This year
SAP announced another analytical (yes, analytica!) software. Along with suite
of BI products from BusinessObjects family accompanied with original SAP BW tools (BEx family) plus new
products like Lumira
looks there is still room to fill up.
The
product which resulted from project code name Orca is called SAP Cloud for
Analytics. It is software-as-a-service (SaaS) type of product that
redefines analytics by providing all analytics capabilities, for all users, in
one product.
What
is this new analytics offering about? Idea behind is to have single analytics
products which combines multiple analytics products and which is built on SAP's
HANA
Cloud Platform (HCP). The single product is intended to be used by all
users within an organization. They can use it to explore all analytical
capabilities like Business Intelligence (BI), planning, predictive, Governance,
Risk and Compliance (GRC), etc. For example planning capability in the SAP
Cloud for Analytics is leveraged by SAP
Cloud for Planning which was released earlier in 2015. Other capabilities
will be adding into the offering soon.
How
the SAP Cloud for Analytics differs from BI cloud offerings of other providers?
The SAP claims that it does provide both BI and planning function in one
product whereas competitors only provide single or reduced capabilities like BI
or Planning but not both.
How
this offering of SAP will influence their other products? Similar SaaS solution
of SAP (Lumira
– cloud edition) will merge with the SAP Cloud for Analytics. Similarly SAP
Cloud for Planning is now part of SAP Cloud for Analytics. Other products (SAP BusinessObjects 4.x) will not be influenced.
As
a side note there is one funny thing within an announcement of the SAP Cloud
for Analytics. SAP actually announced it sooner than it was planned. It
happened because an Amazon also introduced their analytics product – space needle.
The SAP wanted to use same momentum Amazon has created in the field of
analytics products.
More
information:
SAP
announces new product that redefines analytics in the cloud
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