Planning has always been a key ingredient in establishing the success of any given business. However, it is not always easy to facilitate effective planning and drive results the same. This is when businesses choose to leverage advanced technologies that will help them better use data and drive effective and informed decision-making.
In most cases, organizations choose to use advanced solutions such as the SAP Analytics Cloud. The solution is equipped with many different features and functionalities that help organizations drive make better decisions and facilitate growth. Therefore, let’s check out some of the ways SAP Analytics Cloud can help you drive effective planning.
What is SAP Analytics Cloud?
Accely’s SAP Analytics Cloud is an advanced analytics solution that brings together the power of business intelligence (BI), predictive capabilities, as well as planning capabilities under a single centralized cloud-based interface. Businesses need this ideal solution to survive in this highly competitive business environment and facilitate growth.
Using the SAP Business Technology platform competencies, the SAP Analytics Cloud solution allows your organization to make the most of all data. You can use the solution to generate highly valuable insights to better understand your customers and facilitate growth accordingly.
Features of the SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud is one of those few solutions that come with numerous features and functionalities. All of these features are designed to help a business drive better planning in this fast-evolving business environment. Some of these features include:
- Predictive models support the planning functionalities.
- Robust connection to on-premise and cloud-based solutions where one can even operate in hybrid environments to suit their requirements.
- Users can create and generate reports as well as organize all of the data in clearly defined dashboards to make it easier for businesses to comprehend the information they see.
- Access to the tool of Analytics Designer that allows businesses to carry out individual development of applications.
- Access to the digital boardroom and create interactive working facilitation alongside stories using different displays.
Connections with the SAP Analytics Cloud
It is no secret that the SAP Analytics Cloud solution is an integral component of the HANA Cloud Services. This makes it one of the potent front-end tools that helps an organization leverage business intelligence, predictive analytics and even planning. The other cloud-based solution from the HANA family is the Data Warehouse of SAP and the SAP HANA Cloud. Both the solutions are also designed to address business landscapes’ modern and changing requirements.
The SAP Analytics Cloud comes with different operating models. When we talk about an unfiltered cloud environment, it means a straightforward connection with the respective source system of the cloud. On the other hand, additional components are needed to connect the source systems and the SAP Analytics Cloud.
It all depends on the protocol of connection which is one of two the SAP Analytics Cloud Agent or the Connector. The Connector Cloud will connect the SAP Analytics Cloud through the source system of HTTP. However, if you are using a protocol of proprietaries, the connection will be made with the Agent of SAP Analytics Cloud.
Interaction of SAP Analytics Cloud with Other Applications
SAP Analytics Cloud planning is one of the many components of SAP applications such as the SAP Ariba, SAP SuccessFactors, and Accely’s SAP S/4HANA Solution. The functionality of the integrated SAP Analytics Cloud aims to facilitate creation of planning and analyzes applications within the local system.
Additionally, the SAP Analytics Cloud can be established as a central planning instance to realize all comprehensive planning. However, in the case of the areas of on-premise, one can connect the SAP Analytics Cloud with the SAP Business Consolidation and Planning. This will be connected with the model embedded through the live connections with the standard model through data acquisition. This approach can be used to connect SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP S/4 HANA and SAP BW/4 HANA.
The SAP Analytics Cloud integration with SAP S/4 HANA on-premise, SAP S/4 HANA cloud, or even the SAP BPC standard model can be done through import or export. The data in these scenarios are loaded from the localized systems into the SAP Analytics Cloud data model. This means in case your organization already uses the SAP BPC Embedded; it can use SAP Analytics Cloud as a front-end through a live connection. The functionality will stay in the SAP BPC environment.
In case you are using the Microsoft Office solution, SAP Analytics Cloud provides an Excel addition which facilitates one to carry out an extensive use to facilitate all the ad-hoc analyses with no knowledge of any specific knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud. Variant number two, in this case, is the SAP Analytics Cloud Story, which comes with numerous functions. This helps sim at departments of business and work in an environment that drives collaboration for better efficiency. Then comes the third alternative, known as the Analytics Designer, which is ideally suited for mapping all planning applications guide.
Final Thoughts
The aforementioned information depicts only a few of the many advanced capabilities of the SAP Analytics Cloud solution. However., when you get into the granular details of these features and functionalities, it becomes evident that SAP Analytics Cloud is ideally suited to enhance planning.
Therefore, keep this information in mind and choose an advanced solution such as the SAP Analytics Cloud to transform planning in your business. You can even seek assistance from the prominent experts at our SAP consulting company. Our experts can help you get the most out of your solution and drive effective results.
