SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud is a cloud-based business intelligence and enterprise planning platform that combines dashboards, reporting, predictive analytics, forecasting, and collaborative planning. It is now positioned as an analytics and planning capability within SAP Business Data Cloud, with particularly close connections to SAP business applications and governed enterprise data.

1. Analytics workflow: users can build interactive stories, dashboards, visualizations, tables, and reports to analyze and share business data. Stories can support conventional BI as well as planning, forecasting, scripting, and more advanced analytical applications.
2. Enterprise planning: budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, version management, data entry, planning calendars, calculations, and collaborative workflows support financial, supply chain, and operational planning alongside analytics.
3. AI capabilities: SAP Analytics Cloud includes Joule, Just Ask, Smart Insights, Smart Predict, Predictive Planning, and generative AI-assisted features. These support natural-language data exploration, predictive forecasting, calculation generation and explanation, chart summaries, data-action scripting, and AI-assisted planning insights.
4. Commercial considerations: SAP currently directs new SAP Analytics Cloud licensing through SAP Business Data Cloud, core capacity. Pricing is tied to the Business Data Cloud configuration, with prerequisites and feature availability depending on the purchased capacity and applicable licensing conditions.

SAP Analytics Cloud is particularly relevant to organizations that want business intelligence and enterprise planning closely connected to SAP applications, trusted business data, and AI-assisted analysis within the broader SAP data ecosystem.