Introducing SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud is an end-to-end cloud solution that brings together business intelligence, augmented analytics, and enterprise planning in a single system. As a cloud-based system, you can perform all these tasks from anywhere, on any device. SAP Analytics Cloud provides the analytics foundation for the SAP's Business Technology Platform.

Business Intelligence

Empower business users to safely and securely work with governed data and create interactive stories and dashboards. Uncover and deliver actionable insights across the enterprise with intuitive self-service analytics.

Augmented Analytics

Automatically receive strategic insights with SAP Analytics Cloud's embedded artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology, allowing you to go from insight to action in a fraction of the time. Avoid agenda-driven decision making by unveiling the true story of what is driving your business.

Enterprise Planning

Make end-to-end decisions with confidence in one single workflow, from planning to insights. Drive better business outcomes and gain full alignment across all business areas with extended planning and analysis in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Enterprise Platform Services

Gain a holistic view of your business in seconds with a seamless blending of multiple data sources. Live connections to both cloud and on-premise data sources eliminate silos and streamline secured access to information. This enables end-to-end analytics for the intelligent enterprise.

While there are many terms unique to SAP Analytics Cloud, here are a few that you will encounter regularly, both in this course and in your day-to-day activities with SAP Analytics Cloud.

Canvas page

A canvas page is a blank canvas allowing you to add any story elements anywhere on the page. The page is a fixed height and width, no matter what device, or size of device, is being used to view the story.

Connection

A connection is fundamental to communicating between SAP Analytics Cloud and a specific data source. System administrators create connections to the specific data sources for your stories and analytic applications.

Data Analyzer

Data analyzer is a predefined ready-to-run application for Live SAP BW queries, Live SAP HANA views, SAP Datasphere models, and SAP Analytics Cloud models for ad-hoc analysis. Data analyzer is limited to a tabular view or very basic charts of the data, but there is a filter area and a builder panel with navigation capabilities to add and remove dimensions and measures to and from the table and create calculated measures. In addition, a menu bar gives you a Refresh option and an Edit Prompts dialog, in case your data source is designed for setting prompts.

Digital Boardroom

Digital Boardroom is a place to design an interactive boardroom presentation with access to real-time data, allowing you to make fact-based decisions to drive your business. In addition to exploring directly on live data to discover relationships and drill into details, you can plan and simulate the effects of different assumptions and actions visually using value-driver trees.

Model

A model is a representation of specific business data of an organization or business segment. A model is the basis for stories and analytic applications.

Planning

Planning in general is all about setting strategic goals and then determining how to meet those goals by creating budgets, tracking progress in forecasts, and simulating scenarios to find new opportunities. Planning functionality within SAP Analytics Cloud enables you to perform all these activities in one simple interface.

Responsive page

A responsive page is a story page that will adjust the size and location of the elements on the page depending on the device, or size of device, being used to view the story.

Story

A story lets you explore data interactively to find insights, visualize information with charts and tables, and share, present, and comment on your findings with colleagues. It can be either dynamic, with many interactive elements, or very static, with little to no interaction capabilities.

Widget

Widget is a generic term that refers to any element added to a story or analytic application. A chart or table is a widget, as is a text box or image. There are many widgets available to add to stories.