Discover the capabilities and features of SAP Analytics Cloud to draw actionable insights from a variety of data, as well as the functionality that enables you to meet typical business challenges. With this book, you will work with SAC and enable key decision makers within your enterprise to deliver crucial business decisions driven by data and key performance indicators. Along the way yoüll see how SAP has built a strong repertoire of analytics products and how SAC helps you analyze data to derive better business solutions. This book begins by covering the current trends in analytics and how SAP is re-shaping its solutions. Next, you will learn to analyze a typical business scenario and map expectations to the analytics solution including delivery via a single platform. Further, you will see how SAC as a solution meets each of the user expectations, starting with creation of a platform for sourcing data from multiple sources, enabling self-service for a spectrum of business roles, across time zones and devices. There¿s a chapter on advanced capabilities of predictive analytics and custom analytical applications. Later there are chapters explaining the security aspects and their technical features before concluding with a chapter on SAP¿s roadmap for SAC.Empower Decision Makers with SAP Analytics Cloud takes a unique approach of facilitating learning SAP Analytics Cloud by resolving the typical business challenges of an enterprise. These business expectations are mapped to specific features and capabilities of SAC, while covering its technical architecture block by block.What You Will LearnWork with the features and capabilities of SAP Analytics CloudAnalyze the requirements of a modern decision-support systemUse the features of SAC that make it a single platform for decision support in a modern enterprise. See how SAC provides a secure and scalable platform hosted on the cloudWho This Book Is ForEnterprise architects, SAP BI analytic solution architects, and developers.

Explains the development and design of SAC to meet typical business requirements

Chapter 1: Current Trends in Analytics and SAP's Road Map.- Chapter 2:Business Scenario for Analytics Landscape Transformation.- Chapter 3:SAC for enabling "Single Version of Truth".- Chapter 4: Leverage SAC to create "All-in-one" Analytics platform.- Chapter 5: Exploit "Augmented Analytics" capability of SAC.- Chapter 6: Develop SAC for "Anytime Available" Platform.- Chapter 7:Capitalize on "Predictive Analytics" capability through SAC.- Chapter 8: Craft Special Business Requirements on SAC via Custom Application Design.- Chapter 9: Design a Secure Platform using SAC.- Chapter 10: Product Road Map & Future Direction for SAC.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.