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Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

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Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

This chapter provided hands-on exposure to some of the very important topics of SAP Analytics Cloud. You created second page in your story and named it Analysis of your story. New pages are added to a story to segregate the analysis.

You also learned how to provide expressive names to your story pages and, at the same time, learned about some other page manipulation options that allow you to add, delete, rename, hide, and move a page. Then, you learned how to share your views about the analysis provided on a story page with other users by adding comments. You created bubble and choropleth layers to visualize data in geomaps and applied location clustering to better visualize the data in the map.

You also learned about the different types of filters you can apply to a geomap to restrict your analysis to specific regions. You connected two different models via linked dimensions...