Designing Dashboards With Sap Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud is overflowing with visualization options. Charts, tables, drilldowns, geomaps--if you can dream it, you can design and build it. Learn how to create a dashboard for any use case, from acquired data dashboards and responsive mobile dashboards to HR dashboards using SAP SuccessFactors data. Follow step-by-step instructions to structure your data, choose the relevant features, and then implement them. Contains custom-designed dashboards for each chapter! Highlights include: 1) Dashboard design 2) Live data connections 3) Acquired data dashboards 4) Planning dashboards 5) Responsive mobile dashboards 6) SAP SuccessFactors dashboards 7) Qualtrics dashboards 8) R visualizations 9) Analytics designer 10) SAP Digital Boardroom

Discover the next generation of BI with this guide to SAP Analytics Cloud! Get your data into the system and see which data models to use in which situations. Next, learn about stories--how to create visualizations for them, publish them, and enhance them. With information on using SAP Analytics Cloud for financial planning, predictive analytics, dashboard creation, and more, this book is your one-stop shop! Highlights include: 1) Data modeling 2) Stories 3) Visualizations 4) Dashboards 5) Financial planning 6) Predictive analytics 7) SAP Analytics Cloud, analytics designer 8) SAP Digital Boardroom 9) SAP Analytics Hub 10) Data integration 11) Configuration

Start making better business decisions backed by data About This Book Predict new opportunities and risks in a few mouse clicks Eliminate complexity with tools that let you plan, analyze, and collaborate in context—in real time Discover, visualize, plan, and predict in a single product with agile BI tools Who This Book Is For This book targets IT professionals, business analysts, BI developers, managers, newcomers to SAP Analytics Cloud, and ultimately anyone who wants to learn from self-paced, professional guidance and needs a solid foundation in SAP Analytics Cloud. What You Will Learn A clear understanding of SAP Analytics Cloud platform Create data models using different data sources, including Excel and text files . Present professional analyses using different types of charts, tables, geo maps, and more Using stories, drill up and down instantly to analyze data from various angles Share completed stories with other team members or compile them in SAP Digital Boardroom agendas for presentation to major stakeholders Export the results of a story to a PDF file Save time by planning, analyzing, predicting, and collaborating in context Discover, visualize, plan, and predict in one product as opposed to separate solutions In Detail The book starts with the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud (formerly known as SAP BusinessObjects Cloud) and exposes almost every significant feature a beginner needs to master. Packed with illustrations and short, essential, to-the-point descriptions, the book provides a unique learning experience. Your journey of exploration starts with a basic introduction to the SAP Analytics Cloud platform. You will then learn about different segments of the product, such as Models, Stories, Digital Boardroom, and so on. Then, you are introduced to the product's interface: the Home screen, the main menu, and more. Then comes the hands-on aspect of the book, which starts with model creation. Next, you learn how to utilize a model to prepare different types of stories(reports) with the help of charts, tables, Geo Maps, and more. In the final chapters of this book, you will learn about Digital Boardroom, Collaboration, and Administration. Style and approach The easy-to-follow visual instructions provided in this book help business users and report developers create simple and complex stories (reports) quickly

NOW IN FULL COLOR! Written by sought-after speaker, designer, and researcher Stephanie D. H. Evergreen, Effective Data Visualization shows readers how to create Excel charts and graphs that best communicate their data findings. This comprehensive how-to guide functions as a set of blueprints—supported by both research and the author’s extensive experience with clients in industries all over the world—for conveying data in an impactful way. Delivered in Evergreen’s humorous and approachable style, the book covers the spectrum of graph types available beyond the default options, how to determine which one most appropriately fits specific data stories, and easy steps for building the chosen graph in Excel. Now in full color with new examples throughout, the Second Edition includes a revamped chapter on qualitative data, nine new quantitative graph types, new shortcuts in Excel, and an entirely new chapter on Sharing Your Data With the World, which provides advice on using dashboards. New from Stephanie Evergreen! The Data Visualization Sketchbook provides advice on getting started with sketching and offers tips, guidance, and completed sample sketches for a number of reporting formats. Bundle Effective Data Visualization, 2e, and The Data Visualization Sketchbook, using ISBN 978-1-5443-7178-8!

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SAP Analytics Cloud ist das innovative Business Intelligence(BI)-Werkzeug der SAP für umfassende Analyse und Planungsaufgaben im Unternehmen. Die Strategie hinter den Cloud-Lösungen ist einfach: kostengünstige und intuitive Anwendungen mit geringem Implementierungs- und Wartungsaufwand. Lernen Sie in diesem anwendungsnahen Fachbuch zunächst wichtige Aspekte der Datenbeschaffung und Systemanbindung kennen. Anschließend werden Sie bei Ihrem analytischen Szenario mit der Erstellung eines Datenmodells unterstützt. Hierbei gehen die Autoren auf die verschiedenen Modelltypen ein und grenzen diese voneinander ab. Mit diesem Fundament können Sie mühelos in die Visualisierung von Daten und die Erstellung von Storys einsteigen. Sukzessive und jederzeit an SAP-Screenshots nachvollziehbar führt Sie das Autoren-Duo durch das umfassende Funktionsset für Administration, Business Intelligence, Planung sowie Simulation und Prognosen. Das Praxisbuch richtet sich an Fachabteilungen, BI-Berater und -Entwickler, die mit der Konzeptionierung und Realisierung von Geschäftsberichten sowie Planungsprozessen befasst sind. - Erstellung und Verwaltung von Analyse- und Planungsmodellen - Datenvisualisierung in einem Digital Boardroom - Live-Daten-Integration in Geschäftssysteme - Simulationen mithilfe von Werttreiberbäumen

Meet your BI needs with SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Explore the system architecture and data model and learn how to perform analytics on live transactional data. Business user? Walk step-by-step through SAP Smart Business KPIs, dashboards, and multidimensional reporting. Analytics specialist? Master the virtual data model and report creation. Jack of all trades? Create CDS views, apply custom fields and logic, and learn to integrate SAP S/4HANA with SAP Analytics Cloud. This is your complete guide to SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Highlights include: 1) Architecture 2) Virtual data model (VDM) 3) CDS views 4) SAP Fiori apps 5) SAP Smart Business 6) Key performance indicators (KPIs) 7) Dashboards 8) Reporting 9) Data warehousing 10) SAP Analytics Cloud 11) Machine learning

Frustrated with slow performance in SAP Analytics Cloud? This guide is your answer! Learn the basics of solution performance and optimization and then start making your adjustments: get the story builder and analytics designer apps running smoothly, fine-tune your backend settings, and follow best practices for viewing dashboards. With detailed examples of performance improvements throughout, this book has everything you need for an optimal SAP Analytics Cloud experience! Highlights include: 1) User experience 2) Dashboards 3) Performance analysis 4) Story building 5) Model building 6) Analytics designer 7) Backend and tenant optimization 8) Viewing optimizations 9) Acquired data 10) Live data connections 11) Best practices