Getting Started with SAP Analytics Cloud

Companies need to use their data productively to thrive in today’s competitive business landscape. It is critically important to extract the maximum value from their information assets to address business objectives and maintain customer satisfaction. Decisions that are delayed due to inefficient information technology (IT) solutions can severely impact a company’s ability to compete with its rivals. That’s why more enterprises are implementing solutions like SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Here’s a look at how to get started with SAP Analytics Cloud, from reviewing the essential features to engaging an experienced SAP consultant like Argano.  

What Is SAP Analytics Cloud? 

The SAP Analytics Cloud is a unified cloud solution that provides an organization with a platform for business intelligence (BI), enterprise planning, and predictive analytics to facilitate enhanced decision-making. The solution is powered by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics and helps everyone in an organization make confident and quality decisions that grow the business.

SAP Analytics Cloud eliminates the data silos that can affect the way information flows in an organization. Combining BI, enterprise planning, and advanced analytics results in more efficient, agile, and effective decision-making, enabling businesses of all types to meet and exceed their goals. The real-time insights provided by SAP Analytics Cloud allow companies to optimize resource use across multiple departments and business processes.

Features of the SAP Analytics Cloud

The SAP Analytics Cloud offers medium and large-scale businesses multiple components and features designed to improve decision-making and support company growth.

Analytics and Business Intelligence

SAC provides self-service analytics that enables employees to explore data and uncover insights from across the organization. This feature includes:

•  Self-service data modeling that lets users configure and automate the process to produce deeper insights
• The ability to use interactive visualizations and data stories to inspire audiences and uncover insights
• Machine-generated analytics for enhanced data-driven decision-making
• The capability to perform what-if scenarios to determine the impact of potential business decisions and select the most effective way forward

Enterprise Planning

Better business outcomes are possible by consolidating financial and operational planning in a unified platform. Enterprise planning features include:

• Predictive planning using ML and forecasting tools to build agility and anticipate business needs
• Extended planning and analysis fostered by combining the power of SAC with other tools such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and SAP SuccessFactors solutions
• Collaborative planning with online group discussions and comments from any device
• Scenario planning through the creation and modification of a connected model for budgeting, forecasting, and analysis accessible from a single cloud interface

Composable Analytics

SAC customers can compose and customize analytics applications to help make faster and more effective business decisions. This feature provides:

• Flexible design capabilities fostering the creation of analytics applications that address specific business needs
• Advanced functionality by employing the business intelligence, analytics, and planning capabilities of SAC
• The ability to create business-centric solutions using low-code and no-code application design
• Increased application developer productivity

Prebuilt Business Content

SAP offers customers best-practices business content packages that facilitate using the Analytics Cloud effectively to address your business objectives. The packages include:

•     Simplified starting points that can be customized to address unique business scenarios
•     Industry best practices for planning and analytics
•     Detailed documentation facilitating setting up and obtaining results from SAC
•     A catalog to unify access to all analytics content

There are also many SAP certifications that enable professionals in multiple fields to master the SAP Analytics Cloud and other SAP solutions. 

Benefits of the SAP Analytics Cloud

Companies that choose to implement the SAP Analytics Cloud stand to enjoy multiple benefits that improve their ability to compete and thrive in their chosen market.

• Ease of use – The user-friendly and intuitive interface promotes the effective use of SAC throughout the organization.
• Enhanced decision-making – Mobile device support gives decision-makers the information they need to quickly address the evolving business environment.
• Workforce empowerment – All team members can access data to explore trends and perform analytics to derive more informed and better business decisions.
• Improved collaboration – The combination of collaborative features and mobile device support lets all team members participate in meeting business objectives.
• Automated insights – SAC provides automated insights gleaned from the information gathered through a company’s synchronized applications.

Implement the SAP Analytics Cloud with an Experienced Partner

Argano is a strategic partner focused on helping your company’s digital transformation by building it on a solid technological foundation. Argano has extensive expertise in the implementation, optimization, and maintenance of the SAP solutions your business needs. They are an SAP Gold and Strategic Partner as well as a two-time winner of the SAP award for digital supply chain excellence.

Partnering with Argano ensures that your company will get the maximum benefits when implementing an SAP Analytics Cloud solution. Our experts can help you integrate SAC with other SAP software and customize the solution to address your company’s unique requirements.

Get in touch with Argano today and start using the SAP Analytics Cloud to enhance your company’s decision-making and avoid falling behind the competition.