From the course: Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 23,200 courses taught by industry experts.

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?

- [Instructor] Do you get as excited as I do about bringing life to data? Well, in a nutshell, this is what SAP Analytics Cloud is all about. And when used effectively, it can transform a business. But before we look too deeply at SAP Analytics Cloud, let's take a quick step back to understand why products like it exist in the first place. Firstly, let's talk about what business intelligence is. Business intelligence, or just BI, is the term used to describe how the information that organizations have access to can drive more conscious business decisions. It's essentially about being in the business of data. Some people refer to it as data in a concise and consumable format, so what's the difference? What does it mean? By this, we mean, what's the difference between BI and data? Okay, well, this here is an example of good old-fashioned, raw data, and there are actually hundreds of thousands of rows here that you can't see below the end of this data set. And this here is BI. Believe it…

Contents