That’s Right—We Have a New Home! Your favorite content will now be all in one place, because the SAP HANA and SAP Analytics Blogs are moving to a new neighborhood. We’re excited to announce that from now on, the SAP Community is all you need to find the bloggers you’ve come to rely on to keep you informed, educated, and up-to-date. Key Points of Interest To help you navigate your way around our solution areas, we’ve created the following SAP Community Topic Pages, where you’ll find the latest news and blog posts, product tutorials, FAQs, and more: Database and Data Management SAP Analytics SA ..read more

Part 5 of 5 in the What Is Data Intelligence blog series.   In this series we have highlighted the importance of bringing together Enterprise AI and Intelligence Information Management to rapidly derive value from business data in a trusted and governed manner. But it is also important to talk about the process itself –the best tools and technology are useless if the people and the process aren’t also aligned,  and that is why it is important to think about how we combine the technology, the process, and the people  together to make a sustainable, scalable, and high im ..read more

Data is more critical than ever in today’s organizations, but how do you manage and understand that data as it is continually growing in all shapes and sizes – structured, semi-structured, unstructured, streaming, volumes, and data is now stored on-premise, in data lakes, and on the cloud.  and sizes? And it is now stored on-premise, in data lakes, and on the cloud. Dataflows and processing are moving away from data feeds and traditional dashboards and now businesses need agile machine learning and advanced data intelligence techniques to work with the data, act on the data, and make int ..read more

Part 4 of 5 in the What Is Data Intelligence blog series. Just imagine that you own the arterial road that leads to a small village in the middle of nowhere. You can easily manage the traffic on your road until a huge gusher in this small village is discovered by accident. As of now, a big oil company settles down in business and many more vehicles, including public transport and big trucks intend to use your road on a frequent basis. However, your road was not designed for managing heavy traffic caused by large vehicles. So would you invest in establishing a new infrastructure to leverage the ..read more

Recently, I published a blog about top use cases for next-generation SAP HANA service.  Based on recent customer engagement, I’d like to share one more use case cloud native operational reporting for SAP ERP. Customers are leveraging both next-gen SAP HANA service and SAP Analytics Cloud as shown in the architecture blueprint below.   Only SAP HANA service enables real-time analytics on transactional data in the cloud and built-in data integration loading data from virtually any source.  Only SAP Analytics Cloud provides a converged BI, Planning, and Predicti ..read more

Technology changes the world. In my personal life it’s changed the way I track my runs, plan meals and shop for my family and even the way I communicate with them (Hey Google, broadcast ,“Get you shoes on NOW! We are LATE!” is commonly heard in my home). Sometimes when we think about how technology changes our lives the views are dystopian. But I truly believe embracing technology can help us work towards a greater good. Opinions are vast and riddled with unconscious bias, so when tackling a problem it’s best to deal in facts. Recently we did just that with the SAP HANA service. SAP is a suppo ..read more

Part 3 of 5 in the What Is Data Intelligence blog series. Apart from the recent hype around Machine Learning (ML), many companies are seeing ML as a lever to optimize their business. Predicting customer churn, making intelligent product recommendations, forecasting product quality or completing visual product recognition are just a few typical use cases of enterprise ML. On the other hand, many enterprises struggle with ML and the various pitfalls, as outlined in this article. According to analysts it takes roughly 2 months just to get a single predictive model from research to production ..read more

Part 2 of 5 in the What Is Data Intelligence blog series. Introducing SAP Data Intelligence SAP just released a new cloud service: SAP Data Intelligence. This blog post covers what it is and how it relates to SAP Data Hub. You can also learn about the relationship between SAP Data Intelligence and SAP Data Hub in this recording: “I just heard about SAP Data Intelligence, what is it and how does it relate to SAP Data Hub”. SAP Data Intelligence is a new cloud service available on SAP Cloud Platform that provides the following: All capabilities of SAP Data Hub, available as a service in the clo ..read more

Part 1 of 5 in the What Is Data Intelligence blog series. If at first you don’t succeed… Artificial Intelligence has struggled to live up to the hype of recent years. If you were to believe the buzz, AI would be responsible for automagically solving all our biggest problems with complex computer wizardry and granting all of us a life of leisure and simplicity. It reminds me of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which hyper-intelligent beings design a computer to reveal the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything–only to find out that the answer is 42, and they never k ..read more

The number one question I receive from customers is “Why combine spatial and enterprise data?” Spatial data is critical now more than ever to the Intelligent Enterprise. Customers are able to answer questions that they have never been able to before by bringing together spatial data together with enterprise data. These questions span industries and enable entirely new business models. Questions like: Who are my most profitable customers within 10 min of a new store? Where should I place the next railway node to prevent urban sprawl? What customers/assets are at risk from an incoming storm due ..read more