Integration of data sources in SAP Analytics Cloud
The integration of data sources in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is a crucial aspect that helps companies make informed decisions based on comprehensive data analysis. This blog post highlights the different aspects of data integration in SAP Analytics Cloud and shows how companies can benefit from this functionality.
Integration of data in business processes
By using SAP Analytics Cloud, companies can integrate planning and analysis directly into their business processes. Optimized workflows give employees insights at the exact time of decision-making, enabling them to recognize relevant patterns and trends and immediately translate intelligent insights into concrete actions.
Optimization of workflows
With SAP Analytics Cloud, employees receive insights at the exact time of decision-making. This enables them to identify relevant patterns and trends and to translate intelligent insights into concrete actions immediately. Integrating data into business processes enables a seamless connection between data analysis and operational processes. Employees can access sound insights to make quick and informed decisions that can be implemented immediately in business processes.
Improved decision-making
By integrating data directly into business processes, relevant information can be provided at the exact time of decision-making. This enables employees to make informed decisions based on real-time data and respond quickly to changing business requirements. Integrating data into business processes therefore makes a significant contribution to improving decision-making.
Increase in efficiency
Integrating data directly into business processes enables employees to receive relevant information without any delay. This helps to increase efficiency, as employees no longer have to rely on manual data collection, but can access the information they need directly. This allows employees to use their time more effectively and focus on implementing actions instead of spending time searching for data.
Overall, the integration of data into business processes through SAP Analytics Cloud enables a seamless connection between the analysis of data and operational processes. This helps improve decision-making, increase efficiency and respond quickly to changing business requirements.
Common data model and increased data literacy
SAP Analytics Cloud provides a common data model for all internal and external data, enabling users of all skill levels to increase their data literacy and better understand business logic and semantics. This helps increase engagement and accountability across the entire workforce by creating a common business language that users can trust. Built-in social collaboration tools support discussions about any data — big and small — with any number of users at any time.
Access to collective intelligence and best practices
By using SAP Analytics Cloud, companies gain access to collective intelligence in one of the world’s largest clouds for enterprise applications. More than 150 million customers help to gain new insights, establish new benchmarks and share new best practices.
Data integration options in the SAP Analytics Cloud
The SAP Analytics Cloud offers various options for data integration. Companies can connect data via a “live connection”, which means that the data remains in the company network because it is queried directly in the system and is not replicated. This applies, for example, to SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW, BW/4HANA and SAP Universe. Alternatively, companies can load data into the cloud via an import data connection and process it there. This is possible, for example, for data from sources such as SAP BW, SAP BPC, SAP ERP, SQL database, SuccessFactors, Salesforce (SFDC) or Google Drive.
Benefits of Live Connection
Many companies prefer the “Live Connection” with SAP BW and SAP BW/4HANA because the data remains in the company, the replication process does not have to be maintained and existing authorizations and metadata can be reused. The live data connection with SAP BW on AnyDB and SAP BW/4HANA is made possible, for example, with the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) function. The data flow only takes place between the browser and the BW/4HANA system, so the data does not leave the company network.
Overall, SAP Analytics Cloud offers a variety of options for integrating data sources that enable companies to use their data effectively and make informed decisions. The various integration options and the common data platform enable companies to increase their data competence and promote collaboration and discussion about data.
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