Many businesses find it difficult to align their ERP platforms with their evolving objectives, although they are viewed as “strategic investments” for optimizing corporate operations. Rapid technological advancements like SaaS and AI are making shadow IT a bigger problem. More than 70% of ERP projects will fall short of their initial objectives by 2027.
SAP S/4 HANA ERP software is significant in this context due to its adaptability to a variety of business environments. Its main features are discussed in our most recent post, along with how Inclusion Cloud can help you if you’re thinking about integrating.
What is SAP Analytics Cloud?
SAP Analytics Cloud solution is a planning and analytics solution that is part of the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). It enables enterprise-wide integrated planning processes and offers useful insights to assist organizations in making well-informed decisions. Through real-time business data monitoring and in-context and analytics-driven insights, its live connection with SAP S/4HANA helps businesses make decision-making faster, develop integrated strategies, and quickly adjust to the rapidly evolving technological landscape.
The Role of SAP Analytics Cloud in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
In addition to integrated operational procedures, businesses need impeccable analytics to create an intelligent enterprise; companies seek predefined reporting that can be easily incorporated into daily operations. Additional features that organizations anticipate include individualized data access and ad hoc analytical capabilities to maximize the value of enterprise data. Consequently, enterprises can fulfill all of the mentioned requirements by combining SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP S/4HANA data.
The Power of Embedded Analytics: How does it work?
It’s essential to remember that every SAP S/4HANA cloud tenant or customer receives a brand-new SAP Analytics Cloud. This enables the analytics cloud to use the transient analytical queries that are automatically produced for the CDS views to access the ABAP CDS view* in real-time.
All of the essential SAP Analytics Cloud features, including user provisioning, connectivity, content management, and lifecycle, are made available as APIs. As a result, the embedding applications can remotely control the embedded analytics cloud. Consider that other programs and even business partners can access these APIs. This implies that organizations no longer must log on to the embedded analytics cloud separately because it is completely handled by the SAP S/4HANA cloud.
Benefits of SAP Analytics Cloud in S/4HANA
Utilizing SAP S/4HANA combined with SAP Analytics Cloud, your company benefits from embedded analytics in many ways. Some of the benefits are listed below:
1. Get valuable insights
Integrating analytics, planning, and execution is made easier by integrating your S/4HANA cloud with SAP Analytics Cloud. It helps in integrating modern technology into a unified solution, thus enabling:
- Business intelligence: Take advantage of automated, self-service insights that help in identifying patterns and trends, forecasting possible outcomes, and providing answers to business issues.
- Predictive and augmented analytics: Businesses can obtain hidden insights through machine learning and artificial intelligence by connecting SAP Analytics Cloud with the S/4HANA cloud. It helps the organization of features like predictive planning, natural language interaction, automated data exploration, and data correlation detection.
- Extended planning and analysis: Simplify your operations by integrating plans throughout the company to improve teamwork and take advantage of crucial business semantics like account logic and currency conversion.
2. Live data connection
Online data sharing occurs between SAP Analytics Cloud and S/4HANA, with the former offering live connectivity to S/4HANA. As a result, SAP Analytics Cloud instantly reflects any changes made to the data. This has the benefit of maintaining data security within the source system. Additionally, SAP Analytics Cloud can leverage any versions you already have to generate analytical stories and visualizations without duplicating the data.
3. Integrate third-party data sources
SAP Analytics Cloud allows the integration of SAP and external (non-SAP) data sources in addition to offering real-time communication with SAP S/4HANA. It enables enterprise-wide monitoring of KPIs and operational performance while giving organizations a unified picture of all data sources.
4. Increase your organization’s ROI
Improving the return on investment (ROI) for your company’s SAP software investments is one of the major benefits of combining SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP S/4HANA. Additionally, it offers real-time data access, allowing you to perform analytics on the most recent data and maintain with the constantly evolving business landscape.
5. Advanced modelling abilities
With SAP Analytics Cloud’s advanced modeling capabilities that work with SAP S/4HANA, you can manage and customize your data. To obtain a more accurate analysis, it helps you clean up your data utilizing modeling techniques. Additionally, you can use sophisticated algorithms and aggregates, create multi-level hierarchy tables, convert currencies, resolve errors on a large scale, and much more.
SAP Analytics Cloud with S/4HANA: Final Thoughts
Integrating SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) with SAP S/4HANA empowers businesses with real-time insights, enhanced decision-making, and a seamless analytics experience. By embedding advanced analytics directly into business operations, organizations can drive efficiency, improve forecasting, and gain a data-driven competitive edge.
However, a successful implementation requires careful planning, data integration, and the right expertise to ensure seamless functionality.
At Accely, we help businesses strategize, implement, and optimize SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP S/4HANA, ensuring a smooth integration with minimal disruptions. Our team of SAP experts provides tailored solutions, industry best practices, and ongoing support to help you maximize the full potential of SAC for data-driven decision-making.
Accely’s Approach
Businesses today must analyze developments and trends well in advance if they want to stay ahead of their competitors. Businesses can significantly reduce the effect of crises by using SAP Analytics Cloud. However, data management and planning are essential components of the S/4HANA migration. With decades of data management experience, Accely helps organizations reduce the complexity, overall cost, and time of their SAP S/4HANA conversion operations. To maximize data volume management, we offer software solutions certified by SAP as well as consulting services.
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