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Revolutionize Your Insights: How SAP Joule AI Supercharges SAP Analytics Cloud Data

Revolutionize Your Insights: How SAP Joule AI Supercharges SAP Analytics Cloud Data

Have you ever wished you could simply ask your enterprise data questions and receive immediate, insightful answers? The wait is over! SAP is excited to announce the upcoming integration of SAP Analytics Cloud’s analytical capabilities into Joule, SAP AI-powered conversational interface.

This integration promises to transform how business users interact with their data, making it more accessible and actionable than ever before.

What is Analytical Insights in SAP Joule?

Joule, which can be enabled in various SAP applications such as SAP SuccessFactors and SAP S/4HANA, will now feature analytical capabilities powered by SAP Analytics Cloud.

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This integration allows business users to explore data and gain insights through a natural, conversational experience.

Using familiar business terms, you can simply ask a question and Joule will instantly provide answers in the form of charts and metrics.

This is made possible by Joule’s multi-model architecture, which builds on the strengths of the Just Ask technology in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Joule acts as a single integration layer across the enterprise, connecting with both operational and analytical systems.

Key Benefits of the Integration

Conversational Analytics

Forget about complex data analysis tools. With Joule, you can interact with your data using natural language queries. Simply ask questions using familiar terms and receive answers in charts and metrics.

Seamless Integration

Access analytical insights directly within the SAP applications you’re already using. There’s no need to switch between applications, which reduces friction and saves time. You don’t have to sign in to SAP Analytics Cloud to get analytical insights, instead, you can get them from the context of your business application.

Powered by Just Ask

The analytical functionality is powered by the “Just Ask” feature of SAP Analytics Cloud. Data models indexed by “Just Ask” are what Joule uses.

Time and Efficiency Savings

The integration can cut the steps required to get analytical insights by up to 80%. This isn’t just about saving time, it’s about empowering your team to make data-driven decisions quickly.

Contextualisation

Get context-rich insights by combining both operational and analytical data within one platform. This will enable your team to make more informed decisions, faster.

Accessibility

Get insights anywhere via Joule instead of using dashboards in SAP Analytics Cloud Enterprise license. This means specifically tailored insights, easy to digest analytical information in the context of SAP applications used by your organisation.

How does it work?

Joule works with data from models indexed by the Just Ask feature of SAP Analytics Cloud.

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The administrator for Just Ask in SAP Analytics Cloud determines which models and data are available to Joule. Joule translates natural language queries into real-time insights from SAP Analytics Cloud, with a deep integration with JustAsk. You can then have a conversation with your data until it gives you the insights you require.

Important Details and Restrictions

Controlled Release: The controlled release is planned for Q1 2025. You must be a customer of both SAP Analytics Cloud and a Joule-enabled SAP cloud application, both running on the SAP BTP Cloud Foundry environment to participate.

General Availability: General availability is planned for the Q2 2025 quarterly release. This will only be available for SAP Analytics Cloud tenants running on SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environments.

Initial Restrictions:

  • Only acquired (imported) data models are supported initially. Live data models will be implemented in the future.
  • Analytical insights are delivered as metrics and charts.
  • The Joule client interface is supported in U.S. English only for the controlled release.
  • Supported browsers are Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
  • Joule cannot yet be enabled directly in SAP Analytics Cloud in this initial release.
  • User Access: Users need a valid account in SAP Analytics Cloud to access the analytical capabilities.
  • Data Control: The data available through Joule is determined by the administrator of the Just Ask feature within SAP Analytics Cloud.

Conclusion

The integration of SAP Analytics Cloud with Joule marks a significant step towards making data more accessible and actionable. By enabling conversational analytics within familiar applications, SAP aims to empower every employee to make faster, more informed decisions.

While the initial release has some limitations, these are planned to be addressed in subsequent updates, further enhancing the capabilities of this powerful integration.

This integration has the potential to transform how business users interact with their data, moving away from traditional dashboard-based analysis to a natural language based interaction.

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