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Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2024 / 3

Pages 421

Authors Abassin Sidiq

SAP Analytics Cloud

Discover the next generation of BI with this guide to SAP Analytics Cloud! Get your data into the system and see which data models to use in which situations. Next, learn about stories—how to create visualizations for them, publish them, and enhance them. With expanded information on the unified story, analytics catalog, and planning models, this fully updated edition is your one-stop shop for all your SAP Analytics Clouds needs!

Your all-in-one guide to SAP Analytics Cloud
Connect to data sources and create stories, visualizations, and dashboards
Develop planning models, predictive models, and analytical applications

You'll learn about:

Stories and Dashboards:
Walk through creating a story, from designing charts using conditional formatting and hierarchies to implementing filters and bookmarks. For more complex BI needs, learn to use scripting to build custom dashboards.
Financial Planning:
Create budgets, plans, and forecasts in SAP Analytics Cloud. Develop a planning model, inject data into it, and then enhance the model for your specific use case.
Data Integration and Configuration:
Set up SAP Analytics Cloud and connect to data sources to begin the modeling process. Whether you’ll use live data connections or get your data from an on-premise or cloud source, you’ll find the step-by-step instructions you need.

Key Highlights:

Data modeling
Stories
Visualizations
Dashboards
Financial planning
Analytics designer
Analytics catalog
SAP Digital Boardroom
SAP Analytics Hub
Data integration
Administration

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Preface
- Objective of This Book
- Target Audience
- Structure of This Book
- Additional Resources
- Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
- 1.1 What Is Analytics?
- 1.2 SAP’s Data and Analytics Strategy
  - 1.2.1 Core Pillars of SAP’s Data and Analytics Strategy
  - 1.2.2 Comparing Cloud-Based and On-Premise Solutions
  - 1.2.3 How Does SAP Datasphere Fit In?
- 1.3 Overview of SAP Analytics Cloud
  - 1.3.1 Functional Areas
  - 1.3.2 User Interface and Core Functionality
- 1.4 Architecture
- 1.5 Standalone and Embedded Versions of SAP Analytics Cloud
- 1.6 Summary
2 Data Integration
- 2.1 Data Sources Supported by SAP Analytics Cloud
  - 2.1.1 Data Sources for Live Connections
  - 2.1.2 Data Sources for Import Connections
- 2.2 Connection Types
  - 2.2.1 Live Connections
  - 2.2.2 Import Connections
  - 2.2.3 Choosing a Connection Type
- 2.3 Integration Scenarios for Live Connections
  - 2.3.1 Direct Connections via Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
  - 2.3.2 Connections via Tunnels
  - 2.3.3 Connections via Reverse Proxies
- 2.4 Integration Scenarios for Import Connections
  - 2.4.1 Connections to On-Premise Data Sources
  - 2.4.2 Import Connections to Cloud Data Sources
- 2.5 Summary
3 Navigation and Administration
- 3.1 Navigating the Home Screen and Main Menu
- 3.2 First Steps for Administrators
  - 3.2.1 Users and Single Sign-On
  - 3.2.2 Data Sources and Structures
  - 3.2.3 Operational Concept
  - 3.2.4 System Landscape
- 3.3 Administration Tools
  - 3.3.1 Security
  - 3.3.2 Transport
  - 3.3.3 System
  - 3.3.4 Administration
  - 3.3.5 Files and Folder Structure
  - 3.3.6 Content Network
  - 3.3.7 Workspace Management
- 3.4 Creating Connections
- 3.5 Summary
4 Data Modeling
- 4.1 Why Use Data Models?
- 4.2 Types of Data Models
  - 4.2.1 Datasets
  - 4.2.2 Analytical Models
  - 4.2.3 Planning Models
  - 4.2.4 Embedded Models
- 4.3 Creating Models by Importing Data
  - 4.3.1 Creating a Model
  - 4.3.2 Creating Expressions
  - 4.3.3 Executing Transformations
  - 4.3.4 Creating Hierarchies
  - 4.3.5 Creating Versions
- 4.4 Creating Models from Live Data Sources
- 4.5 Editing Models in the Modeler
  - 4.5.1 Areas of the Modeler
  - 4.5.2 Editing Models
- 4.6 Summary
5 Business Intelligence: Visualizations and Dashboards
- 5.1 What Are Stories?
- 5.2 Creating Stories
  - 5.2.1 Pages
  - 5.2.2 Classic Data Exploration and Your First Charts
  - 5.2.3 Launch a New Story
  - 5.2.4 Story Interface
- 5.3 Creating, Editing, and Formatting Charts
  - 5.3.1 Creating a New Chart
  - 5.3.2 Adding More Charts
  - 5.3.3 Conditional Formatting
  - 5.3.4 Showing Variances
  - 5.3.5 Other Chart Functionalities
  - 5.3.6 Defining Colors
  - 5.3.7 Formatting Charts
  - 5.3.8 Hierarchies
- 5.4 Creating, Editing, and Formatting Tables
- 5.5 Geo Maps
- 5.6 Texts, RSS Readers, and Other Elements
- 5.7 How Viewers Interact with Stories
  - 5.7.1 Filters
  - 5.7.2 Dimension and Measure Input Controls
  - 5.7.3 Chart Interactions
- 5.8 Calculations
  - 5.8.1 Calculated Accounts
  - 5.8.2 Calculated Dimensions
- 5.9 Story Design
- 5.10 Sharing and Publishing Stories
  - 5.10.1 Sharing, Exporting, and Publishing Stories
  - 5.10.2 Publishing to Mobile Devices
- 5.11 Additional Story Functionalities
  - 5.11.1 Creating an Embedded Model within a Story
  - 5.11.2 Story Templates
  - 5.11.3 Blending
  - 5.11.4 Comments
  - 5.11.5 Bookmarks
- 5.12 Optimized Story View Mode
- 5.13 Summary
6 Planning
- 6.1 Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud
  - 6.1.1 Data Entry and Version Management
  - 6.1.2 Planning within Stories
  - 6.1.3 Planning Tools
- 6.2 Creating and Setting Up a Planning Model
  - 6.2.1 Creating a Currency Conversion Table
  - 6.2.2 Creating a Master Data Model
  - 6.2.3 Uploading Transactional Data to the Model
  - 6.2.4 Setting Up a Planning Model
- 6.3 Planning-Specific Functionality
  - 6.3.1 Versions and Data Entry
  - 6.3.2 Distributing Values
  - 6.3.3 Allocations
  - 6.3.4 Grid Pages
  - 6.3.5 Value Driver Tree
  - 6.3.6 Data Actions
  - 6.3.7 Calendar
- 6.4 Summary
7 Predictive Analytics
- 7.1 What Is Predictive Analytics?
- 7.2 Smart Assist
  - 7.2.1 Smart Discovery
  - 7.2.2 Smart Insights
  - 7.2.3 Search to Insight
  - 7.2.4 R Visualizations
  - 7.2.5 Automatic Forecasts for Time Series
  - 7.2.6 Smart Grouping
- 7.3 Smart Predict: Predictive Scenarios
  - 7.3.1 Time Series
  - 7.3.2 Regressions and Classifications
- 7.4 Summary
8 Advanced Development Environment
- 8.1 The History of Stories and Applications
- 8.2 Creating Applications
  - 8.2.1 Development Environment
  - 8.2.2 Creating New Application Elements
- 8.3 Custom Widgets
- 8.4 Summary
9 SAP Digital Boardroom
- 9.1 What Is SAP Digital Boardroom?
- 9.2 Creating Boardrooms
  - 9.2.1 Boardroom Types
  - 9.2.2 Using Charts in a Boardroom
  - 9.2.3 Creating an Agenda
  - 9.2.4 Creating a Dashboard
- 9.3 Hardware Recommendations
- 9.4 Summary
10 SAP Analytics Hub and the Analytics Catalog for SAP Analytics Cloud
- 10.1 What Is SAP Analytics Hub?
- 10.2 Setup and Content Creation
  - 10.2.1 SAP Analytics Hub Cockpit
  - 10.2.2 Edit Mode and Content Management
- 10.3 Analytics Catalog
  - 10.3.1 Adding Content to the Analytics Catalog
  - 10.3.2 Browsing the Analytics Catalog
- 10.4 Summary
The Author
Index

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