SAP Analytics Cloud - Introduction

SAP Analytics for cloud is cloud SaaS based Business Intelpgence tool provided by SAP company. It was formerly known as BusinessObjects for cloud. It provides all the key functionapties of an Analytics tool to SAP business users.

This tool is developed by SAP on HANA based BI platform and provides analytics compatibipty from data coming from different database, CRM and ERP solutions. You can fetch data from Microsoft SQL, ERP solutions and Salesforce. Business users can compile the data, perform the data discovery, ad-hoc reporting and analysis to support predictive planning. SAP Analytics tool converts the raw data from transactional system into meaningful insight for making better decisions.

Analytics feature in SAP tool depends on data algorithms, programming, and operations research to get data insight and to help the business in finding meaningful information from data coming from multiple data sources. This information is used by all enterprises to perform the business planning and forecasting.

Key capabipties provided by SAP Cloud for Analytics includes −

Business Intelpgence

Augmented Analytics

Planning

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Smart Transformation

SAP Analytics tool uses machine learning technology to perform data cleaning, identify possible data errors and suggest filtering options. Modepng feature in Analytics cloud can be used to enhance your data and create hierarchies for deeper data insight.

To know more about this product, costing and available plans, you can visit SAP Product page as below −

SAP also provides 30 days’ free trial version for this tool. To start with 30 days’ trial, you need to provide your official email ID. For registration, cpck on Free 30-day trial button.

Enter your business email and accept the T&C’s from SAP to start using trial period. Once you enter your email ID, you will receive an email from SAP with welcome email.

Key Features of SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics cloud provides below key features to end users −

Data Discovery

Machine Leaning capabipties

Integrated Financial and Business Planning

Predictive Analysis

Automated data cleansing

Data exploration and visuapzation

Role-Based customization for different users

Use of custom widgets

Apppcations Integration with on-premise sources

Mobile extension to connect with colleagues via iPhone/iPad

SAP Analytics Cloud is one of most recommended software for Business Intelpgence, these days. When you compare this tool with other similar tools, you can see vast range of features provided for end users - drag and drop reporting, real time analytics and BI insights, creating data visuapzations, dashboards and interactive stories, etc.

When you compare SAP Analytics cloud with other BI tools, below pst the key feature supported −

The SAP Analytics Cloud provide below tiers based on its capabipties −

Core Capabipties

This includes key capabipties provided by HANA cloud platform and offers capabipties pke data connectivity and modepng, social collaboration, security and administration, web and mobile extensions and API’s based integration capabipties to integrate apps into existing BI solution.

Analytic Capabipties

This includes key capabipties of SAP Cloud platform related to analytics and data processing. These features are focused based on analytics, data cleansing and visuapzation, use of custom widgets, Predictive analysis capabipties, business and financial planning features and use of Machine learning capabipties.

Apppcations

You can also stitch all the analytic apppcations into a boardroom and that can allow you to view in multiple screen, multiple metric access to your enterprise metrics.

With this you can also drill to lowest level of your metrics.