Stories, Reporting, and Data Exploration

Stories, reports, and data exploration all help your data come to life so you can make important data-backed decisions. Find helpful information and resources such as best practices, videos, learning assets, and more on this page.

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On this page, you will find helpful resources on SAP Analytics Cloud business intelligence topics including:

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Getting Started

SAP Analytics Cloud delivers self-service and enterprise business intelligence capabilities to diverse users across all decision types (strategic, operational, and tactical).

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Best Practices

Webinar: Best Practices for Designing Your SAP Analytics Cloud Stories
Blog: Best Practice Dashboarding with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
Blog: 5 Design Tips to Make Your SAP Analytics Cloud Dashboard Compelling
Blog: Best Practices for Performance
Blog: Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Story Performance in SAP Analytics Cloud Webcast Summary
Blog: New Optimized Design Mode for Stories
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Webinar: Improving your SAP Analytics Cloud Stories Performance and Usability
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Stories

In SAP Analytics Cloud, a Story is where you bring data and visualizations together to tell the story of your business or organization and help you discover insights hidden within your data. A story can also be referred to as a dashboard

Story Design

Tutorial: Create your first Story
Video: What is an SAP Analytics Cloud Story?
Webinar: Getting Started with Stories in SAP Analytics Cloud
Video: How to Navigate and Personalize Stories
Webinar: Explore how you can use SAP Analytics Cloud for creating effective visualizations and dashboards
Blog: Story Templates in SAP Analytics Cloud
Blog: Part 1: How to Create Dynamic Images in SAP Analytics Cloud Story
Webinar: Story Design with Responsive, Canvas, Themes, and Styling
Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud Table In-cell Chart Options
Article: Changing Models in Story – Replace Acquired Models with New Compatible Acquired Model
Webinar: Take Your Stories to New Heights with SAP Analytics Cloud
Blog: Embed 3rd party Stock Widget using SAP Analytics Cloud Web Page Component
Help: SAP Analytics Cloud Story Help
KBA: 2651014 - Common errors with charts / tables in SAP Analytics Cloud *** Troubleshooting KBA ***

Optimized Story Experience

Filtering, Blending, and Linked Analysis

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Custom Calculations

Getting Started with Calculations

Article: Working with Formulas in SAP Analytics Cloud
Help: All Formulas and Calculations
Webinar: Get More Out of Your Data with Calculations and Time Analysis

In-Story Calculated Measures

Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud In-story Calculation Series – An Introduction & Use Cases
💡 Wiki: Calculation Editor: Common Business KPIs and Scenarios
Video: How to Create Calculations Across Multiple Accounts - Cross Calculations
Article: Creating Cross Calculations in a Table
Article: Enhance your Analysis with Restricted Measures
Blog: Feature Highlight: Restricted Measures with Constant Selection
Use Case: Show the restricted values of all account members in different granularities of time
Video: How to find the Order with the maximum value
Blog: 4 Ways to calculate an accumulative sum in SAP Analytics Cloud
Use Case: Creating a Dynamic % Share of Total
Use Case: Simulate quantity sold under different discounts
Use Case: Group customers by the average time-to-delivery
Use Case: Count Pass/Fail results and calculate the pass rate
Use Case: Create a Sales Channel dimension based on the Order ID dimension

In-Story Calculated Dimensions

Time-Based Calculations

Blog: MTD, YTD, YTG (YearToGo) Calculations
Use Case: Compare YTD sales with previous YTD sales
Use Case: Calculate the change of order amount between 2 years
Video: Create “Difference From” Calculation
Blog: Date Calculations in SAP Analytics Cloud using Custom Date
Use Case: Calculate Time-to-Delivery

Data Visualizations

Charts & Tables

PDF: SAP Analytics Cloud Data Visualization Guidebook
Article: Advanced Charting Features in SAP Analytics Cloud
Blog: Data Visualization Best Practices for SAP Analytics Cloud
Video: Visualization Standards: SAP Analytics Cloud Is IBCS Certified
Video: How to Create Stories and Visualize Data
Video: How to Visualize Your Data Using Charts
Video: How to Visualize Your Data using Tables and Grid Pages
Webinar: Visualize Data with SAP Analytics Cloud
Video: Create a new Value Driver Tree Widget
Blog: Value Driver Tree Widget for Analytical Models

Geospatial

R-Visualizations

Article: R Packages for SAP Analytics Cloud
Video: Creating an R Visualization
Blog: R Visualization in SAP Analytics Cloud
💡 Article: Hands-On Tutorial SAP Analytics Cloud, R Visualization
💡 Blog: Using R Visualizations within SAP Analytics Cloud
Use Case: R Visualization for Conditional Trend Indicator Arrows
Use Case: Visualizing Processes in SAP Analytics Cloud Using Funnel Chart
Use Case: Complex R Visualization to Display Energy Usage
Use Case: Dynamic Indicator Arrows in SAP Analytics Cloud using R Visualization
Use Case: Conditional Shapes & Symbols Using R Visualization
Blog: Gauge Chart on SAC Using R Visualization
Help: Using R in SAP Analytics Cloud

Data Discovery & Exploration

Video: How to Explore Data in Stories
Video: Exploring Data in SAP Analytics Cloud
Blog: Enhance your Stories with Data Explorer
Blog: Answer business questions with the Story Explorer View
Webinar: Search and Data Exploration with SAP Analytics Cloud
Blog: What-If Analysis in SAP Analytics Cloud
💡 Blog: Creating the Ultimate What-If Analysis
Blog: Data Analyzer – Ad Hoc Query Analysis for BW Queries with SAP Analytics Cloud
Blog: Analytics Designer: Save an Insight in Data Analyzer

Enterprise Reporting

A Story can be designed as a dashboard or as a report. Here are some resources that will help you better understand how to create reports for your business with SAP Analytics Cloud.

Latest Features

Digital Boardroom

Provide a single source of truth to decision makers about the most important business metrics in real time. SAP Digital Boardroom tells the story behind data while transforming board meetings into immersive and customized experiences.

Video: How to Create and Navigate Digital Boardroom Presentations
Video: Create Digital Boardroom Dashboard
Video: SAP HR Runs Live with SAP Digital Boardroom
Webinar: Deep Dive - Enable your Executives with Digital Boardroom
Blog: Top 10 Lessons From Building a Digital Boardroom
Blog: Top Tips & Tricks For Better Boardroom Performance
Blog: SAC Part 1 – Digital Boardroom
Help: Setting up Displays for Digital Boardroom

Scheduling & Collaboration

Article: Collaboration in SAP Analytics Cloud
Blog: Schedule Content based on Live HANA Connection
💡 Blog: Collaborating, Sharing, and Setting Permissions in SAP Analytics Cloud
💡 Blog: Schedule and Share Your Stories for Offline Consumption
Video: Schedule a Story
Video: Scheduling your Story with Bookmarks
Video: Collaborate Using Discussions
Webinar: Make Collaboration Easy with SAP Analytics Cloud
Webinar: Get Smart with Augmented Analytics and Collaboration

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