Live data connections help you connect the SAP Analytics Cloud to your data sets in such a way that any changes made to the data in the source system are instantly recorded. The advantage of connecting live to the data is that they remain in the source system making it needless to move huge volumes of data. SAP Analytics Cloud may also use existing models in the source system directly to create a story and visualization on that model to conduct online analysis without data replication.

Even though COVID-19 was unprecedented for most of the businesses across the globe, companies running SAP solutions were well prepared to handle the crisis. For SAP and its solution providers, business continuity is always on top. With that clarity, thought leaders can certainly re-align their business intent with consumer values and concentrate on the innovation to get through the crisis.

The primary skill required to create an actionable report is to understand your end-users and their particular data needs. Keeping in mind some of the best-recommended practices in SAP Analytics Cloud, you can improve the Analytical Insights for your end-users, adding more value to the organization.

Attracting, engaging and converting customers to buy the products along with retaining them is something that most businesses seek to achieve. With every industry becoming a smarter place around us leveraging Artificial Intelligence, how then do we extend this to provide an intelligent customer experience?

The challenge for many businesses today is not to master the technology, but rather to position it better at the service of their customers. It would be easier for them to resolve this challenge if they are able to gain better insights about the customers. That’s exactly where Intelligent Customer Analytics comes into play.

Today’s environment requires businesses to respond on multiple fronts at once: they need to protect their workers’ safety, along with safeguarding their operational viability. To mitigate these risks, analytics has become an essential navigational tool as it supports numerous urgent tasks facing businesses today.

The unprecedented changes in the balance of supply and demand for retailers and fashion companies are leaving them in a deteriorating situation of having the wrong product at the wrong time in the wrong place. Resolving these imbalances requires better analysis, planning and execution across your enterprise, from finance, all the way through your supply chain.

In today's business environment, we can all agree that organizations have more data than ever. But how can you best leverage this data to generate reliable plans and strategies effectively? SAP Analytics Cloud brings together information on strategic, financial, and operational strategies into a single solution that helps you to align plans and forecasts around the business.

In an increasingly globalized market, logistics goes beyond the conventional transfer of goods and information between the supplier and the recipient. Today, logistics is control of the flow of products between the point of production and the point of consumption in order to fulfill consumer or corporate requirements and SAP S/4HANA 1709 provides a single source of truth for all these operations.