In this lesson, the general out-of-the-box capabilities of Cloud ALM for Reporting and Analytics are discussed. Therefore, two overview apps are available:
- The Project Overview.
- The Analytics Overview.
The Project Overview
The overview page provides a high-level overview of progress in different areas. It acts like a health check monitor for project and at the same time it provides connectivity to other applications for a faster drill down. Each card on overview page represent a specific topic and displays set of relevant information
You get an overview of your scenarios, processes, tasks, and test cases. You can use the quick links to navigate to relevant applications and related information.
In the Overview app, you can get an overview of scenarios, processes, tasks, and test cases for your projects, navigate to other apps, and view important KPIs.
In detail, the following options are available:
- View important KPIs for your projects.
- Navigate to other apps.
- Navigate to prefiltered lists in other apps.
- Get an overview of your project.
The figure illustrates the Project Overview page and a detailed Analytical page.
- The Overview Page provides:
- Birds eye view of current situation.
- High level tracking and monitoring of different objects.
- Overview of scenarios, processes, tasks, and test cases.
- Quick links to navigate to relevant applications and related information.
- Focused on what you need to act on.
- Detailed Analytical Pages
- Deeper drill down capability.
- Transparency, traceability, and retrospectives.
- Historical reporting: Trends and patterns.
The Analytics Overview
The second app is the Analytics Overview app.
The Analytics Overview is a container for detailed analytical standalone pages, which help you with a deeper drill down into complex details. Here you will find ready to use progress reports, historical charts, and traceability matrices.
The app provides:
- Overview of scenarios, processes, tasks, and test cases.
- Quick links to navigate to relevant applications and related information.
SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation offers multiple options to cover diverse monitoring and reporting needs of different roles and team members. The integrated analytics functionality arches over project management, task management, process management, change and deploy management, and test management applications. Each application sends change events to the Analytical framework, which processes those events and turns them into meaningful information and insights in the form of dashboards and reports.
The following slides show some examples. Please use the explanations on the slide for further information:
For a hands-on experience, please utilize the SAP Cloud ALM Demo Tenant with provided data without any costs.
