Empower Decision Makers with SAP Analytics Cloud: Modernize BI with SAP's Single Platform for Analytics

✍ Scribed by Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 357
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Discover the capabilities and features of SAP Analytics Cloud to draw actionable insights from a variety of data, as well as the functionality that enables you to meet typical business challenges. With this book, you will work with SAC and enable key decision makers within your enterprise to deliver crucial business decisions driven by data and key performance indicators. Along the way you’ll see how SAP has built a strong repertoire of analytics products and how SAC helps you analyze data to derive better business solutions.

This book begins by covering the current trends in analytics and how SAP is re-shaping its solutions. Next, you will learn to analyze a typical business scenario and map expectations to the analytics solution including delivery via a single platform. Further, you will see how SAC as a solution meets each of the user expectations, starting with creation of a platform for sourcing data from multiple sources, enabling self-service for a spectrum of business roles, across time zones and devices. There’s a chapter on advanced capabilities of predictive analytics and custom analytical applications. Later there are chapters explaining the security aspects and their technical features before concluding with a chapter on SAP’s roadmap for SAC.

Empower Decision Makers with SAP Analytics Cloud takes a unique approach of facilitating learning SAP Analytics Cloud by resolving the typical business challenges of an enterprise. These business expectations are mapped to specific features and capabilities of SAC, while covering its technical architecture block by block.

What You Will Learn

• Work with the features and capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud
• Analyze the requirements of a modern decision-support system
Use the features of SAC that make it a single platform for decision support in a modern enterprise.
• See how SAC provides a secure and scalable platform hosted on the cloud

Who This Book Is For

Enterprise architects, SAP BI analytic solution architects, and developers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Current Trends in Analytics and SAP’s Road Map (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 1-17
Business Scenario for Analytics Landscape Transformation (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 19-30
SAC for Enabling “Single Version of Truth” (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 31-78
Leverage SAC to Create “All-in-One” Analytics Platform” (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 79-122
Exploit “Augmented Analytics” Capability of SAC (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 123-153
Develop SAC for an Anytime Available Platform (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 155-175
Capitalize on Predictive Analytics Capability through SAC (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 177-208
Craft Special Business Requirements on SAC via Custom Analytics Application Design (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 209-230
Design A Secure Platform Using SAC (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 231-263
Product Road Map and Future Direction for SAC (Vinayak Gole, Shreekant Shiralkar)....Pages 265-301
Back Matter ....Pages 303-349

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Big Data