SAP unveils SaaS analytics platform

SAP is aiming to redefine analytics with a new software as a service (SaaS) offering that rolls up business intelligence (BI), planning and predictive analytics into a single service built on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform."Really it's about simplifying access to a public cloud analytics experience that customers can trust," says Nic Smith, senior director of Marketing for Analytics at SAP.SAP plans to embed SAP Cloud for Analytics with existing SAP solutions that can connect to cloud as well on-pr