In early 2017, BusinessObjects Cloud will connect to public machine learning services and offer live connections to S/4HANA and SAP BW. Data connectors to SAP's Fieldglass and SuccessFactors ...

The SAP BW connection ... reducing unnecessary data pulls. • SAC can leverage the replicated S/4HANA data for aggregation, filtering and merging without impacting the source system.

SAP being the major source of data, SAP BW was the obvious choice for analytics, SAP Enterprise Portal (EP) for the interface, and SAP BusinessObjects (BO) for other presentation options.

Molson Coors found the transition to SAP HANA for BW relatively easy while predicting 50% savings ... or would they simply ramp their investments in alternative databases as data requirements grow.