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SAP Analytics Cloud Data Import and Preparation Webcast Recap
SAP’s Eric Yew spoke at this webcast yesterday.
Integration includes SAP, non-SAP
This presentation focused on data integration
How connect to data, prepare it
Before I start the recap, join us for these upcoming webcasts:
March 7 BI: What’s New in SAP BOBJ Web Intelligence 4.2 SP07
March 26 BI: Hybrid Analytics and Analytics Hub – Latest Developments
March 27 BI: Influence of Agility and Big Data Principles to BW/4HANA Architecture
March 28 BI: Overview of Latest BI Features in SAP Cloud Analytics
April 2 BI: A Beginner’s Guide to Use SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Planning
April 3 BI: Smart Predict Update
April 4 BI: Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Story Performance in SAP Analytics Cloud
April 9 BI: Data Protection & Privacy with BW/4HANA
April 10 BI: What’s New with Application Design in SAP Analytics Cloud
April 16 BI: What’s New in Transitioning from SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA
Source: SAP
Part of ASUG, launching an influence council for SAP Analytics Cloud
Influence council is a structured forum where customers collaborate with each other and influence the direction of SAP Analytics and road map
Call for participants – IT and business – register here
Source: SAP
Strategies to connect to data “any where” – on premise or cloud
Time needs to be spent to get data meaningful
Capabilities to enrich data, blend it
Live connections to HANA S/4HANA Universes
Seamless way to connect, no replication
Integrate tightly
Leverages security
Data import – brings agility to users, insights, flexibility to manipulate, cleanse data
Source: SAP
In Q4 added 90+ on premise data sources, comparable to BusinessObjects BI Platform
Partners such as APOS provide 3rd party data import connectors
Source: SAP
On left, live data connectivity – talk to data in best manner, such as HANA, BW, S/4HANA – no data replication for most workflows
Data is kept safe behind corporate firewall
On the right, data import connectivity, leverage maximum benefit, stored “safely” – data is encrypted
Helps extend capability that live cannot do today – predictive, planning
Once imported, using HANA calculation engine
Data security is not transferred to SAC.
Source: SAP
HANA Cloud Connector acts like a secure VPN tunnel
Cloud Agent establishes data connection to your system, manages query execution
Today you can use the simple deployment kit
Link above – installer bundles both together to get started
Self Service to Data
Source: SAP
Business user or data analyst, a lot of time is spent preparing data, more than doing the analysis
Demo showed this using HR data
Source: SAP
Supporting DataOps Strategy
Source: SAP
Best way to secure data
Content role of data modeling
How govern data (public vs private model)
Source: SAP
Road map for data import connections (legal disclaimer applies that anything in the future is subject to change)
Consider joining us Monday, May 6 for a hands-on pre-conference session on SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Application Design – more information here