If data is considered the gold of the 21st century, it's because it optimizes decision-making. Customer information, market trends, competition, expenditure status, …
Data provides businesses with essential insights to make informed decisions. The problem today is that data is produced in astronomical quantities. And this, continuously. The difficulty is not so much collecting data, but rather identifying the most relevant information. This is where SAP Data Intelligence Cloud comes in. Discover this solution and its features.
What is SAP Data Intelligence Cloud?
SAP Data Intelligence Cloud (or SDIC) is a comprehensive data management solution. Integrated with the SAP Business Technology Platform, SDIC transforms enormous amounts of data into relevant insights to support business growth. And this, regardless of the size or industry of the enterprise. After all, SMEs and large international groups are all subject to continuous data flows.
With the SAP Data Intelligence Cloud solution and its numerous features, companies are able to:
- Manage their data flow;
- Make more informed decisions;
- Automate time-consuming and tedious tasks.
What are the features of SDIC?
1 - Data Integration
Social networks, CRM, HRMS, accounting software, … Companies use a multitude of tools to conduct their activities. Each of them contains valuable data for the organization. But in a siloed manner.
With SAP Data Intelligence Cloud, companies can connect their entire tech stack to centralize data. The information is thus unified to support the organization’s activities. And thanks to the search system, it is much easier to access and understand data, even the most complex ones.
SDIC also allows managing data in different hybrid environments (on-premises and/or in the cloud) through a single user interface.
Good to know: In 2023, SAP was recognized as a leader in data integration solutions by the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
2 - Enterprise Data Management
Once collected and centralized, data must be made understandable to everyone. Enterprise data management helps with this. You can transform all types of data (whether structured or unstructured) into a continuous flow of relevant information for decision-making.
For this, SAP Data Intelligence Cloud provides various features:
- Data cleaning;
- Data orchestration;
- Data format standardization;
- Processing engines.
After this transformation, all employees should be able to access and, above all, understand the data.
3 - Data Catalog
The data catalog is an essential tool to efficiently organize your resources enterprise-wide. This is where your data is stored based on the needs of the employees.
With this feature of SAP Data Intelligence Cloud, you can:
- Create a glossary to standardize the vocabulary within the company. No matter the department, everyone speaks the same language;
- Classify data according to different properties (user profiles, service, priority, …);
- Anonymize data to comply with regulations.
It will also be much simpler and more accessible than before to understand the origin of the data and take advantage of it.
4 - Machine Learning
It is one of the most advanced features of SAP Data Intelligence Cloud. Thanks to machine learning, companies can optimize their organizational tasks. For example,
- automate data collection;
- improve processes;
- configure data pipelines to plan integration;
- automatically clean data according to business needs;
- set up alerts; etc.
Ultimately, Machine Learning allows you to save considerable time in managing data.
While SAP Data Intelligence Cloud simplifies data processing, mastering all stages of data management is still necessary. This is precisely possible by following the appropriate training. With Datascientest, you will learn to effectively manage all data processes on SDIC.
