In the ever-increasing competition in the present market, ‘agility’ and ‘self-service’ are the key requirements for businesses to prosper. Needless to say, business intelligence software and analytics capabilities to predict market dynamics can be the real game-changer for any company today. But a holistic end-to-end approach is the fundamental requirement when it comes to intelligent analytics services based on information.

This is what makes SAP Analytics Cloud integral to the success of an organization.

SAP Analytics Cloud is one of the top cloud-based SaaS platforms offering all-round analytics and planning capabilities that businesses can ever need. It utilizes data analytics, as the backbone of business processes, and helps organizations to function much faster and smoother than otherwise possible.

SAP Analytics Cloud offers the right assortment of features that make its adoption easier, and empowers enterprises in a variety of ways that include –

• Devising a consolidated financial strategy for a holistic solution – With the help of SAP Analytics Cloud, you can merge all your finances, expenditure, and revenues without having to wander around at different sources. The SAP Analytics Cloud unites predictive, planning, and augmented analytics competencies and business intelligence to put these in one cloud storage system. You can think it to be a single solution point at your disposal.

• Insights that help – The basic working mechanism of an SAP Analytics Cloud is to blend in the goodness of both worlds that is machine learning and augmented analytics. It helps in adding value to the insights that help your organization to function smoothly. The role of augmented analytics is to scour through vital data automatically, identify cycles, and trends and help you formulate the right plan for business expenses. The insights that you receive, drive you to create a personal sandbox ambiance where you can measure your performance metrics. It fetches relevant figures that show you your simulated budget outcomes.

• Lining up a strategic plan useful for the whole business – Can you deny that financial and operational planning are two crucial factors that can drive your business towards its goal? When you are working with various teams, external and internal stakeholders you have to make smart decisions. Now the question is; what can help you to decide intelligently? SAP Analytics Cloud is at your service to provide you with all the information that you need to make a smart decision. SAP Analytics Cloud includes a lot of integrative planning tools for enterprises. These tools help an organization to align all the costs and expenses across different teams such as HR, finance, marketing, sales, IT, supply chain management, and more: all in real-time. The benefit of this is that you do not have to send out emails containing plans and strategies to different departments incessantly. So, basically, you are not only saving time but also a lot of your energy. With SAP Analytics Cloud, you will be able to create and assign tasks or connect with your teams in real-time. There is a calendar, discussion panel, and more that will help your teams understand your strategies, and you can do this with the data point commenting tool.

• Better planning of cycles and intelligent analytics for expense forecast – Manual expense forecast building requires a lot of patience and energy but why do you need it when you have SAP Analytics Cloud at your disposal? This system comes with ace predictive analysis technology and machine learning that will chalk out your expenses and cost plans accurately, that too, in no time. The predictive feature is perfect for automating baseline expense planning forecasts that require previous data. Then, you will be able to keep a tab on how the plan is working in real-time. The accuracy indicators help data analysts to rely upon data-driven forecasts, before actually incorporating them in the planning process straight away.

• No more biased decision-making – Converting insight into actions within seconds is a strong suit of the SAP Analytics Cloud. The machine learning mechanism will help you keep abreast of the newest trends. It also helps you to concentrate on high-value activities, thereby enabling you to identify the significant contributors at all data points. To improve the business factors, you can also rely on the smart discoveries made by this system. In case of any anomalies, you will be able to identify the problems to take the proper decision to correct those.

• Data modeling- Planning and building the right model to keep all the data safely stored is another plus point of the SAP Analytics Cloud. This impeccable feature helps you to make fast decisions and plan your strategies accordingly. “Models” and “stories” are two crucial features that make the BI function of SAP Analytics Cloud stand out from the crowd. The models facilitate data enhancing by wrangling, cleansing, defining hierarchies, regulations and conditions, and adding formulas to simplify tough calculations. Stories, on the other hand, animate the data by helping you visualize the information. This is done with the help of charts, graphs, infographics, and more thereby providing precious insights that your business can use.

• Holistic industry dashboards – Providing tailor-made business content packages for specific analytics scenarios is one of the salient capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud. With each package comes aesthetically designed dashboards, data models, and stories for specific businesses and unique scenarios. It is also called Analytics Content Network that is like a content library for the business with all the proven best tips that you can incorporate in your business to leverage the data already available and trigger the go-live. The content can be customized as and when needed with the help of some SAP data sources such as SAP S/4 HANA or SAP C/4 HANA.

Nowadays, businesses are required to foresee changes well before time to survive in the competitive market. SAP Analytics Cloud comes into play when it comes to anticipating the potential crisis that can impact a business negatively. Challenges test the nerve of a business, and those who survive are the real winners.