This was an SAP EMEA webcast yesterday. The Cloud for Analytics part was only 30 minutes so my notes are brief
The usual legal disclaimer applies:
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This has been the statement from SAP “Innovate the core, lead in the cloud”
This was launched at SAP TechEd in November
This was previously known as Project Orca
It is brand new, built for cloud, software as a service offering – all analytics for users – not just BI, EPM, planning, in one unified platform
Today includes both BI and Planning
In the future will expand into predictive and GRC
Can build apps on top of it, such as Digital Boardroom, using a touch screen interface
Can connect in the cloud and on premise
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You don’t need to buy HCP first
You can’t run on premise
You can only run on HCP
Core Capabilities Today
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Can query online mode or acquisition – acquire in own engine
Acquisition – load into Cloud for Analytics – Google Drive, Salesforce, and HCP
Can connect to on premise, HANA< BW, BPC, CSV, Excel
On premise – you install Cloud Connector in your firewall
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It is similar to Lumira, has data manipulation types, prepare for visualization
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Easy to create charts, combine in single sources, blend data sources together
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No ESRI license required
Click on draw, and draw shape you want
Not limited to predefined regions
Use points of interest features
Can analyze routes and networks
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Can share with others
Feeds into planning capabilities
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You can pin your item to the home screen as shown in Figure 9
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Figure 10 shows an "Explorer-like" capability, interactively as you go
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Figure 11 shows financial planning features, with an Excel style interface, analyze in a pivot table style
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Collaboration for events, create on a calendar, and other features are shown in Figure 12
Digital Boardroom
Drive strategic meetings – any meeting where data is important and needs to be presented
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The Digital Boardroom provides supporting information for a meeting, including an Agenda builder, three touch screens
Organize into a meeting agenda
Built on Cloud for Analytics
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Available as an add-on application
Future plans
New application, evolving rapidly
In the cloud, able to deliver updates and new features faster than on premise
SaaS – when new features are developed you don’t worry about upgrading and patches, new features are available
Short timeline – in coming weeks and months
New release every 2 weeks
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Enhanced data connectivity – expect data sources for universes
Data transformation, loading larger data sets and improve visualizations
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Integrate directly into the application
Will release SDK’s and API’s; working on mobility support
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Exploratory analytics is planned
Look at historical data, what is driving KPI’s to drive your business
Still in development, early
Subject to change
Expect to see in next few months
Question & Answer
Q: What does HCP stand for?
A: HANA Cloud Platform
Q: Acquire from just NW BPC or MS BPC
A: both are supported
Q: Universe connection?
A: Planned for later this quarter
Q: geo – just for North America?
A: covers the world
Q: Can you do what if planning in Digital Boardroom?
A: Yes, and plan to release unique visualization for Digital Boardroom
Q: connection overlap between Cloud for Analytics and BI portfolio
A: envision Cloud for Analytics to be a complete analytics solution and still maintain on premise solution
Focus on data interoperability – access universes for example
Won’t publish Web Intelligence documents in the cloud
ASUG has a webcast next week on Digital Boardroom - you can register here.
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