SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) has the ability to load data live from your existing on-premise systems such as HANA, S/4 HANA, BW and BusinessObjects. Users can access their BI content on the move and no longer have to be on the corporate network as its all cloud based.  Using live data connection, your data is most certainly not in the cloud, it is still on your company’s internal network.  So when users decides to view their Universe based content while on the move or perhaps giving some important presentation at some offsite retreat.

Live Data Connect technology offers some strong advantages, and a lot of interest for the companies who are already using SAP Analytics Cloud along with the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite:

• It allows SAP Analytics Cloud to connect to On Premise data, exposed through universes
• It enables a LIVE access towards these data
• The data are never uploaded into the cloud: they stay behind your firewall, into your corporate network
• And you can access and re-use, as is, all your existing relational universes of type .UNV and .UNX

Your business could benefit from a hybrid model by leveraging the functional richness of BusinessObjects and the exceptional user experience provided by SAC at the same time.