SAP Analytics Cloud uses the SAP HANA platform directly and represents its own BI platform. This means that SAP now has an end-to-end BI offering on a single technological platform. Modelling, analysis, planning, augmented analytics, predictive, collaboration, etc. all run on this platform.
Customers are no longer forced to use different technologies and platforms. Even for Excel-like analysis and planning applications, Microsoft tools are no longer required as SAP has “simply” programmed the necessary tools itself.
No need any more for the “tool zoo” that is otherwise so common in the BI world. All components are made available in the same technology and can be accessed via the browser, and from mobile devices too.