SAP Analytics Cloud
Instant insights and smart decision-making at your fingertips.
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is the flagship analytics AI product from SAP, built on the SAP cloud platform. SAC is a SaaS offering, unique in the market by combining Business Intelligence, Planning and Predictive analytics in one cloud solution.
SAP Analytics Cloud is perfect for keeping your SAP data in one place. It utilises the latest cloud technology in the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
The Market-leading Analytics Solution
All your relevant data at a glance
Gain enterprise-ready insight and take action within your business processes.
SAP Analytics Cloud bring your data sources together, and processes it while considering you business, giving you relevant contextual information in one place so you can make informed decisions.
Interactive, comprehensive reporting
SAP Analytics Cloud also reduce the need for manual reporting, which can save a tremendous amount of time.
Your business gets access to digestible information on the facts and figures that matter most to you and your team. Wonder what SAC looks like in action? Get in touch to book a demo.
AI driven decision making
Make smarter decisions with AI driven insights delivered to you naturally. You can confidently take decisions which are powered by AI and Machine Learning without the need of learning coding.
With SAC’s use of AI you gain productivity and efficiency and naturally grow your business.
SAP Connected
With SAP Analytics Cloud you can make end to end decisions with all analytical capabilities of BI, Planning and Predictive in one place without needing to invest in multiple products and services as you get all these services under one single hood – your reporting is available across all functional areas of SAP.
SAC, Predictive Analytics and AI
Predictive Analytics is used to forecast upcoming events in your business environment.
The prediction is based on past events and most recent experiences to predict what would happen in the future and combined with analytics, business leaders have access to a clear, detailed and smart analysis.
SAC is powered by AI.
The following features available in SAC use Artificial Intelligence:
Smart Predict Services
With the introduction of SAP Analytics Cloud’s smart predict functionality, business experts and analysts can easily do data science even if they aren’t comfortable with statistics and algorithms. The intuitive user experience and features of smart predict help business users and analysts to build predictive models in minutes, starting from data and creating meaningful insights. It’s easy to import actuals from S/4HANA cloud, create a predictive model deriving automatic forecast values, create a story on this data and publish back this forecast data to S/4HANA Cloud.
Smart Discovery
With smart discovery, SAC uses predictive modelling and simulations to understand the data and uses automated algorithms and process the information to show the factors which influence it.
Search to Insight
Search to insight allows to do a Google-like search in all the visualisations, stories and data models users have created in full business-context. This also allows users to quickly find the data they are interested in. Answers are provided using charts or numeric values based on the question type, enabling to make data-based decisions.
Smart Insights
Machine learning enables smart insights in text format which makes user’s life easier. Users can embed insights into the charts, showing the relation between different KPI’s and their behaviour.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a free trial?
SAP offers a free SAC trial for up to 90 days. Initially, the SAP Analytics Cloud Free Trial is available for 30 days but it is possible to extend it for an additional 60 days after the first few weeks of activation. Please, get in touch if you’d like to try SAC for free or for any other related queries. Absoft’s highly skilled and fully certified analytics team will work with you and advise you wherever you are on your analytics journey. Once you have received your SAC free trial confirmation and details you can easily login to SAC using your credentials.
Is SAC right for me?
SAC is among the market leaders with powerful technology solutions and is a perfect fit for existing SAP customers who already have multiple SAP systems in place like S/4HANA, SAP BPC, SAP BW, BW/4 HANA etc. as SAP Analytics Cloud has a strong and seamless integration with these SAP products. Absoft’s certified consultant team can advise on your business case and help you identify the right analytics solutions for SAP data.
Does SAC work with Analytics for Microsoft Office?
Yes, SAC works with Analysis for Microsoft Office. This is a good offering and could address the planner’s need for Excel front end to enable them to perform data input by leveraging their local spreadsheets. You can find out more about the SAC add-in and exporting to Excel in this blog post.
What levels of support are available for our analytics reports?
We offer a range of 1st, 2nd & 3rd line support options for our analytics customers. Absoft cover all scenarios from providing datasets only, and leaving report design & amendments to end-users, up to providing full design and maintenance of reports whenever a change is required. Whether you want to enable users to have access to self-service analytics, or if you simply require a report which allows you to access the information you need instantly, we can cover all scenarios to support you with your analytics & reporting.
We want to enable self-service analytics – how can Absoft assist?
We find the key to enabling self service analytics, is providing users with clean, clear datasets that they can access with ease, and that requires as little manipulation as possible. Our analytics experts can work with you to create datasets that are relevant for your business and answer the key questions you have in your organisation. We can also provide end-user training in analytics tools to enable your users to become familiar with reporting.
Choosing the Right Partner
Analytics tools for SAP data have a real-impact on productivity, efficiency and decision making and can make your SAP data easily available and readable and choosing the right partner who cares about your analytics journey can be crucial.
At Absoft our main mission is to make sure you are making the most out of your SAP systems. We take individualistic approach with our clients, because no business is the same. Our experts asses which solutions would you benefits from the most and how we can maximise the investment in your existing systems and guide you through the process with full transparency.
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