SAP Ana­ly­tics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud

The SAP Analytics Cloud solution combines business intelligence, advanced and predictive analytics, as well as planning functions in a cloud environment. As the analytics layer of the SAP Business Technology Platform it supports advanced analyses, including forecasts, throughout the entire company.​

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SAP Analytics Cloud in a Nutshell

The SAP Analytics Cloud is a comprehensive stand-alone end-to-end solution in the field of Business Intelligence (BI). At its core, it primarily serves as a tool for self-service reporting, dashboarding with control options, and management reporting. SAP Analytics Cloud allows the integration of various source systems or files – SAP or non-SAP, cloud-based or on-premise.

Augmented Analytics, Search to Insight, Smart Discovery, Smart Predict, Smart Insights, and more: Utilize the features of SAP Analytics Cloud to identify the relevant correlations within your company’s vast amounts of data. In this way, you can present data trends in a well-founded and comprehensible manner or act based on key figures. Your company benefits especially in the areas of reporting and planning.

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The Benefits of SAP Analytics Cloud

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We are here to assist you in getting started with SAP Analytics Cloud. Your advantage? You don’t start from scratch, but receive pre-built stories and dashboards that we can either use as templates in joint workshops or to set up out-of-the-box solutions.

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Customer Examples

Example A:

A customer in the consumer goods industry, manufacturing and distributing mineral water, utilizes SAP Analytics Cloud for assessing delivery capability. A daily report provides key insights at a glance through live charts, allowing drill-downs, e.g., to visualize shortages by product or to compare delivery rates over time, using historical data for comparison with the current situation.

Example B:

A Munich-based brewery, i.e., also a client in the consumer goods industry, uses a dashboard in the SAP Analytics Cloud to track their own sales volumes. For the various types of beer the filling quantities, planned quantities, and the number of containers are summarized in an overview. Planned and actual values are compared over time by using historical data.

Example C:

A customer in the discrete manufacturing sector uses SAP Analytics Cloud to monitor the development of their transport efficiency. Relevant performance indicators are compared for recipient countries and visualized via an integrated map.

Customer Feedback

  • 80% efficiency increase in monthly report generation
  • 20% decrease of the time spend on general reporting in quality assurance
  • 50% increase in expertise in creating reports
  • 35% increase in employee acceptance of reporting

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about SAP Analytics Cloud

The SAP Analytics Cloud offers online integration with the BI suite SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), with so-called universes (abstractions of data sources), with SAP S/4HANA, and with the SAP Business Technology Platform. It also allows the offline integration of many other SAP and non-SAP data sources. The SAP Analytics Cloud consolidates these sources: analyses, planning and collaboration steps, modeling, etc. all run on a cloud platform.

The SAP Analytics Cloud relies on storyboards for its presentation, in which key figures and data trends are displayed in individual stories. You can choose the suitable chart representation from various options. Through drill-down into individual charts, you can adjust the arrangement of the data and also access background data in real time.

Augmented Analytics involves analyses that are enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). Machine learning automates complex analysis processes such as data preparation and knowledge gain, while NLP enables non-expert users to ask questions about the available data and receive responses in the form of easily comprehensible dialogs.

Search to Insight understands data queries in natural language and immediately visualizes them in suitable chart types. You can think of this feature as a kind of search engine for the available data to which you submit inquiries. Refining a query after receiving the result enables a more in-depth analysis without having to navigate through multiple menu levels.

Smart Discovery generates a complete story with a variety of charts that display important KPIs directly and relate them to each other at the touch of a button. This feature, enabled by machine learning, is a powerful tool for discovering correlations between data.

Smart Predict allows you to provide recommendations for upcoming decisions or support actions based on data. By using machine learning and predictive analytics it enables, for instance, forecasts of product sales and revenue trends .

Through Smart Insights you can use machine learning to quickly identify the top contributors to a particular value in just a few clicks. This includes, for example, the highest-revenue customers for a specific product or the regions with the highest operating costs.

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An Overview of Our SAP Solutions

Discover which SAP applications are available for the different areas of supply chain management.

SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)

Thanks to its integration options and range of functions, SAP Extended Warehouse Management is the most sustainable administrative software for intralogistics. It comes without the effort and release conflicts of external development. SAP EWM is also available as an »Embedded« version in SAP S/4HANA.

SAP Material Flow System (MFS)

SAP EWM Material Flow System (MFS) allows automated warehouse and material handling technology to be integrated and managed directly at the level of programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It is also available as »Embedded« version in SAP S/4HANA with SAP EWM Advanced.

SAP Transportation Management (TM)

SAP Transportation Management offers functions ranging from route planning to cargo space planning and invoicing, tools for assisted optimization as well as integration possibilities with collaboration, yard, and warehouse processes. It is a comprehensive solution for transportation management, also available as »Embedded« version in SAP S/4HANA.

SAP Business Network for Logistics

The B2B collaboration platform SAP Business Network holds a vast variety of functions for Logistics Collaboration which transform the linear supply chain into a collaborative logistics network. Thanks to flexible cloud scenarios and modular integration options, you can adjust and expand these benefits to tailor them to your business.

SAP S/4HANA

With the new ERP generation SAP S/4HANA and its simplified data model in combination with the SAP HANA in-memory database, SAP has succeeded in creating an incredibly high-performance mainstay for future-proof business processes – transparent, in real-time, and complemented by smart cloud, UI, and analytics components.

SAP Fiori

This new UI and UX concept for SAP applications is based on modern and user-friendly design principles. With the SAP Fiori Launchpad all your applications are available at a glance thanks to clearly arranged tiles with a preview function (e.g. for key performance indicators). It also provides a role-based and personalized access.

SAP Analytics Cloud

Quick and easy access to comprehensive analyses – regardless of system landscape and data sources. With SAP Analytics Cloud, we meet your requirements for analytics and business intelligence. Benefit from real-time visualizations and dashboards as well as predictive features for your reporting and simulations.