Hybrid Analytics with SAP Analytics Cloud
In the age of Digital Disruption, enterprises are moving their data and process in the cloud to enhance their digital maturity leading to better business agility. Many such enterprises over the years have made a humungous investment in their on-premise IT infrastructure. Hybrid Cloud strategy is the most preferred by the organizations considering the fact that their previous investments can be combined with new innovative cloud solutions and services.
With the Cloud technology, the services models such as PaaS, IaaS and SaaS can be benefitted. With Hybrid cloud strategy these service models can used in orchestration with the previous on-premise investments.
PaaS (Platform as a Service) – PaaS is a cloud computing model that provides a readily optimized platform required for application development, that allows users to focus on creating and running applications rather than constructing and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and services
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) – IaaS is the cloud-service model that provides virtualized infrastructure components and services such as physical computing resources, location, data partitioning, scaling, security, backup etc. traditionally present in an on-premises datacenters such as including servers, storage and networking hardware as a service without having to buy, manage and support the underlying infrastructure.
SaaS (Software as a Service) – SaaS is a delivery model which allows rapid deployment of a centrally hosted and licensed-solution based on a subscription, which can be referred to as “on-demand application”. This provides a higher resource and pricing flexibility.
With the significant progression in adoption of Hybrid Cloud infrastructure by the enterprises which are gearing towards their digital disruption, there is huge demand for data-insights from diversified systems of this hybrid ecosystem. A study conducted by Forrester suggests, 82% of companies agree hybrid cloud is a critical next step in their analytics/BI.
Analysing and deriving meaningful insights on the content accessed and blended from various cloud sources and on-premise sources across the enterprise can be termed as Hybrid Analytics. Deriving the insights from the blended data of on-premise system and cloud solutions can be highly beneficial.
In a data-centric world increasingly based on analytics, SAP Analytics Cloud, a SaaS offering from SAP which can help organizations easily enter the intelligent era of digital disruption without any risk.
Advantages in implementing Hybrid Analytics using SAP Analytics Cloud:
Expand your scope of Analytics without sacrificing your existing on-premise investments.
With SAP Analytics Cloud, derive the best-in-class analytics by utilizing disruptive innovations from the cloud on trusted on-premise capabilities.
Eliminate the Data silos limiting the insights across the enterprise.
The silo-effect had always been the restraint for the access to insights across all the departments. With SAP Analytics Cloud create single source of truth to gain data-insights from different systems and application areas empowering organizations with better business agility.
Derive more value with Augmented Analytics
With the technologies embedded in SAP Analytic Cloud like Machine Learning, Predictive Forecasting and Natural Language Query, SAP Analytics Cloud derives the maximum value from the data providing deep insights like top contributors, key influencers and future projections, thus helping you in going from insights to action in remarkable time.
Adaptive Business Strategy with efficient planning and simulation
The Planning capabilities let users create Budgets, plans and Forecast with features like spreading, distributing and budget assignment. Predictive Forecasting allows to simulate the decision impacts using what-if analysis.
Lively Stories with Powerful Visualizations
SAP Analytics Cloud offers high-impact data visualizations and techniques such as linked analysis and geo-location analysis in responsive pages making it available from boardroom to mobile devices.
Efficient resource utilization and pricing flexibility
With the demanding business requirements often subjected to change, cloud-based services can deliver instantly compared to complex update to your existing IT infrastructure. With SAP Analytics Cloud this can be achieved by the choosing the best subscription plan that best fits as it serves as SaaS (Software as a Service).
SAP Analytics Cloud is the only cloud application that empowers enterprises to analyse, plan and predict at the one place providing a seamless transition from insights to action.
SAP Analytics Cloud entitles organizations with the capability to lead data-driven insights into decision making, which helps the organization accelerate business decisions and gain the competitive edge in the market.
With SAP Analytics Cloud, the advantages of Hybrid Analytics can be fully implemented to gain the seamless meaningful data-driven insights from the multiple SAP systems.
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Author:Belgal, Manjunath