SAP Cloud Analytics (SAC) is a cloud-based analytics solution that allows users to analyze data from different sources, such as on-premise systems, cloud-based applications, and external data sources. SAC offers various analytics capabilities, including data visualization, exploration, predictive analytics, and business intelligence reporting. It also allows users to collaborate and share insights with others in their organization with dashboards, data stories, and data insights.
Connecting other SAP Products to SAC
SAC can connect to SAP HANA, SAP Business Warehouse (BW), SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, and other SAP products. This integration enables SAC users to perform financial planning, analyze sales data, monitor inventory levels, create HR dashboards, and perform ad-hoc analysis.
Connecting to various SAP Apps helps build interactive dashboards, create data models, do ad-hoc analysis, perform financial planning, monitor inventory levels, and much more, thus making the process and the system user-friendly. With SAC, businesses can leverage the power of analytics across their entire SAP landscape, enabling better decision-making and driving business outcomes.
Bringing the Revolution in Data Analytics
Natural Language Processing has significantly impacted the way data analytics is done by enabling the analysis of large volumes of unstructured text data, such as social media feeds, customer reviews, and news articles. NLP algorithms can extract insights and trends from these sources, helping an informed decision-making process.
Additionally, NLP has enabled sentiment analysis on text data, helps automate customer service tasks, provides personalized customer support, and facilitates communication with customers and employees who speak different languages.
The AI & SAC handshake
Artificial Intelligence (AI) improves SAP Analytics Cloud by automating data preparation, discovering hidden patterns and correlations, performing predictive analytics, enabling natural language queries, and providing personalized insights and recommendations. These improvements are helping organizations to analyze data more efficiently and accurately, make more informed decisions, and democratize data access and analysis.
What Does AI Really Do?
Automated Data Preparation: AI-powered data preparation tools help users automate data cleansing, normalization, and transformation processes resulting in more time for analysis and deriving valuable inputs.
Smart Data Discovery: AI-powered algorithms enable SAC to discover hidden patterns, correlations, and anomalies in data, further improving the quality of insights and decision-making capabilities.
Predictive Analytics: AI algorithms are also used to perform predictive analytics, enabling SAP Analytics Cloud to forecast future outcomes and trends based on historical data. This helps businesses to make more informed decisions and anticipate future trends.
Machine Learning (ML): ML algorithms are being used to enable SAP Analytics Cloud to learn from user behavior and provide personalized insights and recommendations. Leveraging the organization’s collective intelligence helps users make faster and more informed decisions.
Collaborative Analytics
Collaborative analytics in SAC is where teams work together to analyze data and gain insights. Collaborative analytics can help organizations leverage multiple team members’ expertise, resulting in more efficient and effective analysis processes and better business outcomes.
Mobile Analytics
Mobile analytics is becoming increasingly important for SAP’s future success as more and more people use mobile devices to access information and make decisions on the go. By tracking and analyzing user behavior on mobile devices, SAP can gain insights into how customers use their products and services, which can inform future product development and marketing strategies.
SAP Analytics offers a range of tools and features that can enhance business decision-making processes. By leveraging natural language processing (NLP), SAP Analytics can enable more intuitive and user-friendly data querying and analysis. Collaborative analytics features facilitate teamwork and data sharing, while mobile analytics provide real-time insights from anywhere. With AI, SAP Analytics can further automate and streamline analytical processes, leading to more accurate and timely insights. Overall, SAP Analytics is valuable for businesses looking to optimize their data-driven decision-making.
