
In recent days, SAP has announced that it has acquired Askdata, an Italian startup focused on search-driven analytics. With the acquisition of Askdata, SAP strengthens its ability to help organizations make more informed decisions by leveraging AI-powered natural language searches. Users can thus search, interact and collaborate on data in real time to maximize business insights.
Available in multiple languages, Askdata’s personalized experience connects live to original applications without moving data, while maintaining the complete business context, to proactively offer meaningful answers and insights.
“The data and analytics market is evolving significantly and it is critical to provide customers with simpler experiences that allow casual users to be able to make data-driven decisions independently,” he said. Irfan Khan, president and Chief Product Officer, SAP HANA Database & Analytics, SAP.
“The ability to satisfy a wide range of user profiles will be the main driver of data adoption e analyses. Askdata offers SAP a path to guide this transition for the benefit of our customers ”.
Askdata applies innovative artificial intelligence technology to natural language processingwhich gives users the ability to answer any data questions with a simple search.
Users they can interact with data in an easier way, without having to learn how to use a self-service analytics productand can therefore extract the maximum value from the data more quickly.
Askdata’s IP will become part of the SAP Business Technology Platform and will contribute to a next-generation lightweight analytics experience for customers of SAP Analytics Cloud solutions and line-of-business applications. SAP and Askdata have agreed not to disclose the purchase price or other financial details of the transaction.