Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, by a query manager service (QMS) executed within a first data center, a query definition provided from a browser of an analytics platform executed within a second data center, providing, by the QMS, a calculation scenario as an object model based on the query definition, executing, by a calculation engine within the first data center, the calculation scenario to provide an analytical artifact including a query-level calculation view on transactional data stored in the first data center, and transmitting, by the first data center, the analytical artifact to the second data center to perform analytics on at least a portion of the transactional data stored in the first data center.