Summary: Bridging SAP Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Organizations are generating more data than ever, but turning that data into clear, actionable insights remains a challenge. SAP’s ecosystem offers powerful tools—SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, BW/4HANA, and traditional reporting systems—but most enterprises struggle to unify these capabilities into a single, scalable reporting strategy.

This white paper explores how businesses can bridge SAP Cloud Analytics with their existing reporting frameworks to create a seamless, modern, and future-ready analytics landscape.

It outlines the core barriers—disparate data sources, inconsistent reporting standards, legacy tools, slow performance, and limited self-service access—and offers a strategic blueprint for solving them. The paper details how SAP Analytics Cloud acts as the central reporting layer, enabling real-time insights, predictive capabilities, self-service dashboards, and enterprise-wide data governance.

Readers will learn a step-by-step approach for integrating SAC with SAP S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, and other data environments. The paper also covers best practices for data modelling, security design, performance optimization, and transitioning from legacy reports (BEx, Lumira, BO WebI) to SAC-based analytics.

By bridging SAP Cloud Analytics and traditional reporting systems, organizations unlock unified decision-making, improved reporting reliability, reduced IT dependency, and a scalable analytics foundation aligned with SAP’s cloud-first roadmap.