Deep study
Future of Analytics 2030 — The 5-Year Long View
As of 2026-10-10
Five-year market scenarios, agentic analytics, platform convergence, workforce redesign and the consultant archetype of 2030.
What's inside
18 chapters:
- Executive summary
- Part I — The 2030 scenario model: drivers, trajectories, signposts and trigger thresholds
- Part II — Agentic AI 2026-2030: capability is solved, permission is the bottleneck
- Part III — The SAP / hyperscaler boundary: what SAP keeps, what it opens, and what each scenario pays
- Part IV — The regulatory calendar 2026-2030 as a demand clock
- Part V — Talent 2026-2030: the architect gap, re-derived, and what it does to the premium
- Part VI — Market structure 2026-2030: who delivers, who places, and who consolidates
- Part VII — Sectors and geographies 2030: where the clock is loudest
- Part VIII — The 2030 practitioner: five archetypes, one roadmap, twelve checks
- Part IX — Beyond 2030: six open questions for 2035 and 2040, with signposts and no probabilities
- Part X — Risk register and the 90-day / 12-month / 36-month plan for four readers
- Part XII — Unit economics of agentic analytics: four meters, one cost curve, one energy ceiling
- Part XIII — The EU Data Act as a switching clock: what changes in an SAP analytics exit between 2025 and 2027
- Part XIV — The adoption baseline outside SAP: what Eurostat and Destatis measure against the 2030 digital targets
- Part XV — Co-determination as a gate: German works councils, the French CSE and the AI Act's worker-information duty
- Part XVI — The freelancer's legal rail: employment-status tests in Germany and the UK as a limit on the 2030 premium
- Part XI — Methodology, sources, glossary and disclaimer
- Edition history
Study card
- Edition
- v2.1 (2026-10-10: SAP Connect 2026 absorbed in Parts II and IV — Joule Work rollout on Business Data Cloud, AI Agent Hub now generally available, consumption pricing still unpublished, Business Suite 7 maintenance dates restated)
- Audience
- CIOs and CDOs planning the 2026-2030 SAP analytics roadmap, SAP analytics consultants (employee and freelance), practice leads and firm partners, recruiters placing senior SAP data profiles
- Coverage
- 2026-2030 horizon · three scenarios with a signpost dashboard · agentic AI · the SAP / hyperscaler boundary · the regulatory calendar · talent supply and day rates · market structure · sectors and geographies · the 2030 practitioner · qualitative signposts to 2035 and 2040
- Sources cited
- 118
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