SAP Analytics Cloud, 3rd Edition

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 Cloud 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

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.

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