline the roadmap for these products.
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Masterclass: SAP Analytics Cloud For Beginners (Hands-On Workshop)Jun 14, 2023 — Read the presentation, "Masterclass: SAP Analytics Cloud for Beginners," where you'll dive into the world of data visualization and dashboard creation using SAP's flagship product, SAP Analytics Cloud. It will guide you through the various components of the tool and empower you to build your first dashboard with ease. Gain valuable hands-on experience in multiple areas of SAP Analytics Cloud, equipping you with the skills to leverage its power for your business.
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Idea to Innovation: How the San Francisco 49ers use Real-Time Analytics to Enhance the Fan Experience Jun 14, 2023 — Learn how the San Francisco 49ers leverage real-time analytics and SAP technology to enhance the fan experience by resolving stadium issues and optimizing operations in minutes. Discover how the Executive Huddle, powered by SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BTP, enables real-time data visualization and actionable insights, leading to a significant increase in fan satisfaction.
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The “Story” of Oz Minerals Leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) to Provide Valuable Insights into Budgeting for Asset Maintenance Costs and ActivitiesMay 19, 2023 — OZ Minerals, a modern mining company, invested in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) to support their reporting, analytics and planning processes, giving the individual assets the ability to build, manage and support their own financial and operational planning and reporting capabilities. Learn more about OZ Minerals journey.
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Taronga 3D – Data-Driven Decision Making to Drive Revenue and Achieve Conservation OutcomesApr 19, 2023 — Taronga had a variety of disparate systems and reporting tools, resulting in reporting inconsistencies that inhibited the organisation’s decision marking abilities at an Executive level. Reporting inaccuracies resulted in the loss of profits and constant overhead with reforecasting and budgeting.
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From Idea to InnovationApr 17, 2023 — Noele Crooks will present Idea to Innovation: How the San Francisco 49ers Use Real-Time Analytics to Enhance the Fan Experience at MASTERINGSAP. Crooks sat down to share a preview of her presentation.
With only ten home games a year, the 49ers needed a way to operationalize and visualize their data, in-real time, to help resolve stadium issues and improve the fan experience. Prior to the SAP BTP solution, the analytics and operations teams didn’t have insight into gameday issues fans faced until 2-3 days after the game, when analyzing the survey results. The Executive Huddle is a real-time SAP Analytics Cloud data center in a suite used for 49ers games and major events. It has over ten different data integrations feeding into SAP HANA Cloud. SAP Analytics Cloud enables the visualization of that data in the dashboards, which update every one to five minutes on game day, allowing the team to respond to fan issues in real time.
This initiative has allowed the 49er’s to optimize the fan experience by addressing feedback in real time, with most stadium issues resolved in 10 minutes or less, uncovered opportunities across retail, concessions, and stadium operations to resolve 200+ issues since the launch of the Executive Huddle and SAP BTP solution. Plus obtain more insight into the data through SAP Analytics Cloud dashboards which has led to a 43% increase in fan satisfaction.
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The Art of the Possible – BTP in Public SectorApr 12, 2023 — DalRae Solutions founder, Chris Rae was joined by SAP’s Federal Public Sector team to discuss how Government organisations can benefit from the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) offering which is part of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
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