SAP Analytics Cloud is a new generation cloud-based application that helps you explore your data, perform visualization and analysis, create financial plans, and produce predictive forecasting. It is a one-stop-shop solution to cope with your analytic needs and comprises business intelligence, planning, predictive analytics, and governance and risk. The application is built on the SAP Cloud Platform and delivers great performance and scalability. In addition to the on-premise SAP HANA, SAP BW, and S/4HANA sources, you can work with data from a wide range of non-SAP sources, including Google Drive, Salesforce, SQL Server, Concur, and CSV, to name a few. SAP Analytics Cloud allows you to make secure connections to these cloud and on-premise data sources.
This chapter is aimed at providing an overview of SAP Analytics Cloud and covers the following basics of the application:
- Anatomy of SAP Analytics Cloud
- Introduction to the Home screen and the main menu of the application
- A brief overview of data sources and models and ways to connect to different data sources
- A brief overview of visualization, collaboration, presentation, and application administration
- Finally, you will be guided to signing up for a free trial version to execute the exercises provided in this book
