Playing Data Football: Understanding SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Business Data Cloud, and Databricks When talking about modern data and analytics, the landscape can feel confusing—different players, overlapping roles, and everyone claiming to be the “star striker.” To make it easier, let’s think of the data world as a football team. Each solution has…
Schlagwort: SAC
Rückblick auf den DSAG Jahreskongress in Bremen – SAP Analytics im Fokus Der diesjährige DSAG Jahreskongress in Bremen stand ganz im Zeichen von Transformation, Innovation und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Für mich als SAP-Analytics-Berater war es besonders spannend zu beobachten, wie intensiv Themen rund um Datenstrategie, Business Intelligence und Planung diskutiert wurden. Highlights aus den Vorträgen Ein zentrales Thema war…
Master Data Management via Business Data Cloud (BDC): Datasphere (DSP) & Seamless Planning in combination SAP Datasphere (DSP) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Seamless Planning will play an increasingly important role in the future. Since Seamless Planning is still a relatively young product, its current interaction capabilities with SAP Datasphere are limited. Nevertheless, this example…
Report Navigation in SAC with RRI SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) helps users explore data easily. I recently had the chance to try out its support for SAP BW’s Report-to-Report Interface (RRI), officially available since the Q3 2024 release. With this feature, moving between related reports becomes much smoother. In SAP BW, RRI has been a…
This Is the Way: Rethinking Analytics Orchestration with REST in SAP Datasphere (DSP) Introduction SAP Datasphere Task Chains have recently been enhanced with a new capability: the ability to add a REST API Step, as documented by SAP. This addition significantly expands the integration potential of Task Chains, allowing them to trigger or interact with external…
AfO vs. AfO for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC): Similarities, Differences, and Which One to Choose With Analysis for Office for SAC, an exciting new possibility opens up: accessing data from the SAP Analytics Cloud directly in Excel and working with it flexibly. But where exactly are the differences compared to the well-established and similarly named…
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) – Export native planning to SAP S/4HANA ACDOCP Introduction SAC native planning works best when its planning capabilities are integrated with backend systems like SAP S/4HANA, particularly the ACDOCP table, which serves as the central storage for ERP plan data. In this blog, I will show how to export native planning…
The Future of Planning in Excel: The SAP Analytics Cloud Add-in as a Strategic Frontend – Part 1: Introduction For many business users in finance and controlling, Microsoft Excel is more than just software — it’s the daily tool for analysis, reporting, and, above all, corporate planning. Its flexibility and familiar environment are unbeatable. But…
SAP BW und Business Data Cloud: Jetzt umsteigen oder noch warten? In der sich schnell entwickelnden Welt von SAP Analytics stehen viele SAP BW Kunden vor einer entscheidenden Frage: Jetzt auf die SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) setzen oder noch bei bestehenden BW-Lösungen bleiben? Die Antwort darauf ist komplex – sie hängt stark vom derzeitigen…
Reflections on BW Modernization and Its Implications for Planning in the Cloud Since the announcement of the Business Data Cloud (BDC) a few months ago, I’ve followed numerous discussions surrounding the topic of BW Modernization with great interest. Given my background in planning applications and analytics architecture, these conversations have sparked several ideas about how…