Salt Analytics now SAP Partner
Roughly 8 months ago, Matthew Elms, Guy Biscoe and I joined forces and embarked on a new entrepreneurial adventure – Salt Analytics!
Since inception, we have seen great progress. The highlight of which is the team of exceptional people that have joined us to help build Salt. Another key milestone is achieving operational status as an SAP Partner for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) in February this year.
Analytics are in our DNA
Salt’s founders built their careers developing enterprise analytics solutions on platforms such as SAP BW, SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP HANA. With 54-years of shared knowledge and experience between just the founders, Salt is firmly built on our collective SAP Analytics expertise. You could say we are veterans in the analytics business.
We will continue to focus on SAP Analytics, but the tools of our trade are changing dramatically and within the next few years our cornerstone platform (SAP BW) will reach end of maintenance.
Fortunately, its younger brother BW/4 HANA has plenty of life left and the latest addition to the family, SAP DataSphere (formerly DWC – Data Warehouse Cloud), is a mere infant.
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is making great strides and is becoming a compelling offering. This is not only because of its excellent integration with SAP S/4 HANA and other SAP applications, but also because of the breadth of its features.
Those who discounted SAC based on earlier assessments will do well to give it another look. The product continues to be improved and extended at a rapid pace. SAC is being embedded in many of SAP’s other flagship applications not least of which SAP S/4 HANA.
So, from Salt’s point of view, the SAP Analytics portfolio holds great promise. We believe SAP customers will benefit greatly from adopting these tools.
Playing with the other kids
The enterprise analytics playground is crowded, and the days of a one-size-fits-all architecture are long gone. Most SAP customers are likely to have other analytics tools in their landscape / sandpit, even if they have also implemented the SAP solutions mentioned before.
Deciding how best to combine these solutions to get the most out of the data in SAP applications can be a tricky business. Deciphering SAP’s table structures or data models can be challenging. Particularly for service providers that focus on the non-SAP analytics tools and do not have the depth of understanding and experience with SAP that is required.
Where customers need to expose data from their SAP landscape to non-SAP tools, we can help. We know SAP. We know SAP data. And we know how to make SAP play nicely with the other kids on the playground.