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SAP Analytics Cloud vs. Power BI on SAP data: the licensing-and-latency math most decks skip

October 13, 2026July 17, 2026 by IOTEK Insights

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 rollout survives contact with 3,000 users: what it costs when a non-SAP tool reads SAP data, and how long people will wait for a chart to render.

BW/4HANA’s dead end: planning the Datasphere exit before 2027 decides for you

October 13, 2026July 17, 2026 by IOTEK Insights

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.

Datasphere or Databricks? The data-layer decision hiding inside your S/4HANA move

October 13, 2026July 17, 2026 by IOTEK Insights

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 — and getting the boundary wrong is how you spend 2027 re-platforming the thing you just built.