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FEATURE : ANALYTICS
How can businesses use their SAP ERP to gain more actionable insights from their existing data ?
There are many analytic services and capabilities that exist outside of SAP , so efficiently extracting SAP data and delivering it to a data lake is a great first step . analytics project too large . It ’ s advisable to start with specific use cases that can realistically be solved with analytics so that you can get a win and start using the technology . From there , you can expand your scope and overall usage across the enterprise . p
From there , adding supplemental data from other sources , automating the extractions and transformations , and making it all easily accessible to analytic services such as ML and AI in a cost-effective and elastic architecture is critical . There are many ways this can be done , but a few examples would be :
• Extracting sales history and supplementing the data with other data ( internal or external ), and leveraging ML to generate sales forecasts that are more robust than just native SAP forecasting
• Combine SAP manufacturing data , and combining with IIoT data to help predict issues with the quality of finished goods
How can SAP customers in particular leverage its tools to make data analytics less complex ?
Data analytics can be intimidating and overwhelming if you try to boil the ocean and have the scope of your

DATA ANALYTICS CAN BE INTIMIDATING AND

OVERWHELMING IF YOU TRY TO BOIL THE OCEAN .

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