Some of the richest business context in the enterprise is locked inside SAP: what a field means, which tables a process depends on, how a KPI is modeled, and which reports the business relies on. With the SAP AnalyticsCloud connector now in Public Preview, Atlan’s library of Business Data Cloud and SAP connectors brings that context into Atlan’s context layer, from the systems where data originates to the stories where business decisions are made.

Context from source to story

Atlan now follows SAP data across every layer of SAP Business Data Cloud:

• SAP S/4HANA: Catalog the business applications where operational data originates, including tables,CDS views, and Fiori apps. Optionally build a business glossary from SAP F1 field help.
• SAP BW/4HANA: See how data is modeled and transformed in your enterprise data warehouse, fromDataSources through ADSOs and CompositeProviders to Queries.
• SAP Datasphere: Trace data replicated from SAP S/4HANA into SAP Datasphere spaces, and through the views and analytic models built on it.
• SAP Analytics Cloud (new): Follow data all the way up to the analytic models and stories business users read. Atlan links SAP Analytics Cloud Live models to the SAP Datasphere analytic models they read from.

The result is one connected view of how SAP data comes in, how it’s transformed, and where it’s consumed, alongside the rest of your data estate in Atlan.

What the context layer unlocks

• Ground AI in SAP business meaning. Give AI agents and assistants governed SAP context (definitions, models, lineage) through Atlan so their answers reflect how your business actually works.
• Impact analysis before changes ship. See which SAP Datasphere analytic models, SAP Analytics Cloud models, and stories depend on an upstream asset before you change it.
• Trusted reporting. Trace a number in an SAP Analytics Cloud story back through SAP Datasphere to its source in SAP S/4HANA, so analysts know where it came from.
• Shared business language. Connect SAP field definitions and glossary terms to the assets that use them, across SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Governance across the landscape. Apply ownership, classification, and policies consistently to SAP assets and the downstream analytics built on them.

What’s new in SAP Analytics Cloud

• Assets: folders, stories, Import and Live models, and columns for Import models (dimensions, measures, attributes, and hierarchy levels).
• Lineage: model to story, story to story (composite stories), planning story to model (write-back), and SAP Datasphere analytic model to Live model.
• Live connection details: connection name, type, system type, host, port, and protocol, recorded on eachLive model.
• Folder filters to control which content Atlan catalogs.
• Authentication: OAuth 2.0 client credentials, using an OAuth client created in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Each connector also works on its own. You don’t need SAP Business Data Cloud, or every SAP connector, to start cataloging SAP Analytics Cloud.

Get started: SAP Analytics Cloud docs