SAP unwraps Project Orca and gives it a new name

From PC World: SAP has taken the wraps off of Project Orca and given the service a new name: SAP Cloud for Analytics.

Due in the fourth quarter, the technology is built natively on SAP's Hana Cloud Platform, which has the company's Hana in-memory database at its core.

SAP will deliver the service in a scalable, multitenant environment, it said, allowing customers to unify business intelligence, planning, budgeting and predictive capabilities in a single cloud service.

The goal is to allow business users to sample, wrangle, combine and blend any data -- big or small, on-premises and in the cloud -- using an intuitive user interface. Line-of-business analysts will be able to build connected planning models, analyze data and collaborate in context to improve business performance, the company said.

"It's really the next generation of software as a service that combines multiple analytics tools in one product," said Nic Smith, senior director of marketing for analytics at SAP.

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