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On this page, you will find helpful resources on SAP Analytics Cloud business intelligence topics including:
- Getting Started
- Best Practices
- Stories
- Custom Calculations
- Data Visualizations
- Data Discovery & Exploration
- Enterprise Reporting
- Digital Boardroom
- Scheduling & Collaboration
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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).
- Webinar: Performance and Usability with the Optimized Design Experience (ODE)
- Videos: SAP Analytics Cloud Video Tutorials
- Videos: Getting Started with Creating Content
- Help: Business Content Package Implementation Guide
- Blog: Jumpstart your Analytics with Pre-built Business Content
- Blog: Advantages of an Analytic Application over Story in SAP Analytics Cloud - Part 1
- Help: Features by License Type for Analytic Models
- Webinar: Advanced Topics in SAP Analytics Cloud
- View All SAP Analytics Cloud Blogs
- View All SAP Analytics Cloud Questions
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
- Resource: color.adobe.com for Color Schemes
- Resource: flaticon.com for Free Icons in PNG, SVG, EPS, etc.
- Webinar: Improving your SAP Analytics Cloud Stories Performance and Usability
- 🆕 Online help: Use the Performance Decision Tree!
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
- Blog: Optimized Story Experience in SAP Analytics Cloud – What You Need to Know
- Blog: Experience Performance and Usability Improvements with SAP Analytics Cloud Stories
- Blog: Experience the New Optimized Design Experience in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Blog: The New Rendering Experience – Active Viewport Rendering
- Help: SAP Analytics Cloud Optimized Story Experience Help
- ❔ FAQ: FAQ on Optimized Story Experience
Filtering, Blending, and Linked Analysis
- Video: How to Filter Data in Your Stories
- 💡 Blog: Filtering Across Models: Dimension Hierarchies
- Article: Filtering Data by Time in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Video: Dynamic Date Based Filtering in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Webinar: Input Controls and Linked Analysis for Filtering and User Interactivity
- 💡 Article: Filtering Across Models: Linked Analysis Basics
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud Feature Highlight – Linked Analysis (Part 1)
- Video: Blending Datasets Part 1 – Introduction
- Video: Blending Datasets Part 2 – Calculations
- Video: Blending Datasets Part 3 – Aggregation
- Article: SAP Analytics Cloud – Blending Information Example
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud Feature Highlight – Blending – Scenario 1
- Webinar: Analysis across Models - Blending and Linked Analysis
- KBA: 2762642 - Blend between Live Models and Import Data Models
- KBA: 2975957 - How to replace a model in a story
Multilingual Support
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
- Help: Creating Calculated Dimensions
- Video: Creating Calculated Dimensions
- Blog: How to Use Measure-Based Dimensions in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Blog: New String Functions for Story Calculations
- Blog: Exploring Required Dimensions in SAP Analytics Cloud
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
- Webinar: Display geo data with Geo Maps
- Article: 6 Powerful Map Layers for Location Analytics
- Help: Creating Points of Interest
- Video: How to Visualize Your Data using Geo Maps
- Video: SAP Analytics Cloud - Discovering Insights with Geo Maps
- Video: Add Feature Layer to geo maps that leverage ArcGIS ESRI web services
- Blog: Creating a Geo Map from WebIDE (HDI) based Calculation Views
- Blog: Choropleth Layer with SAP BW Live Connection in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Blog: Using Choropleth Layers with HANA Cloud in SAP Analytics Cloud
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.
- Article: A Look at the Reporting Benefits of SAP Analytics Cloud
- Blog: Growing Tables to display Full Dataset Page-over-Page
- Blog: Repeating Report Sections for improved Reporting Experience
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