SAP Analytics Cloud: Analytics & Intelligence
Business success demands strategic, operational, and tactical decision-making. But first, users must access analytics complete with business intelligence, prediction, and planning to act confidently in the moment. SAP® Analytics Cloud enables every user tasked with making intelligent decisions with the real-time, contextual insight necessary to propel the right business outcomes.
Power more relevant and responsive strategic analytics with SAP Analytics Cloud
Intelligent, real-time, integrated data is critical to timely decision-making that yields positive business outcomes for the intelligent enterprise. New world economy business decisions need to curate X + O data into an autonomous, machine-learning analytical solution. Predictive, what-if scenario-based solutions yield answers to your business’ most challenging problems.
The right data empowers enterprises to make more informed decisions, drive business performance and operational efficiency, and unleash new growth opportunities through innovation. Insight is the value obtained through the use of analytics. Insights provide essential wisdom about data and reveals actions that can be taken to benefit the business. Monetize data to obtain quantifiable economic benefit and measurable business performance improvements. Collaborative decision-making uses multiple teams across the enterprise to leverage analytics and intelligent insights before arriving at the right decision.
Simply put, analytics exists to provide information to support business decisions. SAP Analytics Cloud delivers insights on accumulated history, the present situation, and forward-facing trends to all decision-makers, revealing the next steps toward adding optimal business value. The solution combines our business intelligence (BI) system – one of the strongest available today – with enterprise planning. Best of all, you gain the power of artificial intelligence, machine learning technology, and predictive analytics. With SAP Analytics Cloud, a morass of standalone reporting spreadsheets or disconnected planning tools is eliminated to support organizational strategy alignment. Stakeholders can find everything they need embedded within their familiar work context. No matter the core function, decisions are more complete, contextual, and certain – positioning your business to quickly multiply its agility and power with competitive innovation that paves the way to becoming an intelligent enterprise.
SAP® Analytics Cloud is a new generation Software-as-a-Service that redefines the shift from data to intelligence. It is built natively on the SAP® HANA cloud platform and combines business intelligence, augmented analytics, and enterprise planning capabilities into one common solution. It allows you to analyze all data from your ERP landscape, on-premise or in the cloud and provides live connection (online) and data acquisition (batch) connectivity access across different data sources.
Business Intelligence
SAP® Analytics Cloud for business intelligence is transformational. It allows real-time updates to your plans, collaboration across the organization, advanced analytics, and one-click visualization. Uncover actionable insights to deliver value across the business. Answer complicated business questions in a few clicks with the real-time analytics capabilities. Integrated with augmented analytics and smart visualization features, organizations can evaluate and predict business outcomes with an all-in-one solution.
Enterprise Planning
Create strategic alignment across all departments, crowdsource plans across the business, and make confident decisions with SAP® Analytics Cloud Enterprise Planning. Deliver timely plans, budgets, forecasts, and reports with greater speed and accuracy with a full set of enterprise planning features at your fingertips. Make data-driven decisions that trump human bias and encompass end-to-end decisions across the business in real-time with built-in business intelligence and analytics. Model situations immediately by simulating multiple outcomes to see the impact of your business drivers in a sandbox environment. Use private versions to collaborate with teams on what-if analysis.
Augmented Analytics
Take advantage of smart algorithms to uncover new relationships in your data, draw insights previously hidden, and fuel intelligent predictions. SAP Analytics Cloud lets you deliver new insights revealed by emerging AI technologies to the right people at the right time, augmenting familiar business intelligence and enterprise planning with machine learning and predictive analytics. Built-in machine learning algorithms automatically guide data discovery and help detect previously hidden influencers and patterns. You can explore formerly invisible drivers of key performance indicators and examine trade-offs among them. And the latest predictive tools empower you to forecast potential outcomes with the push of a button.
Smart capabilities drive new predictive and cognitive business outcomes
Futuristic predictive and cognitive solutions provide intelligent enterprises next generation capabilities that will unleash new growth opportunities through innovation.
Understand the main business drivers behind your core KPIs, such as revenue, churn, and productivity – powered by Machine Learning. Interact with insights and explore hidden structures and relationships. Find the answer to business questions through intuitive charts and natural language to ask IT experts or data scientists for assistance. Simulate possible outcomes based on your business scenarios. Predict the outcome of a particular KPI or record value based on historical data. Experiment to see how particular dimension or KPI values will affect business process outcomes. Simulate possible outcomes based on your business scenarios and execute the optimized model based on next generation capabilities. SAP Analytics Cloud delivers smart capabilities across seven key components;
Search to Insight
The Search to Insight feature is differentiated by the ease of use and natural language-based querying capabilities. Business users no longer need to understand complex technical concepts and can converse directly with the system to build business queries. The conversational intelligence algorithm further supports the user by auto-complete and auto-suggest features saving considerable time and effort.
Smart Discovery
Smart Discovery is a powerful feature within SAP Analytics Cloud that uses machine learning to explore your data and uncover valuable insights. Smart Discovery identifies the key influencers of a selected measure or dimension.
Smart Insights
Using the Smart Insights feature in SAC, business users uncover critical hidden insights from data previously unseen. Without this feature, analysis done manually is laborious and prone to mistakes, human bias or unanticipated factors.
Smart Predict
Predictive features and outputs of SAP Analytics Cloud are shown in a convivial way to be easily interpreted and included into analytics stories or planning. Classification ranks the population relative to an objective. It produces a score that a new event will happen. Regression is used to find relationships between variables describing events. For each new event, you get an estimation of the value of the target variable. Time Series are used to forecast the evolution of a measure in the future.
R Visualizations
Analyzing text data can reveal powerful insights in your qualitative data, especially when trying to answer the “why” question. And with powerful tools like R Visualization, you’ll uncover richer insights, faster, and make more confident decisions.
Smart Grouping
Smart Grouping helps cluster different values in your data aligned to the specific KPIs you are analyzing. This feature uses machine learning to accurately group values based on common relationships in your data and predict future outcomes based.
Smart Transformation
Automate repetitive data preparation workflows and enhance data models faster than ever. Using Smart Transformation recommendations, you can rapidly cleanse and prepare your data for advanced analytics.
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