SAP Cloud Platform Series – Part 2.1 – Introduction to Cloud Analytics

SAP Cloud Platform Series – Part 2.1 – Introduction to Cloud Analytics

SAP Cloud Analytics is a one-stop-shop solution for all the business analytics needs. It’s a cloud-based application and can easily integrate with On-Premise SAP HANA, SAP BI/BW, SAP S/4 HANA sources via an industry grade secure connection. It can even connect outside of SAP like, Salesforce, CSV, SQL DB, Third party cloud and so on so forth.

Activities in SAP Cloud Analytics involve –

Define Data source and Data Models- Data Exploration

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Create User Stories – Visualization and Analysis

To create user stories, we can use predefined SAP Analytics Templates or create one from scratch.

There are three types of pages:

  1. Canvas Page: Create a pixel perfect reports for presentation
  2. Responsive Page: Create flexible dashboards that can be presented on any device
  3. Grid page: A traditional spreadsheet with tables

 

Collaboration – Sharing

Using this functionality, we can:

  1. Create Events and Tasks
  2. Share Stories with a user or a group
  3. Create discussions
  4. Provide feedback

SAP Digital Board Room – Revolutionary Meetings

It is visualization process that helps decision makers to quickly take a studied decision based on the presentations. Decision makers can visualize, recognise, decide and experiment with the power of SAP S/4 HANA with real time data.

We can:

  1. Create Agenda
  2. Invite participants
  3. Start Online Meeting
  4. Check Real time data with powerful visualization

Admin and Security

This section deals with assigning proper authorisation and privileges. In addition to that, we can

  1. Create User and Teams
  2. Assign Roles
  3. Data Changes
  4. Monitor system health
  5. Deployment Option
  6. Connections with outside entities

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