{"id":12481,"date":"2015-12-15T16:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2015-12-15T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:24:56","slug":"asksap-community-call-sap-cloud-for-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/asksap-community-call-sap-cloud-for-analytics.html","title":{"rendered":"#AskSAP Community Call: SAP Cloud for Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I had\u00a0the honor of moderating the latest #AskSAP Community Call covering one of SAP&#8217;s newest and most exciting products: <a href=\"http:\/\/sapcloudanalytics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SAP Cloud for Analytics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was joined by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gerritkazmaier\">Gerrit Simon Kazmaier<\/a>, Vice President and Head of Engineering, SAP Cloud for Analytics, SAP and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ivobauermann\">Ivo Bauermann<\/a>, Global Vice President EPM and Finance Solutions, SAP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/speakers-for-cloud-for-analytics1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7596\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/speakers-for-cloud-for-analytics1.jpg?resize=1390%2C660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"speakers for cloud for analytics\" width=\"1390\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The call was in roughly three sections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During the initial introduction, I tried to be direct as possible, asking\u00a0the top questions I&#8217;ve heard from customers, including &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t SAP just have extended existing products to the cloud?&#8221; and &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t it free for customers with maintenance?&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Gerrit did a long live demo of the solution, giving some glimpses of the impressive breadth of the new solution that combines many features that were <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/reinventing-the-analytics-experience-sideways.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously restricted to separate products<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ivo and Gerrit then took questions from the audience on a wide variety of different topics, including language support, pricing and packaging, addressing security concerns and cloud server locations, etc. etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SAP\u00a0Mentor and ASUG volunteer Tammy Powlas did an excellent job, as usual, of noting down the <a href=\"https:\/\/scn.sap.com\/community\/cloud-for-analytics\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/social-media-review-asksap-call-asksap-analytics-innovations-community-call-sap-cloud-for-analytics\" target=\"_blank\">key highlights of the call<\/a>, and the whole call is available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/event.on24.com\/eventRegistration\/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&amp;partnerref=internal&amp;eventid=1088391&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=664FCF81F8E437D6D116D12D586BD29A&amp;regTag=&amp;sourcepage=register\" target=\"_blank\">recording<\/a> &#8212; 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