How Capgemini can help you on our journey to modern BI with SAP Analytics Cloud. 

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is SAP’s next-generation, AI-ready business intelligence (BI) solution – a one-stop-shop for analysis, reporting, and planning. It’s a big platform, and it can be daunting to see its scale, breadth, and functionality compared to a legacy analytics suite such as SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ). Fortunately, Capgemini has built up a depth of experience in helping clients transition from their on-premises BI systems to take full advantage of SAP Analytics Cloud.

SAC is at the forefront of SAP’s analytics development and is built around modern, clean analytics with intuitive usage. BusinessObjects is not going anywhere soon, however SAP is investing limited innovation into it, and it will move further away from the cutting edge as the years wear on. 

Wedded to this, the expenditure on ‘keeping the lights on’ with BOBJ – upgrades, patches, hardware – could be better invested in SAC’s scalable subscription model. Capgemini’s estimator tools and usage analysis can help you identify savings and put your analytics budget where it’s most valuable, without overspending on unused memory, storage and licenses. 

Capgemini’s ‘innovative not migrate’ approach. 

In line with our ‘innovate not migrate’ approach, Capgemini can support your transition by helping redesign reporting processes to take advantage of SAC’s user experience, where accessibility and ease-of-use is fundamental. We can also identify areas where SAC’s innovative features can be integrated into operations. Reporting is taken from descriptive in BusinessObjects to predictive and prescriptive in SAC using automated machine learning predictions, generative AI (GenAI) insights via the Joule copilot, and natural language interrogation of data via JustAsk.  

Similarly, Capgemini can advise on using SAP’s Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) solution in conjunction with smart predictions and automation of recurrent tasks to take hassle and guesswork out of planning, budgeting and forecasting. SAC is AI-ready and planning-ready from the get-go. 

SAP, SAC, and security.

The term ‘cloud’ is an amorphous word, and it can be worrisome in a world with security concerns. SAC is offered on a secure public cloud in datacentres across the globe, but SAP also provides private and sovereign, in-country cloud options for clients with deeper security needs, such as public sector, defence and financial services customers. For customers with a lengthier SAP stack, such as those running S/4 Cloud, Datasphere or other elements of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), this security runs throughout. Capgemini’s analytics analysis will tease out security and data access concerns and build them into the SAC landscape, ensuring compliance and helping to design a tailored, secure architecture. 

We can deliver value quickly and consistently.

Of course, SAC also offers traditional reporting to replace (but not replicate) your existing setup. SAC reporting functionality is not like-for-like with BusinessObjects tools such as Webi and Lumira, and it’s here where we will help you plan and execute your transition.  

Our tried-and-tested pathway from legacy to SAC offers a multi-stage approach with value delivered quickly and consistently, starting with full analysis and assessment of your existing landscape to identify a personalised, costed transition, test and delivery phase, with futureproofing and enhanced development in mind.

A key constituent of this customised transition pathway is the innovation strategy – quickly using SAC’s accelerators and new features to their full extent, beyond simply moving existing reporting to a new platform. This is not a like-for-like migration – there is no lift-and-shift. This is repositioning your BI future whilst maintaining existing coverage of key reporting processes and operations by analysing their requirements, rather than just rebuilding what is there. We offer deep analysis of what is key and what is obsolete, allowing you to slim down your legacy reporting and concentrate on reporting and analysis that truly drives value for the business. 

SAC has a vast array of business content – prebuilt models and reports designed to work out of the box – and these can be instantly deployed for usage or customisation. If you are utilising the BTP, such as HANA Cloud or Datasphere, this content integrates seamlessly. Capgemini too offers pre-built line-of-business content to simplify deployment and shift processes to the SAC way. Using this content can accelerate take-up beyond the initial user base and truly democratise data, as SAC becomes the single source of reporting across the team, department or business.  

Working with leaders in your business, Capgemini can drive adoption and help to embed SAC into your processes. As well as analysing the reporting technology, we will also analyse the reporting user base, identifying SMEs, leaders and evangelists and building an adoption approach that brings these key people with us from the start, ensuring SAC works for your teams’ specific purposes.  

Capgemini and SAP. 

Capgemini has been a strategic partner of SAP for over 30 years and in that time, we have developed a deep expertise and respected Centre of Excellence. This expertise has had the benefit of hundreds of projects with clients in a wide variety of industries across the globe and of a huge variety of sizes and shapes. Over the years, we have used our delivery experience to develop a range of Accelerators, designed to speed up and reduce the cost of implementing SAC.  

Facets of this include: 

• BOBJ-based Discovery Reports – using BOBJ to analyse BOBJ, with prebuilt reports directing your focus. 
• The iCap Analysis toolset – metadata extraction from BOBJ to provide deep understanding of the as-is. 
• T-shirt sizing – estimator tools to allow rapid business case build. 
• Rapid Scenario Planning – preconfigured planning scenarios and artefacts built using Capgemini’s experience. 
• Datasphere Autobuild Tools – rapid deployment of data warehousing, security, modelling, and documentation in SAP Datasphere. 
• Our SAC Development Template – a prebuilt development template which can be quickly branded for click-and-go story build. 

It’s all this experience that goes into our Analytics Assessment. We will provide a personalised migration plan from BusinessObjects to SAC, which includes analysis of your existing setup, SAC options, and programme estimates. We’ll provide you with a roadmap to SAC, broadening your understanding, laying out any gaps and allowing you to go forward into cloud analytics with confidence.

Get in touch. 

Speak to us today to start your Analytics Assessment and take your first step into innovative, state-of-the-art business intelligence, planning and analytics with SAP Analytics Cloud and Capgemini.