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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 detailed look at the latest SAP analytics cloud strategy and roadmapMay 26, 2021 — 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 a solid understanding of the functionalities and features you can expect in coming releases of SAP Analytics Cloud.
-Understand the strategic directions and areas of investment related to SAP Analytics Cloud
-Get an overview of the key capabilities and identify scenarios ideally suited for SAP Analytics Cloud
-Learn what’s on the horizon in terms of planned new features and functionality
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The future of SAP analyticsMay 26, 2021 — 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 Analytics and its vital part in SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise strategy
-Strategic direction, investments and future of SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite
-Roadmap overviews for both SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite
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Embarking on an SAP Analytics Cloud Hybrid journeyMay 12, 2021 — 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 Analytics Cloud Hybrid journey. Attend this comprehensive session to: Understand what the roadmap of transition to SAO cloud should look like What aspects are different in SAO Analytics cloud Features and functionalities of SAO Analytics cloud.
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SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics journeyMay 12, 2021 — 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 and studio for security, user management, high-availability administration, system maintenance, and performance optimization
-Get practical tips for administering SAP HANA content, SAP HANA analytics, and SAP HANA extended application services engine components
-Explore important data provisioning administration techniques, including smart data access, Hadoop integration, and data replication tools
-Step through a live demo to see advanced troubleshooting procedures using SAP HANA cockpit
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How SAP Analytics Cloud Planning can enable predictive forecasting in uncertain timesMay 12, 2021 — 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 will focus on how companies are adapting to the new business climate and will provide valuable insight to real-time forecasting and planning techniques.
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Get started with SAP S/4HANA embedded analyticsMay 12, 2021 — 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 help train your team on SAP S/4HANA analytics.
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Make Fast, Confident Business Decisions with SAP Analytics CloudJan 25, 2021 — 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 SAP Analytics Cloud is different from other BI, analytics, and planning products in the market.
You will:
- Get an overview of the key capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud
- Discover how customers are deriving value from the solution today
- Learn what’s on the horizon in terms of planned new features
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Journey to the Cloud: Complement your SAP BPC deployment with SAP Analytics CloudJan 21, 2021 — 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 session we'll explore:
- Typical challenges and requirements in a modern planning and forecasting approach and using analytics to extend the value of planning
- The advantages of using a specific planning solution and cases where more than one could be combined
- The hybrid (i.e., combined) approach via a real-life demo example, to illustrate how combined requirements from core and light users can be answered based on an SAP architecture
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Best Practices for SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP BW/4HANA and SAP S/4HANAJan 20, 2021 — 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 enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) and SSO with both SAP and non-SAP components. The presentation will include lessons learned from several SAC implementations at different Swiss customers, including migrating from SAP BO Lumira dashboards to SAC, using SAC with complex queries, and building advanced analytical use cases using R or Python.
Attend to:
- Leverage capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP S/4HANA and or SAP BW/4HANA
- Understand the critical (technical) prerequisites before starting to implement an analytical project with SAC
- Gain a better understanding of how to build a roadmap to the new SAP analytical architecture
- Understand how to leverage advanced analytical capabilities by using R or Python scripts
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Drive Optimized Planning & Analysis powered by SAP S/4HANA and SAP Analytics CloudJan 19, 2021 — 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 S/4HANA with SAP Analytics Cloud to drive better business decisions and become a better business partner
- Use SAP Analytics Cloud against SAP S/4HANA actuals data to perform better planning and variance analysis
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