Data & analytics
Expert articles from IOTEK’s practice and team of experts in this category. Click any card to read the full article.
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SAP Analytics Cloud vs. Power BI on SAP data: the licensing-and-latency math most decks skip
Every SAP BI bake-off ends the same way — a feature matrix, a “Gartner says,” and a recommendation that ignores the two variables that actually decide whether the…
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BW/4HANA’s dead end: planning the Datasphere exit before 2027 decides for you
If your BW/4HANA roadmap still says “we’re fine until 2040,” you’ve mixed up two different clocks — and only one of them is actually yours to set.
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Datasphere or Databricks? The data-layer decision hiding inside your S/4HANA move
Every RISE or GROW business case buries a second, unpriced decision: where governed meaning ends and open-ended data science begins. In February 2025, SAP quietly changed the answer…
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SAP Analytics Cloud and Datasphere: turning SAP data into decisions leadership can act on
Most SAP estates generate far more data than leadership can act on. The gap is the analytics layer. SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere are designed to close…
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SAP IBP: replacing spreadsheet-based S&OP with an integrated planning engine
Most organizations run S&OP on spreadsheets extracted from SAP. SAP IBP replaces this cycle with a purpose-built planning engine connected directly to S/4HANA transactional data — with demand…