I recently attended a one day conference focussed around SAP – and my interest was in the data analytics and business intelligence space.
Summary
SAP analytics cloud is being positioned at a reasonable price point to push with adoption.
Experience Management is getting critical for companies – the SAP acquisition of qualtrics is a testimony to that.
Briefing
- The SAP product suite is massive and they have loyal customers – you can see SAP investing heavily in the analytics and business intelligence space.
- For anyone familiar with or using an on-premise SAP Business Objects implementation – SAP cloud platform will start becoming an alternative. Based on some of the conference talks it looks like many companies take a hybrid approach by retaining their on-premise platform while getting started with SAP analytics cloud – with the eventual aspiration to move completely to it when the platform matures. As of this time, some of the standard enterprise reporting capabilities are not available on cloud.
- Data is key – it’s more important to get it right in terms of quality and governance first and then you get great value from your analytics efforts.
- Experience Metrics will start counting the same way as sales, revenue, prospects pipeline etc. for boards and senior management to assess performance of a company.
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