SAP Analytics Cloud in Business Data Cloud

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What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

SAP Analytics Cloud combines advanced analytics and planning capabilities to unlock the full potential of your investments in mission-critical business applications—and most valuable data sources.

SAP Analytics Cloud capabilities are natively available in SAP Business Data Cloud. Learn more

  • Infuse trusted AI: Embrace the power of generative AI to automate reporting, discover hidden insights, and develop business plans with Joule copilot. 

  • Deliver mission-critical analytics: Elevate business intelligence capabilities and deliver industry-specific analytics with prebuilt business content.

  • Transform enterprise planning: Enable collaborative planning by unifying financial, supply chain, and operational planning within a single solution.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all SAP data and seamlessly connects with third-party data—giving line-of-business leaders context to make even more impactful decisions. It combines all the powerful functionality of SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Business Warehouse, plus managed SAP Databricks, Insight Apps, and data products. With SAP Business Data Cloud, customers can harmonize all their data for extended planning and analysis such as financial planning, workforce planning, and more.

If you’re currently using SAP Analytics Cloud as standalone solution, you can continue without interruption. Over time, you also have the option to transition your current tenant to a fully managed solution with SAP Business Data Cloud. Learn more.

Cloud analytics is the use of remote public or private computing resources—known as the cloud—to analyze data on demand. Cloud computing analytics help streamline the process of gathering, integrating, analyzing, and presenting insights to enhance business decision-making.

There are a few reasons why SAP Analytics Cloud is different from other cloud analytics solutions:

  • SAP Analytics Cloud brings together analytics and planning in a single solution in the cloud. You can instantly move from insight to action, simulate any scenario for better business outcomes, and generate plans from predictions automatically to drive agile decisions.

  • As the analytics and planning layer of SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud supports analytics and planning enterprise-wide with smooth integration into SAP applications and sources. With our portfolio of data and analytics solutions, you can utilize the full context of SAP data and bring analytics closer to the point of decision with embedded analytics in your SAP cloud applications for lines of business.

  • SAP Analytics Cloud comes with over 100 prebuilt best-practice SAP business content packages across lines of business and industries to accelerate analytics and planning projects.

  • SAP Analytics Cloud can enable you to create bleeding-edge analytics with a complete solution. It automates insights with machine learning and allows you to compose specialized analytics apps faster and deliver high-performance analytics at scale.

SAP Analytics Cloud can connect to various on-premises and cloud data sources, including SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BusinessObjects solutions, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SQL, OData, Google BigQuery, and many more. You aren’t required to move or replicate the solution to the cloud when connecting to on-premises data sources.