So why doesn’t every company embrace the opportunity to use new analytic platforms — by streaming live SAP data for real time analytics or combining it with other data sources in data lake and data warehouse platforms in the cloud? 

There’s a number of reasons that are inherent in SAP systems . They are challenging to integrate because they are structurally complex. They ‘re often comprised of tens of thousands of tables with intricate relationships as well as proprietary data formats that make data inaccessible outside of SAP applications. This complexity means that integrating data for analytics can be cumbersome, time consuming and costly.