SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards have proved to be very successful as classic BI tools in the last decades. Thousands of companies worldwide have benefited from this top visualization and presentation experience.
With increasing number of businesses starting to take advantage of cloud and SaaS offerings and with the end of support for Adobe Flash Player (check https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/), SAP would also like to draw your attention to our new strategic analytics solution called SAP Analytics Cloud.
In this Wiki article, we will walk you through the SAP Analytics strategy, give you an overview of our new star product called SAP Analytics Cloud, and explain how it can be a much better alternative for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and even beyond with the support of Machines Learning and Planning capabilities. In addition, we will provide several migration use cases among different industries to help you understand this topic further in a more practical way!
1.Current Overview of SAP Analytics Strategy
SAP’s Analytics solutions and strategic roadmap are aligned to deliver the intelligent enterprise for our customers. Thus we are delivering best-in-class analytics by combining high-speed innovation from the cloud with trusted on-premise capabilities. This integrated hybrid solution expands analytics insights without sacrificing existing on-premise investments.
The future of analytics is in the cloud. Organizations can explore, expand, and grow the way they want by having control of data, no matter where it resides. With hybrid analytics, customers can start bringing their digital strategy into the cloud along with their previous investment.
SAP Analytics Strategy allows customers to protect their investments by having the ability to continue managing their on-premise analytics systems, data sources, and existing landscapes while leveraging the latest SAP Analytics Cloud capabilities.
2.High-Level Introduction of SAP Analytics Cloud
2.1 Overview of SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP would like to drive customer with better business agility. SAP Analytics Cloud is one simple public cloud solution for decision making that allows users to discover, visualize, plan and predict, all in one place. SAC basically combines in one place many capabilities: Business Intelligence, Planning, Augmented Analytics, Analytics Designer. It brings customers much more advantage not only easy-used functions but also integrated platform and secured business data management.
- Latest Technology
SAP Analytics Cloud delivers new business intelligence and predictive capabilities. Augmented analytics features powered by the latest machines learning technology help customers to discover and implement with greater insights.
- Designed for Business Users
SAP Analytics Cloud will break down silos and increase business growth by empowering business users with access to trusted analytics. With powerful self-service analytics tools, all departments can share information and create reports based on a single source of truth.
- Integrated for Planning
SAP Analytics Cloud natively align plans across all business units and integrates with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).
2.2 SAP Analytics Cloud Stories vs SAP Analytics Cloud for Analytics Designer
As a comprehensive Go-to-product, SAC offers self-service stories and IT-oriented Analytics Designer to balance different scenarios and usages. SAC Stories and Analytics Designer are both support Augmented Analytics, Planning, and Predictive features. Please check the detailed support matrix.
- SAC Story
SAC story is the best way for business storytelling. Customers’ data has been visualized and analyzed in stories. It provides various types of chats, tables, graphs, widgets etc. End users could easily define the filters, linked analysis, interactions among widgets without any technical background. As long as they know the business, then they know how to tell the stories. In addition, customers could also build a story automatically by Machine Learning capability. To avoid create something from scratch, SAC stories offers customers Smart Discovery features to automatically explore the data and generalize relevant graphs.
More information please refer to:
https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/resources-storytelling-best-practices/
https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/resources-building-a-story-automatically/
https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/resources-smart-discovery-machine-learning-for-business-users/
- SAC for Analytics Designer
SAC for Analytics Designer has been designed also for data analysis and data planning. On the contrary, it can range from simple static dashboards to highly customized applications with more possibilities of visualization and interactions. There is a dedicated design environment in SAP Analytics Cloud to create such applications. It is another alternative to create analytical content with scripting enabled and more extensions available.
More information please refer to:
Comparison Items | SAP Analytics Cloud Stories | SAP Analytics Cloud for Analytics Designer |
Functionality | BI, Planning, Smart Features, Smart Predict | BI, Planning, time series forecast. Smart Predict. |
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Technical requirement for builders | No technical skills required | JavaScript language |
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Best place to start is to go on the SAP Analytics Cloud website. From there you will find many resources: Product description, Line of Business solutions, Learning materials(blogs, videos, webinars ...), Partners' offering ...
If you want to evaluate SAC use our 30-day free trial. You will have access to some of the features described here: https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/plans
3.Move to the Cloud
Visit our dedicated wiki to start you journey to the Cloud:
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Migration Industrial Examples