Extending SAP Analytics for Greater Value SAP Apps Center Webcast Recap

This was a SAP webcast given earlier this month. You can watch a replay here.

The SAP App Center is to “extend analytic solutions, “fill the white spaces”

How use more features of analytics with partner solutions

As a customer you have more requirements than what is given in tools, perhaps the extensions can be used

SAP provides core features, extensions go beyond the core

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Legal disclaimer applies that things in the future are subject to change.

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This is a platform

SAP heard from customers, SAP provides good tool, but have their own requirements that can’t be met by current features. You can ask SAP to develop, or search / find a partner to meet requirements

So SAP created a platform to bring analytic extensions in one place

Today 400 add-ons from over 120 partners and contributors

Try, buy and download without contacting SAP

“pay and download mechanism”

Added platform link in products

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To just list your extension as shown on the left of Figure 3, you need to contact them

The other option is the option to download trial directly or pay

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Figure 4 shows a detailed page of platform

First section is the overview, features, reviews, and support information provided by partner

You can see the demo videos

Right box, is more information about the product, what platform, partner, non-partner

Bottom section – partners tag customers already using the product

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If partner offers trial and pricing you can see it here

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On this platform, you can find visualization extensions such as gauges, or search data extensions to connect to different data sources, or data drivers to cleanse data