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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)

Working with Tables and Grids

After completing the Summary and Analysis pages in which you added some useful objects to visualize data, here is the third one--Sales Manager Overview. As the name implies, this page will have objects to analyze the performance of the sales team. Some of the objects to be created on this page (filters and bar charts (A)) are already known to you. The table object (B) is the one that is new to this chapter. A table is a spreadsheet-like object that can be used to view and analyze text data. You can add this object to either canvas or grid pages in stories, as shown in the following screenshot:

In addition to the table object, you will have hands-on experience with grid, which is a type of page used to create analysis comprising text and formulas. Here is a list of topics covered in this chapter:

  • Copying objects between pages and a to the same page...